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E.J. Dionne Jr. on Obama's Afghanistan decision

President Obama is soon likely to settle on something closest to the third approach regarding Afghanistan. This will make no one very happy. Yet it might be the least dangerous choice. No one would choose to start from where we are now in Afghanistan. ...

From E.J. DIONNE JR., E.J. Dionne (Washington Post),  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  E.J. Dionne,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Hamid Karzai,  Andrew Bacevich

A Third Way in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON--When there is no good solution to a problem, a president has three options. One is to avoid the problem. The second is to pick the least bad of the available options. The third is to mix and match among the proposed solutions and minimize ...

From E.J. DIONNE JR., The New Republic,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hamid Karzai,  Andrew Bacevich,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Democratic Party

The Most Frustrating Body

WASHINGTON--Normal human beings--let's call them real Americans--cannot understand why, 10 months after President Obama's inauguration, Congress is still tied down in a procedural torture chamber trying to pass the health care bill Obama promised in ...

From E.J. DIONNE JR., The New Republic,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party

E.J. Dionne Jr. on the GOP's stall tactics

Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...

From E.J. DIONNE JR., E.J. Dionne (Washington Post),  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  E.J. Dionne,  U.S. Congress

E.J. Dionne Jr. on a call to government service

It seems an outlandish thought at a moment when you cannot turn on your television without hearing government spoken of as almost an alien creature. It is cast as far removed from the lives of average Americans and more likely to destroy the ...

From E.J. DIONNE JR., E.J. Dionne (Washington Post),  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: E.J. Dionne,  Barack Obama,  Caroline Kennedy,  U.S. Senate,  Kirsten Gillibrand

To Learn and to Serve

WASHINGTON--Imagine a time when government work was exciting, widely admired, and much sought after. It seems an outlandish thought at a moment when you cannot turn on your television without hearing government spoken of as almost an alien creature. It ...

From E.J. DIONNE JR., The New Republic,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Caroline Kennedy,  U.S. Senate,  Kirsten Gillibrand,  George Voinovich

Don't Let Abortion Destroy Health Reform

WASHINGTON--For some years, Democrats have denounced parodies casting their party as utterly closed to the views of those who oppose abortion. Last weekend, Democrats proved conclusively that they are, indeed, a big tent--and many in the ranks are ...

From E.J. DIONNE JR., The New Republic,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Bart Stupak

E.J. Dionne Jr. on health reform's abortion stumbling block

From the outraged comments of the abortion-rights movement, you'd think that Rep. Bart Stupak's amendment to the House version of the health-care bill would all but overturn Roe v. Wade. No, it wouldn't. The Michigan Democrat's measure -- passed 240 to ...

From E.J. DIONNE JR., E.J. Dionne (Washington Post),  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  E.J. Dionne,  Bart Stupak,  Lois Capps,  Brad Ellsworth

E.J. Dionne Jr. on how government won on Election Day

This is what happened in two statewide referendums last week that got buried under all of the attention paid to the governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey. In Maine, voters rejected a tax-limitation measure by a walloping 60 percent to 40 percent. ...

From E.J. DIONNE JR., E.J. Dionne (Washington Post),  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: E.J. Dionne,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Grover Norquist,  Barack Obama

Make the Sell

WASHINGTON--Here's a story you may have missed because it flies in the face of the dreary conventional wisdom: When advocates of public programs take on the right-wing anti-government crowd directly, the government-haters lose. This is what happened in ...

From E.J. DIONNE JR., The New Republic,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

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