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April 2, 2011

Hugh Hewitt on How Obama Lost Egypt and How Boehner Must Not Lose The Budget Debate

Topics: Political News and commentaries

It's simply the way things are, in a nutshell. Here's a taste:

Like President Carter's abandonment of Iran to radical more than three decades ago, President Obama's dithering on Egypt has led to the rapid rise of radical clerics. This morning's New York Times provides the details of the gathering Islamist push for power. They have not triumphed yet, but the United States should be doing all that it can to prevent the region's most important state from becoming a theocracy hostile to women and all other faiths and of course to Israel.

The Obama presidency has already proven to be catastrophic on many levels, though his faithful followers in the MSM try again and again to spin new arguments for believing it has been other than a disaster. The Democrats know they need a game-changer and thus they are pushing for a government shutdown, thinking this is a ticket to a second chance with the GOP. The cautious have combined with the appropriators in the Beltway GOP to push for a retreat from the confrontation, but Speaker Boehner has not agreed to this, and the examples of Governors Walker and Kasich argue against it. "Change is hard" Kasich said again and again on my program yesterday, and this is what the House leadership has to recognize and they must over communicate the urgency of the need for real change.

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Posted by Richard at April 2, 2011 10:35 AM



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