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• David S. Broder: McConnell sees wise Senate

  August 8, 2010 in Opinion on Page B8 It was an odd but intriguing experience to sit at a press breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor last week and listen as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell strongly … 2

• Senate lacks leaders of old

  August 5, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 Earlier this week, as the United States Senate went through the motions of debating Elena Kagan’s nomination to a Supreme Court seat that almost certainly will be hers, readers of …

• David S. Broder: Antidote to voter cynicism

  July 29, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 MIDDLETOWN, Del. – A lot of the mail I receive these days reads like this letter from a Milford, Utah, man, who says: “Truly, there is a lot of anger … 1

• Reasons to watch Kagan

  July 22, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 Buoyed by a 13-6 vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Elena Kagan is on her way to the Supreme Court. The talk in Washington is what the impending elevation of … 1

• David S. Broder: Congress shirks fiscal duty

  July 8, 2010 in Opinion on Page A15 On June 30, the Congressional Budget Office issued its long-term outlook, predicting that deficits would come down for the next few years as the need for counterrecession spending eases and …

• On this day, a nod to Henry Clay

  July 4, 2010 in Opinion on Page B8 Just as this year, Independence Day in 1852 fell on a Sunday. But in New York City the traditional celebration was upstaged by another event. The casket bearing the remains …

• David S. Broder: Try to keep Byrd’s-eye view

  July 1, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 The paradox of Robert Byrd’s life – and the reason his death was recognized by his Senate colleagues as so significant a milestone – is the balance he struck between …

• A ‘clean’ campaign solution

  June 24, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 What began as a well-intentioned effort to deal with the consequences of the miserable Supreme Court decision expanding special-interest influence in election campaigns has turned into a roiling mess for …

• David S. Broder: Spill is one of several crises

  June 17, 2010 in Opinion on Page A17 Far be it from me to tell the crew of public relations officials who now occupy those West Wing offices as a reward for running one of the best presidential …

• David S. Broder: Second education rescue necessary

  June 6, 2010 in Opinion on Page B8 While the nation remains preoccupied by the drama of the oil leak in the Gulf, which consumes an inordinate portion of time and attention in the media, a struggle of …

• David S. Broder: Spill shaping Obama destiny

  June 3, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 “This is the worst,” a Democratic friend exclaimed over the phone on Tuesday, the first day back at work after the Memorial Day weekend. I knew without asking what he … 5

• David S. Broder: Let sleeping politics lie

  May 27, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 Much of political wisdom consists simply of understanding and acknowledging which subjects and practices are off limits. Yes, I know, to some people the very term “political wisdom” is a … 2

• David S. Broder: Federal link is kiss of death

  May 20, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 As we approached the Tuesday night with the most significant senatorial primaries of the year so far, I turned for guidance to a man who had already been through the …

• David S. Broder: Two-party system gets tested

  May 6, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 In separate sectors of the English-speaking democratic world, the capacity of the two-party system to cope with the pressures of an economic crisis is being tested this week, with important … 1

• David S. Broder: Too big for states to handle

  April 29, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 Many in the media, including my colleagues at the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson and Richard Cohen, have written powerful and appropriate columns decrying the action of the Arizona Legislature and … 4

• David S. Broder: Patience, timing go together

  April 22, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 Recently, I wrote a column commending President Barack Obama for his long-range vision and for the patience to wait, beyond his own term if necessary, for the rewards to appear. … 2

• David S. Broder: Obama looks to the future

  April 15, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 We are beginning to learn that the Obama presidency will be an era of substantial but deferred accomplishments – perhaps always to be accompanied by a sense of continuing crisis. … 3

• David S. Broder: Dingell championed reform

  March 25, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 No one waited longer for the passage of health care reform than John Dingell, so it was only right that no one smiled more broadly than the 83-year-old congressman while …

• Bayh’s exit speaks volumes

  February 18, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 The last time Sen. Evan Bayh was the subject of this column was back in October, when he organized a letter from 10 moderate Democrats informing Majority Leader Harry Reid … 1

• Palin’s performance sound

  February 11, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 The snows that obliterated Washington last week interfered with many scheduled meetings, but they did not prevent the delivery of one important political message: Take Sarah Palin seriously. Her lengthy … 9

• Opportunity on tone awaits Obama

  February 7, 2010 in Opinion on Page B8 It was toward the end of President Obama’s riveting visit on Jan. 29 with the House Republicans in Baltimore – a rare 90 minutes of candor on both sides that …

• David S. Broder: Both sides fail bipartisan test

  January 28, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 On the very same day this week when the Congressional Budget Office warned that the succession of previously unimaginable trillion-dollar- and-more budget deficits could inflict ruin on the United States, …

• Obama’s year a mixed bag

  January 18, 2010 in Opinion on Page A9 As Barack Obama nears the first anniversary of his inauguration as president, a faculty friend of mine renders what strikes me as the right assessment: “If he were a student, … 1

• David S. Broder: Democrats quick to abandon Obama

  December 20, 2009 in Opinion on Page B8 In the last year or so of George W. Bush’s second term, commentators used to talk a lot about the conspicuous scarcity of other Republicans willing to stand up and …

• David S. Broder: Newbies offer mature tack

  December 10, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 Finally, there is some good news on the health care front. The headlines went to a possible compromise on the contentious issue of the public option, but the greater victory … 1

• David S. Broder: As Honor Flights soar, new idea born

  November 8, 2009 in Opinion on Page B8 A couple weeks before Veterans Day, I went down to the World War II Memorial on the Mall to join Bob and Elizabeth Dole and a group of elderly soldiers, …

• David S. Broder: Nervous voters turn to GOP

  November 5, 2009 in Opinion on Page A15 A year after Barack Obama’s election stirred broad hopes for change among American voters, persistent high unemployment and the spectacle of continued gridlock in Washington threaten Democratic dominance of the … 1

• David S. Broder: Novak part of an elite trio

  August 19, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 Before Bob Novak created the self-parody as “The Prince of Darkness” that his friends and TV fans enjoyed so much, he had two other journalistic identities. With his partner, the …

• David S. Broder: Too early to judge stimulus

  August 16, 2009 in Opinion on Page B8 Before the opponents of health care reform turned congressional town meetings into shouting matches, they had picked another target. The naysayers announced to the world that the economic stimulus bill …

• David S. Broder: Health care bills improving

  August 2, 2009 in Opinion on Page B8 Here’s an irony for you: The health care bills in Congress are getting better, even as support for them diminishes around the country. It is just as well that President …

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