Monthly Archives: November 2010

Splitsville: American Politics Heading into 2012 | HughHewitt.com | 11.22.10

With the 2010 campaign over, Washington can start to do what it does best – obsess on the next campaign.  And here is an early bulletin:  Each party enters the cycle deeply split. Everyone knows about the divide between Tea Party Republicans and party moderates. Some of this division is over policy.  The Tea Partiers […]
Posted in Political Commentary: General | Tagged | Comments closed

Create a Team B to Fight Budget Estimate Battles, a Citizen’s Budget Office | HughHewitt.com | 11.29.10

As the new Congress faces job one – putting the government’s fiscal house in order – here is a modest proposal:  Create a new Team B. The first Team B convened in the mid-1970s and dealt with intelligence estimates.  Many experts felt that CIA reports systematically discounted the actual strength and aggressiveness of the Soviet […]
Posted in Economic Policy: US Debt Crisis | Tagged | Comments closed

Splitsville: American Politics Heading into 2012 | HughHewitt.com | 11.22.10

With the 2010 campaign over, Washington can start to do what it does best – obsess on the next campaign.  And here is an early bulletin:  Each party enters the cycle deeply split. Everyone knows about the divide between Tea Party Republicans and party moderates.  Some of this division is over policy.  The Tea Partiers […]
Posted in Political Commentary: General | Tagged , , , , , | Comments closed

Arthur Laffer in San Francisco | HughHewitt.com | 11.15.10

On Thursday night last week, supply-side luminary Arthur Laffer spoke to the Pacific Research Institute’s annual dinner in San Francisco. Laffer is among the most consequential economists of the last half century.  Though lampooned and denounced on the left, his Laffer Curve has had a greater impact on American and global economic dialogue than, say, […]
Posted in Economic Policy: General | Tagged | Comments closed

Time for Humility | HughHewitt.com | 11.07.10

On the night he was elected president in 1980, Ronald Reagan stood on a stage in Los Angeles with his wife Nancy beside him and said that winning the presidency was  “the most humbling moment in my life.” Now there’s a contrast.  Judging from his “our failure was we talked too fast for the people […]
Posted in Political Commentary: General | Tagged | Comments closed

What Happened? A pre-election post-election look at tomorrow’s voting | HughHewitt.com | 11.01.10

Where do we stand today, on election eve? Late yesterday, Gallup posted the following pre-election assessment: “Taking Gallup’s final survey’s margin of error into account, the historical model predicts that the Republicans could gain anywhere from 60 seats on up, with gains well beyond that possible.”  That would mean 238 Republican votes in the House […]
Posted in Political Commentary: General | Tagged | Comments closed