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David S. Broder is an op-ed columnist with the Washington Post.

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Financial claims on health bill not credible

Washington It’s simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan. The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced by Senate ...

From DAVID BRODER, Lawrence Journal World,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Congressional Budget Office,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  Harry Reid

David Broder: The health reform challenge -- make the savings real

abortion coverage than in the plausibility of its claim to be fiscally responsible. WASHINGTON — It's simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan. The day after the Congressional Budget Office ...

From DAVID BRODER, TwinCities.com,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Congressional Budget Office,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  Harry Reid

Budget-buster in the making

fight over the public option or the issue of abortion coverage than in the plausibility of its claim to be fiscally responsible. WASHINGTON » It's simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan. ...

From DAVID S. BRODER THE WASHINGTON POST, Salt Lake Tribune,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Congressional Budget Office,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  Harry Reid

GOP should give Palin some competition

Washington For Sarah Palin, with her personality and history, to tell Rush Limbaugh that Republicans should welcome primary fights within their own ranks is hardly surprising. As much as it may pain her many critics, she also has a lot of history on ...

From DAVID BRODER, Lawrence Journal World,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Ronald Reagan,  White House,  Sarah Palin,  Rush Limbaugh

David Broder: Fears of health-reform cost are justifiable

The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Quinnipiac University poll of a national cross section of voters reported its latest ...

From DAVID S. BRODER, David S. Broder (Washington Post),  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  Congressional Budget Office,  Harry Reid,  Quinnipiac University

To survive, the GOP needs a good in-house fight

As much as it may pain her many critics, she also has a lot of history on her side. Many Republicans, looking at the recent fiasco in New York's 23rd Congressional District, argue that the endorsement by Palin and her talk-radio buddies of a rigid ...

From DAVID S. BRODER, David S. Broder (Washington Post),  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Ronald Reagan,  White House,  Ford Motor Company,  Frank Murkowski

Broder: Picking fight in primary is GOP tradition

after the ruin of Watergate had restored Democrats to the White House, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush squared off. Bush won the first round in Iowa and forced Reagan to defend his claim in New Hampshire and in later primaries. Without those tests, ...

From DAVID S. BRODER THE WASHINGTON POST, Salt Lake Tribune,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Ronald Reagan,  White House,  Ford Motor Company,  U.S. Democratic Party

Cost of indecision in Afghanistan is too high

Washington The more President Barack Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees. But, as the old saying goes, to govern is to choose — and he has stretched the internal debate to the breaking point. It is evident ...

From DAVID BRODER, Lawrence Journal World,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Taliban,  Al-Qaeda,  Stanley A. McChrystal,  Hamid Karzai

House health care bill fails financing test

Washington While the House Democrats spent the week congratulating themselves for squeezing out the midnight passage of their version of health care reform, neutral observers were reminding them: You’ve left the job half done. Having watched Hillary ...

From DAVID BRODER, Lawrence Journal World,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Bill Clinton,  Nancy Pelosi

David S. Broder on Obama's Afghanistan choices

It is evident from the length of this deliberative process and from the flood of leaks that have emerged from Kabul and Washington that the perfect course of action does not exist. Given that reality, the urgent necessity is to make a decision -- ...

From DAVID S. BRODER, David S. Broder (Washington Post),  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Taliban,  David S Broder,  Al-Qaeda,  Stanley A. McChrystal

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