Gingrich tries to plead that lots of people, like the Fed chairman and the Council of Economic Advisers (in other words, people we should have expected to miss the crisis), didn’t see it coming. (Thanks to Mike Church.)
New York Event: Why Ron Paul Is Right
Revolution PAC is holding a fundraising dinner in New York on December 5, with the theme “Ron Paul Is Right.” The speakers are Jim Grant (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer), Michael Scheuer (headed CIA’s bin Laden unit), Alieta Eck (president, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons), and state… Read More
Huckabee Got the Romney Memo
This Is How an Anti-Establishment Candidate Is Treated
Watch the contemptible shill Bob Schieffer throw propaganda questions at Ron Paul, and then laughably try to deny that the U.S. government has threatened to use military force against Iran. Ron reminds him that the last two presidents repeatedly said no options had been taken… Read More
How the Poor Are Prospering by Ignoring the State
Conservatives: Gingrich Corporate Welfare Lobbying OK
Tim Carney has a post over at the Washington Examiner in which he reviews the responses to his column on Newt Gingrich’s lobbying for corporate welfare (ethanol subsidies, housing subsidies, and the expansion of Medicare to include drug subsidies). He notes that practically no one wrote to… Read More
The Bipartisan Path to Where We Are Now
Doing some work on a project the other day, I noticed that Geoffrey Perret’s very good book — Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America’s Future — is on sale in hardcover for a paltry $4.66, down from $27.00 at its release in 2007. From my review for The American Conservative, where I’m a… Read More
News Flash: Gingrich Not Conservative
Gene Healy at the Washington Examiner gives the grim details . But there’s more than what Gene digs up. Here’s what a Gingrich supporter is implicitly saying: (1) It’s all right that my candidate says he would have voted for TARP , what Reagan budget director David Stockman has called “the single greatest economic-policy abomination… Read More
Coulter: Newt’s No Conservative, Now Let’s Support Mitt
I don’t read Ann Coulter, but this column appeared in my inbox yesterday and I clicked to see her thoughts on Gingrich. She doesn’t like him. He’s a phony, a sellout, not really committed to the principles people think he is. So far, so good. The rest… Read More
Ron’s Surge Continues
Thanks to Lew Rockwell’s Political Theatre , here are the latest poll numbers , courtesy of Iowa State University and two Iowa news outlets: Cain 24.5% Paul 20.4% Romney 16.3% Perry 7.9% Bachmann 7.6% Gingrich 4.8% Santorum 4.7% Huntsman 0%
