Ted Cruz Fights Internet Directory’s Transfer; Techies Say He Just Doesn’t...
But his move to block the Obama administration through a short-term spending bill needed to keep the government open past Sept. 30 demonstrates that the former Republican presidential candidate remains...
View ArticleHow Cruz got from ‘vote your conscience’ to ‘vote for Trump’
The Texas senator, his standing slipping back home and eyeing another White House run, faced an excruciating choice. At the time of his convention speech, there was compelling political logic for the...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why Ted Cruz’s Endorsement of Donald Trump Is Stunning
Words No Longer Matter But Cruz is now backing a man for the nation’s highest office that he considers to be a liar, a coward, and amoral. Those are charges you don’t just take back or minimize, and to...
View ArticleTrump’s Clueless about Civics
He demonstrated staggering ignorance of what the judiciary branch does with an emphatic reference to a “bill” that several federal judges had “signed.” He seems to believe that the president can jail a...
View ArticleBill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew
While millions of Republican primary voters have chosen Donald Trump as the party’s nominee, Bill Kristol and a small but well-heeled group of Washington insiders are preparing a third party effort to...
View ArticleCruz suggests ignoring Senate parliamentarian for ObamaCare repeal
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is suggesting that the GOP could ignore interpretations of the Senate parliamentarian if it means sending a full repeal of ObamaCare to the president’s desk. “At the end of the...
View ArticleThe Senate Takes Up Health Care Reform
The Senate will take up health care reform after a revised version of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) passed through the House last Thursday. Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO), a member of Senate...
View ArticleTrump Warning to Comey Prompts Questions on ‘Tapes’
No president in the past 40 years has been known to regularly tape his phone calls or meetings because, among other reasons, they could be subpoenaed by investigators as they were during the Watergate...
View ArticleMcConnell’s Calculation May Be That He Still Wins by Losing
When it comes to managing Republicans’ best interests, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, rarely loses. So it is possible that Mr. McConnell views the potential failure of a...
View ArticleConservative Leaders Applaud Trump’s Tweet to Repeal Obamacare First, Replace...
American conservative leaders welcomed President Donald Trump’s tweet suggesting to Republicans that they immediately repeal Obamacare first and then work together to replace it later. .. Cruz’s...
View ArticleThe Simplicity of a Health Deal
The GOP must realize protection for pre-existing conditions is here to stay. Will the most conservative members of Congress accept that the politics of health care have changed? .. Will they...
View ArticleTed Cruz and Mike Lee Have an Rx
“Cruz is right that we should allow plans with non-compliant benefits,” says Goodman Institute founder John Goodman, the author of Patient Power. “In fact, we should allow plans that scale back...
View ArticleDemocrats to Use Senate Rules to Challenge Health Care Bill
Democrats are preparing to challenge these provisions, among others: Planned Parenthood: The Senate Republican bill would cut off federal Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood for one year. Age ratios:...
View ArticleThe Cruelty and Fraudulence of Mitch McConnell’s Health Bill
the bill would allow people to use tax-favored health savings accounts to pay insurance premiums. This effectively creates a big new tax shelter that mostly helps people with high incomes .. So this is...
View ArticleTed Cruz’s Giant Leap Into the Known
When it comes to health care, there are lies, damned lies, and CBO-bashing. .. But the really big push over the next couple of days will be the attempt to trash CBO estimates that are almost sure to...
View ArticleThe Limits of Bullying
Trump’s opponents have often been accused of naïveté for their appeals to norms and civility. But early Friday morning, at least, that faith was rewarded. After Donald Trump implied Ted Cruz’s wife...
View ArticleTrump attacks on McConnell bring rebukes from fellow Republicans
In demeaning tweets and public statements, Trump blamed McConnell (Ky.), who remains popular among GOP senators, for the party’s inability to muscle through an overhaul of the Affordable Care Act. The...
View ArticleA hurricane of conservative hypocrisy
We also regularly assert that government is better when it prevents problems than when it focuses primarily on cleaning up after the fact. But when environmentalists suggest that development can be...
View ArticleGOP senators are rushing to pass Graham-Cassidy. We asked 9 to explain what...
The GOP senators insisted that the tens of billions in cuts to federal health spending proposed in the bill would not result in coverage losses because, they said, the states would have more...
View ArticleThe GOP Base Is Beyond Trump’s Control
You can get elected as an outsider, but once in office, you have to actually govern. The conservative movement is caught in a Catch-22 of its own making. In the war against “the establishment,” we have...
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