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Senior Editorial Writer, Washington Examiner. Author of Conservative Survival in the Romney Era.

Don’t be fooled by California’s premium claims

Philip Klein

Updated: 15 hr ago

As I wrote earlier, California is going to be a major test case for the implementation of President Obama’s health care law. Though major insurers have decided to opt out of the state’s subsidized insurance exchange, the authority tasked with managing the program is now touting number of...

Obamacare’s California test

Philip Klein

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

If you want to know how the implementation of President Obama’s health care law will go next year, California is a good place to watch. Anticipating problems with the national implementation of the law, some liberals have preemptively tried to do pin the blame on recalcitrant Republican...

Oklahoma’s Obamacare challenge set for June 20 hearing

Philip Klein

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

A federal judge has set a June 20 hearing date for a lawsuit filed by the state of Oklahoma challenging an IRS ruling related to President Obama’s health care law. As I described the suit in March: Under the law, if states choose not to set up their own insurance exchanges, then the...

Philip Klein: Obama era scandals discredit big government

Philip Klein

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

It's an open question whether President Obama's approval rating will remain unaffected by the scandals currently engulfing his administration. But no matter how Obama himself makes out, the scandals are setbacks for the central goal of his presidency -- to restore Americans' faith in the ability...

Five reasons why focus on scandals is unlikely to backfire on GOP as in 1998

Philip Klein

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

As multiple scandals have simultaneously engulfed the Obama administration, a number of political observers have cautioned Republicans against overreaching. Liberal blogger Greg Sargent writes over at the Washington Post that, “the current scandal-mania gripping the GOP risks bringing about a...

Kudos to Tom Coburn

Philip Klein

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

As residents of his home state recover from the devastating tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, Sen. Tom Coburn deserves credit for sticking with his position that all emergency aid spending should be offset. “He’s always had the same position since the Oklahoma City bombing,” Coburn...

How much news has the Obama administration successfully suppressed?

Philip Klein

Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

On the heels of news that the Obama administration Department of Justice was spying on reporters at the Associated Press, Monday brought the startling disclosure by the Washington Post that the DOJ had also targeted Fox reporter James Rosen for surveillance in an effort to plug up leaks....

Four possible Obamacare futures

Philip Klein

Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

On Thursday, House Republicans once again voted to repeal President Obama’s health care law. I don’t think it’ll be a major spoiler to predict that the repeal bill won’t go any further. But I do think the vote is a good opportunity to reflect on the future of Obamacare, which I divide...

Philip Klein: Obamacare's empress strikes again

Philip Klein

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

In 2010, shortly after President Obama's health care legislation was signed into law, I dubbed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius the "Empress of Obamacare" for the vast new powers she inherited. Reading through the text of the law, I counted more than 2,500 references to the...

CBO lowers deficit projections

Philip Klein

Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office said that the federal government would run a $642 billion deficit in 2013, which is about $200 billion lower than previously forecast due to “higher-than-expected revenues and an increase in payments to the Treasury by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. ”...

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