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What Set Reagan Apart
The tension in Egypt has swiftly differentiated Obama from the Gipper.
We are witnessing a pivotal moment in Pres. Barack Obama’s first term with the deteriorating situation in Egypt. At the same time, we’re seeing an attempt by some — mostly his supporters in the media — to align Obama with President Reagan, whose 100th birthday we celebrate this Sunday. But as we watch the protests in Cairo and the administration’s reaction so far, it should be clear that the comparison is not only weak, but absurd.
After all, this administration said that the president was “not picking between those on the street and those in the government” in Egypt. I don’t pretend to know which side Reagan would have picked. Indeed, to be fair to the Obama administration, there are no good options when your choice is between a pro-American strongman and an uprising driven in part by the Muslim Brotherhood. But I’m confident that Reagan would have at least said that those who fight for freedom will always have a friend in the United States.
As president, Obama has to weigh the realpolitik consequences of undermining Hosni Mubarak’s regime. But he also has a duty to act as the world’s most [....]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/259058/what-set-reagan-apart-fred-thompson
Voters Still Wary of Changes in Egypt
But 68% Say U.S. Should Not Get Involved
Voters aren’t convinced that changing the government in Egypt is good for the United States, but they still feel strongly that America should stay out of the political crisis engulfing its Middle Eastern ally.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that only 15% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the United States should get more directly involved in the Egyptian crisis. Sixty-eight percent (68%) say America should leave the situation alone. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure which is the best course.
This shows little change in sentiment from a little over week ago when 70% of Americans said the United States should leave the situation alone, even though most feel it’s likely the unrest in Egypt will spread to other Middle Eastern countries and will be bad for the United States.
While demonstrators in Egypt are pushing for the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the country’s president for the past 30 years, voters are fairly evenly divided in their assessment of its impact on the United States. Twenty-one percent (21%) think a change in government there will be [....]
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/february_2011/voters_still_wary_of_changes_in_egypt_but_68_say_u_s_should_not_get_involved
Morning Bell: Big Government, Big Business, Big Problem
Posted February 8th, 2011 in Enterprise and Free Markets, First Principles
In what Politico is calling “the first whiff of the desperation inside the White House about the slowness of the economic recovery,” President Barack Obama spoke to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce yesterday, claiming: “I understand the challenges you face. I understand you are under incredible pressure to cut costs and keep your margins up. I understand the significance of your obligations to your shareholders and the pressures that are created by quarterly reports. I get it.” No. No, he doesn’t.
President Obama went on to say, “Even as we eliminate burdensome regulations, America’s businesses have a responsibility as well to recognize that there are some basic safeguards, some basic standards that are necessary to protect the American people from harm or exploitation. Not every regulation is bad. Not every regulation is burdensome on business. A lot of the regulations that are out there are things that all of us welcome in our lives.” Sounds nice. But then the President went on to defend Obamacare, which requires hundreds of new regulations, raises taxes by more than $500 billion, and has already forced the Department of Health and Human Services to grant more than 700 waivers to President Obama’s political allies.
Any successful market economy does require some basic rules of the road to function. But there is a big difference between a general system of rules that applies equally to everyone and an invasive regulatory scheme that rewards the politically connected. If the President truly wants to “get it,” he should read Bruce Caldwell’s new Heritage paper “Ten (Mostly) Hayekian Insights for Trying Economic Times.” As Caldwell notes, Friedrich Hayek stressed the necessity for clear and certain rules for markets to work effectively, but he also recognized the dangers that government regulations brought to the table. Specifically, Hayek noted that new [....]
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/02/08/morning-bell-big-government-big-business-big-problem/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell
Krauthammer: Cameron's Multiculturalism Speech An "Important Cultural Shift"
Charles Krauthammer: "This I think is a very important moment in the history of the West. There is a cancer growing inside the West. Some of the leaders have acknowledged it -- Angela Merkel of Germany -- but mostly it's been the view of opposition, and the opposition as in Holland have been called racist. When you hear the prime minister of Britain in a coalition government with the liberals expressing this, I think it's a sign of an important cultural shift.
"It's now OK to actually speak the truth...Because of overt government policy, subsidizing these separations, allowing these kind of incendiary, anti-Western, anti-British, even pro-terrorist speeches, sermons, etc., to be issued in these places. I think this is a moment in which [....]
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/02/08/krauthammer_camerons_speech_on_multiculturalism_an_important_cultural_shift.html
Could Obama Ambassador Jon Huntsman, Jr. Be the GOP’s 2012 Nominee?
by Jonathon M. Seidl
He was once considered a rising star in the GOP. But after taking a position in the Obama administration, his name has mostly disappeared from the GOP’s lexicon. Now, however, former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. is changing that as he begins hinting at a possible 2012 presidential run.
Huntsman, who shares a name with his philanthropist and businessman father Jon Huntsman, Sr., is currently the U.S. ambassador to China. It’s an ambassadorship many think was used as a pawn in a game of political chess: with Huntsman [....]
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/could-obama-ambassador-jon-huntsman-jr-be-the-gops-2012-nominee/
Obama and Herman Cain are Ready for 2012
by Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
It is unusual for a President to launch a re-election nearly two years before the vote, but this is exactly what Barack Obama is laying the ground work for. Without fanfare Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod, and Jim Messina are leaving the White House, returning to Chicago to form the nucleus of the campaign staff.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Obama’s advisors believe, “the re-election campaign needs an early start to establish Mr. Obama as a formidable candidate and begin raising money for a bid expected to cost each party around $1 billion.”
Watch as the wealth spread around to unions, special interest groups, investment bankers and others by the Obama stimulus is called back, in what promises to be the biggest Presidential fundraising blitz in history
Obama has spent less time in the White House than any president in modern history, and the next two years promise the same: a literal orgy of fundraisers. Spending a billion dollars guarantees we will be flooded with paid media ads until we are all sick of the propaganda.
Across the aisle, the field promises to give Republicans a wide variety of choices. As Obama began his efforts this week, a Republican from Georgia also launched his committee. While far from a household name, he is a favorite of Tea Party activists. Over the past two years, he has been crisscrossing the country speaking at any Tea Party event he could manage to attend.
His name is Herman Cain. Cain is an African American entrepreneur and the former CEO of Godfather’s pizza. He first gained notice as an opponent of Hillarycare, an early version of socialist healthcare legislation that was defeated in the 1990’s. According to a Newsweek report at the time, Cain “challenged Clinton at a town meeting in Kansas City, MO, last April. Cain asked the president what he was supposed to say to the workers he would have to lay off because of the cost of the ‘employer mandate.’ Clinton responded that there would be plenty of subsidies for small businessmen, but Cain persisted. ‘Quite honestly, your calculation is inaccurate,’ he told the president. ‘In the competitive marketplace it simply doesn’t work that way.’”
We met with Cain this week while he was in Arizona celebrating the election of newly sworn-in Tea Party State Senator Lori Klein. Klein and Cain have worked together extensively in the past to simplify America’s tax code. Cain believes our government needs more [....]
http://floydreports.com/obama-and-herman-cain-are-ready-for-2012/?utm_source=Expose+Obama&utm_campaign=75450bd868-EO_01_14_20111_14_2011&utm_medium=email
Til Next Sunday....
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