Bill Press: Obama wrong on TPP
The old adage “politics makes strange bedfellows” has never been proven so true as in today’s battle over the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, or TPP. Opposition is led, in the Senate, by...
View ArticleBill Press: Sanders a serious opponent
Looking ahead to 2016, the contrast between the two major parties could not be more striking. Two more Republican candidates — Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson — joined the race Monday, with Mike Huckabee...
View ArticleBill Press: Congress must rein in NSA
George W. Bush started it. Barack Obama expanded it. And last week, a federal appeals court ruled that they both broke the law.At issue: the National Security Agency’s massive data collection of phone...
View ArticleBill Press: Change comes to Cuba
Dateline: Havana. It happens so fast. You leave Tampa, and before you can say “Marco Rubio,” you’re there.But once you arrive in Cuba, you not only realize you’re in another country, you think you’ve...
View ArticleBill Press: A raw deal for Hastert
As a Democrat, I know I’m supposed to cheer now that former Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has been charged with federal crimes. But, in fact, I feel just the opposite. It looks to me like...
View ArticleBill Press: Why not Joe for 2016?
As Americans, one of the things we do best, and one of the few times we are able to pull together, is mourning, as we did last week in profound grief over the tragic loss of the dynamic, young,...
View ArticleBill Press: Obama’s big trade mistake
For President Obama, loss of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the House was a huge defeat and a colossal embarrassment. But it should not have come as a big surprise. In many ways, it was the end...
View ArticleBill Press: Take down the flag
A visibly angry President Obama entered the White House Briefing Room Thursday, the morning after nine African-Americans had been murdered by a young white supremacist in Charleston, S.C.’s historic...
View ArticleBill Press: It’s time to dump Trump
It’s the GOP’s time to seize the moment. Every one of the five Democratic and 14 Republican candidates who have declared for president in 2016 so far have, understandably, tried to orchestrate their...
View ArticleBill Press: Boehner versus the pope
This we know about Pope Francis: Unlike most American politicians, he doesn’t say one thing in front of one audience and something entirely different in front of another. He’s consistent. He’s a man of...
View ArticleBill Press: Where Trump is right
At the risk of sounding like Ted Cruz, I rise today to defend Donald Trump.“Motormouth” Trump’s latest incendiary comments came over the weekend at Iowa’s Family Leadership Summit. Annoyed that Sen....
View ArticleBill Press: Nation of cowards on guns
Aurora, Colo. Newtown, Conn. Charleston, S.C. Chattanooga, Tenn. Lafayette, La.What do they all have in common? Only one thing: mass shootings. In each of those cities, and too many more, innocent...
View ArticleBill Press: Schumer proves unworthy to lead Democrats
He tried to hide it, and so far he’s been successful.Clearly by design, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) released a statement declaring his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal on Thursday night, while 24...
View ArticleBill Press: Davis no hero for religion
Five days in jail did nothing to change her mind. A defiant Kim Davis, Kentucky’s Rowan County clerk, returned to work Monday vowing to continue her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex...
View ArticleBill Press: Why the pope’s message will soon be forgotten
Pope Francis arrives in Washington this week, his first stop on his first ever visit to the United States. Washington hasn’t been so excited, or seen so much security, since Barack Obama’s inauguration...
View ArticleBill Press: Boehner downfall roils DC
In John Boehner’s telling, it was just another day at the office: hang out with the pope, enjoy dinner at Trattoria Alberto, get up the next morning, say your prayers, grab coffee at Starbuck’s, gobble...
View ArticleBill Press: US must act now on guns
So sadly, on Thursday morning on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., it was “déjà vu all over again.” Another shooting on still another campus. Another sick lone male with yet...
View ArticleBill Press: Benghazi hearing is a sham
It’s not rocket science that’s missing in Washington today — it’s just plain common sense. And common sense would tell House Republicans to pull the plug on Thursday’s hearing of the House Select...
View ArticleBill Press: Carson: Smart, but wrong
Everybody knows the Republican presidential primary has been good for cable television. The first two GOP debates scored record-high ratings for Fox News and for CNN, and record-high revenue from...
View ArticleBill Press: Obama’s broken promise in Syria
After Friday’s announcement that U.S. advisers would be deployed inside Syria to assist local forces in their fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), there’s only one word for...
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