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...have merit. “Merit” as in public policy merit, but merit also because it presents a political opportunity for Obama. There’s an idea being circulated by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum, and even gracing the airwaves of “El Rushbo,” that could be the first truly bipartisan achievement of the Obama era: a payroll-tax holiday. Some proponents suggest a year or two (more like a payroll-tax sabbatical), but, at a cost of $100 billion...
...Others think differently. "We are going to have a back-to-basics urge, and that is going to be exactly the wrong thing," says David Frum, who works at the American Enterprise Institute, one of several brain trusts of conservative thought. "The Reagan chapter is a finished chapter." To Frum's thinking, the issues that built the Reagan coalition - crime, welfare, taxes and the Cold War - have faded. Better now to draft policies that address the new concerns of the middle class: economic stagnation, environmental protection and health-care reform. "It's pretty hard to go back...
...President Bill Clinton in 1996, Dole started campaigning in states that were of little help to him but where he could assist Republicans trying to hold on to their majorities in Congress. That kind of pivot hasn't happened in this race, though over the weekend conservative writer David Frum openly called on McCain to do just that for the good of the party. Scott Reed, who ran Dole's '96 campaign, says he believes McCain could still pull off a victory. "I think Schmidt's strategy has brought [McCain] back and kept it from being a blowout," he says...
...Frum, David • •unsmiling disapproval of irreverence...
...consider the relationship between David, a king of Israel, and Jonathan, the son of David’s predecessor Saul, to have been homoerotic. Another question asked contestants to name two popular Jewish dating Web sites. Jdate.com and Frumster.com—from the Yiddish word “frum,” meaning religiously observant—were acceptable answers. Topics also focused on more contemporary aspects of Jewish sex law, such as the Conservative movement’s 2006 decision to allow openly gay rabbis and Jewish rulings on birth control. Because they prevent men from spreading their...