Bobby Jindal is a congressman and the Republican candidate for governor of Louisiana. This ties in nicely with the earlier post about corruption.
We need more Republicans talking like this. We will never clean up our party if we fail to take a strong stand against the unethical abuses that we have seen of late.
CRNC Co-Chairman Nick Miccarelli, a fine American soldier, was interviewed today by RedJersey.net about the Generation Chickenhawk video and the war in Iraq.
Whether you believe the press or not is a matter of perspective. If the press reported on the successes as much as the mistakes, this war would look very different to the American people. I think some people in the media have lost the journalistic integrity to “call it like they see it” and they report motivated by their dislike of the President.
Miccarelli was also asked what advice he would give to College Republicans across the country.
I would tell all members of this organization to stand strong in the face of adversity on campus. Most college campuses are liberal. That’s a fact of life. But honing your ability to articulate your opinions under a constant barrage of antagonism will make you a better citizen and activist. Don’t let people who differ from you get the best of you. Quitting is fundamentally anti-American. I forget who said “you haven’t lost until you’ve given up” but truer words have never been said.
Read the full interview here.
Three distinguished members of Congress (Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Rep. James Sensenbrenner and Rep. Adrian Smith) attended a special Happy Hour event to show their support of the new CRNC leadership team. Rep. Phil English was scheduled to also be present, but was tied up with votes. According to one mole in attendance, the Congressmen are very excited about Charlie Smith and the other national officers and staff.
This is great news for the CRNC, for a change. Maybe we are finally beginning to move forward and make positive progress.
Sign the Petition. Join the group. Make a difference.
Save the debate is an attempt to reverse two trends among the GOP Presidential candidates.
First, Save the Debate doesn’t want the GOP Presidential candidates to skip the conservative version of the YouTube debate.
Second, Save the Debate wants to close the gap between Republicans and Democrats in the utilization and adaptation of new technologies for political purposes.
It’s a very simple choice: Do you want to have Republicans address our generation in the format our generation prefers, or don’t you?
If you do, sign the petition; join the group; and make a difference.
__________________________
From Robert Samuelson’s article, When Silence Isn’t Golden:
Consider the outlook. From 2005 to 2030, the 65-and-over population will nearly double to 71 million; its share of the population will rise to 20 percent from 12 percent. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—programs that serve older people—already exceed 40 percent of the $2.7 trillion federal budget. By 2030, their share could hit 75 percent of the present budget, projects the Congressional Budget Office. The result: a political impasse.
The 2030 projections are daunting. To keep federal spending stable as a share of the economy would mean eliminating all defense spending and most other domestic programs.. To balance the budget with existing programs at their present economic shares would require, depending on assumptions, tax increases of 30 percent to 50 percent—or budget deficits could quadruple. A final possibility: cut retirement benefits by increasing eligibility ages, being less generous to wealthier retirees or trimming all payments.
Yesterday, when Rudy Giuliani called the Democrats promoters of a “nanny government” he was right. But we need more than just words to solve our budgetary promises which stem from politicians’ over-eagerness to please constituencies who want everything paid for by someone else and done for them by someone else.
What we need to dialogue, leadership, and values. Things that, as Samuelson points out, everyone seems to be sidestepping.
