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

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  • Rand Paul’s moment and the end of Obama envy

    Philip Klein

    Published: Thu, Mar 7, 2013

    Ever since losing the presidential election, the right has been consumed by envy of President Obama — of his mobilization of key voters, his digital strategy, his ability to successfully shift blame to Republicans and the way he is able to seemingly exploit every crisis for his political...

  • Philip Klein: Oklahoma takes center stage in Obamacare fight

    Philip Klein

    Published: Wed, Mar 6, 2013

    A growing number of Republican-led states have begun to accept the reality of President Obama's health care law. But not Oklahoma. Instead, the Sooner State has taken a central role in the ongoing fight against Obamacare. In the past several weeks, prominent Republican Govs. John Kasich in...

  • CPAC cements clown show status, invites Donald Trump

    Philip Klein

    Published: Tue, Mar 5, 2013

    Last week, I wrote a column criticizing the Conservative Political Action Conference for not featuring any panels dedicated to health care. But now, the largest annual gathering of conservatives has devolved into an outright clown show. For weeks, CPAC has been drawing fire for barring gay...

  • GOP report: Premiums could more than double under Obamacare

    Philip Klein

    Published: Tue, Mar 5, 2013

    Health care premiums could more than double for some Americans when the major provisions of President Obama’s health care law go into effect next year, according to a new report from Congressional Republicans. The report, which is based on a compilation of studies on the effect of the...

  • Obama’s sequestration strategy carries political risks

    Philip Klein

    Updated: Mon, Mar 4, 2013

    President Obama has made a political calculation when it comes to the automatic spending cuts that took effect on March 1. His thinking is that if he refuses to budge on his demands for higher taxes, that eventually, either Republicans will cave or he’ll be able to castigate them and reap...

  • Romney says Obamacare helped lead to his defeat

    Philip Klein

    Published: Mon, Mar 4, 2013

    In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Mitt Romney said that President Obama’s health care law was one of the reasons why he lost. “The president had the power of incumbency,” Romney said. “ObamaCare was very attractive, particularly to those without health insurance....

  • Can the Cleveland Clinic save American health care?

    Philip Klein

    Published: Fri, Mar 1, 2013

    CLEVELAND — In the first presidential debate of the 2012 election, when President Obama sought to defend the health care law’s cost containment measures, he pointed to the Cleveland Clinic as a model for the rest of the nation. “(A)t Cleveland Clinic, one of the best health care systems...

  • Q4 GDP revised up from slightly negative to slightly positive

    Philip Klein

    Published: Thu, Feb 28, 2013

    In a revised estimate, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced on Thursday that the nation’s economy grew at a snail’s pace of 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, a slight upward revision from last month’s estimate that the economy actually shrunk by 0.1 percent. According to...

  • CPAC spox says group hasn’t abandoned health care fight

    Philip Klein

    Published: Wed, Feb 27, 2013

    In my column for Thursday’s print edition, I argue that the failure of the Conservative Political Action Conference to dedicate a panel to health care this year was emblematic of why conservatives have lost the health care debate. I wrote: Over the past several years, as the debate over...

  • Philip Klein: CPAC emblematic of why conservatives lost health care debate

    Philip Klein

    Published: Wed, Feb 27, 2013

    If you want to understand why proponents of limited government keep losing the health care debate, look no further than this year's upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference. Over the past several years, as the debate over President Obama's national health care law was raging, the...


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