The Democrats’ strategy of focusing the debate on who the leader of the Republican Party is working, at least in the media. Sadly, the media has taken this question seriously. To their credit, the House Republican leadership team of John Boehner, Eric Cantor and Mike Pence haven’t taken ...

Paul Ryan is often the smartest man in the room on economic policy. His op-ed in this morning’s WSJ offers abundant justification for that characterization. Here’s his opening shot at the Obama/Pelosi policies: Inheriting countless challenges, Congress and the Obama administration have m...

Charles Babington is missing the point in this article about the GOP’s opposition to President Obama’s porkfest bill. Here’s where he goes wrong: The GOP’s united stand against the Democratic president seems to play well in conservative districts. But it could hurt their part...

This morning, Rep. Mike Pence, one of the brightest new stars in the GOP, took time to do an interview with FNC’s Jon Scott. Here’s a transcript of that interview: Jon Scott: Democrats call it a blueprint; Republicans say it’s a target. Some of them are labeling the $3.6 billion [s...

I got a hearty chuckle from King’s post about the Obama administration’s deficit projections. According King’s chart, the Obama administration, the Obama administration is projecting a $1,500,000,000,000 deficit for FY2010. Eventually, the deficit drops to $522,000,000,000 in FY201...

According to this FinancialTimes.com article, President Obama’s jumbo-sized budget includes the biggest budget deficit in our nation’s history. No longer should people willingly accept President Obama’s scolds of the Bush administration. Here’s the ugly truth about FY2010R...

I’m prone to listening to Dick Morris’ opinions about President Obama’s economic policies because he’s paying attention to how Wall Street and small businesses are responding to President Obama’s plans on taxing them into near-oblivion. To say that Morris isn’t ki...

Here’s Rep. Patrick McHenry’s response: I am encouraged by what I heard tonight from the President. He rightly criticized “short-term gains” at the expense of “long-term prosperity.” This was my primary concern with the stimulus bill produced by Congressional Demo...

Politico.com has posted excerpts of President Obama’s speech. Based on the selected excerpts, President Obama’s speech deserves a C- at best. Here’s the excerpt that’s worthy of the lowest grade: We have lived through an era where too often, short-term gains were prized over ...

After reading the opening paragraph of Tom Friedman’s NYTimes column, I’m starting to believe that they’re passing out figure skates in hell. Check this out: Reading the news that General Motors and Chrysler are now lining up for another $20 billion or so in government aid, on top ...