Timothy P. Carney is a senior political columnist at the Washington Examiner and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the author of "The Big Ripoff" (Wiley, 2006) and "Obamanomics" (Regnery, 2009).
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/05/13 05:05 PM
In the midst the Left blogosphere’s meticulous and data-driven case that conservatives are a bunch of derps defending a bunch of bros, or something, liberal Matt Yglesias drops this interesting discussion: [B]oth the left and the right envision dealing with this issue through male-to-female...
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/05/13 04:45 PM
Liberal blogger Jonathan Chait at New York tries to defend Obamacare and attack its critics, but he keeps stumbling into obvious errors. His latest post drips with disdain. He writes that “House Republicans’ hatred of Obamacare is at such deranged levels,” and most of the blog post’s...
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/04/13 04:55 PM
“I would love to be characterized as a mini-Baucus,” Russ Sullivan, staff director for Sen. Max Baucus, told the Washington Post three years ago. “I’m doing my absolute dead-level best to think as much like him and become as much like him as I can. That’s what I want to do.”...
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/04/13 03:10 PM
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, looking for help in roping young, healthy people into Obamacare’s exchanges, has gone, hat in hand, to top health care companies. Bloomberg names three of those companies Tuesday — Johnson & Johnson, Ascension Health and...
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/03/13 07:10 PM
Washington’s think tanks often serve as incubators for administrations-in-waiting. Leave the White House when Democrats take over, spend four or eight years waiting at Heritage or American Enterprise Institute. Lose your Treasury job thanks to a Republican winning, sit tight at Brookings. Sure...
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/03/13 03:25 PM
Democrats.org — the official webpage of the Democratic National Committee — and thus an arm of the continuing Obama campaign, has an “Our History” page. The first line on the page is this doozy: “For more than 200 years, our party has led the fight for civil rights, health care,...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/31/13 06:20 PM
Byron Dorgan, when he was a U.S. senator, directed taxpayer money to clean-coal research. Elizabeth Gore, Dorgan's chief of staff at the time, registered last week as a lobbyist for the clean-coal industry. This is a standard way to make it in Washington: subsidize an industry with taxpayer...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/30/13 01:30 PM
If your brother or uncle runs the House Armed Services Committee, why not be a defense lobbyist? That seems to be the thinking of the family of Chairman Buck McKeon, a California Republican. Politico reports: Buck McKeon’s family is getting into the defense lobbying game. A firm run by the...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/30/13 12:15 PM
There is much to debate about liberal economist and New York Times writer Paul Krugman, but here are two facts that seem hard to argue with: Krugman is a very smart economist.Krugman’s debate style is uncivil and uncharitable. When Krugman disagrees with people, he calls them names. If...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/30/13 10:25 AM
Few companies are as close with the Obama administration as General Electric. The company’s top lobbyist is tied in tight with the Obama-Baucus nexus. The company’s CEO is Obama’s jobs czar. Wherever Obama has led, GE has followed — on rail, stem-cells, climate, health-care, and so on....
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