FreedomTalks

I decided to post my own thoughts on my personal website. I did this to make sure that readers are aware that these views are my own and not those of FreedomWorks, which is non-partisan. Here are some interesting perspectives by other conservative writers and bloggers.

Pat Toomey of Club for Growth.
Noemie Emery of The [...]

FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey has another op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today.
If there was still any doubt, the Republican Revolution of 1994 officially ended Tuesday night with the loss of at least 28 seats and majority control of the House of Representatives.

He continues,
One big issue in exit polls suggests widespread voter backlash against [...]

George Will writes today that Republicans “were punished not for pursuing but for forgetting conservatism.”
Crass spending (the farm and highway bills, the nearly eightfold increase in the number of earmarks since 1994) and other pandering (e.g., the Terri Schiavo intervention) have intensified as Republicans’ memories of why they originally sought power have faded.
Will does cite [...]

Doug Lamborn handily won a Congressional seat last night in the 5th Congressional District in Colorado. He was one of the first candidates to participate in our Candidate Survey and indicated that he supports modernizing Social Security and Medicare, tort reform, strong property rights and pledged to vote against any tax increases.
He was also a strong supporter [...]

You can find the audio and pictures of this event HERE.
National Review Online has coverage of the event HERE.

By the Numbers… [Stephen Spruiell]

At a luncheon on the Hill today sponsored by FreedomWorks, Republican pollster Ed Goeas said that the losses we saw last night are average for mid-term elections, particularly mid-term elections in a time [...]

You can find FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey talking about the elections on MSNBC HERE.

The battle for control of the Congress, the state legislatures and governorships has begun.
FreedomWorks volunteers are busy all over the country getting out the vote and injecting a free market message into the campaigns.
In Oregon our members are fighting for a tax cut for families. California FreedomWorks is fighting tax hikes on tobacco and [...]

FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey was on News Hour with Jim Leher to discuss the midterm elections.
DICK ARMEY: The Republicans are going to have to prove to America that they really are the Republicans that the Democrats are pretending to be, that they’re for fiscal austerity, that they’re for tightening up on the spending, holding down [...]

Check out this piece on America’s Untapped Fuel Supply by Mackubin T. Owens

Gasoline prices have fallen from their highs of the past summer, but the long-term trend is still up, up, up. World oil demand—thanks especially to economic growth in China and India—will only grow. The good news is that we can do something about [...]

TRANSCRIPT:
WALLACE: All right. I want to talk to you about feelings within the Republican Party. Some people would say look, you’ve had 12 years to clean up earmarks and you haven’t done it. In fact, they’ve gotten worse, not better.
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, one of the architects of the 1994 Republican revolution, wrote [...]