Karl Rove had some good advice for Republicans in his year-end Wall Street Journal column. "It won't be enough to surf voter dissatisfaction with Mr. Obama and Democrats," he wrote. "Voters will want to know what Republican candidates would do."
It's become clear over the year just past that economic distress has not increased Americans' desire for big government spending programs. Voters are recoiling against the $787 billion stimulus package, the narrowly passed Democratic health care bills and the cap-and-trade bill that's stalled in the Senate. They don't like the smell of crony capitalism, bailout favoritism and earmark corruption.
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GOP Should Push Education and Pro-Family Tax Reform
That WAS true before Obama's utopian debt ridden job killing policies began to wreak havoc. Now they are already beginning to prepare us for the fact that the American Dream is over. Reuters tells us that, unlike previous recessions, we will be seeing high unemployment for the next decade. NPR lists six of the seven fastest growing job fields in the next decade as being in:
engineering and technology???? NO.
Computer programming and IT???? NO. Manufacturing or construction? NO again.
They're...