It’s time to put my credibility as a pundit on the line and offer eight political predictions for 2018.
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Time for the congressman to step aside and clear the way for someone who can do the job
Sen. Dean Heller wants to ensure the Raiders’ Las Vegas stadium can issue tax-exempt bonds, despite his opposition to government-funded stadiums. GOP House leaders surprised Nevada officials by proposing to eliminate tax-exempt bonding for professional sports stadiums in the tax-reform plan they unveiled last week.
The state should have no role in dictating such details to private political institutions.
According to multiple media reports out last week, officials in the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign. They wiretapped Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort both before and after the election.
Is Heller afraid to have a debate with a real conservative? Afraid to answer real questions? Afraid Republican voters will hear what he really thinks?
Forget health care or taxes. The current public-policy discussion with the farthest-reaching societal implications is on transgender issues.
Ironically, the people who are most politically engaged — the people who consider themselves most morally “responsible” — pose the greatest threat to the political system, weakening its ability to compromise and condemning it to paralysis.
The media aren’t supposed to run away from stories like this.
Whatever one’s political persuasion, I doubt I’m alone in noting the too-rare character exhibited by Rice and Yates.