February 26, 2010 – 5:10 pm
I am glad to see that the effort to get Governor Daniels to run is getting more attention:
After months of Shermanesque denials, Indiana GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels’ admission that he’s now willing to consider a White House run has roused his long-standing, if unofficial, fan club.
Republican admirers from Washington, Indiana and elsewhere, hoping to encourage their favorite Hoosier, are out in force to make the case that a balding, blunt, unprepossessing, listed-at-5-foot-7 policy wonk would be a strong contender to take on President Barack Obama. Their shorthand is that he’s the un-Obama. If the country has soured on a charismatic orator who brought glamour but little executive experience to the presidency, the thinking goes, then Daniels could provide the antidote.
“Do we want a president that’s pretty, or do we want one who can get the job done?” is how Anne Hathaway, a former Republican National Committee chief of staff who is now back in her native Indiana, puts it.
February 24, 2010 – 10:34 pm
My respect for Mitch Daniels is only increased by Jill Lawrence’s profile of the Indiana Governor:
If Mitch Daniels ends up with a national career, it will be because he’s the anti-Palin: All substance and, aside from his motorcycle habit, no flash.
The Indiana governor is on many Republican short lists for 2012, but he hasn’t gotten there in quite the same way as other governors and ex-governors. He hasn’t quit, published a book or signed a media contract, like former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska. Nor has he shifted on the political spectrum from mild-mannered moderate to sharp-edged conservative, as have former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and and Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, the better to rally activists such as those at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference.
February 23, 2010 – 11:32 pm
I have made no secret in the past about my admiration for Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels. He is very smart, a sharp political fighter, an authentic small-government Republican, knows where the bodies are buried in Washington, as a former Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Governor Daniels has done a sterling job in Indiana, and has all of the qualifications that one could ask for in an excellent President.
February 8, 2010 – 11:16 pm
It is, as Monty Python’s King Arthur would say, a silly place.
November 18, 2009 – 6:01 pm
As compiled by Real Clear Politics. I could easily see myself supporting Mitch Daniels, who has tremendous experience as a political aide, a successful pharmaceutical executive, a Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and as Governor of Indiana.
October 13, 2009 – 2:08 am
An excellent choice, and one that takes the bad taste left by the awarding of the Peace Prize out of one’s mouth. I note that Paul Krugman’s reaction, while properly laudatory, does not reveal the fact that Ostrom’s work is in many ways, antithetical to Krugman’s views on the role of government.
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
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Also tagged Big Government, Commons, Economics, economy, Elinor Ostrom, free markets, Nobel Prize In Economics, Oliver Williamson, Paul Krugman, Tragedy Of The Commons, Vertical Integration
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October 6, 2009 – 2:28 am
Spelled out by James Capretta, it involves serious entitlement reform, smaller government, and lower taxes.
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
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Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board
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Also tagged Barack Obama, Democrats, Entitlement Reform, Lower Taxes, Medicare, Obama Administration, Social Security, tax policy, taxes, The New Middle Class Contract
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September 21, 2009 – 11:22 am
While much has been made over the past year that America has become a more liberal country, and that Americans are more prepared than they were in the past to accept government intervention where it had not been accepted before, the evidence keeps piling up to show that in fact, Americans still strongly believe in the virtues of small government:
September 13, 2009 – 2:12 pm
The first three paragraphs of Tyler Cowen’s latest New York Times editorial are pretty terrifying:
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
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Also tagged Barack Obama, Big Government, Economic Ignorance, economy, Finance, free markets, health care, Health Care Policy, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Tyler Cowen
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While I certainly have some strong disagreements with the policies promulgated by the President of the United States, I am determined to find common ground with him whenever and wherever I can.
I can get behind this plan.
One of the more amusing claims to come out of the White House is that despite the massive increase in government involvement in the economy, and despite a massive commensurate increase in regulation that is headed our way like a freight train, Barack Obama bemoans the Czar of the Economy status he has appropriated for himself, and really doesn’t want government’s influence to be as pervasive in economic matters as he and his Administration are working to make it.
