Reducing our spending on overseas military commitments is the deficit reduction idea that has the broadest public support across all partisan groups, according to new Pew Research Center poll. Solid majorities of regular Democrats, Republicans and independents all want to see America stop wasting so much money on foreign military commitments. While raising taxes on [...]

During the bipartisan health care reform summit, President Obama said that they would try to bridge the divide between Democrats and Republicans on the issue. But Obama finally admitted that they simply might not be able to bridge the divide. There is just no way Republicans are going to vote for Obama’s omnibus health care [...]

This should not come as a shocker to anyone. A new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that Americans have significantly lost trust in Democrats’ ability to deal with the big problems facing our country: When compared with the early months of Obama’s presidency, the GOP’s overall gains are striking. A year ago, Democrats held a [...]

At a press conference the other day, President Obama seemed clearly annoyed that bipartisanship is not working like he thought it should: “Bipartisanship can’t be that I agree to all the things that they believe in or want, and they agree to none of the things I believe in and want, and that’s the price [...]

Attempts to get bipartisan support for health care reform were always doomed—doomed from the very beginning. Part of that is because Republicans had no political reason to help Democrats achieve one of the planks of their party platform. The idea that delivering on quality health care reform would help cement Democrats as defenders of the [...]

The House Republican leadership has sent a letter to the Obama Administration making it clear for the 100th time that they have zero intention of reaching a bipartisan agreement on Obama’s current health care reform proposal. Repeatedly, now, they have said they don’t like the current bill, and will only accept completely starting over in [...]

I think Obama’s planned televised bipartisan meeting on health care reform is a waste of time. Republicans had months to actively get involved with shaping the legislation and chose not to. They decided that the smart political move was to oppose health care reform at every turn. The chances of getting Republican buy-in at this [...]

Congressional Republican’s clearly don’t want this health care reform bill to pass. They made the political calculation that allowing Obama to achieve victory on this bill will only help Democrats in 2010. So, with this televised, bipartisan meeting scheduled for February 25th, the question is how will the Republicans play the meeting to get the [...]

Yesterday, Obama called for another bipartisan sit down about health care reform. This time, his bipartisan sit down will be televised. The half-day meeting will take place on 25 February, after a congressional break between 15 to 19 February. The move comes after complaints that Mr Obama’s efforts have been too partisan and secretive. Republicans [...]

In this ad Obama accomplishes two things: 1) His national security/foreign policy bona fides, by pointing out his work to track down loose nukes = preventing nuclear terrorism and 2) That he can work across party lines, showcasing his work with Republican Senator Dick Lugar–a respected foreign policy elder statesman–on this issue (and from Indiana–a state that Obama happens to be targeting to turn from red to blue this election).