AUGUST 21, 2010 The GOP and the Temptation of Hubris If Republicans take over the House, they’d best think carefully how they use their power. Ask Newt Gingrich. By JOHN J. PITNEY JR. Republicans could still blow it, but as they head toward a likely victory in the midterm election they should consider what it […]
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AUGUST 21, 2010 Who’s ObamaCare’s Daddy? Now even liberals are denying paternity. “I know this is a tough vote,” President Obama told House Democrats at a March pep rally merely hours before they passed national health care. But he added that he was “actually confident” that “it will end up being the smart thing to
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AUGUST 21, 2010 America’s Insurgent Pollster Understanding the tea party is essential to predicting what the country’s political scene will look like. By JOHN FUND San Diego, Calif. You can tell it’s a volatile political year when a balding, middle-aged pollster gets a standing ovation from hundreds of state legislators after delivering the news that
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AUGUST 20, 2010 More Countrywide Loans What Senate ethicists didn’t tell us. Turns out the Senate ethics committee’s 2009 whitewash of Senator Chris Dodd’s sweetheart mortgages from Countrywide Financial was even worse than we thought. Three times worse. The committee was asked to examine Mr. Dodd’s 2003 receipt of two “Friends of Angelo” loans, named
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AUGUST 19, 2010 Deconstructing Harry Reid The Senate majority leader’s inexplicable desire to debate taxes in September. By KARL ROVE Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can say the darndest things. He certainly did last week when he proclaimed: “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.” That must have thrilled his
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AUGUST 17, 2010 A Tea Party Manifesto The movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party. It is aiming for a hostile takeover. By DICK ARMEY AND MATT KIBBE On Feb. 9, 2009, Mary Rakovich, a recently laid-off automotive engineer, set out for a convention center in Fort Myers, Fla. with protest
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AUGUST 15, 2010 The Next Pension Bailout New momentum to dump union retirement burdens on taxpayers. Congress is gone for August—heaven be praised—but that hasn’t stopped unions from quietly mobilizing to push through a big new priority this fall: a pension bailout. Big Labor is going Code Red on the issue, in the face of
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AUGUST 16, 2010 The End of American Optimism By MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Our brief national encounter with optimism is now well and truly over. We have had the greatest fiscal and monetary stimulus in modern times. We have had a whole series of programs to pay people to buy cars, purchase homes, pay off their mortgages,
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE Mona Charen July 30, 2010 12:00 A.M. A Democrat Goes into a Psychiatrist’s Office Democrats can’t run on their records, so they accuse Republicans of extremism. Come in. Make yourself comfortable. What’s that? You’re a congressional Democrat? You voted to triple the national debt; destroy a health-care system that an overwhelming majority
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