Press: Did Trump learn?
After one of the most devastating defeats suffered by any president, Donald Trump responded in classic fashion: He made it up.First, he denied he’d ever promised to repeal — ObamaCare. “I never said...
View ArticlePress: To Russia with love
Donald Trump doesn’t want anybody talking about Russia, so he tries hard every day to change the subject.In a cascade of tweets, Trump argues: Any talk of a Russian connection is “fake news.” The media...
View ArticlePress: Hillary's doomed bid
On Oct. 12, 1979, a few days before he was scheduled to announce his plans to challenge Jimmy Carter in the 1980 Democratic primary, Sen. Ted Kennedy (Mass.) sat down with CBS correspondent Roger Mudd....
View ArticlePress: Obama making bank
Very smart people sometimes do very stupid things. Former President Bill Clinton had an affair with a White House intern. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set up a private server for her email. And...
View ArticlePress: Ryan’s gift to Dems
In politics, you don’t always have to be clever. Sometimes, you just have to be lucky. Think of those times when one side scored a big victory, not because they did something so smart, but because the...
View ArticlePress: Blind loyalty to Trump
No doubt, those of us who live and work in Washington have a warped view of what people really care about. Which is why it’s so important to get out of the bubble once in a while — which I was lucky...
View ArticlePress: Trump loves Thugs
How times have changed. There was a time when the visit of a foreign leader to the White House was a very special deal. With all the fanfare a democracy could muster, the president would welcome the...
View ArticleTweets unworthy of office
Sadly, we’ve seen it happen far too many times. Terrorists stage an attack in Western Europe, killing innocent civilians in Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Nice, Manchester or London. And immediately the...
View ArticlePress: It’s amateur hour
There’s nothing wrong with spin. Every politician does it. Every administration does it. The problem with the Trump White House is not that they spin, but that they’re so bad at it. Consider their lame...
View ArticlePress: Worse than Nixon
Is he or is he not under investigation? That depends on whom you ask. If you ask Donald Trump, the answer is yes. If you ask his attorney, the answer is maybe yes, maybe no.It all started when The...
View ArticlePress: End of the US empire
It happened to the Greeks, Romans and Brits. We knew it would eventually happen to us. We just didn’t expect it to happen so soon. But we just witnessed the end of the American empire. It died last...
View ArticlePress: A lame string of excuses
Every day, the excuses coming out of the Trump White House for Donald Trump Jr.’s June 9, 2016, meeting with Russian operatives at Trump Tower become more and more ridiculous.Let’s remember, first of...
View ArticlePress: Amateur hour at White House
Washington is still rocking from last week’s big shake-up at the White House. In the communications department, Sean Spicer is out and Anthony Scaramucci and Sarah Huckabee Sanders are in. And in the...
View ArticleBill Press: President Trump's Katrina
When President Trump arrives in Puerto Rico today, he’ll be about as welcome as Hurricane Maria was two weeks ago. Because, tragically, the widespread destruction of Maria was matched only by the...
View ArticlePress: Kelly sells his soul
It happens so often we should be used to it by now. We build people up. We discover a new hero. We think he or she is the perfect public servant. We fall in love again. And then we find out they’re not...
View ArticlePress: Mueller lowers the boom
For 10 months, Donald Trump has done everything in his power to undermine and discredit the FBI’s investigation into the Russian connection. He calls it a “witch hunt.” He ridicules it as “fake news.”...
View ArticlePress: The GOP’S giant nothing burger
Some 26 centuries later, one of the greatest sources of wisdom remains the classic collection of Aesop’s Fables. Especially relevant today is the talk of the mountain that labored for months only to...
View ArticlePress: Democrats leaning too far left?
If you believe most political commentators, it’s the biggest threat to the Democratic Party today: progressives pushing the party too far to the left. The debate even made it to Sunday’s New York Times...
View ArticlePress: Judge Kavanaugh must withdraw
It’s another one for the history books.Thursday’s hearing, when Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, are scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary...
View ArticlePress: Giving thanks to Donald Trump
Thanksgiving Day is my favorite holiday — and probably yours, too — for a couple of reasons. First, because it has none of the shopping and gift-giving pressures of Christmas. It’s just a great chance...
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