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

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  • Rubio CPAC speech marks shift in gay marriage debate

    Philip Klein

    Published: Thu, Mar 14, 2013

    Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, Sen. Marco Rubio asserted the right of states to define marriage — marking a major shift in the gay marriage debate. Back in 2004, when President Bush proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution defining marriage as...

  • Philip Klein: We can't wait for the crisis, Mr. President

    Philip Klein

    Published: Wed, Mar 13, 2013

    Let's say your car is on cruise control at 100 miles per hour, and there's a brick wall in the distance. The responsible course of action would be to slow down gradually and turn the car so it's no longer pointed toward the brick wall. But if President Obama were driving the way he conducts...

  • Ryan lays out vision for balanced budget

    Philip Klein

    Updated: Tue, Mar 12, 2013

    House Budget Committee Chair Rep. Paul Ryan on Tuesday offered vision for how he would balance the budget over the next decade and make broader reforms to entitlement programs to put the nation on a sustainable fiscal path over time. The budget has many of the same features of the proposals...

  • Florida Senate axes Rick Scott’s Medicaid expansion

    Philip Klein

    Published: Mon, Mar 11, 2013

    Last month, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the one-time foe of President Obama’s health care law, rocked the health care policy world by announcing plans to participate in the legislation’s expansion of Medicaid. At the time, I criticized Scott, while noting that the decision would ultimately be...

  • Will Senate Democrats get serious in their budget?

    Philip Klein

    Published: Mon, Mar 11, 2013

    This week, Senate Democrats are set to unveil their first budget proposal in four years. The big question is whether they’re going to get serious in addressing the nation’s debt problem, or if they’ll again obfuscate the issue in hopes of gaining political advantage by attacking the...

  • Ryan sounding more likely to run for president in 2016

    Philip Klein

    Published: Sun, Mar 10, 2013

    House Budget Committee chair Rep. Paul Ryan was on Fox News Sunday to preview his new budget. There weren’t any big surprises when it came to his budget plan, but the big takeaway is that he treated the idea of running for president in 2016 as a very plausible possibility. Asked by Chris...

  • Ryan prepares to unveil balanced budget

    Philip Klein

    Published: Fri, Mar 8, 2013

    House Budget Committee Chair Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is set to unveil his latest fiscal plan on Tuesday and it will balance the budget within a decade, according to a House Republican aide. The budget isn’t expected to have any major surprises, but it will take advantage of higher revenues...

  • The resilience of the sequester

    Philip Klein

    Published: Fri, Mar 8, 2013

    Over at the Washington Post, Greg Sargent has the following observation: The President and Senate Dems will never agree to a package that only cuts entitlements. There’s a simple reason for this: From the point of view of Democrats, the sequester cuts are preferable to replacing them with...

  • Beating Hillary Clinton 2016

    Philip Klein

    Published: Thu, Mar 7, 2013

    A new Quinnipiac University poll showing Hillary Clinton handily beating Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan and Chris Christie in a hypothetical 2016 race has been generating buzz. There’s no doubt that if Clinton chose to run, she’d be a prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic nomination given...

  • Cafes and ticking time bombs

    Philip Klein

    Published: Thu, Mar 7, 2013

    When the torture debate consumed Washington during the Bush administration, Charles Krauthammer popularized the argument built around the “ticking time bomb” scenario. The argument, in essence: Ethics 101: A terrorist has planted a nuclear bomb in New York City. It will go off in one hour....


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