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Big Government Is Not the Answer
Tweet Share on Facebook May 3, 2013 CommentThe most interesting poll results I've read lately: “In terms of being a good citizen, 67 percent of voters believe it is more important to do volunteer work for church and community organizations than it is to get involved in politics and political campaigns. Only 16 percent disagree and put political involvement first,” according to a report today from Rasmussen polling.
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George W. Bush Could Teach Barack Obama About the Middle East
Tweet Share on Facebook April 26, 2013 CommentYesterday's opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas was a big success, and a lot of the good feelings had to do with seeing the four living former presidents together on stage. People just can't seem to get enough of them. They are the polar opposite of everything that Washington seems to be these days. They come across as bipartisan, accomplished, friendly and a little larger than life. We need more of that in D.C.
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Background Check Gun Control Bill Died Because the Senate Is Working
Tweet Share on Facebook April 20, 2013 CommentUntil we know more about the suspects in the Boston marathon bombings, I'm going to hold off on commenting about how today's events will change either the immigration or gun control debates. But I do think this week's events will have an effect. Earlier this week, the left was despondent over the failure of the Democratic Senate to pass gun control legislation. That day was a “shameful day” – Washington was broken and the legislation was defeated because the “gun lobby and its allies willfully lied,” as the president put it. As we look back at the week, it’s obvious that the the problem wasn’t the gun lobby.
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5 Women Who Should Join Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore at Augusta National
Tweet Share on Facebook April 12, 2013 CommentAUGUSTA, Ga. – I'm at Augusta National for the Masters, my first time here and the first Masters tournament since women have been admitted as members. Two things I noticed: First, it's the most spectacularly beautiful golf course I've ever seen and second, there are very few women in the crowds of spectators. Even fewer strike me as players themselves. If we are going to get more women into clubhouses like the one at Augusta, we need more women to play in the first place. But that's another blog.
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It's Time for Marion Barry to Retire
Tweet Share on Facebook March 29, 2013 CommentI've done it before and I'm doing it again: I'm calling for D.C. City Councilman Marion Barry to resign. Over the years, there were charges of tax evasion, traffic violations, government contracts for girlfriends, and cocaine use. A year ago, he insulted Asian-American shopowners, then in his apology to them, insulted Polish-Americans as well.
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To Close the Gender Gap, GOP Should Elect a Woman To Run the RNC
Tweet Share on Facebook March 22, 2013 CommentThis is from the bottom of page 79 of the 100-page report of the Growth and Opportunity Project that the Republican National Committee released this week:
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Republicans Should Follow Rob Portman's Lead on Gay Marriage
Tweet Share on Facebook March 15, 2013 CommentOhio Sen. Rob Portman announced today that he's changed his mind and is no longer opposed to same sex marriage. Portman says the reason for the change is that his son Will, a junior at Yale, came out to his parents two years ago. Senator Portman (full disclosure: He's an old friend and former colleague of mine in the Bush 41 White House) explained his evolution—as a congressman, he was a supporter of the Defense of Marriage Act, which heads to the Supreme Court in less than two weeks along with California's Proposition 8—in an op-ed in today's Columbus Dispatch. It's today's must-read for every conservative.
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Cut the White House Easter Egg Roll, Not White House Tours
Tweet Share on Facebook March 9, 2013 CommentHere's a suggestion for the White House, which is getting a lot of blowback for canceling all White House tours due to the sequester: Consider cutting back the tours instead of canceling them. Does it really need to take, as the White House told the AP, 37 Secret Service agents to staff the tours? Maybe it would be possible to open fewer rooms to tours and use fewer agents ... or only allow tours three days a week.
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President Obama Doesn't Want a Sequestration Solution
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2013 CommentPresident Obama was repeatedly blaming Republicans this week for the sequester—the across-the-board budget cuts set to start taking effect in March—but what the president didn't mention was that it was the White House which designed the sequester to kick in if negotiations failed. Then, instead of negotiating with Congress for the last several weeks, the president decided to leave Washington to campaign against Republicans who can't reach an agreement with him about averting the sequester. They can't reach an agreement because Republicans have no one to negotiate with; the negotiations have failed so the sequester takes effect. It's the perfect Catch-22.
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Republicans Must Stop Being Mad as Hell
Tweet Share on Facebook February 23, 2013 CommentStanding in the security line at Reagan National airport, a black-and-camo tee shirt in a souvenir stand caught my eye: "I love my country, it's the government I hate." It was ugly on a number of levels. Lately too many Republicans sound like that tee shirt, angry at the government all the time. We don't need a de facto Libertarian Party that wants to stop government at all costs—although that is understandable, given the exponential growth of federal spending and the massive debt our nation is incurring—but the GOP would be better off becoming the party of smart, efficient, compassionate, and limited government. Right now, the phrase that best defines the Republican brand is "mad as hell."
Mary Kate Cary
Mary Kate Cary is a former White House speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush. She currently writes speeches for political and business leaders.
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