National Politics
In a comment to a previous posting, Will writes: …what’s important here is the need to address the substance of the problems mentioned herein, and not just attack the messenger. Ignoring problems doesn’t make them go away. All it usually does is lead to greater problems down the road. That comment directly relates to the…
Robert Novak wrote of a successful rebuttal of a bi-partisan attempt in the U.S. Senate to spend more of our tax dollars under the auspices of “Katrina Aid.” The Senate was up to its old tricks Monday evening. It prepared to pass, without debate and under a procedure requiring unanimous consent, a federal infusion of…
Andrew has started the debate here in Rhode Island, asking why we are spending highway bill pork in RI at a time of national need in New Orleans. In what is likely to be another example of how the blogosphere is changing politics, take a look at this posting from Instapundit about various bloggers looking…
This story shows the latest example of just how unprincipled a man Bill Clinton is. Power Line has a strongly-worded response. For a man who (i) had shady dealings with a range of Communist Chinese or their agents; (ii) passed up an opportunity to capture bin Laden when he was offered to the USA before…
The hearings for Chief Justice-in-waiting John Roberts begin today and can be seen and heard via C-SPAN beginning at 11:30 AM. As C-SPAN “warns,” however: On Monday, the multi-day Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge John Roberts begin. They are expected to last all week. First, will be a series of opening statements by the…
The domestic spending habits of the Republican Congress were criticized in an earlier posting about the Chafee-Laffey race. Previous postings (here and here) discussed the outrageous spending contained in the recently passed highway bill. Another posting discussed how actions by the small, but powerful, sugar lobby go against the interest of average Americans. The energy…
I explain why in my current TechCentralStation column.
President Bush made his way to Louisiana and surrounding states to view the devastation firsthand, but many are questioning why it didn’t happen earlier. Why did the President fly by on Wednesday, but not actually tour the leveled cities? That is a sound question, and whether we’re Republicans, Democrats, or anything else, we expect our…
Mark Tapscott has written a powerful editorial asking Has the GOP Lost Its Soul? …Their differences [between President Reagan and Alaskan GOP Rep. Young] are nowhere more evident than on limiting government and reducing federal spending. Reagan said in his first inaugural speech that “government is not the solution to our problem, government is the…
Dean Barnett (another conservative New Englander) has an excellent analysis in the Weekly Standard of the Democratic side of the recent Ohio special Congressional election, where a veteran Republican edged out a Democratic newcomer in a solidly Republican district. However, I think the real lesson for Republicans is contained in this paragraph from Barnett…The Republicans…
