Politics – Page 48 – Schirach Report

The Obamacare Inept Launch Exposed Incompetence and Hubris The Obama technocrats believed that rolling out this gigantic pogram would be easy. Therefore nobody checked. And President Obama did not check because he believed he did not have to

By Paolo von Schirach November 15, 2013 WASHINGTON – Notwithstanding the non stop coverage about the website disaster, the health...

The Tea Party Has Become An Ideological, “Anti-Everything” Group – The Republican Party Needs A Strong Message Of Opportunity And Inclusiveness – Chris Christie Could Articulate It Ken Cuccinelli lost in Virginia in large part because he could not get women to vote for him. The conservative social values agenda is horribly outmoded

By Paolo von Schirach November 11, 2013 WASHINGTON – At the very beginning, the Tea Party insurgency had some...

The Failure of Obamacare Medical Exchanges Is A Failure Of Public Policy – Government Is Unable To Manage Large Scale, Sophisticated Programs Big Government follows bureaucratic incentives. Even when it makes major mistakes, it does not go out of business

By Paolo von Schirach October 26, 2013 WASHINGTON – The radical Tea Party Republicans engaged in a disastrous political battle to...

A Tea Party Dominated GOP Is A Sure Loser – Republicans Need A Message Of Hope And Inclusiveness A mostly Southern, strident fringe has tainted the GOP. The Republicans need to be proponents of immigration reform, education reform and they need policies that help women

By Paolo von Schirach October 17, 2013 WASHINGTON – America needs to be re-energized. This requires pro-growth, pro-enterprise policies....

No Way To Get A Real Deal On Spending And Revenue – Simpson And Bowles Had A Good Plan, But Washington Rejected It America needs statesmen who will tell the truth about fiscal issues and act without political considerations in mind

By Paolo von Schirach October 7, 2013 WASHINGTON – Let’s leave aside Senator Ted Cruz’s narcissism and his consequent irrepressible...

A Radical Republican Party Will Never Govern America Tea Party and Libertarians want an ideological fight against GOP moderates. Their minority positions have no wide popular appeal

By Paolo von Schirach October 4, 2013 WASHINGTON – Ted Cruz for president? Good luck. Rand Paul for President? Not...

Italy’s Prime Minister Letta Survived, But He Cannot Govern Impossible politics and intractable economic problems make it really hard to chart a path ahead for Italy

By Paolo von Schirach October 3, 2013 WASHINGTON – In Italian politics the first order of business (and second and third) has...

Media Obsession With Terrorism Encourages Attention Seeking People To Engage In Terror Plots By treating political violence just like any other type of violence we would convince would be terrorists that acts of terror change nothing. This might deter at least some of them from plotting

WASHINGTON – The real problem with terrorists is that, whatever their “cause” and declared “goals”, deep down they are mostly attention...

Assuming Congressional Approval, The US Military Must Deliver A Truly Powerful Blow Against Assad The world, including friends and foes, has to be convinced that America means business. Flagrant violations of international law do have consequences

By Paolo von Schirach September 4, 2013 WASHINGTON – Regarding Syria and the US appropriate US response to its flagrant...

There Is a Syria Plan That Would Hurt Assad While Helping The Secular Rebels – Retired General Keane Endorsed It This would work only if Washington would believe that it is in America's interest to help the secular opposition. But we are not there

By Paolo von Schirach August 30, 2013 WASHINGTON – The public debate on US military options regarding Syria is...

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