Pew: More Now Trust GOP to Deal with Rising Deficit
Pew Research released a new analysis showing increasing concern among Americans about the federal budget deficit in the past six months. Those citing red ink as the “most important problem” reached the highest level in twenty years and nearly doubled, (from 6% in August of 2009 to 11% in January [...]
DeMint Before Dinner
TAMPA — A fairly good writer once said: There is a tide in the
affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads, God knows where.
Or words to that effect.
The tide in 2010, in Florida and across the nation, appears
to be a conservative reaction to the [...]
Are the Two Parties Really the Same?
Bill Bennett was not a fan of Glenn Beck’s speech at CPAC last night, and neither was I.
Beck is dead-wrong on his obnoxious, ridiculous, and completely silly idea that the two parties are the same.
Lest we forget, as Beck apparently has, that Barack Obama triple the national debt during his first year in office, [...]
Pee-Wee for President?
Ron Paul has won the CPAC straw Presidential vote with 31 percent of the total. This is dismaying, to the extent one takes it seriously. Ron Paul is the crazy uncle in the Republican Party’s attic. He is not a principled libertarian like, say, Steve Forbes. Rather, as I noted in [...]
Contract Renewal
You’ve must admit, there’s something Churchillian about Newt
Gingrich. He may not be the most beloved politician on the
national scene, but Newt always has his eye on the ball. Nobody
does the issues better.
This casts Newt in the role that Churchill played when he
was an [...]
Michael Steele strikes again
I complained here about RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s paid speeches. My concern was that they provide him with an incentive to be entertaining, candid, and/or controversial, but if he does this, he increases the likelihood of making statements that may not be in the best interest of his party.
Now comes word that Steele [...]
