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 […]
by Lanny Davis – 07/17/2013 Thomas Jefferson said at his first inauguration in March of 1801: “We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.” Two hundred twelve years and a few months later, there is only one place in “This Town” where we are all red states and we are all blue states. I am […]
By Lanny Davis – 07/10/13 “To officiate a union that is expressly not for the same godly purpose of procreation and to call such a relationship ‘sanctified’ is unacceptable to a sound mind.” — N. Michael Nunn, a member of Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, in a letter to fellow Persian Jews and congregants opposing gay […]
By Lanny Davis – 06/26/13 Last week I wrote in this space about Hillary Clinton’s June 13 speech at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in Chicago, describing her ability to place the issue of opportunities for women and girls in a broader context than women’s rights — showing its relevance to prosperity for all, […]
by Lanny Davis – 6/19/13 It shouldn’t surprise anyone who has known Hillary Clinton for a while and followed her career in public service to know that she is driven by ideas to bring change that improves people’s lives and, just as important, that she sees an interconnected big picture among her ideas to solve […]
By Lanny J. Davis – 06/07/13 The famous conservative Republican lawyer and former solicitor general under President George W. Bush, Ted Olson, and I sat next to each other while we watched in real time the activity of the most highly classified and secret antiterrorist program being conducted by the United States: the “Terrorist Surveillance […]