Epstein Secrets

iatus in Washington policymaking. Since Franklin Roosevelt, Presidents have lost an average of thirty House

ot as monolithically opposed to a deal as one might think. Last year's talks taught the White House that there are divisions between the hard-right Tea Party faction that is unilaterally opposed to any tax hikes and more traditional Republicans who are so concerned about the long-term deficit that under

punishment as no free thinkers ever have. Teddy Roosevelt, the future president, wrote a biography in which

en staunchly conservative ones, who even emitted a whiff of being somewhat reasonable. Conservative standard-bearer Orrin Hatch narrowly survived a Tea Party challenge last year. Hatch wasn't as fortunate as his fellow conservative from Utah, Bob Bennett, who lost to his primary challenger in 2010, just

king my cue from Neville Chamberlain Like Teddy Roosevelt, I believe; "walk softly and carry a big stick"

lip-flop /pledge lack specifics or don't add up. One of the biggest problems in America is political gridlock and the "winner-take-all" attitudes of Tea Party backed Republican Conservatives in Congress and their supporters around the country. As CNN Contributor Julian Zelizer said earlier this year, "Con

that would put most of us to shame -- he could remember the name of someone he met just on=e, months ago, seemingly without difficulty. His secret? Roosevelt was a=le to remember the names of everyone on his staff (and everyone he met) by visualizing their names writ=en across their foreheads after being

ow, it sounds like =ome crazy science fiction story, but you see, here in California, we're not=just gluten-free and soy-free and peanut-free, we're Tea Party free! Virgini= could do it, too, but they're too busy forcing ultrasounds on women who want abortions. Texas could, but they don't because they're t

ch is a study, in part, of the way that Theodore Roosevelt deployed his relentlessly gregarious personality

-PRESIDENTIAL M&M'S The next morning, a Monday, I woke early and turned on CNN. Senator Lindsey Graham, who is facing a primary challenge from four Tea Party candidates in South Carolina, was saying with utter confidence that Iran had hoodwinked the Administration in Geneva. Next came a poll showing tha

llowed, reformers acted on the calls of Theodore Roosevelt ("the supreme political task of our day... is to

e committees will start considering the bill on Wednesday. Even if it passes the House, some Republican senators object to the Medicaid cuts and the Tea Party wing hates the idea of retaining any subsidies. Republicans have been vowing to repeal the Affordable Care Act even before it became law in 2010.