Paul, Rubio & the New Era of Conservative Ideas
James Antle, The Week
The Rand Paul-Mike Lee policy partnership has been the most important Republican collaboration in Washington in recent memory. They have tried subtly — and sometimes not so subtly — to change the Republican brand by applying conservative and libertarian principles differently than the party has in the past.The two Tea Party senators have worked together on civil liberties, opposing the Patriot Act, attempting to rein in the National Security Agency, speaking out against extrajudicial killings of American citizens, protesting warrantless searches, and trying to strip indefinite…
Scary Aftershocks of the Hobby Lobby Earthquake
Joan Walsh, Salon
How Obamacare Will Kill Job-Based Plans
Sally Pipes, New York Post
Americans aren’t all that optimistic about ObamaCare, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll: Fifty-seven percent say the law isn’t working as planned.That number will shoot even higher if employer health insurance vanishes, as an S&P Capital IQ report predicts. The financial-research firm forecasts that 90 percent of Americans who now have employer-sponsored coverage will lose it by 2020 — and have to turn to government exchanges for policies.
Can Shameless Propaganda Save the Dems?
David Catron, Am Spectator
For most of 2014, the Democrats looked on the looming congressional elections with considerable dread. All of the standard indicators portend an unhappy outcome for their party. The voters are deeply dissatisfied with the direction in which the country is headed, the President’s popularity—an important gauge of a party’s prospects in any midterm—is at rock bottom, and most competitive seats are in places where Mitt Romney performed well in 2012. Consequently, the Democrats had abandoned hope of winning back the House and stood in real fear of losing their Senate…
Ramparts Against Republicans
Charles Blow, New York Times
Republicans believe that they have a chance of taking control of the Senate in November. And they do.Who will win control is at the moment basically a tossup, but Republicans get the nod by narrow statistical margins.
