Lanny Davis Purple Nation Weekly

By Lanny Davis – 05/25/11 – The New York Times’s headline on Monday, concerning President Obama’s speech on Israel the day before to the national pro-Israel organization AIPAC, read: “Obama Presses Israel to Make Hard Choices.” The story, written by Helene Cooper, began with an unusually non-factual, subjective characterization: “President Obama struck back at Prime […]

By Lanny Davis – 05/11/11 – Just recently, certain elements of the gay-rights community reportedly succeeded in pressuring the nationally renowned law firm of King and Spaulding to withdraw from representing Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives to defend the constitutionality of the anti-gay marriage statute, the Defense of Marriage Act.

By Lanny Davis – 05/04/11 – The stunning news of the death of Osama bin Laden on Sunday night was quickly followed by spontaneous celebrations in front of the White House, Times Square and, most moving of all, at Ground Zero. I sat with my 13-year-old son and my wife, watching President Obama’s moving announcement […]

By Lanny J. Davis – 04/21/11 – So far, the one thing that President Obama and Republican House  Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (Wis.) agree on in their contrasting budget proposals is the necessity of avoiding specific proposals on  Social Security reform. They both seem to accept the conventional wisdom that tampering with Social Security taxes […]

By Lanny Davis – 04/13/11 – Prior to President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union speech, I wrote a column in this space urging him to seize the initiative on the major moral issue of our time — the $14 trillion-plus debt and the trillions of dollars of deficits that will continue for the foreseeable future. […]

by Lanny Davis – 01/05/10 Despite the current conventional wisdom, the Senate Democratic national healthcare proposal, supported by a 60-39 party-line vote on Dec. 24, 2009, is essentially a centrist proposal that brilliantly combines liberal and conservative means and ends.

by Lanny Davis – 07/15/09 In this, my first column for The Hill, I thought it would be worth explaining why I chose the title, “Politics and counsel.”