Tag: Michael Barone

Fiscal Cliff

Michael Barone: With no governing party in sight, ‘fiscal cliff’ looks inevitable

Michael Barone · December 22, 2012 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

The train to nowhere

Michael Barone · December 21, 2012 5:00 am

WASHINGTON - APRIL 12: Senate President Pro Tempore Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) pauses while speaking during an event at the World War II Memorial April 12, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

Michael Barone: Tim Scott and Daniel Inouye show a better America

Michael Barone · December 18, 2012 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Washington Examiner editorial gets results

Michael Barone · December 18, 2012 5:00 am

pensions

States tackle fiscal problems while feds dawdle

Michael Barone · December 15, 2012 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Michael Barone: Who gets hurt if we go off the cliff?

Michael Barone · December 14, 2012 5:00 am

Governor-elect Jay Inslee, left, smiles as he briefly speaks with reporters in the reception area of the office of outgoing Gov. Chris Gregoire Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, in Olympia, Wash. At right is a portrait of former Gov. Booth Gardner, 19th governor of Washington. Inslee was meeting with Gregoire to discuss his transition to the position. He will be sworn in as governor in January of 2013. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Beltway Confidential

Michael Barone: Reddish behavior in bluish states

Michael Barone · December 12, 2012 5:00 am

President Barack Obama gestures as he answers a question during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Barone: ‘Fiscal cliff’ causes problems that don’t faze Obama

Michael Barone · December 11, 2012 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Michael Barone: Can big government be rolled back?

Michael Barone · December 10, 2012 5:00 am

Children of a disabled coal miner stand in the doorway of their Appalachian home in the early 1960s. (Photo by Jack Corn, now belonging to Vanderbilt University.)

Beltway Confidential

Barone: Soul-crushing dependency

Michael Barone · December 9, 2012 5:00 am

Maria Cruz, left, and Lincoln Statler chant as they join dozens who rally in front of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Phoenix, protesting Arizona's immigration law. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Barone: Mass migration from Mexico may be history

Michael Barone · December 8, 2012 5:00 am

IRS Form 1040 (AP file)

Higher tax rates won’t support entitlement state

Michael Barone · December 4, 2012 5:00 am