Douglas Turner
Douglas Turner: President should heed Massa’s call to end war
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton got an annoying reminder last week of a lesson she should have learned long ago: Be careful of what may be going on in your shop right under your very nose. (Updated: 11/16/09 12:06 PM )
Douglas Turner: This ‘change’ wasn’t what many expected
WASHINGTON — Election results in New Jersey, Virginia and New York City last week threaten to turn what Barack Obama hoped would be a new era at the White House into a quirky one-term interlude, like Jimmy Carter’s. (Updated: 11/09/09 9:13 AM )
Douglas Turner: Energy bill exemplifies Washington elitism
WASHINGTON — A big reason congressional Democrats are so blithely eager to push the 2009 version of President Bill Clinton’s carbon tax is that they never have to pay for gasoline. (Updated: 11/02/09 11:04 AM )
Douglas Turner: Medical reforms worry Catholic health workers
WASHINGTON — When President Obama gave his speech on health insurance reform after Labor Day, Catholics and evangelical Christians focused on two promises they view as fundamental. (Updated: 10/26/09 11:09 AM )
Douglas Turner: Obama’s popularity appears to be waning
WASHINGTON — Less than a month after telling Gov. David A. Paterson that he will hurt the state’s 2010 Democratic ticket, President Obama got some embarrassing news about his own political appeal in Virginia. (Updated: 10/19/09 12:51 PM )
Election system flaws lead to policy problems
WASHINGTON — A year from now, it isn’t going to matter who President Barack (Updated: 10/12/09 6:53 AM )
Douglas Turner: Congress needs to take this war off auto-pilot
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s dip into the Afghanistan war is as good an example as any of the careless, slipping down behavior polluting our public life. (Updated: 10/05/09 11:15 AM )
Douglas Turner: Obama needs to take charge of his office
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s proposed $400,000 gift to the family of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi capped off 10 days of brutal, thick-fingered moves that again prompt the question: Who’s in charge here? (Updated: 09/28/09 11:31 AM )
Douglas Turner: Public option will help curb health care costs
WASHINGTON — Back in the good old days, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller quickly embraced the new health care program for the poor called Medicaid. (Updated: 09/21/09 11:25 AM )
Douglas Turner: Democrats won’t oust Rangel, their cash cow
An outburst by a fierce character played by Anthony Quinn in the film “Lawrence of Arabia” keeps popping up when one thinks of the embattled Congressman Charles B. Rangel, fighting off charges of avarice and tax avoidance. (Updated: 09/14/09 11:20 AM )
Douglas Turner: Obama needs to punish China with import taxes
WASHINGTON — Giving China permanent trading rights in the United States would not cost our people their factory jobs, Clinton administration officials assured worried members of Congress nine years ago. (Updated: 09/07/09 8:57 AM )
Douglas Turner: Obama has to explain as much as Bush does
WASHINGTON — Seems like old times, a flashback to the August recess of 2002 when Bush-Cheney officials were cooking up the Iraq War: (Updated: 09/01/09 2:03 PM )
Douglas Turner: Obama’s stimulus plan isn’t helping New York
WASHINGTON — Failure is a little too strong a term to stencil on President Obama’s $787 billion “stimulus” package at its six-month mark. In New York State so far, a better word is unsuccessful. (Updated: 08/25/09 10:35 AM )
Douglas Turner: Angry citizens protest government run amok
Democratic Rep. Louise M. Slaughter isn’t holding town meetings on health care because she is “scared to death somebody will get hurt.” The genteel Democrats knew how to cope with irritating people in the Clinton days. The Democrats’ event enforcers simply threw them out. (Updated: 08/17/09 3:11 PM )
Douglas Turner: GOP is courting angry white males
WASHINGTON — With their votes against Sonia Maria Sotomayor last week, Republicans snuggled up to their broadcast image as the incredible shrinking frat house of white males. (Updated: 08/10/09 12:52 PM )