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...said he thought Cellucci was “pretty good.” After giving his remarks, Cellucci opened the floor for questions. One audience member asked, “How should we prepare ourself in the case of a Democratic victory?” “The pendulum swings a lot in American politics,” Cellucci said, but he was hopeful that it would not be so extreme as to lose the Republicans the presidency. Asked what issues Republicans should focus on, Cellucci said cutting taxes, fiscal discipline, and regulations that are fair and effective. Motley...
...next gold rush, the next Powerball, the next bubble. The fact that Wall Street banks were recently borrowing 30 or 40 times their available capital to place bets that home buyers would pay off mortgages 10 times the size of their annual paychecks suggests that America's cultural pendulum has swung too far in the direction of the casino. And Obama hasn't yet shown he's the man to put us back in touch with our thrifty side...
...high ground of policy. His most famous advertising gambit was a balm: "Morning in America," a series of ads filled with gorgeous American images that didn't even mention Reagan's 1984 opponent, Walter Mondale. But then Reagan was operating at the beginning of a political pendulum swing, utterly confident that his ideas were better than the tired industrial-age liberalism and post-Vietnam pacifism of the Democrats...
...heart of the general-election campaign. We are at a moment of real economic peril, a recession different from most because it is happening at a hinge of history, as economic power becomes distributed more evenly around the world. It also is happening at the end of the political pendulum swing that began with Reagan's remarkably foolish statement in his first Inaugural Address: "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem...
...become a euphemism for pork-barrel spending. In the pre-Newt era of Democratic congressional dominance, it smacked of payoffs to big city machines and construction unions. That is one of the reasons Democratic candidates for President have soft-pedaled this basic governmental responsibility in the Reagan pendulum cycle. In the 2000 campaign, Al Gore proposed a new sort of infrastructure spending: a massive alternative-energy program - $15 billion a year for 10 years - to replace the country's dependence on fossil fuels like oil and coal. You may not remember this plan, because Gore's political consultants decided...