Here we go again. At the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama argued that the country’s spiraling debt was largely the result of exploding health care costs. That was true. He then said the cure for these exploding costs would be his health care reform. That was not true.

President Barack Obama admits it: His proposed “Buffett Rule” tax on millionaires is a gimmick.

All it takes is one little twit. Or a tweet, as the case may be — not that the two are mutually exclusive.

With Barack Obama and John McCain in the White House, 2009 was a pivotal year in American politics. Democrats and Republicans worked together to pass a jobs bill, close Guantanamo and end the recession.

There’s a hurricane on the horizon for national tax rates, but before discussing it, let’s look at a bit of sun breaking through the clouds for Mainers.

When I stepped off a fishing boat in 1983 to go to work as development director for the Maine Maritime Museum, one of the first things I did was to tape the definition of the word “museum” to the front of my Rolodex.

In the final days of the session, the Legislature is considering a bill that would make significant changes to our workers compensation system, affecting injured workers throughout Maine.

It hit me at Hattie Bickmore’s memorial service two weeks ago. In the good old days, politics was good — serious for sure, but also fun. Republicans and Democrats fought for their respective positions while remaining friends, reaching across the party divide often to collaborate on solutions to our problems.

You don’t need a mind reader to figure out who won this edition of Worst Week in Washington.