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  • GAO report: If cost-containment fails, Obamacare will be a budget buster

    Philip Klein

    Published: Tue, Feb 26, 2013

    In a new report, the Government Accountability Office estimated that if the cost-containment measures put in place by President Obama’s health care law prove unsustainable, then the law will add substantially to the nation’s long-term debt. The report, requested by the ranking Republican...

  • FL House speaker and state AG express reservations about Scott’s Medicaid decision

    Philip Klein

    Updated: Thu, Feb 21, 2013

    Florida Gov. Rick Scott rocked the world of health care policy on Wednesday by endorsing an expansion of Medicaid in his state — a central part of President Obama’s health care law — despite building his political career as an opponent of Obamacare. But Scott’s plan still has to get...

  • Philip Klein: Obama's long record supporting deep defense cuts

    Philip Klein

    Updated: Wed, Feb 20, 2013

    In 2000, the relatively inexperienced state Sen. Barack Obama challenged four-term Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush for his congressional seat representing the South Side of Chicago. Running against one of the most liberal members in the House of Representatives, Obama sought to burnish his own image...

  • Ex-Obamacare foe Gov. Rick Scott waves white flag on Medicaid expansion

    Philip Klein

    Updated: Wed, Feb 20, 2013

    When the history of President Obama’s drive for national health care is written, there are several moments that will be looked back upon as having cemented the law in place. There were “conservative” Democrats Ben Nelson and Bart Stupak dropping their objections to Obamacare to get the...

  • Updating Reaganomics is complicated by Obamacare

    Philip Klein

    Published: Mon, Feb 18, 2013

    Ramesh Ponnuru has a thoughtful op-ed in the New York Times today arguing that instead of just recycling Ronald Reagan’s agenda out of context, Republicans need to update their policies to make them more relevant to today’s challenges. Ponnuru makes a brief mention of health care...

  • Reminder: The sequester itself is a compromise

    Philip Klein

    Published: Mon, Feb 18, 2013

    In the past several weeks, President Obama and his Democratic allies have been attempting to portray Republicans as intransigent for refusing to compromise on the automatic spending cuts scheduled to kick in on March 1. But it’s important to remember that the composition of the sequester is...

  • The most misunderstood exit poll question of 2012

    Philip Klein

    Published: Fri, Feb 15, 2013

    Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner, two former speechwriters for President George W. Bush, are out with a new article for Commentary on saving the Republican Party. Over the course of making the generally sound point that Republicans need to do a better job appealing to middle-income Americans, the...

  • Senate blocks Chuck Hagel nomination -- for now

    Philip Klein

    Published: Thu, Feb 14, 2013

    Senate Republicans have voted to block the nomination of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense, although he could still be confirmed in a vote after the Senate comes back from its Presidents’ Day break. The final vote was 58 to 40, with Senator Orrin Hatch voting present, but Democrats needed...

  • Philip Klein: Here's why Chuck Hagel cloture vote could fail

    Philip Klein

    Updated: Thu, Feb 14, 2013

    When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scheduled a Friday morning cloture vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense, it seemed as though the former Senator’s confirmation was all but assured. But a short time ago, Huffington Post’s Sam Stein reported that at this time,...

  • Philip Klein: A precarious moment to raise the minimum wage

    Philip Klein

    Published: Wed, Feb 13, 2013

    Feeling confident after his re-election, President Obama outlined an ambitious liberal agenda in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday. And no such speech would be complete without the old liberal standby of calling for a hike of the minimum wage. Obama's proposal to raise the minimum wage...


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