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Mar 29

“I think there is some real evil out there. And we have to overcome it.” —Elon Musk to Bret Baier.

The most important thing said this week was President Trump’s 40-second, extremely blunt warning to the leadership of Iran today. I hope the ayatollahs listen.

But the most inspiring things said this week came in the 40 minutes Musk and his colleagues at DOGE spent with Bret Baier on Thursday night. It is a video that ought to be watched by every American. The daunting task of reforming our dysfunctional administrative state is underway. It has a chance to succeed because President Trump has enlisted Musk and his very talented volunteers from the private sector to tackle the extraordinarily complex task of modernizing the creaky and often incredibly counter-productive bureaucracy. 1 🧵

The 40 minutes is here: . I could watch these eight people talk for hours and I suspect tens of millions of serious people would join me. Bret Baier is the most trusted individual in news and he is asking the right questions and the answers are stunning. 2foxnews.com/video/63706545…

When I left the federal government in 1989, I was the Acting Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. I doubted I’d ever go back because of the incredible frustration of trying to get even small reforms accomplished. But DOGE has a chance to do big things, enormously consequential things, because President Trump has empowered a brilliant man in Elon Musk to try, and POTUS has kept supporting him on an almost daily, very visible and vocal basis, as has the VP and all of the Cabinet. 3

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Apr 18, 2023

@RonDeSantisFL

This AM: @RonDeSantisFL explained Tuesday why @Disney should not control its own government, including the right to zone its own property. Before my retirement from active practice of law I was a land use lawyer for 30-plus years. I am astonished Disney had that authority.

@Disney

Now @Disney can expect due process of law and equal treatment under the laws but it should never have been given the authority to supervise its own land use. That was unique. And undoing the sweet-heart deals it gave to itself as Florida reclaimed its sovereignty should be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@Disney

I doubt any land use lawyer in the country disagrees in his or her own heart. Even those who work for @Disney. The overturning of Disney’s autocracy was long overdue and that it brought the changes on itself is not the primary issue though it will be an HBS case study soon. 3

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Jan 21, 2023

The national debt has gone from <$6T in 2001 to >$31T today. The federal deficit was $2.7T in ‘FY ‘21 and $1.4T in FY ‘22. In ‘FY 02 —the year after 9/11– deficit was $158B. Our $25T in new debt and >10x increase in annual deficit spending is b/c of 9/11, 2008, Covid, Obamacare.1

Half way along this bipartisan (and often necessary) spending splurge, President Obama confronted a new GOP House majority in 2011 —and negotiated some spending controls which did not work and which thus resulted in automatic sequestration, a disaster for national security. 2

President Biden is now refusing to negotiate w/new GOP House majority, having made a political decision that brinksmanship is better than any serious attempt to address the deficit and the debt. The GOP insists on negotiating spending controls but has not articulated an offer. 3

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Jan 5, 2023

@DLoesch

Social media nutters, most w/o names and a few score Twitter followers, are targeting long-time conservatives like @DLoesch @seanhannity @marklevinshow and me b/c w/ think the 20 are doing great damage. They say the represent "The Base." It is sort of hilarious.

Always ask for a definition of "The Base" when you see "The Base" invoked. Mine: You are willing to state your name and state, you have voted in at least five consecutive elections for the R (which means you are at least 26) and that you can articulate Constitutional principles.

@SeanHannity

Desperation among those supporting #TheGaetzGang growing b/c their "time for my close-up" moment is turning into a communal self-immolation. If you saw @SeanHannity take apart Lauren Boebert last night, you saw what is ahead for all the 20.

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Hugh Hewitt

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Jan 5, 2023

@GOPLeader

Overnight @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy's support remained very strong. Anger among the 200 v. the 20 grew and became vocal. The permanent damage to the careers of the 20 begins today. Their legacy media heat shield is melting away and the reasonable few have to find a way out stat 1

I'll play the presser of the score of veterans who seem particularly incensed b/c they know how leadership works. The grandstanding could go on a long time, but it is clear that McCarthy is not quitting and his rock-solid support is not slipping. 2

@HouseGOP

Now it is just a question of how much damage the 20 do to the 200, to themselves, the @HouseGOP and the party. It is already enormous but it is growing. Now the 20 have publicly spurned former President Trump. Quite the plan they put together. 3

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Hugh Hewitt

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Jan 3, 2023

@GOPLeader

Legacy media is full of “alternatives to @GOPLeader McCarthy as Speaker.” But there aren’t any. These outlets, unfailingly left wing, love narratives of GOP in chaos, hope that tomorrow’s 1st ballot wounds McCarthy. But there is no alternative, the Crank Caucus notwithstanding 1

A handful of GOP outliers are feeding legacy media as much damaging narrative as they can, and they might delay organizing the House. But it’s just terrible “journalism” to make up alternatives to Speaker McCarthy when there are none. The outliers just want and need attention. 2

Matt Gaetz is the one GOP Conference member who has monetized eccentricity to such an extent that he thinks he is somehow gaining by this suicide bombing of the smooth transition. He’s not of course, though he probably thinks it diverts from his even less flattering coverage. 3

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