The former Senate majority leader has written a piece in U.S. News and World Report pushing for a mandate on health coverage: I believe in limited government and individual responsibility, cherish the freedom to choose, and generally oppose individual mandates—except where markets fail, individuals suffer, and society pays a hefty price. Let’s face it, in […]
For someone who sure hates lobbyists, he just loves surrounding himself by them: Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has engaged a leading GOP lobbyist to coordinate his message and travel schedule with congressional Republicans – the most concrete sign yet that the biggest battleground in the 2008 presidential race may not be Pennsylvania […]
It turns out in the days following September 11 that Bush tried to get extraordinary powers granted to him through Congress but those attempts failed. This new information comes from an article appearing in today’s Washington Post: The Bush administration requested, and Congress rejected, war-making authority “in the United States” in negotiations over the joint […]
In the aftermath of Katrina, President Bush appeared in New Orleans along side Mississippi Senator Trent Lott and talked about rebuilding. He even said he looked forward to the day when Lott’s house was rebuilt and he could sit on the porch with him drinking lemonade. It appears as though Lott might not feel the […]