By Joseph Ashby of AT
Electability is important. Less important is what Republican Party intelligentsia deems “electable.” With primary season heating up, in both the race for president and other offices, we would do well to examine what kind of candidate is or isn’t electable.
Brian S. Wesbury – Chief Economist
Robert Stein, CFA – Senior Economist
After the very strong ADP employment report on Thursday, many economists marked-up their forecasts for Friday’s official payroll report. We moved ours up 5,000, and went into the report at 140,000 net new private sector jobs. Ouch…the official report showed just 57,000 new private sector jobs and equities immediately headed south.
By Larry Thornberry of American Spectator
TAMPA — The candidates for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Florida clearly believe red-meat conservatism will be the favored flavor among R primary voters in 2012, as it was in 2010. They’re probably correct.
Whether unapologetic conservatism is the key to beating liberal Democratic (pardon the redundancy) incumbent Bill Nelson in the general election is still unclear. In the few polls taken so far, “generic Republican” is competitive against Nelson, while the four actually running don’t do so swell. But it’s early. Continue reading
By Charles Krauthammer
“Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected,” observed President Obama this week, enjoying a nice chuckle about the unhappy fate of his near-$1 trillion stimulus. To be sure, Obama has also been promoting a less amusing remedy for anemic growth and high unemployment: exports. In his 2010 State of the Union address, he proclaimed a national goal of doubling exports within five years. Continue reading
Charles Krauthammer of NRO
Should Republicans run against Obama’s hyper-liberalism or his abysmal economic stewardship?
The Republicans swept November’s midterm election by making it highly ideological, a referendum on two years of hyper-liberalism — of arrogant, overreaching, intrusive government drowning in debt and running deficits of $1.5 trillion annually. It’s not complicated. To govern from the left in a center-right country where four out of five citizens are non-liberal is a prescription for electoral defeat. Continue reading
By Gary Jason of AMERICAN THINKER
Some recent stories instruct us anew on the cardinal tenets of Obamanomics, a.k.a, pay for play the Chicago way.
Consider first the story reviewing the rush of organizations to get exemptions from Obamacare. So far, nearly 1,400 different entities (businesses, unions, insurers, and state and local governments), covering over three million people, have been given exemptions from the bill by Obama’s HHS Secretary Sebelius, and those waivers have a disturbing pattern.
- Stan McHugh of CFP
It is an undeniable fact that the current administration in Washington and many members of both the House and Senate are out of control as they have been ignoring and openly defying The Constitution of the United States on a regular and repeated basis. The same is true of members of the Federal Judiciary that by legislating from the bench ignore and defy the Constitution.
Lawrence Sellin of CFP
The present government of the United States is largely a blend of corruption and mismanagement. It no longer responds to or is trusted by a growing number of Americans. Not being a natural born citizen, Barack Hussein Obama has never been eligible for the Presidency and he may have committed felonies both before and after occupying the nation’s highest office.
Yet, despite mounting evidence, not one member of Congress or anyone in the executive or judicial branches dares to speak up or initiate an investigation.
Why is that? Continue reading
By Zbigniew Mazurak of AMERICAN THINKER
Currently, Washington Republicans are mulling over two versions of a Balanced Budget Amendment. One, sponsored by Sens. Orrin Hatch and John Cornyn, would limit government spending to 20% of GDP and require a balanced budget (i.e., without a deficit) five years after the amendment is ratified. The version introduced by Sen. Mike Lee would be similar, but it would limit government spending to 18% of GDP, the lowest in decades.
Both versions, however, are fundamentally flawed and therefore utterly unacceptable. Let me explain. Continue reading