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1. The Super Committee Failed The Day It Was Created
2. Why Harriet Miers . . . er . . . Mitt Romney Cannot Be the GOP Nominee
3. The 2012 Standard: Holding President Obama Accountable
4. Obama Administration and EPA Use Clean Water Act for New Overreach
5. This Is What Democracy Looks Like to State Senator Lena Taylor
6. Obama Administration Sends Weapons Contract to Foreign Company with Ties to Iran
7. Become A Force Multiplier: Five simple tasks for American Activists
8. Pay Attention to Dan Liljenquist in Utah
1. The Super Committee Failed The Day It Was Created
The Super Committee has failed to find a way to trim $1.2 trillion from the deficit. The fact is, though, the Super Committee was a failure from the moment it was conceived. Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, could not control itself. So it punted its failures to a Super Committee and even the threat of massive defense cuts could not prompt Congress to kick its spending addiction.Now, some members of Congress are even saying “to hell with the defense cuts. We’ll stop those cuts.” Of course.But it was all a bunch of smoke and mirrors for one simple reason.Please click here for the rest of the post.
2. Why Harriet Miers . . . er . . . Mitt Romney Cannot Be the GOP Nominee
Mitt Romney is the Harriet Miers of the 2012 election cycle. He is only a conservative because certain Washington conservatives tell us he is conservative. These same Washington conservatives said the same about Harriet Miers back in 2005.What’s more, it is starting to show. Have you seen the latest CNN poll?Newt Gingrich has surged into the lead. That was rather expected. But Mitt Romney fell four points.Yet again we see a non-Romney candidate move into the lead. It has gotten as predictable as the sun coming up. Romney is always the bridesmaid and never the bride. Why is that? It’s easy to understand.Please click here for the rest of the post.
3. The 2012 Standard: Holding President Obama Accountable
President Obama did voters a favor. During the 2008 campaign and early in his administration, he laid out the standards by which he should be judged. He made it perfectly clear under what conditions he would deserve re-election.And by his own standard he doesn’t deserve a second term.In February 2009, when employment was at 8.2 percent, he declared, “If I don’t get this done in three years, then this is going to be a one term proposition.”Unemployment has yet to return to February 2009 levels, much less fall lower. Based on that standard alone, this should indeed be a “one term proposition.”But consider the President’s other promises and self-imposed standards.Please click here for the rest of the post.
4. Obama Administration and EPA Use Clean Water Act for New Overreach
Just as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has used the Clean Air Act to broaden the scope of their authority way beyond its original intention with rules like MACT and CSAPR, the Clean Water Act is becoming a tool of overreach by the out of control agency.Barack Obama and the EPA’s Lisa Jackson have made it clear through their actions that they will circumvent the legislature by using regulatory enforcement to enact Obama’s green dreams, and now it seems that circumvention includes the Supreme Court of the United States.During the Bush presidency, a series of Supreme Court decisions acknowledged the limits of reach for the Clean Water Act. Most notably, the Supreme Court clarified that federal jurisdiction did not extend to wetlands and other “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. Through the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook Country v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (2001) and Raponos v. U.S. (2006) the Supreme Court established that private property rights still mattered even in light of the Clean Water Act and that the federal government did not have authority over them.This of course isn’t stopping Barack Obama and Lisa Jackson from moving forward anyway.Please click here for the rest of the post.
5. This Is What Democracy Looks Like to State Senator Lena Taylor
In an exclusive story broken by Media Trackers (www.MediaTrackers.org), Wisconsin Democrat state Senator Lena Taylor, an outspoken critic of Governor Scott Walker, appears to be closely associated with voter fraud that took place during the spring elections in April of this year. Taylor is also one of the 14 AWOL state Senators that fled across state lines rather than vote on Walker’s Budget Repair Bill earlier this year.Please click here for the rest of the post.
6. Obama Administration Sends Weapons Contract to Foreign Company with Ties to Iran
Late Thursday night, American company Hawker Beechcraft was informed by the U.S. Air Force that they were not going to be allowed to compete for an American military aircraft contract.The company had been working with the Air Force for two years and spent over $100 million to ensure compliance with the requirements for the plane and says the craft (Beechcraft AT-6) met all requirements as shown through a demonstration actually led by the Air National Guard.Keep in mind, this doesn’t appear to be a question of being outbid or outclassed. In fact, this seems to be a classic example of a contract being awarded without any bidding process at all, something you may remember infuriated the left when the recipient of the contract was American company Haliburton.There’s a big difference this time. The company the no-bid contract went to isn’t an American company. Worse yet, the company it did go to has questionable friends. Namely, Iran.Please click here for the rest of the post.
7. Become A Force Multiplier: Five simple tasks for American Activists
After observing the trends on the Left for many years, in early February 2009, during a meeting with a friend familiar with the “hydra” that the Left had built, we lamented on how there was nothing on the Right to combat the behemoth that had been built by unions, the institutional Left, with the help of the mainstream media, to tear down the Right and propel Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats to their huge 2008 victories.Knowing what was on the agenda, “we’re finished as a nation,” was the overriding feeling. A short time later, the first Tea Party rally was held.Please click here for the rest of the post.
8. Pay Attention to Dan Liljenquist in Utah
There aren’t a whole lot of Senate races to get excited about this year. Adam Hasner in Florida, Josh Mandel in Ohio, Don Stenberg in Nebraska, Ted Cruz in Texas, and Jeff Flake in Arizona are about it for me right now. But I do want to beat Heather Wilson in New Mexico and Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin.One race where I’ve sat back a while is Utah. Senator Orrin Hatch is a decent enough guy and very likable, but I get the sense from the grassroots in Utah that they are ready for a change. And I think while Orrin Hatch has done a remarkable job moving right in the past year, I don’t have confidence he’ll stay there once he has another six year term. If past performance is the best indicator of future performance, I think we’ll see a “centrist” Hatch the moment election season ends.So I’m excited to Dan Liljenquist enter the Utah Senate race.Please click here for the rest of the post.
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