There are three choices if the Senate manages to act. First, Boehner and the GOP can accept a Senate deal, and let it pass the House with bipartisan support and significant conservative opposition. Such a result may endanger Boehner’s speakership. Moreover, it will leave Republicans exposed to agreeing to more tax increases when the debt limit votes happen next month. A second alternative is for | Read More »
Here’s a report from an Ohio paper: “The district represented by Bainbridge Township Republican Rep. Steve LaTourette will pick up parts of Cuyahoga County he does not currently represent, including Brecksville, Independence, Lyndhurst and Mayfield Heights, as well as communities in Summit, Portage and Trumbull counties.” What does this mean? LaTourette’s district is now solidly Republican and would elect a conservative nominee in a | Read More »
Princeton University scholar Robert George’s recent speech on the natural harmony of economic and social conservatism is now available online at http://www.torenewamerica.com/robert-george-no-mere-marriage-of-convenience George’s insight and clarity are on display throughout the speech. Read it all as they say, but here’s a slice: “Economic and social conservatives have common enemies in the overbearing social welfare state, the entitlement mentality, and the statist ideologies that provide their | Read More »
check out http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com and scroll down a bit. Both got posted by Ambinder around 4:30 p.m. eastern Here’s one: I’m a student at Carleton College who has contributed (financially and with my time) to the Obama campaign. I just got an automated call from Jeff Blodgett, the chair of the MN campaign. The text of the call was: “Hello, this is Jeff Blodgett from the | Read More »
I’ll make this brief: The Red State Directors should endorse a Sarah Palin write-in campaign in the Alaska Senate race. It could be the one thing that saves the seat for the GOP. Stevens might even choose to end his campaign if faced with this additional obstacle. If she wins, she can decline the seat, whether she becomes vice president or remains governor. The seat | Read More »
Obama’s association with Rashid Khalidi also deserves notice, given Khalidi’d lifetime of work dedicated to the vilification and destruction of Israel. Obama has way too much tolerance for those who wage murderous terror against America and its democratic allies Here’s what WorldNet Daily reported earlier this year:
John McCain won the nomination on foreign policy. He dispatched Romney and Huckabee because he made foreign policy and the Surge the decisive questions of the campaign. Beyond promises to take on spending and some tactical tax-cutting to cut off Romney’s running room, McCain needed to say little about the economy. McCain had hoped to do the same with Obama. But the economic crisis has | Read More »
When the bailout passes, and the American people begin to dig out from the wreckage of the credit freeze, their first question will be: What do we do now? That is the question that can and ought to be John McCain’s focus for the next 33 days, for it gives him the chance to contrast his ideas for strengthening the American economy through low taxes | Read More »
Warren Buffett, on cnbc this morning, made clear that he thinks we need the bailout. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, calling the market turmoil an economic Pearl Harbor,” said Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s $700 billion proposal to prop up the U.S. financial system isabsolutely necessary.” The market could not have taken another week” like last week, Buffett told CNBC today, a day after saying his Berkshire | Read More »
Henry Paulson’s opposition to suspending mark-to-market accounting rules has been incredibly obtuse. Today, one of the most accurate economic forecasters, Brian Wesbury offered an alternative to the bailout that is much less costly. While I think we now need some kind of bailout to prevent a collapse, Wesbury’s argument is compelling. http://www.ftportfolios.com/Commentary/EconomicResearch/2008/9/22/heresaplantoavoidanew_rtc Conservative Republicans can and should insist on this reform as part of any | Read More »
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080918/plnm/usapoliticsdc16 If McCain thinks this is going to work, I’m afraid he and his advisors are really out of touch on how badly his vacuous economic populism is playing. It will be interesting to see how far he needs to slip in the polls before someone on his team makes the connection.
McCain has always been an opponent of wasteful spending and special treatment for special interests. Barack Obama was part of the Frank-Dodd Fannie Mae protection racket that for years pressured regulators to go easy on the GSEs. Why isn’t this at the center of McCain’s media message? Wake up Seargent Schmidt. You’re asleep at the wheel. 9/11 commissions and Wall Street greed. How lame and | Read More »
McCain has always been an opponent of wasteful spending and special treatment for special interests. Barack Obama was part of the Frank-Dodd Fannie Mae protection racket that for years pressured regulators to go easy on the GSEs. Why isn’t this at the center of McCain’s media message? Wake up Seargent Schmidt. You’re asleep at the wheel. 9/11 commissions and Wall Street greed. How lame and | Read More »
McCain has always been an opponent of wasteful spending and special treatment for special interests. Barack Obama was part of the Frank-Dodd Fannie Mae protection racket that for years pressured regulators to go easy on the GSEs. Why isn’t this at the center of McCain’s media message? Wake up Seargent Schmidt. You’re asleep at the wheel. 9/11 commissions and Wall Street greed. How lame and | Read More »
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