American Gladiators II: A Painful Look Back…A Bright Future Ahead
Filed Under: 2010 midterm elections, 2012 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, budget deficit, Debt, Featured, Featured Local, Government, Politics, spending cuts, Taxes, TCR Main Site Post, Veto
The Following piece is the 2nd installment of an ongoing series here at The Conservative Reader. “American Gladiators†is a recurring feature focusing on the defining political issue of our generation: the crucial battle over Federal spending and the debt and deficit it creates.
A favorite saying of both political parties these days is that “elections have consequencesâ€â€”2010 proved that so do primaries. For Republicans no past event has had a bigger impact on the eventual major players and the shape of the fiscal debate’s battlefield than the primaries preceding the 2010 mid-term elections.
Though history now, you may recall at that time an internal debate was raging amongst Republicans. Many influential Conservative thinkers, including Charles Krauthammer, joined a large number of high ranking members …
