For any of you who might live in the area, there will be a talk next week on the campus of Sewanee - The University of the South. Here are the details:
Morton Kondracke
Speaking on Thursday, April 1, 2010, 4:30pm Gailor Auditorium
Why Washington Doesnt Workand Why Its Dangerous
Congress has utterly failedwith Republican majorities and Democraticto carry out its central fiscal responsibilities and the result is that the nation faces a debt burden that not only will limit the fiscal choices of future generations, but may put the United States at the mercy of its creditors, China in the lead. The cause of this and other political failures is the same diseasehyper-partisanshipthat prevents solving pressing problems. In this case, Democrats dont want to cut spending, especially on retirement programs, and Republicans refuse to contemplate raising taxes. And so, the federal debt soars. How will President Obama and the Congress solve these problems that threaten our future economic prosperity as well as our national security?
Morton Kondracke is a political commentator and journalist and currently serves as executive editor and columnist for the non-partisan Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. He was also co-host of The Beltway Boys and is a regular nightly contributor on the Fox News Channel. Previously, Mort was the Washington correspondent for the Chicago Sun-Times (1974-1977) where he landed on Nixons enemies list, was Executive Editor of the New Republic (1977-1991), and subsequently became the Washington Bureau chief for Newsweek. He was a moderator in one of the Reagan-Mondale Presidential debates in 1984. He was for many years a panelist on The McLaughlin Group, a frequent commentator on This Week with David Brinkley, and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Kondracke chronicled his first wife Milly's struggle with Parkinson's disease in his 2001 book, "Saving Milly." Personally and professionally dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease, he is a member of both the Parkinson's Action Network and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
This talk is sponsored by the University Lectures Committee, the Center for Teaching, and the Political Science Department.
Morton Kondracke
Speaking on Thursday, April 1, 2010, 4:30pm Gailor Auditorium
Why Washington Doesnt Workand Why Its Dangerous
Congress has utterly failedwith Republican majorities and Democraticto carry out its central fiscal responsibilities and the result is that the nation faces a debt burden that not only will limit the fiscal choices of future generations, but may put the United States at the mercy of its creditors, China in the lead. The cause of this and other political failures is the same diseasehyper-partisanshipthat prevents solving pressing problems. In this case, Democrats dont want to cut spending, especially on retirement programs, and Republicans refuse to contemplate raising taxes. And so, the federal debt soars. How will President Obama and the Congress solve these problems that threaten our future economic prosperity as well as our national security?
Morton Kondracke is a political commentator and journalist and currently serves as executive editor and columnist for the non-partisan Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. He was also co-host of The Beltway Boys and is a regular nightly contributor on the Fox News Channel. Previously, Mort was the Washington correspondent for the Chicago Sun-Times (1974-1977) where he landed on Nixons enemies list, was Executive Editor of the New Republic (1977-1991), and subsequently became the Washington Bureau chief for Newsweek. He was a moderator in one of the Reagan-Mondale Presidential debates in 1984. He was for many years a panelist on The McLaughlin Group, a frequent commentator on This Week with David Brinkley, and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Kondracke chronicled his first wife Milly's struggle with Parkinson's disease in his 2001 book, "Saving Milly." Personally and professionally dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease, he is a member of both the Parkinson's Action Network and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
This talk is sponsored by the University Lectures Committee, the Center for Teaching, and the Political Science Department.
