Witcover: Obama frozen in angst as Middle East violence deepens
President Obama, in a sea of foreign policy troubles, accepted his leadership responsibilities in a CNN interview last week while lamenting the complexity of these challenges.He noted the old Harry...
View ArticleWitcover: Fear of Obamacare damages GOP
Tea party and other Republican fear-mongers are again working themselves into a lather in their latest assault on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a key part of which will be implemented...
View ArticleWitcover: Self-immolation on Capitol Hill
The political version of setting oneself on fire has been playing out in Congress these last days by Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and the merry band of House Republicans willing to set a torch to...
View ArticleWitcover: Despite myopic blame game, one party can act to break congressional...
The current row over who’s to blame for the latest government showdown brings to mind the story of the two men arguing on a street corner whether the world is round or flat. They agree to ask an...
View ArticleWitcover: Seeking a way out of budget showdown
Now that both sides in the Great Shutdown Fiasco seem to be inching their way toward an exit strategy, the central concern appears to be how to arrive at it with the least political damage to each of...
View ArticleWitcover: What McCarthyism can teach us about Cruzism
In the wake of President Obama’s emphatic victory over the ultraconservatives determined to kill his Affordable Care Act, he has as much interest as moderate Republicans do in seeing these ideological...
View ArticleWitcover: 'Obamacare: Milestone or a millstone for the president?'
Just as the Nixon White House tapes have been for years “the gift that keeps on giving” for the Democrats, Obamacare seems destined to be a recurring basis for political mischief by the...
View ArticleWitcover: Obama's broken promise
President Obama’s sort-of apology for saying, “If you like your heath care plan, you can keep it,” is in keeping with the tradition of Oval Office occupants trying to cover their posteriors when they...
View ArticleWitcover: Kibitzers seek to mess with the presidential debates
One of the best features of our quadrennial presidential campaigns is the series of debates between the major party nominees, plus another between their running mates. Voters tune in the by millions...
View ArticleWitcover: Mandela and Obama - Two paths to power
Seldom does the death of a foreign leader touch the hearts and conscience of Americans as did the passing at age 95 of Nelson Mandela, who suffered, struggled and eventually led South Africa out of the...
View ArticleWitcover: Americans show more signs of war fatigue
As public support for sweeping security surveillance of Americans’ phone traffic to frustrate terrorism at home appears to be coming unglued, so has their patience with the longest war in U.S history,...
View Article2014: Relevance Obama's big threat
As President Obama faces the new year presumably refreshed by his Hawaii vacation, he also faces a growing impression, fanned to be sure by his Republican critics, that he somehow has become...
View ArticleColumnwitcover:The troubling legacy of Obamacare
Like Watergate before it, Obamacare has become the gift that keeps on giving — to partisan opponents determined to bring down an American president.In 1972, the Republican break-in of the Democratic...
View ArticleColumn: Timing the war-making debate
Now that President Obama has laid his case before the United Nations for a concerted international war on the emerging Islamic State, if and when should the argument be debated in Congress?Obama legal...
View ArticleObama's gamble on Iran nuclear deal
The deal tentatively struck with Iran to divert its path to a nuclear weapon will affect American domestic as well as foreign policy in determining President Obama’s legacy, as he winds down his White...
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