Obama takes center stage
By DAVID BRODER - Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama has regained the economic initiative from the Republicans, separated himself from the left of his own party and staked a strong claim to the territory where national elections are fought and won: the independent center.
A happy warrior’s fall
By DAVID BRODER - Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010
WASHINGTON -- For 40 years or more, half his life, Charlie Rangel has been a force in the House by dint of an irrepressible personality that conveys a keen intelligence, street smarts and a wonderful self-mocking sense of humor. To see him brought low is nothing but painful.
Solving the fiscal mess
By DAVID BRODER - Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010
WASHINGTON --
Something historic has happened in Washington. This week, as Erskine Bowles said, thanks to the debt-management commission’s work and the outlines of a tax-extension agreement between President Obama and congressional Republicans, “the era of deficit denial in Washington is over.”
Trust but verify
By DAVID BRODER - Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010
WASHINGTON --
Suppose President Obama means it when he says that after the shellacking he and his fellow Democrats received in the midterm elections, he is ready and willing to hear the Republicans’ ideas for dealing with jobs, taxes, energy and even nuclear weapons control.
Murkowski’s epiphany
By DAVID BRODER - Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010
WASHINGTON --
Lisa Murkowski was the most notable winner of the midterm election cycle because she was first a victim and then a victor.
Lame-duck game of chicken
By DAVID BRODER - Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Washington began last week to come to grips with the new order of things, a regime in which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell holds as much sway as the president of the United States.
The bad omen in Democrats' reorganization of House leadership
By DAVID BRODER - Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010
When the rules of the House of Representatives forced the Democrats to confront a painful choice among their leaders, they did what Democrats are often inclined to do. They changed the rules.
Offering sobering steps toward fiscal sanity
By DAVID BRODER - Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010
WASHINGTON -- The co-chairmen of the President's Commission on Deficits and Debt have accomplished one great achievement: They made it impossible for anyone to pretend there are relatively easy or painless ways to dig out of the monumental fiscal pit we have fallen into.
The ‘swerve’ election
By DAVID BRODER - Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010
WASHINGTON --
I would argue that it is legitimate and appropriate to consider the real lame ducks, those who will be disappearing come January, as a kind of jury that can judge the worth of the ideas that returning colleagues put forward in the next few weeks.
Obama must see it’s time to govern
By DAVID BRODER - Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010
WASHINGTON -- What lessons should President Obama draw from Tuesday's election results? The worst mistake would be for him to abandon or reject his own agenda for government.
In election, verdict withheld?
By DAVID BRODER - Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010
WASHINGTON --
A more realistic way of gauging expected Republican strength after Tuesday's election will be to ask about the size of
their majority. It is likely to be minuscule, and thus the change some see coming won't happen.
Britain offers model of austerity
By DAVID BRODER - Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Both the policy and the political circumstances that brought about Britain's austerity budget have profound implications for the United States.
Wisdom from a bygone era
By DAVID BRODER - Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010
LAWRENCE, KAN. -- For Obama and the Republicans to establish a productive post-election atmosphere, it may require nothing more than the recapture of that wisdom of their political forebears.
GOP’s thoughtful opposites
By DAVID BRODER - Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010
WASHINGTON -- The turnout for a dinner honoring Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels was a reminder that during the Reagan and Bush years the Republican Party mustered battalions of policy wonks who were at least the equal of their Democratic counterparts. Most of them have retired to think tanks and law firms now, but they are plainly eager to get back into the battle if Daniels summons them to a 2012 presidential campaign.
The vanishing center
By DAVID BRODER - Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010
WASHINGTON -- There is a common fear in Washington that the swing to the right that everyone expects on Nov. 2 will include such wild gyrations and produce such untried novices that the partisan warfare of the past two years will seem mild by comparison.
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