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Guest AuthorDecember 13, 2013

Senator Marco Rubio’s endorsement of Obamacare for his own family should end the rhetoric coming from Governor Rick Scott and other tea party groups. As many news outlets reported recently, in addition to enrolling his family through the new exchange, Rubio is also receiving federal subsidies – this is good news for his family. The […]

Guest AuthorNovember 20, 2013

Obamacare is an unmitigated disaster. It has been from the beginning. Any time that Congress passes something along strictly partisan lines, it probably is not a good thing. To rush the vote so that a then-newly minted GOP senator, Scott Brown, couldn’t vote was just the last straw in the first act of this dark […]

Daniel TilsonNovember 18, 2013

It’s time for the outcry about the rocky rollout of the Affordable Care Act to get less frantic and more targeted. Despite corporate-conservative media personification of the law as “Obamacare,” we everyday folks need to disregard political spin and get savvy about what’s really going on. The long-term health of our families and national economy […]

Guest AuthorNovember 17, 2013

If there is one thing to be learned from the growing debacle that is Obamacare, it is that experience and competence matter, especially in large-scale endeavors. It does seem, especially in politics and elections, that these intrinsic elements, competence and experience, have lately been left by the wayside. The reactions of this current administration to […]

Guest AuthorNovember 12, 2013

This is not talk by right-wing foes who have a list of Hillary jokes longer than their list of lawyer jokes. “What carries more baggage than a Delta Airlines ground crew? Ans. Hillary Clinton.” No, the knocks come from Democrats. She’s never been a particularly good campaigner, partly because she cannot fake sincerity like her […]

Darryl PaulsonNovember 4, 2013

Democrats love Harry Truman, the president of the common man, and his “the buck stops here” philosophy. He took personal responsibility for what happened during his tenure. Fifty years later, Democrats have another president, Barack Obama, whose philosophy is apparently “I never saw the buck. It wasn’t until several days later, when I read about […]

Guest AuthorOctober 30, 2013

Political momentum, on the national stage, is like the tides, coming and going and constantly changing. It often brings in flotsam and rarely takes any of the detritus away. Almost weekly you can hear the pundits claiming the tides have shifted in favor of — insert political party here — only until the next scandal […]

Darryl PaulsonOctober 28, 2013

Second of two parts. Almost everyone, except the most hardened progressive ideologues, believes that the Obamacare rollout is a mess. After three years and $300 million spent on preparing the website, few people have been able to log on, let alone register for health care. The exact number who have successfully signed up for a […]

Darryl PaulsonOctober 27, 2013

First of two parts. During the first year of President Obama’s first term, the American economy was in shambles and the public demanded that government focus on the economy and job creation. In response, the administration passed a stimulus plan that Republicans thought was too large and Democrats thought was too small. The economy continued […]

Guest AuthorOctober 23, 2013

“The absence of articulate political leadership in the country makes us feel that we are floundering,” the great Saul Bellow wrote in a piece for Forbes — in 1972. Richard Nixon was president, a reminder that even in the worst of times, if the nation could survive that knave, it’s not about to be sunk […]

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Charlie Crist: Rubio endorsement of ACA should end Scott’s criticism

Barney Bishop: ‘Nanny Government’ knows what’s best for you

Daniel Tilson: Redirecting all that Obamacare anger

Ed Moore: We must start to elect statesmen rather than salesmen

Jamie Miller: If Hillary runs, opponents will blame her for Obamacare

Darryl Paulson: Obama is the ‘4 Pinocchio’ President

Ed Moore: Politicians and pundits should not treat governing like a sporting event

Darryl Paulson: The problem with Obamacare: the substance

Darryl Paulson: The problem with Obamacare: the process

Pierre Tristam: It’s time to get rid of Florida’s suicide Republicans