From the posts here at Red State, it is obvious that many people are angry with Speaker Boehner as he attempts to avert the combined effects of the expiration of the Bush era tax rates and the failure of previous negotiations which resulted in the creation of the sequestration of funds. Clearly he does bear responsibility for much of the road that got us to | Read More »
The fundamental error in the drama unfolding before us about the fiscal cliff is that there is a mismatch in negotiations: The House Republicans are negotiating to bring about an end to the fiscal crisis, while the Democrats in the Senate and the White House are negotiating the terms of the surrender of capitalism and the full bore onset of redistributive socialism. In essence, there | Read More »
I am not “interested” in Rand Paul and whether he is “interested” in running for President. I am not interested in any person who is making the preliminary kabuki-dance-like moves of ‘testing a candidacy’ or ‘exploring the viability’ of a run for the Presidency in 2016. I am not interested in what pundits are saying about anyone’s chances for 2016, nor am I interested in | Read More »
Having been a participant in Red State for some time, and having become a bit more active as a result, I was again motivated to take part in the local precinct and county-wide process with the Republican Party this year. I’m not a political professional by any stretch, but I figured I could make my own small contribution through my presence. Today’s political convention was | Read More »
Since the day after the 2010 elections, I have been bombarded with mailings and phone calls from the Republican National Committee seeking my support in the campaign to defeat President Obama in 2012. I am 100% committed to that goal. I am also 85% dissatisfied with the way that the process has been conducted. And it seems to get worse with each election cycle. My | Read More »
In today’s New York Times, their editorial staff is urging the President to raise taxes. No surprise, there, even if they are slightly Constitutionally challenged — it is the House of Representatives that gives birth to taxes, not the President. They start off their assertion with a real bang: A week later and we are still amazed at how the Republicans in Congress pulled it | Read More »
We are all rightly focused on the efforts of Speaker Boehner and the Republicans to deal with the debt ceiling and deficit. We are all caught up in the bargaining back and forth and whether one side or the other is losing the fight over gaining control over spending at the federal level. Sometimes, though, we lose focus on the real issue — the federal | Read More »
Make Our Day! I look forward to your explanation as to why the federal government should spend the country into oblivion, when many of the States are required to balance their budgets each and every year….and in fact, some are actually running small surpluses! I look forward to your explanation as to why the federal government should be entitled to at least one out | Read More »
The world looks to America in times like this. Governments and business leaders want a basic framework sothey can make decisions. What they get from the Obama White House, too often, is silence. This crystal clear and concise truth is in today’s column in the Washington Post by David Ignatius. I must confess that I do not read the Washington Post or rely on it | Read More »
The continuing saga of House and Senate leaders trudging up to the White House to negotiate with the President has done nothing to make progress on the real issue: meaningful budget reductions to reduce the annual deficits and get the out of control growth of the federal government back within striking distance of being controlled. So the answer is pretty simple. End the Three Party | Read More »
From Politico: The President said: “With a recovery that’s still fragile and isn’t producing all the jobs we need, the last thing we can afford is the usual partisan game-playing in Washington. “I know we can do this. We can meet our fiscal challenge. That’s what the American people sent us here to do. They didn’t send us here to kick our problems down the | Read More »
The special election to fill the seat in the 26th District in New York this week produced a victory for the Democrat candidate, Ms. Kathy Hochul, in large part because of the presence of a third candidate, Jack Davis, who presented himself as a “Tea Party” candidate under false pretenses. The lesson that presents for the 2012 election is left for another time — right | Read More »
“Four billion dollars of your money are going to these companies at a time when they’re making record profits and you’re paying near record prices at the pump,” the president said at a Nevada town hall. “It has to stop.” President Obama, April 21, 2011 The President continues to demonstrate his ability to demonize those with whom he disagrees, especially those involved in capitalism and | Read More »
Much has been said already about President Obama and his favorite rhetorical device in speeches, the Straw Man, or false argument. His speech on the deficit, hastily pulled together to attack the plan offered by Representative Ryan, has a long line of them. In his deficit speech on Wednesday, President Obama said: We don’t have to choose between a future of spiraling debt and one | Read More »
I’ve been a member of Red State for a while, and I’ve become more active than in the past, at the urging and encouragement of many here. It’s been rewarding, and I plan to do more. However, in the past couple of weeks I’ve begun to be overwhelmed with emails from concerned groups and there is such a blizzard of names and like sounding missives | Read More »
H/T: Politico for the link… A recent poll of 1,051 adults shows that the President’s work on the economy is falling short — but that the Republicans aren’t regarded much better. Americans say President Barak Obama lacks an effective strategy for improving the U.S. economy. They have much less confidence in the Republican vision for success. By a margin of 51 percent to 40 percent, a | Read More »
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and shoot. Dean William R. Inge Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s | Read More »
Not Content with $5T added to the National Debt, The President Wants to Spend More Fox News is reporting that the President’s State of the Union Address will call for more spending on infrastructure and highways to help us become more competitive in the global economy. And all along, I thought that the ‘shovel ready’ projects of the Stimulus were supposed to be doing that | Read More »
And What We Need to Do to Support Them The new session of Congress has just begun, and Speaker Boehner and the Republican Majority are off to a great start. The shooting in Tucson, the forced ‘lesson’ about the ‘toxic rhetoric’ and call for unity now being trumpeted by the media and the Democrats are attempts to deflect the Republicans and move the agenda back | Read More »
The election of 2010 is behind us, and we have much to be thankful for by its results — but thousands of words written here and elsewhere show that the 2010 battle is but the start of a long campaign to restore our country. The next battles are in ‘off year’ elections in the various states, mostly for local offices. These races are important and | Read More »
Congress seems to have a lot on their plate — literally. The House recently passed a bill that EXPANDS the school lunch program to one that serves dinner, available in all 50 States. The Bill is a result of the Ms. Obama’s efforts to end childhood obesity. Like all things with good intentions, this bill goes off the rails pretty quickly. One of the main | Read More »
We’re seeing the impact of the lack of leadership and management experience — and it isn’t good! H/T PajamasMedia “Dismal Jobs Numbers Expose a Leaderless White House on Economic Policy” by Richard Pollock. All through the 2008 Presidential Campaign, there were articles in the conservative press and blogs questioning the leadership and management experience of Senator Obama. Many felt that his relatively light experience in | Read More »
After reading this, I like Mike even more! Representative Mike Pence delivered a speech at Hillsdale College on September 20, 2010, and the speech is reprinted in the October issue of their monthly magazine Imprimis. You really need to read the whole thing– it is a masterful speech and full of solid understanding of history and the Constitution. And it is flat out eloquent and | Read More »
We’ve successfully completed the 2010 election cycle, and it seems that already we’re ankle deep in the process for 2012. Before the tide comes in any higher, I’d like to offer an observation and a new way of looking at the Primaries. I’ve been following politics for a long time — deep into the last millennium. The quadrennial challenge of getting the nominations for the | Read More »
The President seems fixated on automobiles lately. It must have something to do with having nationalized what was once the pride of American Industry. In any event, he has used a metaphor comparing the economy to a car as he has stumped all over the country for Democrats running for the House and Senate. He blames the Republicans for running the car (the economy) into | Read More »
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