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The Tea Party Movement Is a Middle Class Revolt
Tweet Share on Facebook October 7, 2010 Comment (22)Richard Nixon popularized the idea that there existed in America a “silent majority” at odds with the values and vision of the leftist radicals who put the nation through a period of prolonged social upheaval back in the 1960s.
Today the “silent majority” is silent no more. As seen in the Tea Party movement the middle class, on whose shoulders the heavy burden of the nation’s economic health and well-being fall, are beginning to rise up.
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Newt Gingrich: 2010 Election Is About Paychecks v. Food Stamps
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2010 Comment (4)The upcoming election is about choices.
Big choices. About the size and scope of government. About the reach of the federal government’s authority. About whether or not the choices the voters made in 2008 should be confirmed or whether they made a mistake.
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John Boehner's Reformer History--And Future
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2010 Comment (7)If the latest Gallup Poll is right, Ohio Republican John Boehner’s next job will be speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Whether or not he gets to keep it for more than two years has a lot to do with how he handles things as the country gets to know him.
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People Are Angry at Obama for the Same Reasons They Were at Bush
Tweet Share on Facebook October 4, 2010 Comment (8)Over the last two years the various Tea Party-type rallies have brought hundreds of thousands of outraged but quite ordinary Americans to the nation’s capital to protest of out of control spending, ruinous economic policies, rising unemployment and the one-sided approach to governing that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, and President Barack Obama have employed in pursuit of their legislative and political objectives.
The most recent weekend rally, organized and promoted by nearly four hundred liberal and labor groups in support of the Democrats and their agenda, by contrast, appeared to draw only a few people per group, if one chose to look at it that way. It did not come close to the crowd Obama drew for his inauguration.
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5 Others Who Should Follow Rahm Emanuel Out of the Administration
Tweet Share on Facebook October 1, 2010 Comment (19)In sharp contrast to the relative stability of the Bush White House, President Barack Obama has started to burn through his senior staff at a rate fast enough to be interesting.
It really doesn’t matter whether the departing members of his administration were pushed or if they jumped; the turnover is a clear indication that the people who count in the West Wing understand that things aren’t working.
