Republicans need to recast their demands in the coming debt limit negotiations from total defunding or repeal of Obamacare to a one year delay in the implementation of the individual mandate. In doing so, they will pick up support from millions of Americans who are just confused by Obamacare. Most people have no idea what […]

Events have failed to fulfill the prophecy. Preachers have suddenly been struck dumb by uncertainty. Believers are understandably nervous and some, under their breath, are abandoning the dogma. These sentences could have been written at the end of the day on Oct. 22, 1844, about the Millerites, a religious sect started in upstate New York. […]

When Sen. Ted Cruz rolled out an epic 21-hour anti-Obamacare “filibuster,” his efforts were ridiculed by journalists across the Twitterverse as a useless exercise in would-be obstructionism. No surprise there. The New York Times editorial board joined in, spitting out an angry editorial accusing Cruz of employing an “aimless and self-destructive Tea Party strategy” — […]

The emerging Republican strategy — to fall back from the fight over the continuing resolution and to fight over the debt limit increase — is excellent. But one tiny change is needed — don’t allow the government to stay open unless the government subsidy for health care coverage for Congress is blocked. Will the Democrats […]