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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Chris Christie as Howard dean By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON –The campaign to re-elect New Jersey’s Republican Governor Chris Christie will spend a million dollars on advertising this fall even though Christie is 20 points ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono, a sacrificial lamb if ever there […]

WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 In Russian self interest By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – From Russia with love, or not, but the eleventh-hour intervention by the Russians saved President Obama from what looked like a major defeat on Capitol Hill with lawmakers refusing to give the president authority for a […]