Williams: Dems will splinter on trade deals
Senate Democrats have maintained a united front as a minority in the new Congress — so far.No Democrats crossed party lines on the Homeland Security funding bill vote. Last week’s vote on the Keystone...
View ArticleJuan Williams: McConnell fails to deliver
After a terrible, bone-breaking accident and two eye surgeries, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the former Senate Majority Leader, is scheduled to be back on Capitol Hill this week.Somehow the bruised Reid...
View ArticleJuan Williams: Congress goes MIA on ISIS
It is close to a month since the president sent Congress a draft bill that would authorize him to fight the terror group known variously as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, ISIS or ISIL.Congress...
View ArticleJuan Williams: How conservatives capsized school reform
Last week President Obama invited a small group of journalists, including me, to talk with him at the White House. The conversation was off-the-record. But speaking generally about the two-hour talk, I...
View ArticleJuan Williams: Boehner's sea of troubles
The TV drama “House of Cards,” with all of its fictional backstabbing, looks lame compared to the current, real-life political drama on Capitol Hill starring Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).The Speaker...
View ArticleJuan Williams: Tea Party could burn its own base on Medicare
How much pain will far-right conservatives cause the GOP leadership on Capitol Hill before Congress reaches a deal to fix this year’s Medicare funding shortfall? The Tea Party caucus has a lot more...
View ArticleJuan Williams: Boehner, Israel and race
Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) trip to Israel this week is so blatantly political that even the avowedly impartial Associated Press describes it as looking “like a jab at the White House.” It is...
View ArticleJuan Williams: What Reid got right
Let Republicans now praise Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.).Since there is silence, let me help.Sen. Mitch McConnell (R- Ky.), the new Senate Majority Leader, famously promised that once he won control of the...
View ArticleJuan Williams: For '16, a tidal wave of cash
The most stunning political news of the year to date is last week’s revelation that a group of super-PACs has already raised $31 million to support the presidential bid of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).And...
View ArticleJuan Williams: On foreign policy, will Dems run from Obama?
We know Republicans will dump on President Obama's foreign policy record in the 2016 presidential race.GOP primary debates will be thunderous theaters of derision, disrespect and disappointment...
View ArticleJuan Williams: Democrats must show unions tough love on trade
In love affairs, sentimental feelings are welcome. In Washington politics, however, they lead to pandering. And pandering is the only way to explain why most Congressional Democrats remain opposed to a...
View ArticleJuan Williams: Republicans and racial resentment
Why do Democrats in Congress have trouble with white men?The easy answer is President Obama.On May 9, the nation will mark 150 years since the end of the Civil War. Given the nation's history of legal...
View ArticleJuan Williams: The GOP's festival of flip-flopping
Do Republicans care that their presidential primary is turning into an exhibition of cartwheel-size political flip-flops?Politicians have every right to change their mind as the facts and pressures...
View ArticleJuan Williams: NSA reforms are legacy of Snowden
The conservative-led reform to the Patriot Act last week raises a difficult question: What about former CIA contractor-turned-leaker Edward Snowden?There is no debating that Snowden broke his oath to...
View ArticleJuan Williams: GOP dishonesty on ISIS and Iraq
As Islamic State terrorists captured a key Iraqi city last week, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) gave voice to Republican indignation by blasting President Obama for not having "an over-arching...
View ArticleJuan Williams: Supreme Court risks healthcare chaos
“This Congress, your honor?”That snappy one-liner got a rare laugh from the packed crowd at the Supreme Court back in March. Justice Antonin Scalia had asked Solicitor General Donald Verilli if there...
View ArticleJuan Williams: GOP needs a new script on immigration
The politics of immigration reform is kryptonite to the current Republican majority in Congress. Now the playing field is shifting to 2016 presidential politics.With 18 months of Republican control of...
View ArticleJuan Williams: Dems should not be losing voting-rights fight
Why are Democrats losing the debate over voting rights?The biggest political fight shaping the 2016 campaigns for the White House and Senate is over limiting the Democrats’ base of likely voters....
View ArticleJuan Williams: McConnell misfires in Senate
When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) walked past me the other day, he stopped to say: "You haven't written anything trashing me lately."Well, here goes.The attempt to pass a Defense...
View ArticleJuan Williams: The pollution of politics
When President Obama lobbied for fast-track authority on his trade bill he asked House Democrats to “play it straight.” Capitol Hill Republicans reacted by saying to Congressional Democrats, “We told...
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