Election Countdown : 61 days...
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If saddam had stayed
"From the vantage point of history, Barack Obama's prime-time speech announcing the Iraq war's end is less important than the speech he gave eight years ago as a state senator in Illinois. This was the October 2002 "dumb war" speech to an anti-Iraq war rally in Chicago's Federal Plaza. Back then, Mr. Obama had a more complex view of the stakes in Iraq than he does now." Daniel Henninger,Wall Street Journal
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...The speech on Iraq and other things...
..."I thought this speech was wanting. I thought it lacked gratitude toward his predecessor. He said tonight that he and President George W. Bush disagreed about the war. Well, Sean, the American people know they didn't just disagree about the war. They disagreed about the surge. And then-Senator Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi were wrong about the surge and they were wrong to oppose it and the American people know it." Rep. Mike Pence (R-IA)
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The failure of the liberal Economic experiment?
..."While the recession has at least bottomed out and appears technically to have ended, the recovery, by historic standards, has been anemic. Within two years of the start of every one of the three previous recessions, GDP had rebounded significantly—to 4 percentage points above where it was when the downturn began. But 31 months after the start of the current recession, GDP was still below its starting point. The employment situation is even worse. In the nasty recession of 1981-82, the economy had regained the jobs it lost within just 26 months. This time around, we still have 5 percent fewer jobs than at the recession’s start in December 2007. What bothers the public, plain and simple, is that the steps that were taken to mitigate the recession—which involved greater government involvement, including ownership of the largest auto and insurance companies, and vastly more federal spending—have not worked." james glassman, Commentary
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Oikophobia: Why the liberal elite finds Americans revolting.
.."The British philosopher Roger Scruton has coined a term to describe this attitude: oikophobia. Xenophobia is fear of the alien; oikophobia is fear of the familiar: "the disposition, in any conflict, to side with 'them' against 'us', and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours.'... "James taranto, WSJ
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Progressives: Oiks
..."The oik repudiates national loyalties and defines his goals and ideals against the nation, promoting transnational institutions over national governments,
accepting and endorsing laws that are imposed on us from on high by the EU or the UN, though without troubling to consider Terence’s question, and defining his political vision in terms of universal values that have been purified of allreference to the particular attachments of a real historical community. The oik is, in his own eyes, a defender of enlightened universalism against local chauvinism. And it
is the rise of the oik that has led to the growing crisis of legitimacy in the nation states of Europe..."
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Seventy percent of Americans know they've been conned
..."The people on the Mall and the millions more who watched the gathering with satisfaction rather than fear are quite simply sick of the left, and of its vast sneer toward the traditions, values and, yes, faith of the American middle class." Hugh Hewitt, DC Examiner
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Taxed to Death... And Then Death-Taxed
"Successful entrepreneurs should think twice about what's in the Christmas ham this December. Why? From the perspective of expectant heirs, 2010 is a great time to die. It's the first year since 1916 that there has not been a tax on inheritance, or what's known as a "death tax." In 2001, legislators voted to phase out the steep tax on estates, but on January 1, 2011, that repeal will sunset, and the death tax will come back to haunt us. ..."Hadley heath, townhall
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ObamaCare: Five Months of Broken Promises
"Costs. After promising over and over again that their government takeover of health care would lower costs, Washington Democrats and their special interest allies are now “abandoning claims” that it will do anything of the kind. According to POLITICO, “Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit…" Rep. Leader John Boehner
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America's First Muslim President
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Liberals and the Myth of an Anti-Muslim Backlash
"Here's a thought: The 70% of Americans who oppose what amounts to an Islamic Niketown two blocks from ground zero are the real victims of a climate of hate, and anti-Muslim backlash is mostly a myth. Let's start with some data..".JONah Goldberg
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Many More Now Following Mosque Controversy – And Don’t Like It
..."Yet while 85% of Republicans and 62% of voters not affiliated with either party oppose the building of the mosque near Ground Zero, Democrats are evenly divided on the question. There’s a similar division of opinion in the president’s party over whether the location of the mosque is insensitive, while Republican and unaffiliated voters believe strongly that it is. But most Democrats like the majority of GOP voters and unaffiliateds are not very or not at all confident that the mosque is being built to honor those who died on 9/11. " Rasmussen Report
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Newt Gingrich at aei: America at Risk: Camus, National Security, and Afghanistan (Video)
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..."The Republican Party has led the efforts to get all Americans a seat at the lunch counter—from abolition to the civil rights movement to welfare reform and beyond. But we also recognize what it will take for this and future generations to own the diner. It’s not by empowering government but by empowering the individual. The virtue of economic empowerment applies to all Americans. And that’s what Republicans stand for: a party of economic empowerment for all. We must commit ourselves to showing the many faces of the Republican Party. We are strong because we are diverse. And it’s through our diversity and commitment to these shared principles that we will reach out and welcome more communities into our Party. The focus of my chairmanship will be to take this message to neighborhoods and communities across the country. Our website is just one lever that we will use to achieve that goal." GOP Chairman Michael Steele
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