Ideas: The beltway is the disease not the cure. Another way to steal from the...
Patrick and Matt, who I both respect and count as friends, get something completely wrong. Patrick wants to install an "Ideas Czar" and a "Republican National Policy Committee":What we need is a policy...
View ArticleForget the Ideas Czar or Network: We Must Create Ideas Through Peer Production
(promoted by Soren)Patrick Ruffini recently wrote a piece arguing that the GOP needs an “ideas czar”, while Soren Dayton disagrees, insisting that, “The beltway is the disease not the cure.” Regardless...
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Peer Production and the Future of the Republican Party: An Open Letter to the...
This letter was written as a follow-up to some points I raised about idea creation for the GOP in an earlier blog post.To the future chairman of the Republican National Committee,We face a tough road...
View ArticleNot Every New Idea Is a Good Idea
Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis wrote a lengthy article for Politico making the case that conservative ideas can still win, citing as evidence President-elect Barack Obama's embrace of...
View ArticleNo Risk, No Reward: Part I
Add yet another “R” to the things Republicans need to do to pull their party from the abyss: Risk. What sorts of risks can the GOP take? Let's start with policy. Consider some platform changes that may...
View ArticleNo Risk, No Reward Part II : 5 More GOP Policy Changes
In my last installment of “No Risk, No Reward,” I suggested 5 risky policy changes for the GOP. Remember, you’re not selling plausibility of passage in Congress. You’re selling bold ideas and, by...
View ArticleWhat We Make Out From The Paper Airplane Movie
http://www.paperairplanemovie.com/But did you notice? The contest was about who could make a "paper airplane" go farther, not about how far could a sheet of paper go, in any form. So Jeff was not a...
View ArticleCan Government really provide opportunity and foster productivity?
I was reading a speech by a Republican leader from the 70s and wondered how this idea would be recived today. Is there still room in the conservative movement for this type of thinking? If so, how...
View ArticleRepublican Health Care Reform Ideas
Newt Gingrich and John C. Goodman list Ten GOP Health Ideas for Obama. There's really too much to excerpt, so you'll have to read the whole thing for yourself.My initial take: Some of these are very...
View ArticleThe Republican Health Care Failure
Much ink and many pixels are being expended on writing health care's political postmortems, but the focus should rightly be on the policy front -- in the think tanks and in the legislative priorities...
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