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1. 3 Weeks And Counting. Are We In a Suicide Pact?
2. The Omnibus: 3 x 24 = 72
3. Colt Firearm’s Florida Move Has UAW Job-Killers In Connecticut Worried
4. Mitt Romney Knows Deprivation
1. 3 Weeks And Counting. Are We In a Suicide Pact?
As you wake up this morning, however hard it may be to believe, we are actually three weeks away from the first votes being cast in Campaign 2012. Three weeks from today, in the Iowa cold, people will gather and support their man.
And three weeks out is perhaps the perfect time for me to ask this. Have conservatives entered a suicide pact? Has the Republican Party, as a whole, done the same?
We got a preview of Mr. Obama’s campaign strategy in Kansas. He intends to make the moral case for government and wealth redistribution. The campaign will be about the morality of government picking winners and losers and will be presupposed by a belief that the free market has failed.
Scoff all you will that this will be successful, but know that lots of people in the great mass of the undecided are not so sure Obama isn’t right. They may not like him, but they aren’t sure the Republicans are the people who can fix the problems.
The reason to me is rather simple. We do not have anyone on our side making the moral case for the free market. And this is where it gets tricky.
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2. The Omnibus: 3 x 24 = 72
The House is set to pass a trillion dollar spending bill. Sources say we can expect the bill to be posted online soon (if not around midnight last night). I have no doubt that the bill will include all kinds of hidden earmarks and spending gimmicks. But the clever bill writers will make these hard to find. This is why it is so important that the public and Members of Congress have a chance to read the bill before it comes to the House floor.
In the much ballyhooed Pledge to Nowhere, the House promised to post all bills online for three days prior to consideration.
Jo Maney of House Rules Committee clarified that three days does not mean 72 hours. According to my math, 3 x 24 = 72. But thanks for the clarification.
OK, so maybe the rule doesn’t specifically say 72 hours, even though that is what everyone understood it to say — everyone including the Speaker of the House. Here is Speaker Boehner himself promising “a 72 hour review period for all major bills”
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3. Colt Firearm’s Florida Move Has UAW Job-Killers In Connecticut Worried
As Connecticut continues to shoot itself in its foot (so to speak), job creators are rightfully beginning to look elsewhere for locales that do not view businesses as cannon fodder.
Colt Firearms appears to be one of the many Connecticut companies looking for a less hostile home.
To clarify, Florida is a Right-to-Work state and Connecticut is not. Which may be why the UAW is so concerned about keeping jobs in the anti-business state.
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4. Mitt Romney Knows Deprivation
There are few things more ridiculous than wealthy men trying to convince everyone they know what economic deprivation feels like. Even when the stories are possibly true, such as when Paul O’Neill and aged Klansman Robert C. Byrd dueled over who had the most authentic PWT background, the spectacle is demeaning and degrading to everyone involved: participant or spectator.
When the man involved is fabulously wealthy and from a prominent family with privileged upbringing it is just insulting.
Still stinging from his rather bizarre offer to gift Governor Rick Perry $10,000 during the last of the interminable debates — I say gift rather than bet because Romney’s book did get the Soviet May Day picture treatment before his latest attempt to become a professional politician — the Romney campaign has now set out to make Mitt v 467753.1: Romney the common man.
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