Only a few years ago, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, writing to uphold affirmative action policies at the University of Michigan, speculated that the time would be ripe to reconsider racial preference policies in thirty years, after the nation has had more time to progress. Thirty years came quickly. The nation has moved beyond what was. We congratulate President-elect Obama on a well fought battle won | Read More »
There are troubling whispers in Washington that John McCain might soon endorse the Gang of 16 Energy Proposal. It would be a terrible mistake for John McCain to sign on to this plan. The plan is both bad politics and bad policy. For the past several months, John McCain has ridden the energy issue, moreso than any other single issue, to the top of the | Read More »
In 1862, when some of Abraham Lincoln’s political allies, furious over the losses at Shiloh, demanded the removal of Ulysses S. Grant from the leadership of the Army of the Tennessee, the first Republican President responded with unequivocal fervor. “I can’t spare this man,” Lincoln said. “He fights.” What John McCain requires in a Vice Presidential choice today is an individual who exhibits the best | Read More »
We’ll get right to it. The Politico reports Senator John McCain is feeling out state parties on the issue of a pro-choice Vice Presidential pick and what effect such a choice would have on the base. Make no mistake about it, it would so dishearten the base we can spend the next few months practicing saying “President Obama.” In short, there is no room for | Read More »
Let’s cut to the chase: last week should have been a good week on Iraq for John McCain and it wasn’t. In an ideal world, of course, every week should be a good week on Iraq for McCain. It is his signature issue and he should be scoring points on it given the dramatic success that is manifesting itself in that country. But last week | Read More »
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