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The How-To Guide for Improving the Health Care Bill

When spoken by a Senate centrist, the verb "improve" invariably means "water down." None of the fence-sitters seem upset that the Senate bill, even when fully implemented, would still leave 23 million people without health-care coverage. Instead, their ...

From WALTER SHAPIRO, Politics Daily,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  Mitch McConnell,  U.S. Democratic Party,  John McCain

CETA: A '70s Government Jobs Program That Didn't Work

In the late 1970s in the Jimmy Carter administration, I had a ringside seat for the political collapse of the last modern attempt to replicate a massive New Deal jobs program. This repudiation of public service employment marked the symbolic end of ...

From WALTER SHAPIRO, Politics Daily,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ronald Reagan,  U.S. Congress,  Ford Motor Company,  Franklin D. Roosevelt,  Labor Department

Immigration, Yet Another Issue: How Many Hard Votes Can Congress Take?

The Obama administration – and this is a rare statement apt to unite acolytes and acid-tongued critics – does not lack for ambition. Even with the president off in Asia, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that 9/11 suspects would be tried in ...

From WALTER SHAPIRO, Politics Daily,  17 Nov 2009

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

How Palin Could Win the 2012 GOP Nomination

More than two years before the 2012 Iowa caucuses, presidential speculation should come with a soothsayer's money-back guarantee. But what all the discussions of Palin's future miss is the way that Republican Party rules are made-to-order for a ...

From WALTER SHAPIRO, Politics Daily,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  John McCain,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Mike Huckabee

Tom Perriello: Virginia's High Wire House Democrat

BEDFORD, Virginia – Normally when a freshman congressman makes an appearance at a middle school to deliver innocuous remarks in honor of Veterans Day, the local police do not send out a protective cordon. But here in southern Virginia 35-year-old ...

From WALTER SHAPIRO, Politics Daily,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of Virginia,  Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,  White House,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

Anita Dunn Departs, Obama Gets Third Communications Director

When media consultant Anita Dunn became Barack Obama's second White House communications director in May, she insisted that the job had to be temporary, originally hoping that it would not extend beyond her 12-year-old son's summer vacation. It is ...

From WALTER SHAPIRO, Politics Daily,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Barack Obama,  Commerce Department,  Dan Pfeiffer,  Evan Bayh

Cold War Melt: The Biggest Event Since V-J Day

After covering the Hungarian parliamentary elections in early 1990 – the first free elections in the former Soviet bloc in more than four decades – I returned from Budapest with a souvenir that is as evocative of this glorious triumph of democracy as a ...

From WALTER SHAPIRO, Politics Daily,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ronald Reagan,  White House,  O J Simpson,  Ford Motor Company,  Bill Clinton

Mike Huckabee: Another White House Whirl in 2012?

After John McCain won the nomination, Huckabee did not fade away. Instead, he morphed into a guitar-playing Fox News weekend talk show host. But just to make sure that the Washington political press corps did not forget him, Huckabee appeared Wednesday ...

From WALTER SHAPIRO, Politics Daily,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  U.S. Republican Party,  Mike Huckabee,  John McCain,  Al Gore

The Election's Carry-Over Lessons? There Are Fewer Than You Think.

The gubernatorial wing of the GOP – the last bastion of pragmatists in an ideologically rigid party – was probably the major victor Tuesday night amid a series of surprising off-year election results from East Coast states. Chris Christie, the former ...

From WALTER SHAPIRO, Politics Daily,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Christopher J. Christie

Bulletin! Breaking News! This Just In! Worldwide Exclusive!

The way we cover and consume political news is about as rational as stock-market investors looking to find the next Bernie Madoff. Four years ago -- a year after one of the closest presidential elections in history -- there was so little national ...

From WALTER SHAPIRO, Politics Daily,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  White House,  Dede Scozzafava

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