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“You don’t ‘seize’ the center, you create the center”

April 29, 2013Tim Kowal 49 Comments

When I learned it, I thought the motion for this month’s Intelligence Squared U.S. debate – “The GOP Must Seize the Center or Die” – was simply dreadful.  How could the opposing case possibly be made without fighting a losing… Continue Reading →

Politics centrism, conservatism, GOP, Intelligence Squared, Laura Ingraham, moderate Republican, Ralph Reed, Tea Party

Irregular Constitutional Order

April 18, 2013Tim Kowal 23 Comments

I’ve seldom agreed with Hugh Hewitt so strongly—and readers know I agree with him a lot—as I do on repealing the medical device tax through regular constitutional order and not the usual rendering of pig lips and cow parts.  Hewitt… Continue Reading →

Politics dave camp, Hugh Hewitt, kevin brady, medical device tax, ways and means

The 2013 State of the Union and the GOP Response

February 12, 2013Tim Kowal 1,069 Comments

After watching the State of the Union address, Sen. Marco Rubio’s response on behalf of the GOP, reading some blogs and tweets and ruminating on all of it while doing the dishes, here are some of my take-aways.  On the… Continue Reading →

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Customer Feedback, Week 6

February 11, 2013Tim Kowal 65 Comments

[Lay impressions on the GOP’s political messaging this week. More information about this series can be found here. Other posts in the series can be found here.] Slow news week last week.  A relative (and rare) calm before the State… Continue Reading →

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Customer Feedback, Week 5: The Immigration-Education Link

February 2, 2013Tim Kowal 35 Comments

[Lay impressions on the GOP’s political messaging this week. More information about this series can be found here. Other posts in the series can be found here.] "The good news is, conservatism is not completely dead." This was the tongue-in-cheek… Continue Reading →

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“Ideological extremism is not the same thing as political ineptitude”

February 1, 2013Tim Kowal 25 Comments

If you haven’t been following the conversation among William Voegeli, Geoffrey Kabaservice, Stephen Hayward, and David Frum about Voegeli’s lead article in the most recent Claremont Review of Books, you’re missing out.  (See here for some prior excerpts and discussion… Continue Reading →

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Customer Feedback, Week 4: Goodbye to Stupid

January 23, 2013Tim Kowal 11 Comments

[Lay impressions on the GOP’s political messaging this week. More information about this series can be found here. Other posts in the series can be found here.] Benghazi, abortion, recess appointments, reactions to the second inaugural.  A relatively slow news… Continue Reading →

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Customer Feedback, Week 3

January 20, 2013Tim Kowal 22 Comments

[Lay impressions on the week’s politics for the benefit of hypothetical GOP leaders looking to know whether and how the week’s political messaging went over. More information about this series can be found here. Other posts in the series can… Continue Reading →

Customer Feedback, Uncategorized

Customer Feedback, Week 2: “Where Are the Republicans?”

January 12, 2013Tim Kowal 73 Comments

[Lay impressions on the week’s politics for the benefit of hypothetical GOP leaders looking to know whether and how the week’s political messaging went over. More information about this series can be found here. Other posts in the series can… Continue Reading →

Customer Feedback, Uncategorized coin cliff, debt ceiling, debt cliff, fiscal cliff, trillion dollar coin

In Defense of GOP Extremism…

January 10, 2013Tim Kowal 69 Comments

…is William Voegeli’s lead article in the latest Claremont Review of Books.  He paints a formidable defense of GOP’s “extreme” tendencies of late:  Brought to the present by a recent history defined by two fundamentally unprincipled parties compromising on a… Continue Reading →

Politics kabaservice, voegeli

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