By Lanny Davis – 02/05/14 It seems the pundits and polls in our town and on cable TV looking to fill the time can’t get over the apparently irresistible temptation to blame Hillary Clinton for … well, just about everything. Recent press reports quoted anonymous Democrats expressing concerns that Clinton is making the “same mistakes” […]
By Lanny Davis – 01/06/14 A lot of people credit Al From and the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) with making a significant contribution to saving the Democratic Party from virtual political extinction at the end of the 1980s — at least in competing for the presidency. From reminds us in his recently published memoir, The […]
By Lanny Davis – 12/04/13 Almost 20 years ago, in September 1995, America’s first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, took the podium at the fourth annual United Nations Women’s Conference in Beijing. A prominent Chinese pro-democracy dissident had been arrested. Many in the U.S. government and broader diplomatic community opposed the first lady going to China […]
By Lanny Davis – 11/20/13 The first argument used against the legislation was ideological. Conservative opponents called it socialistic because it allowed government to force individual Americans to take money from their own funds to pay for the benefits of other Americans who are less well off and can’t afford to pay themselves. This violates […]
By Lanny Davis – 11/13/13 As a supporter of the Affordable Care Act, also known as “ObamaCare,” I want the problems to be fixed and for the program to succeed. After all, we are the only Western democracy that does not provide some form of national health insurance or guaranteed access to healthcare to all […]
By Lanny J. Davis – 10/23/13 How many liberal pundits, bloggers and commentators have attacked first-term Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in personal terms of contempt and ridicule? Almost all. There can be little doubt that the GOP congressional strategy of holding up approval of the budget and causing a government shutdown in return for repeal […]
By Lanny J. Davis – 09/25/13 Polls show that most Americans will blame House Republicans — not President Obama or congressional Democrats — if Speaker John Boehner and his Tea Party-driven caucus continue to insist that the president either defund ObamaCare or shut down the federal government. However, before Democrats celebrate prematurely, they should recognize […]
By Lanny J. Davis – 09/11/13 In my view, Barack Obama’s speech on Syria yesterday was the high point of his presidency. Ultimately it could cement his place in history the way President Kennedy’s courage and resolve during the Cuban missile crisis did for him. Public opinion was against Obama on a limited military strike […]
By Lanny J. Davis – 08/21/13 Not everyone is as apparently obsessed with writing vitriol about the Clintons as Maureen Dowd, the New York Times’s op-ed columnist. For example, last Saturday, Dowd compared the Clintons to the self-destructive cartoon character Wile E. Coyote. Her first example of “little explosions” for which she holds the Clintons […]
By Lanny Davis – 07/24/13 Some things that happen in Washington, D.C., have come to be expected, such as hyperpartisanship in the Congress along sharp “red” vs. “blue” lines. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) has assembled a remarkable bipartisan coalition of senators to support her modest proposal, the Military Justice Improvement Act, which would […]