In response to another diary, I lamented the outcome of an Obama victory thusly: An Obama victory will mean a fiscal cliff, his high tax increases will spark a double-dip recession in 2013, his policies will mean a lost decade of growth, a looming fiscal crisis as we suffer more downgrades and eventually bankruptcy, and my own children will have a serious reduction in their | Read More »
There are days in the primary when we felt “Yeah! We need Newt Gingrich in the ring during the fall campaign!” and there was a good reason for it. We saw how the liberal media would spin stories and mis-manage debates (somehow we foolishly let the liberal media run our primary debates), taking us AWAY from the big issues and towards side-shows. Newt stood up | Read More »
If you want to know why this election is important to our prosperity and economy, there are several data points you can turn to. It might be the fact that Household income is down 8.2%. Or it might be the fact that our debt is now over $16 trillion. For me, the biggest concern is that the bad trend of higher taxes and more spending | Read More »
The question for 2012 is NOT “Are you better off now?” The fact is that 4 years ago, our world was getting turned upside-down by the unprecedented request for TARP, aka, the bank bailouts. Government, and the economy has never been the same. The Obama campaign, enlisted the slickest political salesman they could to push “The dog ate my homework” excuse, have explained that in | Read More »
I was challenged to come up with solutions rather than ‘whining’ about Todd Akin’s prideful refusal to bend to political reality and let a better candidate take his place as Republican nominee for Missouri Senate. Since our goal is winning the White House and the Senate, the desire to see Akin withdraw is a simple calculus: Todd Akin in the race is a loss, anyone | Read More »
Todd Akin, GOP Senate candidate in Missouri, who in a recent poll was leading Claire McCaskill 51% to 40%, managed to throw the race wide open with a Category 5 blundering Biden (aka gaffe/blunder/’misstatement’) that including this ‘gem’: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” It was a bad enough blunder that he had | Read More »
When times are bad, Americans have traditionally persevered with optimis; we believe we can change and make it better, unlike other more fatalistic cultures. The media’s use of terms like “New Normal” and “Great Recession” have fostered a fatalism and tested our faith in our future, as if American decline and economic misery are Acts of Nature that cant be changed. Of course, not every | Read More »
Romney’s pick of Rep Paul Ryan has pleased most conservatives looking for ‘spine’, articuation of conservative principles and an election of consequence which, if we win, will be a mandate for the knds of consrevative reform we all believe in. However, some have raised a concern about the vacuum Paul Ryan will leave in the House. I too was wondering who would take the helm | Read More »
In yet another example of Obama administration corruption, malfeasance and meddling, Human Events and Daily Caller are reporting: Emails obtained by The Daily Caller show that the U.S. Treasury Department, led by Timothy Geithner, was the driving force behind terminating the pensions of 20,000 salaried retirees at the Delphi auto parts manufacturing company. The move, made in 2009 while the Obama administration implemented its auto | Read More »
Some people are finally waking up. We are in a depression: There is nothing more depressing than hearing about a new recession when you haven’t fully recovered from the last one. I take heart in suspecting that in a still-distant future, historians will look back with clarity and call this whole rotten period a depression. Our lousy economy needs a name: The Obama Depression. Tomorrow | Read More »
I just got off the phone from a robo-pollster. I was expecting it to be a candidate-based poll but was surprised at the end to hear it was Public Policy Polling (PPP). They are polling the Texas Senate runoff races. Since I had just early-voted for Ted Cruz yesterday, the last day of early voting for the Texas runoff, I was able to put myself | Read More »
Political euphemisms are always ripe for parody and cynicism. So, in their brilliance, the DNC decided to hold the 2012 DNC convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, a state that will swing Republican this fall and decided to vote against gay marriage right when Obama decided to be for it. Oh, and they are holding the convention at the Bank of America stadium. What a fitting | Read More »
The Obama campaign attacks on Romney for what he did or did not do from 1999 to 2002 has put Romney on the defensive. However, Mitt Romney has a massive Olympic-sized Opportunity to turn his current weakness into a trump card and power through the Bain of Obama attacks. The epiphany for me came in a factcheck review that debunked the Obama attacks on Romney | Read More »
One of the arts of political performance is expressed in the saying – “Stay on Message”. When the unstoppable force of a Media That Has a Narrative to Write meets the unmovable resolution of an public official That Stays On Message, the result can be a comedic act of verbal cat-and-mouse. Witness Speaker Boehner, resisting the catcalls from the media to pontificate on Obama’s most | Read More »
So Team Obama offers as their campaign theme “Forward”. The word has been much used in the history of socialist sloganeering. The Forward video is a pathetic attempt to rewrite the last four years of failure and give the best account they can for the Obama accomplishments. The goods news is this: After watching it, my reaction was: “That’s all they’ve got?” They wrapped it | Read More »
That’s Right… I know it’s true because I saw a web ad on yahoo. Obama is not content to spend billions of taxpayer money buying support from unions, government workers. Now he’s got his campaign machine going after the MIDDLE. The internet ads are here. Yikes. The family is all smiles, angry Michelle and dyspeptic Barack put that aside for a pic: http://www.barackobama.com/obama-for-america-2012-campaign?source=om2012_lb_inc_disptest_0212middleclass_300x250 The same | Read More »
Erick E and other Redstate wishful thinkers may want to pretend its not really over, but Romney’s lopsided win in Florida and his sweep of the delegates is exaclty the win he wanted to have to get him closer to wrapping up the nomination. Some of the odd statements made by Erick: If I were a national Republican operative, I’d be very worried about tonight. | Read More »
Gingrich has just made such a fatal and terrible error, going to Romney’s LEFT on immigration, it will play up for everyone the reality hidden in Gingrich’s campaign and ignored for some time – a history of critiquing conservative policies when it suited him. Gingrich mocked the idea of ‘self-deportation’ – that we could and should simply ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAW through worker verification and in | Read More »
The ‘optics’ of Romney’s financial disclosures aren’t great. He is an immensely rich guy who paid a lot in taxes. The headline reads: Romney Paid 13.9% Tax Rate on $21.6 Million in 2010 Income http://finance.yahoo.com/news/romney-paid-13-9-tax-050000877.html Well, that will cause some umbrage – “Hey, I pay more than that.” None of us are paying more than $3 million in taxes, but for those of us in | Read More »
Redstate has had a habit of giving advice to the Presidential contenders on what to do. The recent famous example being Erick Erickson calling a play for Team Perry, and then – wow, incredibly – Perry delivered it like Tim Tebow making a long pass for a touchdown, making a graceful exit and delivering a Gingrich boost in one fell swoop. After Mitt Romney’s not-good, | Read More »
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