In case our Guest Editor and Los Angeles County Correspondent (along with Mike Spence) Brandon Powers needed some positive affirmation that he picked a good opinion-piece to feature as the Golden Pen Award Winner today on the main page, today’s Wall Street Journal Political Dairy selects a quote from the piece to feature in its daily e-mail:
"Democrats are poised to take back the House. If that happens, however, conservatives will find several silver linings in the outcome…. The Congressional wing of the [GOP] lost its reformist zeal years ago and has been trying to win elections based on pork and incumbency. An election victory would reward that strategy, leaving the congressmen even less interested in restraining spending, reforming government programs and revamping the tax code… A straight loss, on the other hand, would make the Republicans hungrier and sharpen their wits. Freed from the obligation of cobbling together thin majorities for watered-down legislation, Republicans would be able to stand for something attractive" — Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor at National Review, writing in the New York Times.
So if you haven’t done so already, go to the main page and read it!
September 13th, 2006 at 12:00 am
I totally agree with the quote, but, usually in these cases the loss is blamed on the conservative faction of the GOP for being “too conservative” instead of the liberal governance that does not achieve the miracles our ideology could perform if we had the political will to enact all of it– imagine how much more our economy could grow if we used our historic opportunity from 2001-now to repeal some horrific domestic laws left over from the 1970s, or even go back further to remove impediments to our economic freedom!
In this new ad by the Democratic Party of California, they make a very illogical leap to say Schwarzenegger is a Bush clone. The thing they target, however, is the growth of $3 trillion of national debt over the tenure, something that is inexcusable for this exceptional time to roll back the excesses from Woodrow Wilson onward…