The crisis we conservatives have been warning the country about for decades is upon us. It is happening in this generation . . . in this Congress . . . and the results could be catastrophic. Simply put, if we don’t get a handle on stopping the explosion of spending, debt, and the size of government NOW, we may never get another chance. The red | Read More »
First the House GOP required Democrats to get their three week continuing resolution passed — a continuing resolution that cuts less money than the interest on our national debt that will accumulate over the next three weeks. Then the House GOP started bad mouthing the conservatives who voted against their plan. Now the House GOP is launching a direct assault on . . . wait | Read More »
As you will note from my posting over the past several weeks, I have declined to write about CPAC and the related controversy. RedState is assisting FreedomWorks in sponsoring Bloggers Row, but I have personally done my best to keep my head down and mouth shut. I’ll be speaking Friday at noon to the Young America’s Foundation luncheon. I’m happy to do so. Nonetheless, I’m | Read More »
Conservative eyebrows have been raised over the past few weeks over Mitt Romney’s defense of the individual mandate in the health care legislation. He has on more than one occasion sought to claim the idea as his own. Perhaps we can now be done with that. Over the weekend a conservative blogger named Kavon Nikrad confronted Romney and asked if he supported repeal of the | Read More »
“[T]he Heritage Foundation [is] now a very dangerous beast.” Behind the subscriber firewall at the Wall Street Journal, Ed Feulner and Michael Needham just launched a major assault against the left that has many on the left soiling their collectivist selves today. The sleeping giant that is the Heritage Foundation has woken up. Feulner is the President of the Heritage Foundation and Needham is CEO | Read More »
Having dinged Heritage a few weeks ago for severely muddying the water over the healthcare debate, you can’t imagine how happy I am to read the President of the Heritage Foundation bringing some much needed clarity to the issue and, thankfully, taking the mud out of the co-op issue. The health care industry is worth $2.5 trillion a year, comparable with Britain’s entire gross domestic | Read More »
I had intended to let Heritage respond and be done with my rebuke. The more I think about it and consider the responses I’ve gotten, the more I think some additions must be made. The Heritage response really seems to boil down to two things: How dare you question the Heritage Foundation; and, Don’t you know who we are? Unfortunately for the Heritage Foundation, the | Read More »
[updated]: As if on cue, Stuart Butler from the Heritage Foundation, has decided to take issue with Sarah Palin’s use of the phrase “death panels.” Butler is defending Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm’s brother, who has written that we need not guarantee healthcare benefits to people with dementia because they cannot be full participants in the body politic. Emanuel’s actual quote: “[S]ervices provided to individuals who are | Read More »
My friend Erik Telford sent this on to me and I want to make sure you all see it. It is definitely worth participating in if you can: New York Senator Chuck Schumer recently said that “the American people don’t really care” about the wasteful pork-barrel spending that is sinking us dangerously into debt, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has told critics to “get | Read More »
Yesterday, The Heritage Foundation formally requested that the Obama campaign stop misrepresenting the organization’s views in ads touting the candidate’s tax plan. The letter notes that Barack Obama’s economic adviser has known, unequivocally, for more than a month that Heritage analyst Rea Hederman considers the candidate’s tax plan to be far inferior to that of his rival, John McCain. Obama campaign spokesperson Bill Burton has issued a wholly | Read More »
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