Commentaries -- Pete du Pont
Governor Pete du Pont is Policy Chairman of the National Center for Policy Analysis. He writes a regular column for OpinionJournal.com, the online news service of The Wall Street Journal.
Pete du Pont has served as Governor of Delaware, U.S. Congressman (R-DE), and former candidate for President of the United States (1988). Gov. du Pont formerly hosted a nationally-syndicated radio commentary and appeared on several editions of the PBS Firing Line debates with William F. Buckley, Jr.
Nov 19, 2009 |
Hard of HearingVoters send a message, but the White House ignores it. |
Nov 18, 2009 |
Hard of Hearing- The Wall Street JournalElections matter. They are sometimes governed by voters' passion; they sometimes change the course the country is following (as in 2008); and sometimes, like earlier this month, they fire warning shots across the bow of our ship of state. |
Oct 20, 2009 |
Time for Inaction on Global Warming - The Wall Street JournalCongress should consider the costs before passing "cap and trade." |
Sep 25, 2009 |
Bad MedicinePresident Obama addressed Congress two weeks ago on the issue of health care, and on the same day an Associated Press GfK poll showed that the proportion of Americans who strongly approve of the way he is doing his job has fallen from 41% in December to 24% now. And the percentage of people who strongly disapprove of his performance has risen from 6% to 35%. |
Aug 24, 2009 |
The High Cost of LiberalismTaxes too high? You ain't seen nothing yet. |
Jul 26, 2009 |
Waxman-Markey Deserves to DieThe fresh news about Washington--the White House and Congress--is that things are not going very well. A new president in full command of public-policy matters is having problems, from health care to taxes to massive federal spending and now to the Waxman-Markey bill, one of the oddest and most far-reaching pieces of legislation advocated by the new administration. |
Jun 19, 2009 |
The Big ChillTwo months ago this column offered an analysis of the Waxman-Markey global warming bill, its enormous cost and its practical impossibilities. |
May 15, 2009 |
Lucky 7The Republican Party needs serious rejuvenation. Since Ronald Reagan left the presidency in 1989 and Newt Gingrich left the House in 1999, the Republican Party has been in decline. Between 2006 and 2009 it slid from a 55-member Senate majority to a minority of just 40. In 2005 the Republicans controlled the House, 232-203; today the Democratic majority is 257-178. And of course there was a Republican president for eight years; now there is a Democratic one for at least four. |
Apr 16, 2009 |
Sapping America's EnergyIf Americans don't start paying attention to what Congress is up to, our nation's energy policy may seriously change for the worse. A bill styled the American Clean Energy and Security Act, sponsored by Democrats Henry Waxman of California and Edward Markey of Massachusetts, soon goes before the House. The enactment of laws to combat global warming is an established priority of the new administration and Congress, and their impact on the lives and opportunities of America's people would be substantial and detrimental. |
Mar 16, 2009 |
California or Delaware?What do Delaware and California have in common? Not much: One is very small, one very large, but more important they have over time followed very different economic policies that explain the direction of the Obama administration' economic thinking. |
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