Obama gave his immigration speech today. If you were in the Senate in 2006 and 2007, you know it’s a (as Rove put it) ‘complex’ issue – a loaded issue that can melt the Senate switchboard. One where a bill will have to be bipartisan or it will fail. It would have to balance enforcement, legal immigration provisions and handling of illegal immigrants among us. | Read More »
During the fiscal cliff, conservatives were frustrated to see many negotiation mistakes: Boehner pre-caving; seeing the Senate inaction that put the onus on the House when in fact the Senate needed to move; the aborted “Plan B” attempt; letting the Senate string it out to the last day, so the House was left with “fait accompli or the Cliff’s on you” Hobson’s choice. Hoo boy | Read More »
This is to followup and emphasize points made by Soren Dayton. “1,350” – The number of days since the Senate last passed a budget, April 29, 2009. It’s bad enough when your government is borrowing more than $1 trillion a year – more than one third of its total outlays. It’s way worse when the green-eyeshade team at the Congressional Budget Office go to work | Read More »
In politics, there are both political and policy outcomes, and because of this, you can win by losing and sometimes lose by winning. A defeat or setback that unites you and lays the groundwork for future victory will be one that turns out for the best. What Obama is attempting is the trifecta of winning on policy, winning on politics, AND dividing the Republicans, causing a | Read More »
Having one the election, President Obama is using that political capital to separate 98% taxpayers from the 2%. Never mind that Obamacare taxes increase tax burdens for the middle class. never mind that the Obamacare mandate will hit people earning $50,000 a year very hard. We are talking about a political agenda of feeding the perception of most voters that Obama’s wasteful Big Government schemes | Read More »
Dear Conservatives Bedwetters: You know who you are, talking about how Republicans need to get hip with tax increases, amnesty, gay marriage and abortion-on-demand. You are shell-shocked and babbling about Obamacare as the law of the land. If only we could be more like the Democrats, you lament. You want to throw in the towel: Give them everything they want, let them stew in it. | Read More »
I have noted prior that the 2012 election was an inverted version of the 2004 election. Obama beat Romney using the same base-appeal, define-the-other-guy and retail politics that Bush did in 2004. In some respects, it was an important election to give Bush the opportunity to finish in Iraq and confirmed his stewardship of the economy. But we all know that by 2006, things were | Read More »
The correct way to respond to the Obama victory: remember that we have 30 GOP Governors, a GOP House, and note that his victory now is just a ‘status quo’ result, a grudging narrow win to not fire an incumbent, a pale shadow of his ‘mandate’ of 2009. It was a narrow win in a divided nation. If you want to know the CORRECT way | Read More »
What made Mitt Romney lose the election? Well, lets consider: The incumbent, faced with an opponent from Massachusetts who wrapped up his nomination around April, went to work fairly quickly in defining him; he did some swing-state pandering to give him an edge in particular in Ohio, the crucial battleground. He knew it would be a close race, so he determined that he would have | Read More »
Conservatives have been liberated in this last election. Had Mitt Romney won, the weight of responsibility for cleaning up the fiscal mess we are in would be on him and us. Now, I’d rather we had the power and responsibility, but since it’s up to Obama now, it’s on him, and we are liberated to speak our minds and set the record straight on what | Read More »
A present from the August 2011 deal is the upcoming sequestration of spending, and along with it the ‘cliff’ of Bush tax increases. How should the Republicans in Congress, still running the House and still a minority in the Senate, deal with this? The Republicans can and must hold the line on taxes in the lame duck session, and in fact Democrats will go along. | Read More »
Election Night. A time for hope, fear, anxiety, and, when the good news happens – anticipation of a brighter future. This is not such a night. We will find out soon enough exactly where things fall, but as of right now, with Ohio called for Obama, President Obama is set to win his second term; Romney continues leading the popular vote but is losing most | Read More »
I have done a lot in my life that requires predicting what will happen and making plans based on partial information. I have made strenuous effort to be objective, clear headed and correct in my predictions. I am now including considerations of who will win in my plans, and those plans are being based on a Romney victory. Why? Because Romney will win. What gives | Read More »
This debate will be dissected and discussed, but in a debate where much was argued and little resolved, this debate will not change much. The President said much that one could argue with – misleading negatives on Romney, and an overfocus on minor distraction issues. It was surprising to hear the President sound indignant over the ‘politicization’ of the Libya fiasco, after a month of | Read More »
There has been a lot of good polling news for Romney. Romney is within the margin of error in Pennsylvania. Thanks to good polls, RCP has now moved New Hamphire, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania all to toss-up status from lean Obama. Various polls have Romney leading in VA, FL, CO, and even OH, while being within the margin of error in MI, WI, and elsewhere. Wednesday | Read More »
WHY OBAMA CHOKED IN THE FIRST DEBATE When I saw the debate, I was quite thrilled with how well Romney was doing. Live-blogging it on Redstate, I found myself writing “home run” and “Romney nails it” several times, and noting Romney’s machine-gun rapid-fire of facts and figures. I marked four of the debate questions “ADVANTAGE ROMNEY”, where he clearly dominated the discussion or had a | Read More »
Did anyone notice something funny in the debate? No, not Romney’s gracious joke at the beginning or Obama looking down in his close at the end. Perhaps the one tell that Obama was losing it was: Obama endorsed Romney’s healthcare policy! After Romney eviscerates the Obamacare bill, by pointing out the many flaws in it: – its expensive – it cuts Medicare – it puts | Read More »
On another diary, it was asked what Romney should say in response to the Obama “You are just Bush 2.0″ charge. In fact, such a question or charge would be an opening for Romney to hit a home run and possibly make the game-changing campaign point that will drive home why re-electing Obama will be dangerous for our economy. Here’s how. These are 6 key | Read More »
During 2010 and during the Republican primary, the number one concern and issue was repealing the signature ‘accomplishment’ of the Obama Presidency. Perhaps the elephant in the room on Obamacare is the fact that Romney is our nominee. And yet that cannot be quite right as Romney was willing to point out the Medicare cost-shifting in Obamacare. There is one big opportunity and the number | Read More »
Speaking of things people believe that arent true, that’s what the 2012 election is all about. To wit, Obama’s path to victory is by lying to the American people, and these four big lies are the four pillars of Obama’s campaign: 1. Passing the buck: Obama excuses his failures by blaming Republicans,e.g. $1 trillion deficits? Not mine, theirs, he says. Never mind the $2 trillion | Read More »
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