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

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  • 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...

  • Why it’s unlikely Dems will beat ’6-year itch’ and win back House

    Philip Klein

    Updated: Mon, Mar 4, 2013

    President Obama is going to become more personally involved in the effort to retake the House of Representatives for Democrats in 2014 than he was this past election, Roll Call reports. For his effort to be successful, he’d have to make history. There’s a phenomenon in American politics...

  • 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...

  • Senate votes to move Chuck Hagel nomination forward

    Philip Klein

    Published: Tue, Feb 26, 2013

    Former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel is on his way to becoming the next Secretary of Defense. After a contentions confirmation process, Republicans, who previously blocked a vote on his confirmation, agreed to allow it to move forward by a final vote of 71 to 27 — well above the 60 votes...


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