NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
Note from the Publisher Up and Down the Avenue BY ALFRED S. REGNERY 0 GEORGE W. BUSH'S SECOND PERM iS about to begin. We were certainly pleased with the election results, as we...
...The American Spectator will pro-file these self-promoters over the next few years...
...Macomber points out, in the form of congressional Republicans who have let the president know that they will assert their conservative principles on spending (and, we trust, on other matters as well...
...This month, we start with a revealing piece by executive editor George Neumayr on Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel—revealing, because it shows a side of Hagel that you are not likely to find illuminated in the liberal press...
...But talk and votes are two very different things, and the votes have too often gone to spending increases...
...It promises to be a spirited battle shaped, to no small extent, by the spending issues mentioned above...
...We should already know where that road goes...
...Mike Pence of Indiana, who is leading the charge, says, "The Republican Party has a spending problem...
...Hagel, who has been dubbed a bipartisan internationalist by the Washington Post, and who is one of the Sunday talk show hosts' favorite Re-publicans, has managed to maintain a fairly conservative voting record in the Senate, though you'll probably not find him on Mike Pence's list of fiscally sound tax-cutters...
...We have self-styled conservatives endorsing Big Government Republicanism with a straight face...
...The 2008 election will be the first since 1928 with no incumbent president or vice president in the running, which means the Republican field is wide open...
...4 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR February 2005 The other major issue that Republicans face, and certainly a related one, is determining who will be their next standard bearer...
...Pence and a goodly number of his Republican colleagues have pledged to try to bring some sobriety to the issue...
...As Mr...
...Our ace reporter Shawn Macomber takes on the issue, reminding us, among other things, that our Republican Congress (on a party line vote) just raised the debt limit to $8.18 trillion (yes, trillion), 70 percent of the size of the entire US...
...Parents of college students, however, may want to celebrate Valentine's Day off campus...
...N O T E F R O M T H E P U B L I S H E R Up and Down the Avenue BY ALFRED S. REGNERY 0 GEORGE W. BUSH'S SECOND PERM iS about to begin...
...Congressional Republicans and the president both talk a good game, as they did throughout the recent campaign, about cutting spending and reining in government...
...Looking at the spending record of the first George W. Bush term (which got no small amount of help from a Republican Congress), we suspect that a pretty good book, borrowing Pat's 1975 title, could be written again...
...It is the road to serfdom...
...On a lighter note, this month we introduce "College Avenue," a new column that will report on the inanity of what passes for academic life at our colleges and universities...
...Already, by our count, at least 11 Republicans have expressed some interest in a presidential run...
...College Avenue" will be covered by various experts on academe, all of whom are bound to provide us with endless fun at the expense of one of the last bastions of leftism in America...
...As we understand, there is enough idiocy on campus to fill as many columns as we can publish, and, as readers of our inaugural effort will notice, enough to amaze those who thought college life had bottomed out in the 1960s...
...Presumably it will help pay for the spending excesses of the last four years...
...Can you imagine...
...dt Trying to outspend liberals has been the order of the day for the Bush administration, which apparently craves Sisyphean challenges...
...Macomber notes, trying to outspend liberals has been the order of the day for the Bush administration, which apparently craves Sisyphean challenges...
...We were certainly pleased with the election results, as we assume our readers were as well, but we enter 2005 knowing that the political landscape is anything but tranquil...
...As the aptly named Rep...
...economy...
...Pat Buchanan wrote a prophetic book in 1975 entitled Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories: Why the Right has Failed...
...The president has not shown an interest in limited government and in fact has spoken about the "responsible growth of government...
...But help is on the way, as Mr...
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