Crisis of the Government Party

Friday - January 29, 2010 at 10:23 am

By Patrick J. BuchananPresident Obama is in a dilemma from which there appears to be no easy or early escape.Democrats are the Party of Government. They feed it, and it feeds them. The larger government grows, the more agencies that are created, the more bureaucrats who are hired, the more people who become beneficiaries, the more deeply entrenched in power the Party of Government becomes. Continue reading...

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Saving Professor Bernanke

Tuesday - January 26, 2010 at 12:52 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan"Elections don't matter!" conservatives have long groused. "No matter who you vote for, things never change."Well, we may have an exception here.Scott Brown told Massachusetts' voters if they elected him to what David Gergen calls "the Kennedy seat" in the Senate, he would go to Washington and run a sword through Obamacare. Continue reading...

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Has Obama Lost White America?

Friday - January 22, 2010 at 1:00 am

By Patrick J. BuchananIf Republicans will study the returns from Massachusetts, then review the returns from Virginia and New Jersey, light will fall upon the path to victory over Barack Obama in 2012.Obama defeated John McCain by winning the black vote 24 to one, the Hispanic vote two to one and taking a larger share of the white vote, 44 percent, than did John Kerry or Al Gore. As the Continue reading...

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Is America Moving Right?

Monday - January 18, 2010 at 11:58 pm

By Patrick J. BuchananWhether or not Republican Scott Brown captures the Senate seat in Massachusetts today, his surging and successful campaign is a fire bell in the night for the Party of Government.For Brown has run as an independent, an outsider, a protest candidate. His principal target: the health care reform bill that is the altarpiece of the Barack Obama presidency and lifetime Continue reading...

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Is a U.S. Default Inevitable?

Friday - January 15, 2010 at 12:35 am

By Patrick J. BuchananWe were blindsided. We never saw it coming.So said Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein of the financial crisis of 2008. He likened its probability to four hurricanes hitting the East Coast in a single season. Continue reading...

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