To Save the Country, We Need ‘Grand Bargains’
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 2nd, 2011 4:31 am by HL
To Save the Country, We Need ‘Grand Bargains’
Mort Kondracke, Roll Call
One last time: the United States will not solve its monumental problems — which threaten our future as a great nation — without a series of grand bargains between Republicans and Democrats.We need grand bargains to tame the burgeoning federal debt, which threatens the next generation’s ability to invest and grow — big bargains to reduce spending (especially entitlements) and reform taxes.
In Nevada, Romney Meets Press, Talks Jobs
Erin McPike, RealClearPolitics
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Slowly but surely, Mitt Romney is easing into his all-but-declared second bid for the White House. At an event today in this economically hard hit state, Romney made clear that this time around he won't veer far from a four letter word: “jobs.”The former Massachusetts governor took a genuine interest in gleaning all he could about unemployment in Nevada and its effect on the foreclosure crisis here when he toured a depressed local neighborhood with a host couple from the block. The event took on the form of Hillary Clinton's highly…
Obama Not The Realist Supporters Thought
James Traub, Foreign Policy
Late in the summer of 2007, I watched Barack Obama speak to a small crowd gathered in the backyard of a supporter in Salem, New Hampshire. He had a lot to say about foreign affairs. Abroad as at home, he said, we need “a new ethic of mutual responsibility” based on the recognition that “we have a stake in each other.” Thus the need to reinvigorate the United Nations, increase foreign aid, and end torture. Afterward I asked him whether that ethic really arose from pragmatic calculation, as opposed to moral duty.
Kinetic Warriors Playing at War
Wesley Pruden, Washington Times
The revolutionaries in Libya are hitting their target, the empty sky, but Barack Obama, who wants to be a secret enabler, keeps firing blanks with his teleprompter. With no particular plan and nobody in particular in charge, it’s an unusual way to run a railroad, a war or even a “kinetic military action.”Mr. Obama applies his famous formula of raising a cloud of dust and hoping for change, but hopey-changey continues to be a bust as a strategy for getting anything done.