Practically Speaking
Kyle and her husband moved to Brookfield in 1986. She became active in local politics and started blogging in 2004. Her focus is primarily on local issues but often includes state and national topics, too. Kyle looks at things from the taxpayers' perspective in a creative, yet down to earth way, addressing them from a practical point of view.
No use for wishy-washy
Wall street journal cited Ryan succeeding in dem territory.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=315160
Voters distrust 'diluted GOP Nov 10
A conservative non-profit organization has completed a study that shows the liberal tsunami on Election Day 2008 was not because the country wanted to move radically to the left, but because voters wanted to punish Republicans for abandoning conservative principles.
The American Issues Project (AIP) has released its report known as "Issue Autopsy '08,"
which came from a survey of swing-state voters in Colorado, Florida,
Ohio, and Virginia. AIP president Ed Martin says the survey indicates
that despite the disastrous showing by the GOP, the country is not
really that liberal. He says the "shellacking" delivered to the
Republican Party last week reveals the party is "diluted" to the point
where the American people do not really know what the GOP stands for
anymore.
"The voters -- the people who talked about who they were and what the
principles and issues were for them in America -- are still sort of
classically center-right people," Martin explains. "Their principles
are smaller government, controlling spending, lower taxes, government
competent when it is acting."
Martin
admits that it does not make any sense, for example, that voters who
support lower taxes would trust the Democratic Party, which has
consistently been on the other side of the issues. "I think people can
vote for a Democratic presidential candidate thinking that he is going
to be all about lower taxes because of the rhetoric and the way things
have spun out," says the AIP president. "And in this campaign, voters
came to distrust the Republican brand enough that they were able to be
persuaded by the other party."
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According to the AIP survey, more than three-fourths of conservative
voters agreed that after taking control of Congress in 1994, the GOP
failed to live up to the promise it made to reform government and clean
up corruption in Washington. Almost the same percentage agreed with the
statement: "The Republican Party used to stand for keeping government
spending under control, but not anymore."
Another 30 percent said the GOP has been incompetent and is not getting
the job done; and 28 percent said the party has forgotten its
principles and lost its way.
Martin says the American Issues Project will be very active during the
2009 legislative session -- a time when he says "a liberal-dominated
Congress and a far-left administration will set their sights on a
massive expansion in the role of the federal government, in everything
from healthcare and labor law to taxes and spending."
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