Reps Peter King and Michael Grimm broke with their party’s leadership in the House today, sending a letter to Speaker John Boehner today against the G.O.P.’s proposed cuts, which they fear will “disproportionally impact” New York City and Long Island.
Highlighted among their concerns were the threats that the proposed cuts made to security measures Read More
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi were in Rep. Gabrielle Gifford’s hospital room when she opened her eyes. The entire Arizona delegation, including President Obama’s 2008 rival Sen. John McCain and his wife Cindy, were in the stadium watching the President console 14,000 mourners. Michelle Obama held tightly Read More
For voters listening to the Republican leadership over the past year, the most startling surprise was the shift in their attitude toward Medicare. Where faithfulness to true conservatism was once measured by fierce hostility to the popular insurance program for the elderly, as articulated by Ronald Reagan at the birth of Medicare in 1965, today Read More
National Republicans are making a morbid political bet. It goes something like this: If there’s a deadly terrorist incident in the next three years, we win – big.
Their almost uniformly hysterical response to President Obama’s decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 terrorists to New York to face charges in federal Read More
ALBANY—”I liken it to Nancy Pelosi,” Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, the last Republican to lose a Congressional election in New York, told me Oct. 22 when I asked if there was any chance his party would abandon his colleague Dede Scozzafava’s sputtering–and now defunct–Congressional bid. “She’s got 25 blue dog, conservative Democrats. She doesn’t Read More
ALBANY—Military issues are important to voters in the 23rd district, which contains Ft. Drum, the home of the 10th Mountain Division.
So it was a not a small deal (or a particularly surprising one) yesterday when Representative John Boehner, the House Republican Leader, promised to fight to get Republican congressional candidate Read More
If President Barack Obama’s response to the economic crisis is imperfect, as he acknowledges, and if the Congressional Democrats leave much to be desired as well, then Americans can at least be thankful that the nation’s fate has not been consigned to the frozen minds on the other side of the aisle. Things are bad, Read More
As we have been reminded 11 times in the past few weeks, when a football team completes a disastrous regular season or two, the ownership’s reaction is almost always the same: clean house and start fresh.
National Republican leaders should be thankful their party isn’t an NFL franchise. Since 2006, they’ve presided over Read More
With apologies to all of the important and influential news outlets that are playing it up, there is absolutely nothing newsworthy about John Boehner’s apparent declaration of war on Barack Obama’s $825 billion economic stimulus package.
You didn’t actually think the top Republican in the U.S. House was going to support the new Read More
