WASHINGTON — Has Sarah Palin learned anything since she was plucked from obscurity almost two years ago? Not that I can tell.
WASHINGTON — She’s not gay, OK?
PHOENIX — “What’s the matter with Arizona?” is the obvious question about the state’s new immigration law. There are a few obvious answers — and a not-so-obvious one that I was surprised to hear from observers across the political spectrum here.
We used to live in a simpler world. It was a world in which we were blessed by an abundance of cheap hydropower and fossil fuels. It was a world in which our pursuit of low-cost electricity and fuel was not complicated by our mounting impact on the environment, natural resources and habitat. A world of seemingly endless economic growth and opportunities. Now that world is not so simple.
WASHINGTON — I am so going to miss Justice Stevens.
WASHINGTON — It isn’t easy being a caucus of one.
WASHINGTON — The public is zero for seven at the Supreme Court this term.
WASHINGTON — There is something weird going on in the Republican Party when Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn is the voice of reason.
WASHINGTON — My heart aches for the parents of Phoebe Prince, the 15-year-old Massachusetts high school student who committed suicide in January after being relentlessly bullied at school and online.
WASHINGTON — A woman did it.
WASHINGTON — Here’s a phrase you can expect to hear a lot in the next few days: “According to the CBO.” The CBO is the Congressional Budget Office, the official scorekeeper of the costs of proposed legislation. Rarely has a CBO report been more anxiously awaited than the analysis released Thursday of the proposed changes to the Senate health care reform bill. Democrats are delighted with the bottom-line analysis that the measure would save $138 billion over the next 10 years, and as much as $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years — all this while expanding coverage to 32 million people who would otherwise be uninsured.
WASHINGTON — The chief justice is a big crybaby.
WASHINGTON—Sometimes I think I’ve gotten too cynical after so many years in Washington.
