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It's Time for Marion Barry to Retire
Tweet Share on Facebook March 29, 2013 CommentI've done it before and I'm doing it again: I'm calling for D.C. City Councilman Marion Barry to resign. Over the years, there were charges of tax evasion, traffic violations, government contracts for girlfriends, and cocaine use. A year ago, he insulted Asian-American shopowners, then in his apology to them, insulted Polish-Americans as well.
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To Close the Gender Gap, GOP Should Elect a Woman To Run the RNC
Tweet Share on Facebook March 22, 2013 CommentThis is from the bottom of page 79 of the 100-page report of the Growth and Opportunity Project that the Republican National Committee released this week:
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Republicans Should Follow Rob Portman's Lead on Gay Marriage
Tweet Share on Facebook March 15, 2013 CommentOhio Sen. Rob Portman announced today that he's changed his mind and is no longer opposed to same sex marriage. Portman says the reason for the change is that his son Will, a junior at Yale, came out to his parents two years ago. Senator Portman (full disclosure: He's an old friend and former colleague of mine in the Bush 41 White House) explained his evolution—as a congressman, he was a supporter of the Defense of Marriage Act, which heads to the Supreme Court in less than two weeks along with California's Proposition 8—in an op-ed in today's Columbus Dispatch. It's today's must-read for every conservative.
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Cut the White House Easter Egg Roll, Not White House Tours
Tweet Share on Facebook March 9, 2013 CommentHere's a suggestion for the White House, which is getting a lot of blowback for canceling all White House tours due to the sequester: Consider cutting back the tours instead of canceling them. Does it really need to take, as the White House told the AP, 37 Secret Service agents to staff the tours? Maybe it would be possible to open fewer rooms to tours and use fewer agents ... or only allow tours three days a week.
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President Obama Doesn't Want a Sequestration Solution
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2013 CommentPresident Obama was repeatedly blaming Republicans this week for the sequester—the across-the-board budget cuts set to start taking effect in March—but what the president didn't mention was that it was the White House which designed the sequester to kick in if negotiations failed. Then, instead of negotiating with Congress for the last several weeks, the president decided to leave Washington to campaign against Republicans who can't reach an agreement with him about averting the sequester. They can't reach an agreement because Republicans have no one to negotiate with; the negotiations have failed so the sequester takes effect. It's the perfect Catch-22.
