Doubtful of Bipartisan Prospects for Roundtable, Obama and Allies Will Likely Seek an All-Democrat Reform Bill Feb 26, 2010 (CBS/AP)  President Obama and congressional Democrats, holding out little hope for Thursday’s televised bipartisan summit on health care, are prepared to try for a far-reaching bill in the coming weeks without a single Republican vote. Barring [...]

Is There Any Chance of Actual Progress on Health Care Legislation at Today’s Summit? By KAREN TRAVERS WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2010 What happens when you put President Obama, members of Congress and three cameras in one room — bipartisan compromise on contentious health care legislation or pandering for the television audience? The White House has [...]

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February 24, 2010   by David Harsanyi What are we to make of the Republican Party’s future now that libertarian Rep. Ron Paul won the presidential straw poll at the well-attended Conservative Political Action Conference last week? Is the GOP about to transform into the party of the gold standard? Let’s, for a moment, forget [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Wednesday, February 24, 2010 “I have been over into the future, and it works.” Lincoln Steffens, the muckraking journalist, offered that review of the Soviet Union on his return from a fact-finding mission there. For decades, conservatives invoked that line as proof that a generation of progressives were Soviet fellow-travelers. [...]

By Michael Gerson (Archive) · Wednesday, February 24, 2010 WASHINGTON — On health care reform, the strategy of President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders is psychologically understandable — as well as delusional. It is easy to imagine the internal dialogue: “Well, they voted for me, overwhelmingly. I didn’t hide my views on this issue; I [...]

By Ken Blackwell (Archive) · Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Ronald Reagan used to say of the Soviets they liked the arms race a whole lot better when they were the only ones in it. The same could be said of Al Gore and Global Warming—oops, excuse me: Climate Change. Mr. Gore was very much happier [...]

By RAGHAVAN MAYUR Posted 02/23/2010 06:54 PM ET The nation seems polarized, Washington is gridlocked, Republicans don’t want anything to do with the president’s policies, and even Democrats, who control Congress by big margins, can’t pass long-sought initiatives. What gives? Perhaps it’s President Obama’s politics, which according to a new IBD/TIPP Poll are significantly out [...]

Posted 02/23/2010 06:54 PM ET Health Reform: Is it a “summit” Republicans are about to take part in, or a “setup”? President Obama must pledge to them that Democrats won’t misuse budget rules to ram through health reform. Thousands of pages of legislation transforming a sixth of the U.S. economy and profoundly affecting the lives [...]

Special counsel is needed to investigate Attorney General Holder Feb 24, 2010 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The rot at the Department of Justice grows more evident every day. Already being hit for botched decisions about terrorist trials and for dropping a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party, the department is taking another huge [...]