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CAIN: Economic crisis requires real tax reform. Between now and Election Day, President Obama will have to create 8 million jobs just to tie for last place with the previous worst recovery since the Great Depression.

Meanwhile, Americans are rightly demanding dramatic overhauls to get this country back on its feet. What does the president do? He doubles down on his philosophy of continuing the beatings until morale improves. My fellow presidential candidates, to varying degrees, have been tinkering around the edges. With all due respect, you don’t prune weeds — you pull them out at the roots.

Leave it to a politician to start with the current tax code and then move a step or two in the right direction. Former Massachusetts Gov. His best idea is to “pursue” conservative tax overhaul “over the long term” that includes lower rates and a broader base. Rep. Mr. Former Utah Gov. Giving credit where credit is due, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich gets the closest in reducing personal and corporate marginal rates. Herman Cain Swims with the Sharks. All of this is actually somewhat predictable if you are familiar with Herman Cain and how he might just be a man perfectly positioned for this specific election season.

When you combine that possibility with one of the main principles of Harvey McKay's leadership book How to Swim With the Sharks..., you can see that this is an almost natural outcome. (More later on that.) The Shark Tank » Blog Archive » Allen West Challenges Republican Party to Show Leadership. The Unanswered Questions for GOP Leaders from Freshmen. Forget the tax issue or the timetable for a moment; any proposed “spending cut” deal that fails to slash funding for discretionary spending and welfare programs to pre-Obama levels, as proposed in Paul Ryan‘s budget, is worthless.

As Congressman Dennis Ross (R-FL) tweeted earlier today, “debt “deals” that count on 10 years worth of spending cuts are the Mr Snuffleupagus of budget tricks. No one sees them except pols.” If House leaders fail to stand by their own budget, freshmen members like Ross might pose the following question: was the entire Republican majority of the 112th Congress a waste of time?

A record number of freshmen Republicans were swept into Congress to downsize government in general, and repeal/defund Obamacare in particular. Mitt Romney changes tactics. SALT LAKE CITY — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is taking a new approach to hammering Pres.

Barack Obama and campaigning in Iowa. Romney seems to be choosing his words more carefully as he verbally attacks Obama, Politico concludes in an article published Thursday. The piece compares a Romney campaign stop in Pennsylvania last month with his visit Wednesday to Southern California. "Romney spoke Wednesday in front of a long-defunct mall near Los Angeles, and repeatedly pointed out that the mall's closure wasn't entirely Obama's fault. 'Obviously, the challenges here are not all the result of the current administration,' Romney said, waving at the building behind him. The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that, in Iowa, Romney isn't pouring resources into the Ames Straw Poll like 2007 — but the campaign isn't altogether abandoning Iowa, either. "Shadow Campaign: Mitt Romney's Iowa Playbook" is the Friday headline of an ABC News blog post that echoes the Times's analysis. Bachmann links Pawlenty to Obama. (CNN) - After repeated attacks on her record from Republican presidential rival and fellow Minnesotan Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann hit back Sunday, vehemently contrasting her record in Congress with his as governor.

Bachmann said that while she was working against excessive spending, cap and trade, TARP and the individual health care mandate, Pawlenty was praising the same plans and leaving his state with a budget crisis. "Executive experience is not an asset if it simply means bigger government and more intrusive government," Bachmann wrote in a statement. "Actions speak louder than words. " Ahead of the high stakes Ames straw poll in Iowa, Pawlenty has criticized Bachmann, who is leading recent polls in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, over her record in Congress, which he said consists of giving speeches and offering "failed amendments in Congress.

" "Does Allen West hate women?... [T]he answer seems to be more that Allen West hates everyone." Oh, boy.

It's Amanda Marcotte responding Michelle Goldberg: That doesn't spare him from being a sexist, however, since his hatred for women has an ugly, gendered tone to it, as evidenced by his strange war on Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose main sin seems to be a willingness to disagree with West while in possession of a vagina, causing West to claim she's "not a Lady. "...That said, calling a Democrat "not a Lady" and claiming that liberal women are the source of the country's economic woes because we supposedly neuter men are, if anything, the least worrisome parts of the entire Allen West phenomenon.

Wait. West said ball-busting women have wrecked the economy? Let's refer to the source material: Michelle Goldberg: Liberal women, he claimed, helped cause the debt by “neutering American men,” which apparently undermined their fiscal rectitude.