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2012 may see 'favorite son' strategy return

By David Broder
Feb 7, 2011 12:45 PM - In the absence of a clear-cut congressional favorite for the nomination, numerous governors and former governors have moved to position themselves to run.
Missing a tax reform movement

By David Broder
Jan 30, 2011 9:33 AM - Obama called this a "Sputnik moment," but offered no such ambitious enterprise. The one I had hoped he would choose is the overhaul of the tax code, which could pay multiple dividends.
Obama takes center stage with deal

By David Broder
Dec 9, 2010 2:27 PM - It took a month for Barack Obama to make clear what he has learned from the midterm election "shellacking," but the time has not been wasted. Future political historians are likely to trace his recovery and re-election, if that's what happens back to decisions made in December.
There's no joy in seeing a happy warrior fall

By David Broder
Dec 6, 2010 11:07 AM - This was a sad time for many of us watching Charlie Rangel receive the censure of his colleagues in the House of Representatives not because of our disagreement with their judgment but simply because of who he is.
A step toward solving the fiscal mess

By David Broder
Dec 1, 2010 12:31 PM - The two-day delay until Friday that Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson obtained before their debt-management commission decides on their tough-medicine recommendations may not be enough to produce the votes needed to send those proposals on to Congress. But make no mistake. Something historic has happened in Washington. This week, as Bowles said, thanks to the commission's work and the outlines of a tax-extension agreement between President Obama and the congressional Republicans, "the era of deficit denial in Washington is over."
Lame-duck game of chicken

By David Broder
Nov 25, 2010 5:45 PM - 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.
Wrong signal from Democrats

By David Broder
Nov 18, 2010 11:26 AM - 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.
A bold, necessary step toward economic sanity

By David Broder
Nov 15, 2010 10:56 AM - What Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson have given America is the equivalent of a cold shower after a night of heavy drinking. It's sober-up time. The co-chairmen of the president's commission on deficits and debt, in outlining the steps they said would be necessary to eliminate red ink and restore the budget to health by 2020, 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.
Both parties lack voices of expertise on the economy

By David Broder
Oct 28, 2010 10:31 AM - I have this strange feeling that we are about to be badly misled about the political climate in this country. We are going to look at the returns on the biggest Republican victory in 16 years and think that it spells doom for the Democrats and a shift to the right in our politics. And we will be wrong.
Britain's austerity model

By David Broder
Oct 25, 2010 1:00 AM - The most important political news last week came from across the Atlantic, where the coalition government of British Prime Minister David Cameron ordered an austerity budget that radically reduces government spending on the welfare state. Both the policy and the political circumstances that brought it about have profound implications for the United States. This country has wandered far not quite as far as Britain has toward the pending fiasco that now threatens leftist regimes worldwide, and the reaction here in the Nov. 2 midterm elections is likely to be as painful for President Obama and the Democrats as the May 6 election was for Labor's Gordon Brown.

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