Philip Klein

Rep. Paul Ryan’s office has released the following excerpts of his response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address: REP. GABRIELLE GIFFORDS: “President Obama just addressed a Congressional chamber filled with many new faces.  One face we did not…

The Chicago Sun-Times reports: Rahm Emanuel was thrown off the ballot for mayor of Chicago today by an appellate court panel, a stunning blow to the fund-raising leader in the race. An appellate panel ruled 2-1 that Emanuel did not…

Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the Budget Committee, will deliver the Republican response to next week’s State of the Union address. In some ways, the response to the SOTU is always a losing proposition, as the the speaker doesn’t get…

On the 50th Anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s innaugural address, I couldn’t help but think of Milton Friedman’s take on the speech’s most famous line, which served as the opening of Friedman’s 1962 classic Capitalism and Freedom: “In a much…

Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum presidential bid, which already looked like a steep climb, just got steeper. After referring to President Obama’s infamous line that determining human life was “above (his) pay grade,” Santorum said: “The question is, and this…

The Republican Study Committee has come out today with a spending proposal, which, Dave Weigel details would: The proposal does what Republicans have been talking about for two years — “repeal” of remaining stimulus funds (now $45 billion), privatizing Fannie…

With House Republicans poised to vote on repealing the national health care law later today, we’re going to hear a lot of numbers being thrown around, as supporters of ObamaCare tout the Congressional Budget Office estimate that the law will…

Michael Steele tells the Frum Forum’s Tim Mak that he feels betrayed after appointing Reince Priebus to be RNC general counsel, only to watch Priebus oust him as chairman. “I know exactly how Caesar felt,” Steele said. The whole interview…

Of all the arguments liberals have been making during the health care debate, among the most tenuous is the idea that Republican members of Congress who accept government sponsored health insurance are being hypocrites for favoring repeal of government-sponsored health…

And the loser of the “new tone” contest goes to Rep. Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee. ABC reports: In an extraordinary outburst on the House floor, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) invoked the Holocaust to attack Republicans on health care and…