Michael Sean Winters

The President rsquo s budget announced yesterday may have the finest calibration of budget details in the history of the human race But its delivery was not a political success and whether Budget Director Peter Orzag is a genius with numbers or not he was not very adept as he made the round of

Fred Hiatt has an essay in this morning rsquo s Washington Post taking Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to task for his turn-around on the bipartisan Conrad-Gregg proposal to establish a bipartisan commission to recommend structural changes to the federal budget which like the Base Realignmen

The President sent a mixed signal about the future of health care reform in his State of the Union address His words were clear Don t walk away from reform nbsp Not now nbsp Not when we are so close nbsp Let us find a way to come together and finish the job for the American people nbsp Let

President Barack Obama knows how to deliver a speech about as well as anyone since Franklin Delano Roosevelt And like Roosevelt President Obama set out a vision for the coming year that focused on the economy and specifically on the way the government can lay the groundwork for economic growth

Republicans continue their victory dance on the grave of health care reform I hope they will take a moment to read the letter they received from the USCCB yesterday It calls upon all members of Congress to come together and recommit themselves to enacting genuine health care reform that will prot

Bad faith can be found in both the extreme left- and right-wing camps It is most commonly found not among simple people whose prejudices are close to the surface but among intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals people who claim to be one thing but then in an instant they expose their less a

President Obama rsquo s campaign manager David Plouffe is returning from his brief stint as an author to help the Democrats stop the bleeding after their twin gubernatorial losses last November and last week rsquo s shocker in the special election in Massachusetts Plouffe penned an op-ed for yester

I am sure that it was not the intent of the five members of the conservative majority of the Supreme Court to throw President Obama a softball In deciding to overturn the ban on corporate and labor union funding in political campaigns they were too busy focusing on how best to address a long stand

There was a common theme among White House operatives and liberal commentators yesterday David Axelrod appearing on MSNBC promised the President would continue fighting to address the anxieties felt by middle class voters Spokesman Robert Gibbs said the results in the special election in Massach

Ralph Waldo Emerson rsquo s poem Concord Hymn which is inscribed on the Minuteman statue at the North Bridge begins with four lines that every schoolchild learned by heart By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April rsquo s breeze unfurled Here once the embattled farmers stood