Author: AF Editors

By Jan 27,2009

My letter to the White House

As Mary Katharine noted, the Obama White House still hasn’t posted transcripts of spokesman Robert Gibbs’ daily press briefings. I’m equally perturbed that the White House hasn’t even been posting...

By Jan 27,2009

What Latino voters want

How much of a price will Republicans pay for resisting immigration reforms of the kind advocated by George W. Bush and John McCain? For the record, I supported those reforms....

By Jan 27,2009

Gazing into the crystal ball

Michael Goldfarb: The Obama folks were very clever, but the value of the [campaign] website they created didn’t come from the superficial discussion of policy it offered — instead those...

By Jan 26,2009

Boehner vs. Boehner on bipartisanship

Yesterday: MR. [DAVID] GREGORY: Well, let me stop you there, because you say that you can’t borrow and spend…Doesn’t the government have to be the spender of last resort? REP....

By Jan 26,2009

Stimulating something besides the economy

John Boehner: “How can you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives? How does that stimulate the economy?” Boehner’s office explained, One proposal included in the stimulus package would...