Illinois behind him and the air of inevitability returns for Mitt Romney. As The Hill reports, the former governor is in DC and holding “private meetings” on Capitol Hill, including with Sen. Jim DeMint and Rep. Paul Ryan. What a difference a primary can make.
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Wow — Obama is Anti-Colonial!
Senator Jim DeMint likes to claim that Barack Obama is to the “left of Europe.” In this Daily Caller opinion piece I argue the Senator should actually acquaint himself with what is going on in Europe — and, as an example, in the UK — if he cares to be tethered to reality. While Obama wants to prolong the Bush tax cuts for all but two percent of Americans, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition in Britain is hiking taxes, fees and levies at every turn. Obama wants to cut small business taxes. In the UK small businesses are under a greater tax burden. You get the point.
But I wish Obama opponents would agree on the most appropriate epithet to hurl at the President. One moment he’s a Muslim, a Socialist, a National Socialist, a Marxist, a European-style Social Democrat, a Liberal, etc. Oh, yes, he is apparently steeped also in anti-colonial thinking! As my novelist friend Jim McKean points out, when was that a bad thing in America — I thought that was the whole point of the American Revolution.