Jennifer Rubin

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom ...

Rubin: Six steps for the GOP to get its act together on Obamacare “repeal and replace”

February 13, 2017 at 1:42 p.m.

The GOP's Obamacare replacement effort has been semi-disastrous, raising questions about whether Republicans can manage to devise and agree upon a replacement.

Rubin: Did President Obama make it all about him?

January 2, 2017 at 12:24 p.m.

Republicans miss the mark, we would argue, in declaring with certainty that Obama's results - Obamacare, foreign policy retrenchment, fiscal irresponsibility - caused the downfall of Democrats.

"What are we going to do, though, if the Republicans who'll soon run both houses of Congress keep their promise and dismantle Obamacare?" asks Greg Dobbs. (Luke Sharrett, Getty Images)

Rubin: A brilliantly simple alternative to Obamacare “repeal and delay”

December 29, 2016 at 4:56 p.m.

Repealing Obamacare with the promise that something better will come along at some later date would be a policy and political disaster

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center.

Rubin: Republicans have more excuses than scruples

December 14, 2016 at 1:37 p.m.

Lawmakers take oaths to the Constitution, not Donald Trump or their party, and they are responsible to their own constituencies. Republicans should behave as such.

Steven Mnuchin, national finance chairman of President-elect Donald Trump's campaign, walks to lunch at Trump Tower, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in New York. Trump picked Mnuchin to be secretary of treasury.

Rubin: Folks, this isn’t economic dystopia

December 5, 2016 at 10:49 a.m.

We are not now in a recession, and we should stop pretending we are to justify extreme measures which carry unintended consequences. We are growing at 3.2 percent.

Rubin: An American renaissance in a nonideological time

November 26, 2016 at 5:01 p.m.

Why, if the GOP has nearly all the chips on its side of the table, are despondent lifelong Republicans re-registering as independents or checking out of politics altogether.

FBI Director James Comey testifies before the House Oversight Committee on July 7 to explain his agency's recommendation to not prosecute Hillary Clinton.

Rubin: Comey’s clunker is evidence that the FBI needs new leadership

November 7, 2016 at 1:57 p.m.

If Director James Comey set out to politicize the FBI, ruin his own reputation, make enemies on both sides of the aisle and give Donald Trump supporters whiplash, he succeeded.

In this June 21, 2016, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., accompanied by, from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, listen to a question during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Rubin: Sen. McConnell lets the cat out of the bag, he can’t restrain Donald Trump

November 3, 2016 at 6:53 p.m.

Now, Mitch McConnell confesses Trump is far more powerful than they are. It's frightening because it is true.

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during the final presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of the University of Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 19, 2016.Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images

Rubin: Trump’s inner circle knows he has lost

October 21, 2016 at 2:57 p.m.

Hillary Clinton is going to win comfortably. The voters, the pundits, elected officials, activists, pollsters, the media and donors know it.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas speaks Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

Rubin: Did Ted Cruz shoot himself in the foot with Trump endorsement?

September 26, 2016 at 4:42 p.m.

As many of his critics have observed, Ted Cruz is not, as he claims, all about putting conservative ideals above blind party loyalty. It is and always has been about...

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