Feehery: The reparations rathole
Democrats are about to go down the reparations rathole.At a hearing last week, the House Judiciary Committee invited several scholars, celebrities and activists to testify about H.R. 40, legislation to...
View ArticleFeehery: The left's patriotism problem
It’s OK to love America, warts and all.Unless you are a Democrat.It’s fashionable these days for the leading lights of the left to show their disgust for this country’s history by showing disrespect...
View ArticleFeehery: Trump inspires temporary House Democratic unity
Archie Bunker couldn’t have said it better himself.When President Trump tweeted that his most bitter congressional critics should go back to where they came from, he was channeling the most infamous...
View ArticleFeehery: Borders and walls
The Irish know something about walls and borders.In Belfast, they still have, scattered throughout the city, ironically-named peace walls that separate Nationalists from Unionists to keep the two...
View ArticleFeehery: Impeachment fever bad for Democratic governing vision
If you can’t beat them, impeach them.The Democrats, and their friends in the left-leaning media, have settled on impeachment as a political strategy to motivate their base, raise money for their...
View ArticleJohn Feehery: The woke versus the workers
How can a “woke” party nominate somebody who is barely awake?That’s the reason I think Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will beat former Vice President Joe Biden and win the Democratic nomination.Warren...
View ArticleFeehery: Trump may be down, but he's not out yet
Chairman Mao famously said, “it’s always darkest before it goes totally black.”And for the Trump administration, you have to ask yourselves when does it go totally black?The impeachment hounds are...
View ArticleFeehery: How Republicans can win back the suburbs
The path back to a House Republican majority runs through America’s suburbs.The question is: Can the Trump administration come up with a strategy to mobilize enough base supporters to win back...
View ArticleFeehery: What Republicans must do to adapt to political realignment
To paraphrase Voltaire, if Donald Trump did not exist, America would have had to invent him.The realignment happening in American politics is perhaps enhanced by, but certainly not caused by, Mr....
View ArticleJohn Feehery: Censure could give Democrats a way out of no-win impeachment
Censure is a better option than pursuing impeachment for House Democrats. Here are five reasons.Possibly bipartisan: There is a chance, however small, that censure could attract some Republican votes....
View ArticleFeehery: Losing faith in the people and the Constitution
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”So wrote H.L. Mencken, in his book “Notes on Democracy.”The American experiment is an exercise in trusting the...
View ArticleFeehery: No, this is not the worst of times in Washington
“Is this the worst it has ever been?”I got that question from a freshman congressman, lamenting the state of our democracy and the vitriol that seems the suffuse the body politic.It’s not great, I...
View ArticleFeehery: It's Trump's race to lose
Two things we know to be true this election cycle.Donald Trump is not going to change who he is.Democrats have to nominate somebody to run against him.First, on Trump.After slightly more than three...
View ArticleFeehery: Give me liberty or give me coronavirus!
When Patrick Henry was governor of Virginia, smallpox was the devastating disease that afflicted America.The British military had gained immunity in the Old World and were accused of spreading the...
View ArticleFeehery: The Republican Party isn't going anywhere
Many Never Trump Republicans who left the party are now calling for its complete destruction, in the hopes that something new will rise up to replace it.Good luck with that.The Republican Party isn’t...
View ArticleJohn Feehery: The great distraction
Groundhog Day might have been last week, but to the Democrats, every day is Jan. 6. Keeping the media’s focus on the mob that overwhelmed the Capitol building serves a salutatory purpose for...
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