Bill Press: NFL makes DC look good
Members of Congress are walking around with big smiles on their faces these days. And no wonder — they’re used to being the most disgraced people in the country, but now, there’s one group that has an...
View ArticleBill Press: A powerless Congress
For a smart people, we do some pretty dumb things. And nothing could be dumber, more risky or more uncertain, than the Obama administration’s strategy for dealing with the Islamic State in Iraq and...
View ArticleBill Press: Holder’s mixed legacy
Reaction to news of Eric Holder’s resignation has ranged from saintly to diabolical. Civil rights leaders praised him as the strongest attorney general since Bobby Kennedy. Fox News derided him as the...
View ArticlePress: The party of climate change denial
Mercifully, we have reached the end of the 2014 midterm election cycle. Voters will decide today and, win or lose, we will all live with the results. But one issue was noticeably missing from the...
View ArticleBill Press: High court out of order
Stop the presses! ObamaCare is back in the headlines. And it’s all good news. Eight million people signed up in the first year. Exchanges just reopened for renewals and new sign-ups. Consumers have...
View ArticleBill Press: All eyes on Ferguson
It ranks as one of the better-known lines penned by any English-language poet: the lesson Robert Burns draws about the proud upper-class church lady who doesn’t realize there’s a louse crawling on her...
View ArticleBill Press: Release CIA report now
It’s the heavyweight bout of the century. In this corner: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein. In the other corner: President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, House...
View ArticleBill Press: A liberal for all ages
In a world of political midgets, Mario Cuomo was a giant: a man of convictions, incredible drive and an abiding belief in the power of government to make life better for average working-class...
View ArticleBill Press: New Gold Rush
Barbara Boxer’s announcement that she will not seek reelection to the Senate has set off a frenzy in California not seen since the Gold Rush. Anybody could win. All you need is a pick, an ax and the...
View ArticleBill Press: ‘Selma’s’ MLK — and LBJ
There’s been a lot of controversy about how the former President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s role in the civil rights movement is depicted in the new movie “Selma” — so much controversy that you, like me,...
View ArticleBill Press: A bad call by Boehner
It’s amazing, isn’t it? How people who are supposed to be so smart can make such serious mistakes. The worst we’ve seen in a long time is Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Israeli Prime Minister...
View ArticleBill Press: Liberals wrong on ‘Sniper’
Clint Eastwood has accomplished the impossible this Oscar season. He has delivered the film everybody loves to hate, and the film everybody loves to love. It’s the same film: “American Sniper.”Now, I...
View ArticleBill Press: The pope and the Speaker
Speaker John Boehner finally got something right. He invited Pope Francis to address a joint session of Congress, when he visits Washington on Sept. 24. And this time, unlike his disastrous faux pas...
View ArticleBill Press: GOP silence on Rudy
Even though they still call themselves the party of Lincoln, there are many ways in which today’s Republicans no longer follow the spirit of the Great Emancipator. For starters, too many of them forget...
View ArticleBill Press: Boehner can’t be so dumb
It’s exactly as The Hill reported, but I still refuse to believe it — I refuse to believe that House Republicans could be so dumb.Consider the context, in light of what we’ve experienced over the last...
View ArticleBill Press: Down to the numbers
There should be a law: If a case can’t pass the laugh test, it can’t be considered by the Supreme Court. By that test, King v. Burwell, the latest challenge to ObamaCare, argued before the court last...
View ArticleBill Press: Courage in the Congress
In 1957, then-Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy startled the political and publishing worlds with his book Profiles in Courage, featuring brief biographies of eight U.S. senators, Democrats and...
View ArticleBill Press: Dems need a plan B
Hillary Clinton has survived the first crisis of her putative 2016 campaign. She appears to have put Emailgate behind her, either because most people accept her explanation that she chose to use her...
View ArticleBill Press: The new, populist Clinton
It’s official: Bernie Sanders has his first opponent for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.On Sunday, in the most understated way possible, via YouTube video, Hillary Clinton finally dropped...
View ArticleBill Press: AG delay is purely political
You can’t call him “No drama Obama” anymore. Asked at Friday’s news conference with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi about the Senate’s long delay in confirming Loretta Lynch as attorney general,...
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