NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: On Red Alert
Regnery, Alfred S.
NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER On Red Alert BY ALFRED S. REGNERY Y THE TIME THIS ISSUE ARRIVES in your mailbox you will probably have digested the election results, and may even be sick of hearing...
...There were a few such people in the first administration, and in the last Congress, and we are willing to bet there are still a few in town...
...We'll be pleased to cheer on our newly elected Congress and administration when we like what they do...
...As the second Bush term progresses, we at The American Spectator will be strong advocates for Mr...
...But it won't be easy...
...4 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2004/JANUARY 2005 REGISTER TODAY...
...Bush thinks he earned some political capital during the campaign, and that he intends to spend some of it...
...We agree, but as nonpartisans we'll go a step further...
...We like it that Mr...
...His are big ideas, which will require years to bring to fruition, even under the most favorable circumstances...
...And the reaction in Paris is just too delicious, as recounted by Joe Harriss, new to these pages but a longtime Paris-based American journalist...
...November 2 was the most successful night for conservatives since that night 24 years ago when Ronald Reagan was elected and Republicans got the Senate back...
...vOloubr* C C 2005 February 17 -19, 2005 atthe RONALD REAGAN BUILDING AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTER Conservative Political Action Conference in cooperation with Human Events & Young Americas Foundation www.cpac.org...
...We happen to like the platform they were elected on—reduced spending, tax reform, Social Security reform, traditional values, and conservative judicial appointments...
...Bush thinks he earned some political capital during the campaign,and that he intends to spend some of it to get done what he said he would do...
...Isn't Schadenfreude grand...
...Opposition, from many fronts, will be stiff, and Democrats in Congress, although a minority in both houses, will obstruct whatever they can...
...We'll also let you know when certain members of the administration go astray, as they are certain to do...
...Michael Barone and John Fund, both very able and astute observers of the political scene, analyze the results (Barone) and the Democrats' reaction (Fund) herein...
...Our friend and contributor Robert Novak concluded that November 2 was the most successful night for the Republican Party in modern political history—and an unmitigated disaster for Democrats...
...NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER On Red Alert BY ALFRED S. REGNERY Y THE TIME THIS ISSUE ARRIVES in your mailbox you will probably have digested the election results, and may even be sick of hearing about all the good that transpired on November 2. But maybe you are gloating as much as we are, and enjoying the pain shown by your liberal friends...
...We like it that Mr...
...One of the greatest threats to limited government and limited spending are those politicians—and not a few are Republicans—who pay lip service to such limits, but who somehow have convinced themselves that reining in government and its capacity to spend our money is simply no longer in the cards and therefore believe that government growth in inevitable...
...Bush will be able to achieve all that he intends...
...We'll even go a step beyond that to say that liberalism took an even larger blow than the Democratic Party...
...Bush's big ideas, and we will let our readers know about obstructionists and foot draggers...
...Democrats have tried in every imaginable way to deny it, but George W. Bush and the Republicans in Congress won a mandate...
...So you can count on us, at The American Spectator, to be the voice of limited government, limited spending, lower taxes, a Reaganite foreign policy, and traditional American values...
...But we will also be on the watch for transgressions, and when we find them, they will be center stage...
...We assume they all know that they now have a duty to uphold that mandate, and to do what they promised they would...
...And it is unlikely that Mr...
Vol. 37 • December 2004 • No. 10
