Budget Battles: Compromise Is a Must
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 9th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Budget Battles: Compromise Is a Must
Catastrophe Looms Thanks to ObamaCare
Rep. Mike Rogers, Detroit News
Put yourself in the shoes of a small business owner.You own a restaurant with 33 full-time employees and several dozen part-time workers. You offer health benefits to some because you feel that it's the right thing to do. However, under Obamacare, you will be required to provide expensive, government-designed health insurance beginning in 2014.
Trump Won’t Be Hired, as President
David Paul Kuhn, RealClearPolitics
Donald Trump is a “clean hands freak.” Handshaking is “barbaric.” These are Trump's words. But he'd reportedly endure this barbarity to run for president. Of course he would. Ambition trumps.And he's Trump. So he thinks he can be president. Trump is “seriously” considering a bid. And the media is suddenly taking Trump seriously. Receive news alertsWe can picture Trump's favorite trope on the stump: President Obama “you're fired.” But Trump won't be hired.Polls do hint otherwise. Trump tied Mike Huckabee for second, among…
Foreign Policy Can’t Be Built on Emotion
Peggy Noonan, Wall St. Journal
Thick histories may well be written about how President Obama"”a Democrat from the leftward wing of his party, a use-of-force skeptic who campaigned against Iraq as a war of choice"”came to involve the U.S. in a third Mideastern war. Much will be made of the regrets of a generation of party leaders that the U.S. did not move in 1994 in Rwanda, but that nation's experience raises as many questions as it answers. Rwanda was a real and actual genocide in which, in the Human Rights Watch estimate, 800,000 people were killed.
Would Trump Pass a Budget?
Eugene Robinson, Indianapolis Star