KONDRACKE
Obama's Afghan choice right?
It was a brave decision for President Barack Obama to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan — and the right one. And he defended it eloquently in accepting his Nobel Peace Prize.By Morton Kondracke , December 22, 2009
Voters right: Reform to cost lots
The White House and liberal think tanks insist that health care reform will lower costs, but the public isn’t buying it — and for good reasons. Practically every aspect of the bills Democrats are considering — from covering the uninsured to taxes on providers, insurance reforms and Medicare cuts — will result in higher premiums for those with insurance.By Morton Kondracke , December 15, 2009
Obama persists as polls drop
President Barack Obama has so loaded up the policy circuits this month that you’d expect a government-wide blackout any minute.By Morton Kondracke , December 08, 2009
U.S. Congress serious about fighting chronic diseases?
In spite of new evidence that Americans are eating themselves to death — and killing the economy, too — there’s a dispute in Congress over how to get them to quit.By Morton Kondracke , December 01, 2009
Economy is weak, voters are angry - time for third party?
“The mood of America is glum. Two-thirds of the public is dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country” and voters’ anti-incumbent mood is approaching 1994 and 2006 levels, when control of Congress changed hands.By Morton Kondracke , November 24, 2009
Advance notable success
From China to Russia and Afghanistan to Iran, it’s a time of woe for U.S. foreign policy. But there’s an exception — Pakistan — and Congress can keep the progress going.By Morton Kondracke , September 22, 2009
Reform immigration
Along with a health-care reform bill, it would be a fitting tribute to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., if Congress could act on his other great unfinished cause: immigration reform.By Morton Kondracke , September 01, 2009
GOP has health-care ideas, prefers attacks on Obama
There’s no question that Republican criticism has helped undermine support for President Barack Obama’s health plan. But it hasn’t done much to help Republicans.By Morton Kondracke , August 18, 2009
Liberal support crucial for health care plans
“Too big to fail” is the tagline that health lobbyist Fred Graefe applies to the health care reform effort, and he’s got it dead right.August 11, 2009
Obama unfairly targets insurance as the enemy
For one supposedly dedicated to bringing parties together for health care reform, President Barack Obama shows unremitting hostility toward one of them: The health-insurance industry.By Morton Kondracke , August 04, 2009
Who will Congress put first?
If any story this year deserved page 1 coverage — but didn’t get it — it was Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s challenging speech July 2 to the nation’s largest teachers union.By Morton Kondracke , July 21, 2009
Plain (gulp) still could be nominee
It used to be easy to predict who the next Republican presidential nominee would be. It was decided by primogeniture: The next oldest guy in line got to be the king.By Morton Kondracke , July 14, 2009
'Reconciliation' won't work
Liberal health-reform advocates have talked about ramming a reform plan — including a Medicare-like public insurance option — through the Senate with only 51 Democratic votes. But a leading Senate player says it won’t work.By Morton Kondracke , July 07, 2009
Obama rides high at 5 months, but clouds gather
The political verdict on President Barack Obama’s first five months in office has to be “so far, so good,” but it also must include trepidation about clouds on the horizon.By Morton Kondracke , June 30, 2009
Elections in Iran make nuclear talks harder
President Barack Obama went easy on Iran in his big June 4 speech in Cairo so as not to become an issue in last weekend’s elections.By Morton Kondracke , June 23, 2009
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