Women will be heard in 2012

  President Obama made one too few phone calls last week.   The one he made was smart and important, offering support to Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke in her courageous stand for smarter policies about women’s health.   Obama’s next phone call should have been to Rush Limbaugh, just to say thanks, and to…

Tea party’s poisoned punch

   In sitcoms, it’s called “Jumping the Shark.” In politics, I’m introducing a term for a political party that loses contact with its essence and forgets its audience.    It’s called "passing the ladle."    Ladle — as in bearer of a beverage with arsenic sweetener.    Suddenly, in the presidential nominating process, it appears…