Commentary
ANDREW C. McCARTHY::It’s Trump that Gets Us Whipped Up? – NRO
By MB Snow at December 6, 2011 | 12:22 am
I am at a loss to understand the sudden outrage on the Right, shared by my colleagues in this morning’s editorial, over the fact that Donald Trump is slated to moderate a GOP candidates’ debate, to be held for an audience of about eleven people (i.e., two days after Christmas on an obscure cable station). I carry no brief for Mr. Trump, who is something of a ... Go To Article
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WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Another One Bites The Dust – Via Meadia
By MB Snow at December 6, 2011 | 12:21 am
The news that Herman Cain is suspending his presidential campaign was no surprise by the time it was made; it had been clear for sometime that his presidential bid had been hit below the waterline. One hopes that he and his family will have some peace and quiet in which to come to terms with the events of the last few weeks, and Via Meadia wishes them the best. via ... Go To Article
MARK THIESSEN: Time for Mitt Romney to take the mitts off? – WaPo
By MB Snow at December 6, 2011 | 12:16 am
At the height of Rick Perry’s rise in the polls, Mitt Romney’s strategists previewed for me their plan to bring him down. They said they would focus on Barack Obama, while the other candidates attacked Perry’s record, and the media dug up embarrassing stories about his past. They would wait for Perry to blow himself up in the debates, and they would use illegal ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Commentary , Election 2012 , Newt Gingrich , Politics , Rick Perry
YORK: Bachmann sticks to guns despite drop in poll – WashEx
By MB Snow at December 6, 2011 | 12:05 am
ROCK HILL, S.C. - After her victory in the Ames, Iowa, straw poll last August, Michele Bachmann went from front-runner to back-in-the-packer faster than any candidate in this volatile political season. First Rick Perry, then Herman Cain, and now Newt Gingrich have risen to challenge establishment choice Mitt Romney, while Bachmann's support has been stuck in the single ... Go To Article
OBAMA’S top 10 CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS – The Daily Caller
By MB Snow at December 5, 2011 | 10:11 am
One of the biggest political changes that 2011 brought — in large part due to the tea parties and their effect on the 2010 election — is the centrality of the Constitution to our public discourse. Lawmakers and citizens no longer consider simply whether a given bill or policy proposal is a good idea but whether it is constitutional. “Where does the government get ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Commentary , Congress , Crony Capitalism , Politics
BIG GOVERNMENT::The Welfare State’s Reckoning – RCP
By MB Snow at December 5, 2011 | 12:46 am
WASHINGTON -- We Americans fool ourselves if we ignore the parallels between Europe's problems and our own. It's reassuring to think them separate, and the fixation on the euro -- Europe's common currency -- buttresses that mindset. But Europe's turmoil is more than a currency crisis and was inevitable, in some form, even if the euro had never been created. It's ... Go To Article
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BARONE::Newt vies for America of his imagination | WashEx
By MB Snow at December 5, 2011 | 12:44 am
Here are a couple of things to keep in mind about Newt Gingrich, as he leads in polls for the Republican presidential nomination nationally and in Iowa and South Carolina and may be threatening Mitt Romney's lead in New Hampshire. One is that he is an autodidact. A second is that he is has incredible perseverance. Autodidact is a fancy word for someone who is ... Go To Article
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TAXES::Paul Krugman and Robert Reich’s Tax Deception – Forbes
By MB Snow at December 5, 2011 | 12:43 am
Robert Reich and Paul Krugman are preeminent mainstream-media mouthpieces of the redistributionist welfare state. They constantly disseminate the myths that the rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes, and Congress is about to “slash taxes on the very rich”. Yet they never attack the real source of America’s problems, crony capitalism, the economic foundation ... Go To Article
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IOWA REPUBLICAN CAUCUS:The Myth of Organization – Natl.Journal
By MB Snow at December 5, 2011 | 12:42 am
So the new Des Moines Register Poll is out concerning the Republican Caucus set for Jan. 3 and, as many of us suspected, Newt Gingrich has both the momentum and a significant lead, while Mitt Romney has fallen to third. It is now apparent exactly why Romney has begun a concerted attack by his campaign and with surrogates on the former speaker. The Romney folks know the ... Go To Article
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BYRON YORK: The insider-outsider divide over Newt Gingrich
By MB Snow at December 5, 2011 | 12:40 am
There's a deep and growing divide in the Republican world between those who are able to reconcile themselves with -- to wrap their heads around -- the possibility of Newt Gingrich becoming the GOP presidential nominee, and those who are not. It's becoming increasingly clear that it is Washington insiders who are having the most trouble imagining a Gingrich nomination, ... Go To Article
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