From my new column for National Journal:
President Obama says he gets the message from Massachusetts. Expect a new focus on jobs and living standards. Expect fresh attention to overgrown public borrowing. The country’s pressing concerns, he says,…
If the Massachusetts special election was a kick in the shins for President Barack Obama, the political turmoil in Illinois, his home state, is a pain in the neck that never seems to go away.
Little sign of a reset that I could see. The speech emphasized jobs and the economy over healthcare reform, but that would have made sense even if the political landscape had not shifted. As for the poll numbers, as for Massachusetts, they might never …
One year into his presidency, Barack Obama has come to a defining moment. He needs to reset, and Wednesday’s state of the union address is the place to begin.
Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts was an astonishing rebuke. It is difficult, stil…
Antipathy toward federal government activism and opposition to the Democrats’ health-care proposals drove the upset election of Republican Senator-elect Scott Brown, according to a new post-election survey of Massachusetts voters.
The Republican state senator who shook the political landscape from Massachusetts to California this week descended on Capitol Hill to a celebrity’s welcome Thursday as he to introduced himself to a Congress he says has lost its way.
Dana Milbank is right.
For Democrats, the only good thing to come from Tuesday’s loss of the Senate election in Massachusetts is this: It could wipe the grin off Robert Gibbs’s face.
I think the White House spokesman is a small but not negl…
Sen.-elect Scott Brown has arrived on Capitol Hill, still basking in the glow of his stunning upset in the Massachusetts special election.
Chastened by the Democratic Senate loss in the state of Massachusetts, President Barack Obama and congressional allies signaled Wednesday they will try to scale back his sweeping health care overhaul in an effort to at least keep parts of it alive.
A stunning loss in Massachusetts has cost President Barack Obama and the Democrats the 60-vote Senate majority they’ve needed to push health care overhaul to the verge of enactment.