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March 27, 2017

Mission Impossible: Why Trump's health care compromise was never going to pass

There’s plenty of blame to go around, but one thing is clear: The ObamaCare battle was Mission Impossible from the beginning, because Donald Trump ran against Republican orthodoxy on health insurance.

March 24, 2017

Muddy waters: Trump surveillance story polluted by partisanship, media overreach

This whole Trump/FBI/Russia/wiretap/surveillance/leaking/intercept thing has become a monumental muddle.

March 23, 2017

Smugness watch: Some liberals say it's okay to hate Trump voters

There is, in some precincts on the left, an earnest attempt to understand Trump voters, those strange creatures that are standing by their man, and figure out how the Democrats might win them back.

March 22, 2017

Unscathed: Gorsuch aces his hearing, 'doesn't give a whit about politics'

Neil Gorsuch is an impressive witness, a judge out of central casting who says all the right things, with great earnestness, about judicial independence.

March 21, 2017

Press fired up as Comey rejects Trump wiretap claim, offers no evidence on Russia probe

James Comey didn’t want to say much yesterday on Capitol Hill, but for President Trump’s opponents, he said enough.

March 20, 2017

Trump's talkathon presidency is his greatest asset, and sometimes a liability

I was watching President Trump during a press availability after he met with GOP leaders on the health care bill, when he said this: “Fake news—I watch, I say that’s not the bill we’re passing… “ObamaCare is dead.

March 17, 2017

Donald Trump's sharp budget ax: Now the swamp fights back

Now we’re talking real money.

March 16, 2017

Hype Watch: Rachel Maddow's titanic Trump tax touting ends badly

What was touted as a very big night for Rachel Maddow ended up with a massive misfire.

March 15, 2017

Snow Job? DC's icy battles over health care and wiretap claims

It’s somehow fitting, on a day when a few inches of white stuff shut down the nation’s capital, that we’re getting snowed from all sides on ObamaCare.

March 14, 2017

Upside-down media: Even anti-Trump vandalism gets good reviews

An outrageous lead in the Washington Post captured the animus that underlies much of the coverage of Donald Trump: “A group of environmental activists pulled off a daring act of defiance.”