Jim DeMint should have given the Republican response to SOTU address

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In an extremely well written and well thought out editorial, Jim DeMint lays out an alternate plan for solving our Nation’s biggest problems. Here are the major points with my comments in italics:
  • Stop all scheduled tax increases and push Congress to cut taxes across the board so no American pays more than 25 percent of their income in federal taxes.
    Sounds reasonable to me.
  • Cut federal spending down to 20 percent of GDP, its post-WWII average as a share of the economy, and impose a moratorium on all earmarks until the budget is balanced.
    This is a great idea, but I doubt it will fly.
  • Keep the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay open to make sure that terrorists cannot be released or transferred into the United States.
    Obama’s base would be angered if he went back on his campaign promise to close Gitmo.
  • Protect our nation’s intelligence community from civil liability stemming from the actions that prevent acts of terrorism.
    I’m not sure I agree completely with this point.

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The more things change…

Obamas Gone Mad!the more they stay the same. Obama is realizing that keeping his promises is a lot harder when he’s in the White House than when he was on the campaign trail.

The White House is considering whether to issue an executive order to indefinitely imprison a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Under the proposal, detainees considered too dangerous to prosecute or release would be kept in confinement, said officials.

The far left should have known Obama would have to govern from the center and there would be some promises that would be impossible to keep.

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What to Do, What to Do?

Iraqi Prisoners Pose Challenge for Coalition Troops

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width="75" align="right" border="0" />Foxnews: “Military officials expect 270,000 Iraqis to surrender—question is, what to do with them

Yes what do you do with them? You can’t exactly put them in a place like Guantanamo Bay, the bleeding-heart liberals would complain too much about that. You can’t set them free. Maybe we could put them to work rebuilding Iraq, or would that be considered slave labor?