Rangel Charges Could Cost Democrats the House - The Rangel case could go to trial right at the height of campaigning for the midterm elections.

Rep. Franks: Administration Is Lying About the Arizona Immigration Law - Border security isn't just about immigration; it's about national security.

Rep. Gutierrez: Immigration Problem Requires a Federal Solution - President Obama and the Justice Department are right to sue Arizona.

Is Arizona's New Immigration Law Good Policy? - A federal judge this week blocked key parts of Arizona's immigration law.

Thank Republicans for Clinton's Bold Deficit Reduction Tactics - The idea it was Clinton's boldness alone that cleaned up a fiscal mess circa 1993 is risible.

Snooki Was Just a Joke to Obama - George H. W. Bush didn't know who Dana Carvey was either.

Environmentalists, Stop Whining and Follow the Tea Party Example - As liberals, we can complain all we want about the Tea Party, but they made their voices heard.

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States face, and have been facing hard fiscal choices - As the nation's governors gather in Washington for their annual winter meeting, the states they lead are facing what one knowledgeable authority calls "a lost decade" of stagnant or declining revenue and budget crises.

The straw that broke Evan Bayh's tenure - The last time Sen. Evan Bayh was the subject of this column was in October, when he organized a letter from 10 moderate Democrats informing Majority Leader Harry Reid that they would oppose any increase in the statutory debt ceiling unless it was accompanied by a serious move to rein in the national debt.
Both parties should heed warnings in poll results - There are warning signs to both parties in the latest Post-ABC News poll, and this should be a help as President Obama tries to spur a rebirth of bipartisanship in Washington.

Sarah Palin displays her pitch-perfect populism - The snows that obliterated Washington in the past week interfered with many scheduled meetings, but they did not prevent the delivery of one important political message: Take Sarah Palin seriously.

Obama need not wait to change relations with Congress - It was toward the end of President Obama's riveting visit on Jan. 29 with the House Republicans in Baltimore -- a rare 90 minutes of candor on both sides that produced the most fascinating and revealing politics in memory -- when Rep. Peter Roskam of suburban Chicago was called on for a question.

Ditching health reform will only dig us into a deeper deficit - The economic collapse of 2008 and 2009 did so much damage to the United States that only now can we begin to measure the devastation.

Congress prepares for a battle over campaign finance - The sober, sprawling State of the Union address that President Obama delivered last week was marked by one extraordinary moment. It came when the president looked down at six robed members of the Supreme Court, seated directly in front of him, and criticized their recent 5 to 4 decision that he said "will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections."

In rejecting a fiscal commission, senators betray the nation - On the very day this week when the Congressional Budget Office warned that the succession of previously unimaginable trillion-dollar-plus budget deficits could inflict ruin on the United States, the Senate faced a moment of truth.

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After Race for the Top, No Child Left Behind faces revision - After more than a year when the spotlight remained on the doctor's office and the hospital room, attention switches this week to the classrooms of America. On Monday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan will announce the first-round winners of Race to the Top, the $4 billion competition he set up to reward the states with the most ambitious plans for improving their public schools.

John Dingell's health-care moment - No one waited longer for the passage of health-care reform than John Dingell, so it was only right that no one smiled more broadly than the 83-year-old congressman while seated at the president's side for the bill-signing ceremony in the White House's East Room.
The 1990s precedent for a Democratic bounce-back - As congressional Democrats plotted their endgame strategy for health-care reform, the question looming in their minds was: How do we reduce our risks in the November midterm elections? What outcome and what procedures will the voters find least objectionable?

What the states could teach Washington about budgets - There is a great divide in American politics. It's not between Democrats and Republicans. It's between the president and Congress in Washington, on one side, and governors and legislators around the country on the other.

The daring Charlie Rangel - This is not the way Sandy Levin would have wanted it.

The fable of Emanuel the Great - In the space of 10 days, thanks in no small part to my own newspaper, the president of the United States has been portrayed as a weakling and a chronic screw-up who is wrecking his administration despite everything that his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, can do to make things right.
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