E.J. Dione, a big liberal journalist and I think historian, has an article up trying to convince people that Conservative Orthodoxy in the GOP is over, kaput, finished. I don't buy into it, so take it for what you want. Its always important to know what the other side thinks, and I've seen this kind of thinking quite a bit since last November.
Here's an article from The Des Moines Register about Iowan reaction to the Immigration Reform bill that was worked out yesterday.
Tom Harkin is the richest member of the Iowa delegation, with between $5 and $10 Million in assets. So much for the idea that the Republican Party is the party of the rich. The article also covers the other members of our delegation.
Jonah Goldberg has an article at NRO about the "civil war" in Iraq. Just one of several good points he makes:
Every liberal foreign policy do-gooder in Christendom wants America to interject itself in the Sudanese civil war unfolding so horrifically in Darfur. The high-water mark in post-Vietnam liberal foreign policy was Bill Clinton’s intervention in the Yugoslavian civil war. If we can violate the prime directive of no civil wars for Darfur and Kosovo, why not for Kirkuk and Basra?
Sen. Mitch McConnell has a piece at NRO about the budget going through congress today, and it doesn't look good. Here's a key part:
Despite what happened to Democrats as a result of that tax hike, the budget they submitted their first year back in control of both houses of Congress — and pushed through Thursday on a party-line vote — provides a framework for tax hikes a full three times larger than the one that put them in the minority back then. This budget reverses more than a decade of Republican tax relief. It means a tax hike on every single American — working, retired, rich or poor — and, even as it aims to raise nearly $1 trillion with new taxes, does absolutely nothing to rein in spending or shore up an entitlement system badly in need of reform.
Everyone takes a hit. Forty-five million working families with two children will see their taxes increase by nearly $3,000 annually. They’d see the current child tax credit cut in half — from $1,000 to $500. The standard deduction for married couples is also cut in half, from the current $3,400 to $1,700. The overall effect on married couples with children is obvious: Far from shifting the burden onto the wealthy, the Democratic budget drives up taxes on the average American family by more than 130 percent.
Seniors get hit hard too. Democrats like to crow that only the richest one percent of Americans benefit from the stimulative tax cuts Republicans passed in 2001 and 2003. What they rarely mention is how much seniors benefited from those cuts in the form of increased income as a result of lower taxes on dividends and capital gains. More than half of all seniors today claim income from these two sources, and the Democratic budget would lower the income of every one of them by reversing every one of those cuts.
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