How Republicans can and should ‘replace’ Herschel Walker
(Oct. 7) Herschel Walker should announce he will forswear service in the Senate — but with a twist. Start with this, though: It is long past time for national and state Republicans and […]
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Progress, but not yet perfect, in reforming Electoral Count Act
(July 22) The bipartisan accord to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887 is a laudable attempt to clarify and regularize the presidential vote-certifying process. But they haven’t quite got […]
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Two on Tuesday’s primaries (Bama and Georgia)
As in Pennsylvania, Senate race in Bama is a humdinger (May 19): If you liked the three-way drama of the Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania this week, you’ll love the […]
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Orrin Hatch was an all-time great senator
(April 25) Orrin Hatch, the former seven-term Republican U.S. senator from Utah who died on April 23 at age 88, was one of the finest public servants of my lifetime. […]
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Conservative Sen. Ben Sasse outclassed Sen. Chris Murphy
(March 18) Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska ran rings around Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, on the Senate floor Thursday, making three important points in the process. Earlier, Murphy had tweeted out […]
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Mo Brooks sinks, Katie Britt rises, in Bama Senate race
(March 16) MOBILE, Alabama — The winsome Katie Britt increasingly looks like the GOP primary front-runner to replace retiring Alabama Republican Richard Shelby in the U.S. Senate. The Washington Examiner’s David Drucker reported today that […]
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Bob Dole was the U.S. Senate’s greatest American
(Dec. 6) Bob Dole was quite simply the greatest U.S. senator and the greatest American who served in the Senate of our lifetime. He was great not because he survived […]
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Herschel Walker runs… for Senate
(Aug. 26) This week’s entrance of all-time football great Herschel Walker into the 2022 U.S. Senate race in Georgia immediately makes his campaign the most fascinating of the year. Walker […]
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This infrastructure bill is bad. It deserved to be buried.
(August 3) The Senate infrastructure bill spends too much money, adding too much debt, for too many unnecessary projects while using too many budgetary gimmicks to claim it is “paid […]
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Alabama’s Senate candidate Katie Britt makes good first impression
(June 30) MOBILE, Alabama — There’s a new U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, Katie Boyd Britt, who is a political consultant’s dream. In the next year, we’ll see if she […]
