WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Federal agencies’ raw power By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The FBI can investigate and arrest you. The SEC can subpoena and investigate you. The IRS can audit, pry, fine, sue, and even refer you to the Justice Department for criminal […]

          WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Congress failed with IRS By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The IRS is a pseudo independent agency of government that reports to the Secretary of the Treasury. It is a vast bureaucracy with only two political appointees, and the IRS commissioner […]

          WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Benghazi facts and fictions By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Republicans cannot believe that the voters have paid so little attention to the events last year at Benghazi that took the lives of four Americans, including the much beloved ambassador to […]

          WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Indiscretions and bizarre indiscretions By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The special election for a congressional seat in South Carolina was never within reach for a Democrat although Elizabeth Colbert Busch made a valiant effort with the borrowed star power of […]

          WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Obama on Obama By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Asked whether he has “any juice” to get his agenda through Congress, President Obama paraphrased Mark Twain, saying, “Rumors of my demise may be a little exaggerated.” Still, there’s no denying Obama […]

          WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 A trial for what? By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Among the litany of frustrations President Obama is experiencing in his dealings with Congress is what to do about Guantanamo, and the160 men detained in the prison’s deteriorating facilities. It held […]

          WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Bad Red Line options By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – If the Red Line has been crossed, if Syria used chemical weapons in its civil war, what will or can the United States do? President Obama set the marker when he […]

          WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Why Sen. Baucus? By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – It’s always risky to try to understand the mindset of a politician, but one truism that generally bears out in public life, is that once an elected official decides not to run […]

WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – If the Red Line has been crossed, if Syria used chemical weapons in its civil war, what will or can the United States do? President Obama set the marker when he warned of Red Line consequences, but he did not indicate what they might be. […]

          WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Chechen terrorists By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – It is too early to link the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, the Tsarnaev brothers, to al-Qaeda, but the terrorist organization’s roots in Chechnya, their home country, is undisputed. The 2008 book, “Chechen Jihad: […]