The GOP Race Gets Messy

February 11, 2012

Mitt Romney speaks in Grand Junction, Colo., February 6, 2012.

From NationalReviewOnline, By Jonah Goldberg, February 10, 2012 -

Okay, I give up.

About a week ago, I wrote a column

Jonah Goldberg

making a case for Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee. My argument was aimed at fellow conservatives who just can’t get their minds — or at least their hearts — around a Romney candidacy. The details aren’t important right now (and they’re easy enough to find with the interwebs these days).

The reason I wrote the column in the first place was that I felt the cold steel barrel of reality’s revolver pressing up against the back of my head, saying “write it.”

Romney’s going to be the nominee. He’s vastly preferable to Obama. If he’s the inevitable nominee, then better for conservatives to make peace with the idea.

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What a Big Government Conservative Looks Like

February 10, 2012
From RedState.com, by Erick Erickson, January 9, 2012 - I’m rather tired of all the people who don’t like Romney trying to claim Rick Santorum is not a big government conservative, or not a pro-life statist. I would support him before I would support Romney too, but I have no intention of giving up ideological and intellectual consistency in the name of beating Mitt Romney.

Rick Santorum is a pro-life statist. He is. You will have to deal with it. He is a big government conservative. Santorum is right on social issues, but has never let his love of social issues stand in the way of the creeping expansion of the welfare state.

In fact, he has been complicit in the expansion of the welfare state.

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Obama ‘taking Iran’s side’ on damages from ’83 bombing that killed 241 Marines

February 10, 2012

From WorldTribune.com, January 31st, 2012 | Posted by  - 

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, in a bid to reconcile with the
Teheran regime, has blocked legislation that would hold Iran accountable for the Hizbullah bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines in 1983.

A survivors group has asserted that the administration is pressuring Democrats in Congress not to support a bill that would enforce massive judgements against Iran by the families of the Marines. In 2007, a U.S.
federal district court judge found Iran liable for the Beirut bombing and ordered Teheran to pay $2.65 billion in damages.

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Who Would Jesus Tax?

February 9, 2012

Doug Giles

From TownHall.com, by Doug Giles, February 5, 2011 - This past Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast, Obama said that his Christian faith crafts his domestic policies—particularly his desire to rob from the rich and give to the poor. In my humble opinion, I think the president is getting Jesus and His disciples confused with Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

I don’t know which White House wizard crafted that speech for him, but the verse he or she gave to our Spender in Chief to back his socialism was more twisted out of joint than a Gumby doll being worked over by a frustrated Gary Busey.

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Ron Paul’s House record marked by bold strokes, and futility

February 8, 2012

From WashingtonPost.com, By , December 26, 2011 -
The passage of H.R. 2121, in fall 2009, unfolded without drama. It allowed for the sale of a customhouse in Galveston, Tex. The House debate took two minutes, and the vote took eight seconds. The ayes had it. But something historic was happening. On his 482nd try, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) had authored a bill that would become law.

Paul has become a surprising force in the Republican presidential race, promising to use “the bully pulpit of the presidency” to demand deep cutbacks across government. But Paul has had only limited success using his current pulpit — a seat in Congress — to rally lawmakers behind his ideas.

Of the 620 measures that Paul has sponsored, just four have made it to a vote on the House floor. Only that one has been signed into law.

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Ron Paul, Constitutional Scholar

February 8, 2012

From RedState, by Leon H. Wolf, February 8, 2012 - 

People like to say, “Ron Paul’s got a great domestic program, it’s just his foreign policy I don’t like.” Really, people only say that because they don’t take the time to understand what Ron Paul’s domestic program is all about, or at least the more insane details thereof. One particular example of this is Ron Paul’s view on monetary policy.

Paul, who likes to present himself as some sort of Constitutional scholar, has said in his last several concession speeches that “the Constitution still says that only gold and silver can be legal tender!” This absolutely absurd reading of the Constitution is universally rejected by anyone who can read English.

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Pop Quiz On The Constitution

February 8, 2012

From RedState.com, by TobyToons, February 8, 2012 –  

Ruth Bader
Background Information on Ruth’s comments to Egyptians looking for guidance on writing a new constitution:

Justice Ginsburg And The Need To Oppose Radical Judicial Nominees

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Trashes Constitution

Ginsburg to Egyptians…

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Obamacare Awakens a Sleeping Giant

February 7, 2012
 From The Foundry, by Mike Brownfield, February 7, 2012 - 

It is a rare moment indeed when faith denominations of all stripes unite together in common cause, and it is rarer still when that cause is a political one, with a sole piece of legislation as its principal target. But when that law eviscerates the very foundation of religious liberty in America as protected under the First Amendment, it should not be surprising that Catholics and Jews, evangelical Christians, and mainline Lutherans alike find common cause in defense of their liberties.

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An orderly EMU break-up, à la Française

February 7, 2012

The Telegraph, By , Economics, Last updated: February 7th, 2012 - 

Is the French franc on its way back?

Salut souverainistes. For those wanting more details on the euro break-up plan drafted by French economists, here is the link to the L’Observatoire de L’Europe website.

A few extracts, loosely translated: “The obstinate determination of governments to take us by forced march deeper into the euro impasse can only lead to the general aggravation of the economic situation in Europe.”

“Even though our American and Chinese competitors have an interest in the survival of the single currency, the euro is condemned to an uncontrollable explosion sooner or late”. (A nice twist that one, inverting the false and widely believed conspiracy theory that the US is trying to destroy the euro.)

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The Highway Bill: A Road to Cave City

February 7, 2012

From RedState.com, by Daniel Horowitz (Diary), February 6, 2012 - Last week, several House committees favorably reported the $260 billion 5-year House GOP highway bill to the full body. This 846-page behemoth is now headed to a floor vote sometime next week. Simply put, conservatives oppose the House leadership’s highway bill (H.R. 7) because it continues the failed top-down federal approach to transportation spending, while precluding devolution to the states for at least another five years. Moreover, it eschews the pay-as-you-go funding mechanism of the Highway Trust Fund (eerily similar to the Social Security Trust Fund!) by permanently authorizing a higher level of spending than the fund’s corresponding revenue source; the federal gas tax.

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