2012 Presidential Election

Encouragement. It’s true that ultra-conservatives (and I’m one of ‘em!) often wrongly assume they’ll be backed up by the public at large when they support “Hail Mary” policies (balanced budget amendments, a fair tax, the Ryan plan, etc.) or when they wish for a complete repudiation of the Obama presidency in the 2012 presidential election. We Read this post

Government has a responsibility to make the U.S. the best place in the world to do business, but companies have a responsibility to invest in the nation’s future by keeping jobs here, hiring American workers and paying decent wages, President Barack Obama says. Obama devoted his weekly radio and Internet message Saturday to ideas from his State of the Union address, specifically a plan to put the U.S. on a more competitive footing globally by spending scarce dollars on innovation,… examinerpolitics.com

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Obama: Gov’t, business responsible for US future

In a new anthology edited by Jonah Goldberg, America’s up-and-coming conservatives speak out Read the original post: TheDC Review: ‘Proud to Be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation’

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TheDC Review: ‘Proud to Be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation’

What could go wrong? The boss emeritus threw a jolt into the blogosphere by flagging this last night, and with good reason. Is America’s new most famous RINO about to go fully rogue and endorse Coons? No. Or should I say, not yet? Castle has spent the past 36 hours fielding phone calls and pats on the back from Read this post

Big Peace When a report challenging our national security policy of ignoring Islamic supremacism through Islamic law, “Shariah: The Threat to America,” was released during a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday (disclosure: I was one of the co-authors of the report), among the chief critics were representatives from the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association (CMSA). This group, which has been briefing both Democrat and Republican congressional leadership in recent months that there is nothing inherently violent in Islamic law, has a very poor history of embracing Islamic radicals and even Al-Qaeda terrorists.[ More ] Think Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki….long time readers of Jawa will not be surprised by this.

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Shocka – NOT: Al-Qaeda on Capitol Hill: Congressional Muslim Staffers Association Embraces Islamic Radicals and Terrorists

Scott This morning we introduce another outstanding piece from the new issue of the Claremont Review of Books (subscribe here . Yesterday we introduced CRB editor Charles Kesler’s “The stakes of Obamacare.” It is an important essay that also highlights the stakes of the elections on November 2. William Voegeli is the author of Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State , easily one of the books of the year. In a previous CRB issue Voegeli deliberated over the meaning of the Tea Party . Voegeli now turns to “Paul Ryan’s Roadmap” and discusses the up-and-coming congressman’s plan to dig us out of our deep fiscal hole without raising taxes. Ryan should be taken seriously, says Voegeli, because he’s one of the few politicians who’s “serious about public policy without being strident about partisan politics.” His aim is to get government spending in line with revenues. It’s an “ambitious, even audacious plan to solve America’s fiscal problems–entirely on conservative terms.” Voegeli distills the Ryan Roadmap into bullet points, then explores the effect Ryan’s changes would have on the economy. The changes are drastic, but America is in serious debt and severe spending reductions will be needed to cut the deficit. Voegeli commends Ryan for his direct and honest approach to the problem. “Paul Ryan wants to get spending in line with revenues, and lays out clearly what that aspiration entails. His liberal detractors want to get revenues in line with spending, but are coy about the consequences,” he writes. They are coy because increasing revenues to match government spending means a drastic increase in taxes. Voegeli explains exactly what kind of taxes would be required to lower the deficit to 2 percent of GDP, and the results are staggering. The left’s other option is to ignore our record-setting deficit as if it isn’t a problem. Ryan proposes a third way, one that is realistic and responsible. Voegeli urges us to listen to him.

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Scott The new issue of the Claremont Review of Books is in the mail and available online to subscribers (subscribe here ). Our friends at the Claremont Institute have allowed me to select a few of my favorite pieces from the issue to introduce to our readers. The funny thing about President Obama, Charles Kesler notes in “The Stakes of Obamacare,” is how resolute he is despite poll numbers that ought to be discouraging. Forty-two percent of Americans now call themselves conservative, compared to 20 percent who call themselves liberal; and the president’s job approval ratings have steadily eroded since he took office. With midterm elections on the horizon, one might expect the president to stand a little less firmly, to give a little. But Obama, Kesler argues, will do no such thing. He is the most ambitious and the most ideological president we’ve had in decades, and he’s playing a very long game. His cause is perpetuating the era of big government, “building a bigger and better state that will grant people new kinds of rights” and making the country anew. He believes, like all Progressives, that history is on his side, and that progress requires a leader like him and changes like these. Professor Kesler examines the consequences the Obamacare legislation, explaining why it will have deleterious effects on the economy, our political system, and our character as a people. He concludes that the bill must be repealed because, despite the Progressive vision, not all change is inevitable, or for the best. Professor Kesler is a leading student of the words and deeds of President Obama. He has taken Obama’s measure in the CRB essay “The audacity of Barack Obama,” in the Christian Science Monitor column “How will Obama’s liberalism shape America?” and in the Imprimis essay “The New New Deal.” To these we now add Professor Kesler’s important essay on Obamacare.

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AFP – President Barack Obama is seeking a lifeline and his Republican foes see an opening to bash Democrats for economic malpractice over tax cuts in the first big row of the mid-term elections.

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Thanks to Tabitha Hale and Sarah Desprat’s best efforts, FreedomWorks got Scott Ott, Bill Whittle and me first class tickets (not really) to DC last weekend for BlogCon. And since we were there on Dick Armey’s dime, we put on a pretty good show for everybody. So – Trifecta : Is the Tea Party the last, best hope for America?

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Live from Washington… It’s Trifecta!

The political pendulum has swung far toward the Republicans, and at this point there is almost nothing that Democrats and the president can do to alter the overall course of the midterm elections. Excerpt from: LCG Election Monitor: Democrats’ difficult summer stretches into fall

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