"The House has voted nearly 60 times to repeal ObamaCare in some fashion, whether it's stripping out mandates or defunding the legislation altogether. Those efforts should continue. GOP presidential candidates will run on the promise of repealing the disastrous law, and if elected, they should follow through on those promises from the Oval Office.

"The kind of healthcare and insurance ObamaCare claims to provide isn't affordable, isn't quality and it certainly hasn't made the country better."

"Iran is an opportunity, not a threat; it's a potential partner, not an enemy.

"For more than six years, this view of the Islamic Republic has guided the decisions made by Barack Obama. The president has repeatedly declared his eagerness to welcome Iran into the community of civilized nations. His words sometimes suggest that Iran has a choice to make, that their acceptance into this mythical community depends in some way on their behavior. But there’s little over those six years to indicate that he means it. Instead, Obama has made clear that in his eagerness to salvage anything from his tattered foreign policy legacy he is willing to gamble the security of the United States on a blind and irrational hope that Iran will someday change for the better.

"To this end, he has abandoned more than three decades of bipartisan U.S. policy towards Iran -- on its nuclear weapons program, on its regional ambitions, and on its support for terrorism.

"These are radical departures. The Obama administration's goal in nuclear talks is no longer preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons at all costs, but managing the process by which Iran becomes a nuclear state. The Obama administration no longer seeks to thwart Iran's expansionist aims in the region and in many respects is now facilitating its aggression. On terrorism, the Obama administration has cast aside inconvenient realities about Iran’s support for jihadists of all kinds and has chosen instead to pretend that to the extent there any longer exists a war on terror, Washington and Tehran are on the same side."

"Throughout the contentious debate between the White House and Congress over the Iran nuclear negotiations, one important piece of the equation has been largely overlooked: American public opinion. If voters were confident that President Obama was striking a good deal with Iran that would prevent Tehran from getting nuclear weapons, he'd have little trouble getting support from the legislative branch.

"But the reason the president is facing such bipartisan backlash is that an overwhelming number of voters are deeply worried about the direction of the negotiations. Think about how rare, in these polarized times, mobilizing a veto-proof majority of congressional Republicans and Democrats is for any significant legislation. Yet despite all the distractions, Congress is close to achieving that goal: requiring the administration to go to Congress for approval of any deal.

"The administration is so focused on process and protocol in attacking the opposition because it's a useful distraction from how unpopular the administration's eagerness to strike any deal with Iran has become."

"Remember. Obama made a personal trip to congratulate the new King of Saudi Arabia on his hard-won election."

"When it comes to elections, Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu is the political equivalent of a scrambling quarterback. During the three-month election campaign that ended Tuesday night, the prime minister fell 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage before evading a savage blitz, escaped a catastrophic sack, then, at the last moment, turned upfield, crossed the line of scrimmage and galloped ahead for a huge gain. ...

"He gambled his entire career and he won, just as he did with the speech in front of Congress earlier this month.

"The three-month election process was heart-stopping and melodramatic, like an old 'Batman' episode from the 1960s without the camp -- including the startling role played by Special Guest Villain Barack Obama doing everything in his power to take down the man he seems to have chosen as his Enemy No. 1."

"In September, the Brookings Institution's Metro Monitor report listed twenty cities that are leading the nation's comeback from the Great Recession through the agonizingly slow economic recovery of the past seven years. As if on cue, the Environmental Protection Agency is now hatching a plan to strangle these cities' recoveries in the crib.

"EPA's new ozone regulations, slated to be finalized in December, would immediately subject 18 of these 20 cities, including all of the top ten, to what is known as 'non-attainment status,' an official designation that cripples a region's industries and can sometimes even subject private citizens to heightened environmental regulation.

"Non-attainment prevents business in a county or region from receiving government approval to expand. It presents a huge discouragement for new businesses thinking of relocating to an area. It also blocks local governments from accessing the funds allocated to them from the federal highway trust fund. ...

"The economic consequences would be devastating, and come just as Americans are finally beginning to see the return of jobs lost during the financial crisis."

"The Obama administration has quietly killed an IRS tax preparation program designed to help low-income and disadvantaged citizens, choosing instead to give millions of dollars to liberal groups for the same purpose.

"Without fanfare, the administration has closed down the free walk-in services at hundreds of taxpayer assistance centers around the country.

"Administration officials are now trying to steer the 'face-to-face' help to volunteer community groups, some with political ties. But one undercover inspection of those groups in 2013 revealed a 49 percent error rate."

"So, here's my own seditious foray into interfering with the conduct of US foreign policy:

'To Whom It May Concern in Tehran,
You're unlikely to ever encounter someone this weak and credulous again in the Oval Office.'"

"President Obama's powers never cease to amaze. He has made it suddenly fashionable to question others' patriotism for dissenting on foreign policy, and has turned the Democrats -- yes, the Democrats -- into a presidential guard who respond with unthinking fury to skepticism about their leader's claims to ever-expanding executive power. ...

"During the Bush administration, none other than Hillary Clinton angrily lamented: 'I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we're Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.'

"We agree. The notion that Congress has a patriotic duty to be seen but not heard on Iran is absurd. But it serves at least one purpose, as it illustrates the hypocrisy of those who once proclaimed dissent to be patriotic."

"'Trust me, I'm a Clinton'. This is part of a decades-old pattern: For all their strengths, Hillary and Bill Clinton have a weakness for victimization, entitlement, and their unbounded belief that the ends justify the means.

"Rules are for little people, not them.

"She had a choice -- the right way or the wrong way, the new way or the old way. She chose to turn back the clock to the 1990s, when her husband's White House overcame its wrongdoing by denying the truth, blaming Republicans, and demonizing and bullying the media."