Radio host Hugh Hewitt writes:
Urgency. It’s the quality most missing from within D.C. elites; the quality most necessary if the GOP gains control of both chambers of Congress on Nov. 4.
In an otherwise solid address at the American Enterprise Institute on Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, disappointed on two key fronts.
First, he did not speak to the GOP’s commitment to rebuilding the military. The speech was focused on economic recovery, but nothing can recover in an era of international instability such as we have entered. In the same way Cato the Elder’s “Carthage must be destroyed” declaration concluded all of the great Roman’s speeches whether on Carthage or aqueduct repair, “Defense comes first” should be the period at the end of every Republican address.
Also missing from the Speaker’s remarks was a crucial sense of urgency, of a commitment to acting in the new Congress with the speed that the country wants and the GOP grassroots will demand and deserve.
After the elections, the GOP will elect leadership and begin a lame duck session. It also ought to plan to present and pass through both chambers a GOP variation of Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget on day one of the new Congress in January — one modified from last year’s House budget only primarily by a major increase in Pentagon spending.
In an otherwise solid address at the American Enterprise Institute on Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, disappointed on two key fronts.
First, he did not speak to the GOP’s commitment to rebuilding the military. The speech was focused on economic recovery, but nothing can recover in an era of international instability such as we have entered. In the same way Cato the Elder’s “Carthage must be destroyed” declaration concluded all of the great Roman’s speeches whether on Carthage or aqueduct repair, “Defense comes first” should be the period at the end of every Republican address.
Also missing from the Speaker’s remarks was a crucial sense of urgency, of a commitment to acting in the new Congress with the speed that the country wants and the GOP grassroots will demand and deserve.
After the elections, the GOP will elect leadership and begin a lame duck session. It also ought to plan to present and pass through both chambers a GOP variation of Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget on day one of the new Congress in January — one modified from last year’s House budget only primarily by a major increase in Pentagon spending.
Whole thing here.
