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What Do We Do Now? The Way Forward For The President, Congress And America

10/03/2013 Published on Forbes.com
Things look very different than 2011. Indeed, the conflict over raising the debt ceiling strikes a familiar note. And the power players are the same, too. But while President Obama talked to House Speaker Boehner almost every day during the…

The Public Has Got It Wrong

02/28/2013 Published on Forbes.com
Tomorrow is a big day. The sequester will automatically come into effect and we will see across the board spending cuts. What the actual impact of the sequester on the average American has been hotly debated. The President has been…

When It Comes To Obama And The Sequester, The Public Has Got It Wrong

Published on Forbes.com
Move up http://i.forbesimg.com tMove down The Age of Disruption Doug Schoen Contributor Looking for a Way to Reduce Medicare Spending? Look No Further than Part D Doug Schoen Contributor Tomorrow is a big day. The sequester will automatically come into…

No tears today, but still hope

01/21/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
The public swearing-in ceremony for America’s 44th president and his second inaugural speech was viewed by millions on television and a crowd of 600,000 to 800,000 who braved the cold to watch history in person. The event, as always, was…

Division In Washington Strikes Again

01/01/2013 Published on Forbes.com
All of this was predictable. In a speech to a trade association six weeks ago, I discussed the partisanship and imbalance that would eventually destroy our political system. I said that I thought it was perfectly reasonable to assume that…

The Bipartisan Way Forward

11/16/2012 Published on Forbes.com
It has been just over a week since the election and it has never been more apparent that neither party, nor the President himself, emerged from this election with a clear mandate to govern. President Obama promised the American people…

Obama’s Truman Strategy Will Not Work

06/08/2012 Published on Forbes.com
President Obama’s news conference today on jobs and the economy offered nothing new. He blamed the Congress and Republicans specifically. The president’s remarks on the economy and Congress echo President Truman’s on the ‘Do-Nothing’ Republican Congress. On the surface, the…

Democrats Drop Millionaire Surtax — For Now

02/14/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
Several senior Senate Democratic aides have confirmed Democrats have laid aside, for now, their attempt to pay for any extension of a package of benefits – including the payroll tax cut, jobless benefits, and a Medicare “doc fix” — with…

A Democrat’s Advice for Both Parties

03/22/2010 Published on Foxnews.com
This weekend’s health care debate in the House of Representatives underscored the deep divisions between Democrats and Republicans on the issue. There were legitimate fundamental and philosophical differences on both sides that were expressed, for the most part, in a…