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Joe Biden: President shouldn’t tap SCOTUS nominee in election year
Well, well, well … look what C-SPAN uncovered: Sen. Joe Biden in 1992 says President Bush should "not name a nominee until after the November election…" #SCOTUShttps://t.co/setQGLzePt — CSPAN (@cspan)...
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Democrats are hypocrites on court nominations; the GOP is just dumb
Mitch McConnell’s court strategery: not so supreme. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images) I have written a couple of posts about why Democrats are hypocrites for complaining about Republican senators’ plan not...
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Current job-growth streak is long, but not very strong
The sign-maker misspelled “middling.” (Jamie Squire/Getty Images) The jobs figures for February are out, and you’ll hear a lot about how this is the longest uninterrupted stretch of job creation in at...
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Is this the best Supreme Court deal Republicans can get?
President Obama has called Senate Republicans’ bluff, in just about the biggest way that was also realistic. From the Washington Post: “President Obama announced Wednesday he is nominating Merrick...
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About those claims the economy performs better under Democrats
People seeking work stand in line outside a job fair in Cobb County, January 2015 (Jonathan Phillips / Special) It’s an election year, so we’re hearing a lot about whether the economy performs better...
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About the economy and Democrats, Part II
The sign-maker misspelled “middling.” (Jamie Squire / Getty Images) The initial estimate for first-quarter GDP is out, and — surprise! — it’s lousy. From the federal government’s own report on its...
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The false pretenses under which the Iran deal was sold
Ben Rhodes (AP file )photo It isn’t often that a member of a presidential administration volunteers to deconstruct the entire image that administration has built for itself. It’s even more rare for the...
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Will the Obama administration allow a transgender-bathroom compromise?
Unisex signs hang outside bathrooms at a restaurant in Durham, N.C. (Sara D. Davis / Getty Images) We have a local test case in the bathroom wars, and the reaction from the aggressors will be telling....
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Overtime pay rule: Another attempt to override the weak economy
People seeking work stand in line outside a job fair in Cobb County, January 2015. (Jonathan Phillips / Special) The Trump phenomenon, with its rejection of so much center-right orthodoxy, has made a...
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Obama’s (and Hillary’s) terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week in foreign...
AP file photo What a week it has been for President Obama’s foreign policy. And I don’t mean that in a good way. From the Associated Press: “The Taliban’s warm-weather offensive has shown the...
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Mad libs: Leaving (omitted) out of 911 transcript is (barnyard epithet)
Getty Images / Olivier Douliery UPDATE at 3:17 p.m.: Well, well, well: JUST IN: DOJ, FBI release full transcript from Orlando shooter's 911 call to provide "highest level of transparency"...
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In immigration case, a (perhaps short-lived) win for the Constitution
President Barack Obama used his “pen,” seen here aboard Air Force One in November 2014, to try to make immigration law. The Supreme Court, for now, says he should stick to his “phone.” (Stephen Crowley...
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DNC 2016: Hillary Clinton’s big challenge tonight
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and a disproportionate share of those who believe his sunny speech on her behalf. (Ruth Fremson / The New York Times) Poor Hillary Clinton. Not only does the Democratic...
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Obamacare’s continuing collapse is one of 2016’s biggest stories
In a normal year, this presidential election would be turning in large part on the steady collapse of Obamacare. It’s the signature achievement of a fellow Democrat, and yet Hillary Clinton would be...
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Obama administration breaks its own record for adding regulations
It’s as if a bunch of senior people in the Obama administration read my post yesterday about executive power getting out of hand and said, “He thinks we’ve been overdoing it before? We’ll show him...
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Opinion: Congress moves to undo Obama’s midnight rule-making
The first day of the Congress brought a hiccup in the way of rushed changes to the House’s independent ethics office. But since then, it’s hard to say congressional Republicans have done anything but...
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Opinion: Obama’s legacy was doomed by one of his first acts
The Affordable Care Act is considered the signature law from Barack Obama’s presidency, understandably so given its nickname, Obamacare. But as he prepares to leave office and we begin to assess his...
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Opinion: Obama’s clemency for Manning is dangerous, hypocritical
Given the context of hacking and leaks during last year’s election, this has got to rank as one of President Obama’s most bizarre choices. From the Associated Press: “President Barack Obama granted...
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Opinion: Why Trump’s DACA move is a prerequisite for immigration fix
Stephen Crowley / The New York Times Here is the price of governing by executive order: The next executive has the power to undo what you’ve done. And that is what the Trump administration is doing...
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Opinion: The national debt hits the big 2-0 (trillion)
One of these men only increased the national debt. The other one is looking no better so far. That’s bipartisanship in contemporary America.(Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) I failed to bring your...
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