Daily Archives: May 16, 2012

Are evangelicals warming up to Romney?

“While evangelical voters blew hot and cold on other GOP candidates during the early primaries,” columnist Cal Thomas wrote, Mitt Romney’s reception last weekend at Liberty University “was a sign they are slowly warming to the idea of him as president.” Thomas noted that more than 30,000 people not only applauded him when Romney “proclaimed that marriage was a relationship between one man and one woman but also when he appealed to a ‘common purpose’ in pursuit of shared goals, regardless of theological differences.”

Brownback, speaker want to ignore deficit projections

Gov. Sam Brownback and House Speaker Mike O’Neal, R-Hutchinson, haven’t sufficiently explained why it would be fiscally responsible to finalize a tax-cut bill projected to create a deficit of more than $2 billion by 2017. “We can make this work. We will make it work,” the governor said Friday. O’Neal signaled that the proponents don’t believe the deficit projections, which come from legislative staff. “Projections in out-years are unreliable due to the fact that no model currently exists to predict the dynamic effect of tax relief,” O’Neal said. But if legislative number crunching can be ignored on tax cuts, why not on every other piece of legislation somebody wants to pass?