Gingrich Blasts Romney on Taxes, Trust
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 8th, 2012 5:31 am by HL
Gingrich Blasts Romney on Taxes, Trust
Erin McPike, RealClearPolitics
SALEM, N.H. — Newt Gingrich came to this town on the border with Massachusetts to try out his new, sharper attack on the neighboring state's former governor, the candidate to beat in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.”I am dramatically more conservative than Mitt Romney,” he said to applause at Salem High School. “I am prepared to defend conservative principles; I am prepared to defend conservative appointments; and I am prepared to defend conservative policies.”The subtext to Gingrich's commentary drew on Romney's identity as a…
The Redistributionist Behemoth
George Will, Washington Post
Liberals have a rendezvous with regret. Their largest achievement is today's redistributionist government. But such government is inherently regressive: It tends to distribute power and money to the strong, including itself.Government becomes big by having big ambitions for supplanting markets as society's primary allocator of wealth and opportunity. Therefore it becomes a magnet for factions muscular enough, in money or numbers or both, to bend government to their advantage.
Finally, Obama Goes All In on Recess Appointments
Roland Martin, CNN
Finally.That's all that needs to be said about President Barack Obama's decision this week to stop playing footsie with GOP senators and push through the recess appointments for the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and members of the National Labor Relations Board.Republican are in a tizzy, saying he is establishing a bad precedent with the moves. But frankly, they need to shut up.
Safe + Moderate, Does Not = Electable
Lawrence Lindsey, Weekly Standard
The conventional wisdom among the chattering class about the Republican field is that voters face a choice between “electability” and “ideology.” But a careful look at elections since the end of World War II suggests that is not the case. What most pundits think of as “electable,” a safe candidate attractive to moderate voters, has historically been highly unlikely to unseat an incumbent president. In the five elections since World War II in which the party out of power has picked a “safe” candidate to take on a…
