Rep. Chris Cannon's blog
Posted at 5:29pm on Jul. 7, 2007 Tomorrow - FoxNews Sunday
By Rep. Chris Cannon
As you all know from this post I will be appearing on FoxNews Sunday with Chris Wallace tomorrow regarding the Scooter Libby commutation. If anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to comment or after the show, let me know what you thought. Thanks!
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Posted at 2:56pm on Jun. 23, 2007 Armey of Ideas
By Rep. Chris Cannon
On the subject of market reform, very few can hold a candle to Dick Armey. He and I served in Congress together, and agree or disagree, Dick always comes to the table with ideas. He has been writing over at TIME magazine's blog about subjects that some in previous comments (BrooksRob in particular) have been discussing. I am of the belief that conservative principles, melded to market oriented public policy married to technology, represents the future of the Reagan model of electoral and economic success. Read what Dick has written and the other posts he has made and I think this discussion of real reform of the budget and entitlements can be the next wave.
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Posted at 2:37pm on Jun. 23, 2007 True Patriot
By Rep. Chris Cannon
I posted this video at my blog before I took off for Utah. I thought some of you might be interested in watching it.
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Posted at 11:20am on Jun. 18, 2007 Only budget-making transparency can curb earmarks
By Rep. Chris Cannon
I thought I would point my friends to an Op-Ed I wrote for the Salt Lake Tribune today on Earmarks. I would love to hear your feedback on the issue.
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Posted at 11:19am on Jun. 11, 2007 Immigration: The New Third Rail
By Rep. Chris Cannon
The consummate republican constitutionalist, James Madison, said, "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both." What took place in the Senate last week was both. It was a farce in that the "world's greatest deliberative body" ground to a halt with amendments and parliamentary posturing instead of debating substantive measures. The tragedy involved the way this farce was conceived. Backroom dealing, closed door meetings, and self congratulatory press conferences are not the way to make policy.
There are, however, silver linings to this. Elected officials of both parties and of all ideologies got a wake up call that the American people will not blindly follow a political pied piper. More importantly, the Congress and the White House should recognize this as a demand for greater openness to outside ideas and transparency in the process. Never again should anyone underestimate the will of individual Americans to preserve our nation, secure our borders, and do justice under law. In order to achieve legislative success, we must achieve participatory success. Put another way, unless the American people have a seat at the negotiating table, any future legislation is also doomed.
But that seat at the table cannot be claimed only by the extremes. This is an issue that demands reasoned, thoughtful solutions. Not bumper stickers.
Read on . . .
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