Topic - Republican Party

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  BIRNBAUM: No options, no problem

  A wise colleague of mine likes to say, "If you have no options, you have no problem." His words perfectly describe the federal government this year, and it's time for Republicans to embrace the situation.

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  MILLER: Obama will cut taxes?

  After two years of reading speeches and making vague promises, President Obama on Wednesday finally released a concrete tax proposal. His administration had intended to release this plan next week, but it saw the opportunity to upstage Mitt Romney by handing it out three hours before the GOP nomination hopeful could announce his own reforms. The Obama agenda isn't convincing.

• NFIB leader not impressed by GOP hopefuls

  He's been sharply critical of President Obama and his economic agenda, but Dan Danner, president of the National Federation of Independent Business, said he has not been overly impressed so far by what the opposition is offering for small businesses.

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  GOP hopefuls try to separate from bailouts by Bush

  Scrambling for support ahead of Tuesday's Michigan primary, Republican presidential contenders are again trying to distance themselves from former President George W. Bush's bailouts of Wall Street and the auto industry — moves, they say, that have stained the party's reputation.

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  Poll: Santorum surges; Obama leads Republicans

  A surging Rick Santorum is running even with Mitt Romney atop the Republican presidential field, but neither candidate is faring well against President Obama eight months before Americans vote, a new survey shows.

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  Inside the Beltway

  For better or worse, here comes "Game Change", the big-budget HBO film dramatizing the 2008 presidential election. Because of its scheduling close to the Super Tuesday primaries, another filmmaker smells a partisan rat.

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  HOLT: Achieving American energy independence

  Recently, Rick Santorum secured unexpected victories in a heated Republican primary season when voters remain bitterly divided. In advance of these victories, Mr. Santorum made increasing domestic energy a cornerstone of his campaign, highlighting the issue in remarks he delivered at the Colorado Energy Summit.

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  LAMBRO: Defusing Obama tax bomb

  An election-minded Congress defused the Social Security payroll-tax cut issue last week, but a much more politically lethal time bomb is set to go off at the end of the year.

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  Obama peddles modest American dream

  This time around, President Obama's message can sound decidedly down-to-earth. Four years after winning the White House, Obama is dealing with a different economic and political reality as he seeks re-election.

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  Return of the squares: Santorum, Lin, Tebow

  Three men seemingly out of pop culture time, they come to us clean-cut and edge-free, dripping with sincerity, owing more to Christopher Reeve's straight-arrow Man of Steel than to Christian Bale's brooding Dark Knight. Fashionable as George Will and as ironic as Ward Cleaver, they're the kind of characters former New York Yankees manager Billy Martin derided as "milkshake drinkers."

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  KEENE: Time to stop kidding ourselves

  Rick Santorum's surge in Michigan and beyond has everyone in a tizzy. Those who like Rick believe he'll make the strongest general election candidate or the best president. Those who just don't like Mitt Romney are ecstatic. Yet voters who don't share either the strong opinion of Rick or his chances should he actually win the GOP nomination don't quite know what to do.

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  MILLOY: Showdown at the EPA corral

  March 2 should be a date that lives in infamy for the Obama Environmental Protection Agency.

• Santorum ups Obama criticism

  Rick Santorum, surging in the Republican presidential sweepstakes, is making increasingly harsh remarks about President Obama, questioning not just the president's competence, but his motives and even his Christian values.

• GRAY: Pull tax-exempt status of Brock's Media Matters

  Last summer, I wrote in this column that David Brock's left-wing propaganda machine, Media Matters for America (MMA), was a "Democratic training camp" waging a taxpayer-subsidized "war" on Fox News. It turns out that that was an understatement.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Rule and Ruin'

  In his autobiography, English man of letters G.K. Chesterton not only recounted the story of his own life, he also assessed the lives of his many friends and acquaintances in Edwardian-era London. At one point Chesterton, a champion of Christian orthodoxy, described his dear friend H.G. Wells, a lifelong skeptic, as a man who "was so often nearly right, that his movements irritated me like the sight of somebody's hat being perpetually washed up by the sea and never touching the shore."

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