In a recent post here at Next Gen GOP, Gideon D’Assandro expressed a desire for a policy of Alterrnative Energy Without the Hippies, but that will not be enough for a party seeking a way forward after a bad few years. Just over two years ago, South Carolina governor and likely 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mark Sanford wrote [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Alternative Energy Without the Hippies
The Obama administration claims to support nuclear energy as part of the growing national infrastructure. However, political convenience has left that support on the chopping block every time it has been in play. The stimulus bill included funding for nuclear plant accident insurance to targeted communities, but it was one of the first programs cut [...]
The Limitations of Popularity
Throughout the 2008 presidential election, the American public was lead to believe that our country’s inability to forge effective international cooperation was simply an issue of presidential personality. For many onlookers, this line of reasoning became increasingly persuasive as huge crowds of Europeans gathered in July of 2008 to see then-candidate Obama deliver his charismatic [...]
Should Republicans Support Toomey Against Specter?
I must admit that I still haven’t decided where I stand on the PA Senate race. In 2004, I backed Specter for various reasons, but my patience with Specter has thinned considerably, particularly considering his vote on Obama’s stimulus package. I’ve always doubted Pat Toomey’s capacity to carry Pennsylvania, which I believe is today a [...]
Opposing Obama
Over the last couple of weeks, somewhere around 1200 neighborhood canvassers took to the streets preaching the message of trillion-dollar debt and generational theft. They were recruited from the President’s campaign email list of supporters, creating all sorts of questions about the place of politics in the Executive Branch. But come together they did, eventually [...]
College Controversy Exemplifies the Challenges We Face.
For Republicans under thirty, a major policy preference tends to be for those parts of the GOP platform endorsing individual liberty, and effective national defense. While the current administration has dropped the ball in its handling of Pyongyang thus far, the bigger obstacle to future Republican success may well be in efforts to promote individual liberty. [...]
G20 set to embrace Obama’s economic policy.
Ronald Reagan, in describing the economic views dominant in the Democratic Party, once said: If it moves tax it, if it keeps moving regulate it, if it stops moving subsidize it. The Group of 20 convened earlier this week in London to much ruckus and fanfare. Making his presence known was the Celebrity-in-Chief, President Obama. [...]