A GOP Dark Horse?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 20th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
A GOP Dark Horse?
Henry Olsen, National Affairs
Historic victories in the 2010 midterm elections have raised the Republican Party's hopes of defeating Barack Obama in 2012. As a result, all eyes are now focused on the contest to determine whom Republicans will choose to represent them in an election that marks, by their own account, a “turning point” for the future of the nation.Despite this election's high stakes, however, the question of which candidate will bear the GOP's standard remains shadowed in great uncertainty, owing mostly to the lack of an obvious frontrunner. This is unusual for Republicans:…
With No Plan, Is Obama Angling for a Default?
The Deflation of the Obama Bubble
Mark Schmitt, Boston Review
A month before the 2008 presidential election, the cover of The American Prospect, which I edited at the time, depicted an empty Oval Office and the headline, “The President Doesn’t Matter (As Much As You Think).” Inside we ran articles about the institutions of Washington, such as the Senate Finance Committee—and its feckless chairman, Max Baucus—and the Federal Reserve, explaining the limits they would impose on the scope of change that might be possible under an Obama administration.The issue fell flat on the newsstand, and the…
Startup Act: How to Jumpstart the Economy
Schramm & Litan, Huff Post
Saving the Inner Cities–Part I
Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
We’ve been trying to solve the problems of the American inner cities for almost fifty years with the ideas, institutions and techniques of twentieth century progressive and liberal thought. While individuals have been helped, the Black middle class has grown, and better policing has brought crime rates down out of the stratosphere, those left in the inner cities are farther away from participating on equal terms in the national economy than ever.There are those who say the problem is that we just haven’t done enough, that we should spend more money,…
