There’s been a lot of talk over the past few weeks about Dan Liljenquist’s op-ed in the Deseret News along the lines of “how dare Dan do this, Mike Lee is a patriot!” or “Senators Cruz, Lee, and Paul are right.” What gets lost in all of this talk is one simple little truth: Dan […]
Senator Lee Proposes Interesting Ideas, But He Needs to Find Common Ground
November 3, 2013 by
Senator Mike Lee‘s proposed legislation aimed at redefining the conservative movement is full of good ideas. However, as long as the legislation requires repeal of Obamacare–and until Congress is held by veto-proof majorities of Republicans–the bills could be dead on arrival. Lee needs a path that both finds common ground with opponents and moves his […]
Can Senator Mike Lee redefine the conservative movement?
October 31, 2013 by
With criticism coming at him fast and furious for his role in the federal government shutdown, Utah Senator Mike Lee is plowing ahead to define himself on his own terms. As the talking heads and media outlets nationwide were predicting his demise in 2016, Lee took to the podium at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday […]
Fresh off the Shutdown, the Sharks are Circling…
October 30, 2013 by
While the prognosticators are proclaiming his imminent doom–and by “imminent,” I mean in three years–Utah Senator Mike Lee is making all the appearances of proverbially storming the castle. Think it’ll work? In addition to the predictions of the self-proclaimed geniuses among the news media (see also here), members of the politically well-connected have signaled that […]
Matheson, the man afraid of his constituents?
August 31, 2013 by
Alone among the Utah congressional delegation, Congressman Jim Matheson stopped holding town halls in 2007, over five years ago. What is he afraid of? As children head back to school and leaves begin to change, Members of Congress are coming to the end of the August recess and preparing to return to Washington, D.C. They’ve […]
Immigration Reform: What’s in it, anyway?
June 15, 2013 by
While we’ve all been kept occupied with the scandals rolling out of the Obama Administration, public policy has seemingly taken a back seat. This week, though, the nation’s attention has rolled back around to immigration, one of the most complex public policy issues facing our nation, right after healthcare and taxes and whether JJ Abrams […]
Poll Results from “Insiders” on the Utah Nomination System
May 10, 2013 by
A couple of days back, I presented a very brief summary of the debate occurring in the Utah Republican and Democratic Parties about the efforts of an outside group, the County My Vote committee, to influence how Utah’s parties conduct their nomination system. You can read it here. I posted a poll of my readers asking […]
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