Today at the Center for American Progress, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) urged the Senate to ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty, arguing that it would enhance the country’s national security and allow America to lead by example on the global stage. He noted that seven More…
If there’s anything notable about David Brooks, it’s that he’s wedded to both literary analogies and sweeping, ideologically tinged judgments about the public. And in his most recent column, he doesn’t fail to deliver. Pivoting off of an extended analogy to Faust, Brooks argues that Democrats — eager to More…
Bob Barr’s 2008 nomination as the Libertarian Party candidate for the presidency triggered something of an existential crisis for the nation’s largest third party. The former Georgia congressman was a strange new face for a group that prides itself on philosophical consistency and allegiance to first principles. Before his More…
This morning, Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, senior House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, wondered aloud why Democrats faced with the recent recession didn’t adopt the same policies favored by Ronald Reagan during the economic downturn nearly 30 years ago.
“President Reagan pursued pro-growth policies, including large reductions in marginal More…
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is giving a speech right now at the University of Louisville about nuclear security. Its overall purpose is to build a domestic political constituency for “a vision of a world in which nuclear materials are not easily available and all states adopt responsible stewardship More…
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) introduced legislation yesterday to replace the likeness of Ulysses S. Grant with that of Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill.
“Every generation needs its own heroes,” McHenry said in a statement launching his proposal. “President Reagan was a modern day statesman, whose presidency transformed More…
Reid Wilson has the details of a National Journal interview with Newt Gingrich in which the former speaker of the House — resigning 12 years ago, Democrats like to point out, after an election defeat and several scandals — mulls a presidential run. He’s also launching a PAC, becoming More…
Danny Tarkanian, one of the GOP challengers who’s leading Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in the polls, has put together a web video that remembers Ronald Reagan’s 1986 campaign appearance to stump against Reid, and frames the Tarkanian bid as “Reagan’s last campaign.” I don’t usually pay much attention to More…
Just so history isn’t rewritten during the current outcry over deficit spending, here’s a recap of the national debt during the reign of the last five presidents. (All numbers come from the Treasury Department, here and here.)
When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, the federal More…
I can’t make heads or tails of Sarah Palin’s analysis of her “death panels” remark in the lengthy, friendly Q&A she gave to National Review yesterday.
“The term I used to describe the panel making these decisions should not be taken literally,” says Palin. The phrase
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