BY GARY ANDRES
Reprinted from the Weekly Standard
Congress has a black eye, and it’s starting to swell. As an institution, its approval ratings bounce near all time lows, creating a crisis in confidence among voters.  Can Americans count on an institution so anemic in trust to heal the difficult and major problems confronting the nation?
Many believe [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
From the Feehery Theory
“Politics and Film”, a local film festival in Washington D.C., re-ran the epic movie “All The President’s Men”, and then held a discussion with Bob Woodward, one of the protagonists depicted in the show.
In the movie, Woodward and his sidekick Carl Bernstein, risked personal safety and career advancement investigating the [...]

BY STEVE BELL
             As I write this, cable and broadcast television, radio, and bloggers, and government officials, are giddy with the news released 90 minutes ago that the economy created almost 300,000 jobs last month. 
     “We’ve turned the economic corner.”
      “The recovery has become self-sustaining.”
      “That 1,000 point drop in the Dow was merely because of a human [...]

BY GARY ANDRES

Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress didn’t invent the politics of vilification, and they will not be the last to practice it. The president and his political allies, however, have refined the practice to an art form – they say they abhor vilification, yet consistently demonize when promoting their legislative aims.
But will [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
 Some things to ponder, just not too long:
 I was watching ABC World News with Diane Sawyer and complaining about the blurriness of the picture. I thought I’d better call Comcast when my wife, who knows about such things, said it wasn’t the TV.  It was ABC softening the lighting to make Diane’s [...]

BY GARY ANDRES
From the Weekly Standard
Public opinion about the appropriate role of the federal government moves like the moon cycle, causing tidal shifts in citizen attitudes and election outcomes. After watching Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress over the past year and a half, attitudes about Washington are changing again, possibly giving those who advocate [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
            “The Vanishing Middle in American Politics” That headline made me reach for the reading glasses Sunday morning.   Holy voter! Batman, when did the middle vanish? 
            The headline on a story by AP reporter Ron Fournier was misleading, of course. The great middle of American politics–centrists, independents, moderates, whatever you call [...]