One of the dangers in being a demagogue is that some of your own supporters -- those who take you literally -- can turn against you when you start letting your actions be influenced by realities, instead of following the logic of your ringing rhetoric...
I would have joined surge supporters in voting against the House supplemental appropriations bill because of the constraints it seeks to impose on whatever ability we may have to get to acceptable conditions in Iraq, especially the arbitrary imposition of a withdrawal timetable regardless of military needs...
An unnecessary conflict is brewing over the president's qualified constitutional privilege to protect the confidentiality of presidential communications and the congressional power of inquiry...
Years of US imposed sanctions forced Iranian industry to be more self-reliant but mounting pressure is deterring even Iranians from making long-term investments...
Several newspapers recently published two editorials and an opinion piece on rules recently proposed by FDA under which medical experts with more than a $50,000 financial interest in pharmaceutical companies could not serve on agency advisory committees that review their products or the products of their competitors...
