WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Zealots are not politicians By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – If there has been a weaker House Speaker than Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, his name does not come to mind, and with the exception of rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., they’ve all been men. In any event, […]
Author: Douglas Cohn & Eleanor Clift
Could the Fed save America
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Could the Fed save America By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – President Obama says if the impasse with Congress continues, he will not use the 14th Amendment of the Constitution to raise the debt ceiling on his own. Aside from the legality, which as a constitutional […]
Five funny reasons
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Five funny reasons By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – House Republicans are flailing around trying to find a way out of the government shutdown, and to rationalize how they got us all into this pickle in the first places. They’re tried out a number of arguments […]
Republicans from Oz
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Republicans from Oz By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The Tin Man has no heart. The Straw Man has no brain. The Cowardly Lion has no courage. And as if to prove reality truly is stranger than fiction, a group of politicians have been vying to […]
These are the times that try men’s patience
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 These are the times that try men’s patience By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON –Is this is the new political landscape where a minority of lawmakers can hold the majority hostage to reverse laws they don’t like? If so, any law will be vulnerable to blackmail. But […]
Battle of Billionaires
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Battle of Billionaires By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The Battle of the Budget is peaking; the Battle of Billionaires is about to begin. In 1993, First Lady Hillary Clinton spearheaded the campaign for national health insurance and failed, in part due to the insurance industry’s […]
The undermining of democracy
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 The undermining of democracy By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Winston Churchill said it best, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried.” Watching the spectacle on Capitol Hill this week, a talk-a-thon staged by Sen. Ted Cruz, […]
Appeasement is the path not taken
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Appeasement is the path not taken By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – President Obama is receiving flak from Republicans and some Democrats, too, over his attendance at the U.N. general assembly meeting in New York this week. They say it was a bust because the Iranians […]
“Another”
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 “Another” By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – When President Obama appeared on camera to lament yet another mass shooting, this one at a Naval Yard just a few miles from the White House, his weary resignation showed with his use of the word “another” to describe […]
Appoint her already
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Appoint her already By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – President Obama doesn’t like getting jammed by liberal groups, or anybody for that matter, and that’s why he entertained the possibility of naming controversial Harvard economist Lawrence Summers the next chairman of the independent Federal Reserve. In […]