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Boehner is Trapped by His Caucus

Steve Bell wrote on December 21st, 2011 at 1:09 pm

An old joke heard often in the Southwest ends this way: “It isn’t always your enemies that get you into it; it isn’t always your friends who get you out of it; but, when you are in it up to your neck, keep your damned mouth shut.”
Unfortunately, Speaker John Boehner’s predicament confirms again the truism more

46 Comments Topics: GOP, House GOP, House Republicans, John Boehner, tea party

Don’t Be Fooled, Congress isn’t Working

Steve Bell wrote on December 15th, 2011 at 5:37 pm

For the seventh time this year alone, Congress appears poised to pass another continuing resolution for spending for a fiscal year that has already begun.
If any fact indicts the dysfunction of both the Executive and Legislative Branches, that fact does. more

15 Comments Topics: Congress, Continuing Resolutions, GOP, Spending Bills

The Cost of the Tea Party

David Frum wrote on November 30th, 2011 at 8:47 am

Here’s some interesting data from Pew.
Americans turning against the “tea party” (however they understand the “tea party” to mean) is not exactly a new story, but here it continues to accelerate.
More surprising: the tea party seems to be contaminating the larger Republican brand. more

79 Comments Topics: GOP, Republican Party, tea party

Signs of Hope, Part 4

FrumForum Editors wrote on November 28th, 2011 at 1:42 pm

FrumForum is on the lookout for Signs of Hope that the conservative movement is moving towards intellectual openness. Today’s entry comes in the form of a new Facebook group: Republicans for Responsible Reform.
The group was started by friends of the site D.R. Tucker and Michael Stafford. Tucker and Stafford have taken a lead in calls for more

48 Comments Topics: GOP, Republican Modernization, Republican Party, signs of hope

Where’s My Party?

David Frum wrote on November 20th, 2011 at 7:08 pm

Last month, New York magazine challenged me to answer the question: Why are the other Republicans so mad at you? What’s the argument about–and how’s it going?
They allowed me generous space for an answer, which you can read here. more

170 Comments Topics: GOP, New York, New York Magazine, Republican Party

The Republican Supercommittee Offer

David Frum wrote on November 18th, 2011 at 11:00 am

Question for the supercommittee:
Suppose the real purpose of this exercise is to frame the choice for 2012. Dems are offering the country a path to budget balance that relies heavily on tax increases. Republicans are offering a path that relies more heavily on spending cuts.
OK, got it.
If that’s the goal, shouldn’t the Republicans be seeking more

70 Comments Topics: GOP, Income taxes, Supercommittee, tax cuts

Answers for the Next Foreign Policy Debate

David Frum wrote on November 16th, 2011 at 2:45 pm

In my column for The Week, I answer my own questions on foreign policy that I suggested for the CBS-National Journal GOP debate:
In advance of last Saturday’s GOP foreign-policy debate, sponsors CBS and National Journal asked me to suggest questions for the moderators.
Unaccountably, they did not make use of my suggestions. Still, I had posted the list more

45 Comments Topics: 2012 election, foreign policy, GOP, GOP debate

To Govern Better, GOP Should Work From Reality

Noah Kristula-Green wrote on November 4th, 2011 at 12:00 am

In my previous blog post, I discussed how many Republican criticisms of the Obama administration’s policies are not backed up by data.
Republicans don’t just have a problem with specific critiques, they also have a view of America that doesn’t match with how the country actually is. Their view disagrees with the reality of many important more

104 Comments Topics: budgets, data, economics, empirical reality, GOP, Long Term Policy, Paul Ryan, policy, talking points

Who Burned the GOP Brand?

David Frum wrote on October 27th, 2011 at 8:50 am

Aaron Blake and Chris Cillizza describe a new CBS/NYT poll:
The poll also asked which class voters thought the Obama Administration and Republicans in Congress favored. While people were pretty evenly split on whether the administration favors the middle class, the rich or the poor, they were all but unanimous about which class the Republicans favor; more

107 Comments Topics: GOP, Republican Brand, Republican Party

A Template for a GOP Economic Plan

Fred Bauer wrote on September 28th, 2011 at 11:36 pm

America is now coping with the debt binge of the past decade and stagnating incomes across the board. Trying to provide some cushion for those left economically behind may be a good short-term strategy. But policy makers also need to work toward a restructuring of America’s economic architecture. Unless America’s economic vitality is restored, all more

23 Comments Topics: economy, GOP, great recession, Policy Ideas, Weak Economy

Can Intrade Predict the 2016 Election Winners?

Andrew Pavelyev wrote on September 28th, 2011 at 5:56 pm

I completely agree with Eli Lehrer that the Republican Party’s 2012 nominee will be Romney. I also agree with his analysis of the reasons Republican nominations are decided on the question “Whose turn is it?” But what is completely lost in all the excitement over watching Mitt Romney vanquish one opponent after another is the intriguing question more

13 Comments Topics: 2012 election, GOP, Intrade

Who Controls the GOP?

Chris Ladd wrote on September 23rd, 2011 at 1:07 am

John Boehner’s continuing inability to manage his right flank in Congress points to the larger frustration of a generation of Republican leadership. They struggle to grasp what drives the Tea Party, evangelicals, and the candidacy of Rick Perry. To begin to understand where these people came from and how they acquired so much influence relative more

81 Comments Topics: 1994 Election, conservatism, GOP, Newt Gingrich, tea party

The Real Pawlenty Never Campaigned

Jason Reese wrote on August 15th, 2011 at 12:45 pm

The tritest cliché in American English is the injunction to “be yourself.” Despite this, an entire industry of political consultants devotes itself to teaching candidates how to be anyone other than themselves. Such is the unhappy fate of Tim Pawlenty. more

12 Comments Topics: GOP, Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, working class

Don’t Underestimate Rick Perry

Les Francis wrote on August 15th, 2011 at 11:30 am

In the spring of 1966, as a young graduate student, I spent a week in Sacramento with my parents’ neighbor and my first political mentor, the late Alfred E. Alquist. At the time, Al was a second term Democratic member of the California State Assembly.
One of the week’s conversations has stuck with me ever since, more

39 Comments Topics: 2012, Edmund Brown, election, GOP, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Ronald Reagan

Who’s Running This Party?

Andrew Pavelyev wrote on August 5th, 2011 at 1:41 am

The debt ceiling fight raises uncomfortable questions about the Republicans ability to govern. The fast pace of events has probably caused most people to forget about the failure of the Boehner Plan, but the GOP would be well advised to draw lessons from its failure. more

56 Comments Topics: 2012 election, Congressional Republicans, GOP, Governance, policy

Ratings Agencies Want to See Bush Tax Cuts Lapse

Fred Bauer wrote on July 26th, 2011 at 11:58 pm

The suggestion that the US needs to cut $4 trillion in projected debt over the next ten years in order to avoid a downgrade in its debt rating, posed here in an S&P report, has gained significant traction among many on the right. Erick Erickson, when he’s not denying “absolution” to the more

79 Comments Topics: AAA rating, Boehner, Bush Tax Cuts, Congress, debt ceiling, Erick Erickson, GOP, Obama, S&P

The GOP Needs To Listen To THIS Hoover

Tessa Berenson wrote on July 22nd, 2011 at 5:18 pm

Many conservative pundits thought the future hope of the GOP would be realized in the “Ronald Reagan in high heels,” as they called Sarah Palin. But maybe it actually will emerge from a smart, sassy descendant of Herbert Hoover.
Margaret Hoover, author of the recently published American Individualism, argues that Republicans can win over both youth and more

36 Comments Topics: GOP, Herbert Hoover, Margaret Hoover, young people

Deal Will Come, but May Disappoint

Steve Bell wrote on July 13th, 2011 at 2:22 pm

Confusion usually reigns in Washington, D.C., negotiations just before a solution emerges. Small signs can signal big things to come. more

41 Comments Topics: budget, Congress, debt ceiling, Eric Cantor, Federal Reserve. Ben Bernanke, GOP, Jim DeMint, Mitch McConnell, Pat Toomey, Republican, Spencer Bacchus, Steve King

The Economy Can’t Survive Abrupt Spending Cuts

David Frum wrote on July 12th, 2011 at 1:24 pm

An economic precedent that is remotely comparable to an abrupt hit-the-wall 44% cut in federal government spending is the defense build-down at the end of World War II. more

76 Comments Topics: 1947, David Frum, defense build-down, economy, GOP, government spending, World War II

Bachmann Claims the Intellectual High Ground

David Frum wrote on June 28th, 2011 at 9:54 am

Michelle Bachmann describes herself as having a “strong academic, scholarly background.” more

43 Comments Topics: 2012 campaign, GOP, Michele Bachmann, politics, Republican

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