FreedomTalks

Here’s FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey reacting to a proposed change in bankruptcy law that’s intended to calm subprime fears in the Wall Street Journal this morning:
Politicians are always willing — if not quite qualified — to play the role of economic savior. And with fresh bad news about the economy coming out regularly, there are [...]

Over at Reason, Steve Chapman has a devastating piece on the stimulus package. The whole thing is worth a read, but this passage is especially worth noting:
The alleged problem is a recession. From the sounds of panic, you would assume we are already in a deep downturn. In fact, that does not appear to be [...]

The New York Times has an article up today reporting on how various stripes of economist view the just-announced fiscal stimulus package.  What’s notable is that, though the critiques of the package differ wildly, nearly everyone agrees that what the package, as proposed by the House, is a political effort — not a substantive policy [...]

Governor Romney’s healthcare plan is costing taxpayers lots of dough. Hat tip to ABC News The Note.
Romney’s healthcare plan is getting expensive. “Spending on the state’s landmark health insurance initiative would rise by more than $400 million next year, representing one of the largest increases in the $28.2 billion state budget the governor proposed yesterday,” [...]

As I wrote in my personal blog The Conservative Revolution, FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey appears in the new Citizens United film Hillary: The Movie.
It’s worth watching to remind folks just how power-hungry and ruthless Hillary can be. The recent Democrat debate in Myrtle Beach the other night was also a reminder of how vindictive [...]

I think that the presidential candidates, as well as the Bush Administration, should take a few econ classes. At the very least though, they should read the Wall Street Journal.
If they looked today, they’d find Alan Reynolds’ great op-ed about their stimulus packages.
Reynolds discusses the fact that the economic stimulus packages proffered both by President [...]

FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe recently wrote a much-discussed column on the problems with Gerson’s politics. And today, the former Bush speechwriter is at it again: Michael Gerson’s attack on Fred Thompson in the Post today is both misleading and indicative of pretty much everything that’s wrong with Gerson-style politics.
Gerson’s beef is with Thompson’s [...]

Here’s the Fox News report on that conference the FreedomWorks PAC co-hosted with the Club for Growth Wednesday, including a bit from our own Dick Armey:

FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey appeared at an even FreedomWorks cosponsored with our friends at the Club for Growth in South Carolina.  The purpose was to warn conservatives in the state to be wary of the misguided fiscal policies being peddled by Republican primary candidate Mike Huckabee.  The New York Times has the scoop (and a [...]

Just when I thought I couldn’t be more disappointed with the GOP presidential nomination race, I read Mitt Romney’s comments about “bringing back” manufacturing jobs to Michigan.
The Washington Post reports,
As part of his plan, Romney said he would back spending an additional $20 billion over five years to federally fund research on energy, fuels, automotive [...]