It’s Time for a National Strategic Agenda
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 16th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
It’s Time for a National Strategic Agenda
Nancy Jacobson, RealClearPolitics
If you wanted to distill the dysfunction in Washington down to one simple phrase, you could do a lot worse than this: “All tactics, no strategy.” In Congress, there are plenty of hearings being held and laws being proposed. In government agencies, there are countless programs, initiatives and imperatives. What we don’t have, as a nation, is any sense of where all of this is taking us. For too long, there simply hasn’t been a unifying vision that Americans can rally around. But there is now. On Sept. 17, No Labels is kicking off an unprecedented year-long effort…
Can Congress Be Responsible?
E.J. Dionne, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON — There was a moment in the last quarter-century when the Congress of the United States made the nation proud. It did so across all its usual lines of division: Republican and Democratic, conservative and liberal, hawk and dove. In early January 1991, the Senate and the House staged searching and often eloquent debates over the first President Bush’s decision to wage a war to end Saddam Hussein’s occupation of Kuwait. The arguments, a prelude to votes on resolutions endorsing military action, were almost entirely free of partisan rancor and the usual questioning of adversaries’…