Michael Barone - The Framers never imagined a New Hampshire primary
There is no provision in the Constitution that says that Iowa and New Hampshire vote first. The idea of giving any two states a preferred position in the process of choosing a president would surely have struck the Framers as unfair.
Susan Ferrechio - House OKs three-week budget despite GOP defections
Dozens of House Republicans defected from their leadership Tuesday and voted against another short-term spending measure that would keep the government operating for three more weeks.
Brian Hughes - Nuclear crisis casts pall on Obama's energy plan
The crippling of several of Japan's nuclear reactors is threatening to sink a major component of President Obama's blueprint for a greener economy, with fears over the potentially widespread contamination of Japan jeopardizing the bipartisan coalition the president needs to expand nuclear power in the United States.
David Freddoso - Boehner promises vote to slash Obamacare slush fund
Speaker John Boehner says in a video released yesterday that the House will vote on slashing the mandatory spending contained within Obamacare. The effort will probably come to nothing for now -- the Senate is unlikely to cooperate -- but it presents an opportunity to make the case that President Obama has been systematically shielding himself from oversight, and that Congress should be taking a more active role in overseeing funds for programs like these. Read More
Michael Barone - Why conservatives should vote for piecemeal spending cuts
Rush Limbaugh led off his program today by commending Sen. Marco Rubio’s refusal to vote for another continuing resolution keeping the government going for three more weeks with $2 billion a week in cuts. Read More
Mark Tapscott - Inflation caused by Bernanke's "Quantitative Easing" may doom Obama's re-election
Here's a political equation that ought to furrow the brows of everybody working to get a second term for President Obama: QE1+QT1=DEFEAT. For those not cursed to be economists, QE1 stands for Quantitative Easing, while QT1 means "Quantitative Tightening. According to Ralph Benko, writing in Forbes, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke may be about to doom the Obama re-electi effort with that equation. Read More
David Freddoso - A change to Wisconsin's quorum rules?
One of the "Fleeing Fourteen" Democratic state senators in Wisconsin, Tim Cullen, is drafting a constitutional amendment that would prevent a minority of senators from holding up legislative action in the future. “I was part of creating this divide,” Cullen said. “I need to be part of fixing it.” Read More
Timothy P. Carney - The Obama Revolving Door: Mortgage subsidy chief cashes out to Mortgage Bankers Association
Barack Obama's housing policy involved quite a bit of trying to throw taxpayer money at underwater housing, expanding subsidies, expanding TARP, and so on. Most notably, there was Obama's "Backdoor Bank Bailout." Now one of the architects of Obama's housing policy, Federal Housing Authority Commissioner David Stevens, is cashing out to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Read More
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