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I'd like to welcome Michael Johns to TMR... promoted by Steven Foley -

By Michael Johns

It can be said that modern conservatism knows only two times. There was the time before him and there was the time after him, and those two times could not be more contrasting. In this stark contrast lies his larger-than-life legacy, and let there be no mistake: It is a legacy that will endure the ages.

Below are excerpts from McCain’s speech given in Columbus OH and my take on what he had to say! His speech portrays what he hopes to look back from the year 2013 and see!

Most of what I picked up is that Johnny Boy has plenty of illusions about cutting spending and returning us to fiscal sanity mixed in with lots of new government regulation and plenty more big government for you Democrat fan’s out there in the commune! This speech was creative and as entertaining as McCain is capable of making it, but most of all, it’s long on promises and short on how he’s going to get us there!

Newt describes how the 19th century concept of adolescence fails young adults by robbing them of engagement in the adult world. Instead you have 13 year olds imitating 17 year olds, all trapped in a system of forced boredom.

By Christopher Adamo

Chris Matthews, host of the MSNBC program “Hardball,” (a venue which rivals “Air America in popularity) was on his high horse last week castigating conservatives who followed Rush Limbaugh’s directive to cross party lines and vote for Hillary Clinton in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries. According to Matthews, they should be “ashamed of themselves” for ostensibly sullying the alabaster institution of American democracy which, he reminded us, was bought by “the Founding Fathers and all of the soldiers who fought for this country’s freedom” etc. and should not be thus trivialized.

The Tennessee Republican Party welcomes Michelle Obama to Nashville

This might be in "the too little too late" column but here we go...

From GOP.gov:

From Reuters

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Thursday that, if elected, he would like to take a page from the British government and appear in question-and-answer sessions with lawmakers.

"I will ask Congress to grant me the privilege of coming before both houses to take questions, and address criticism, much the same as the prime minister of Great Britain appears regularly before the House of Commons," McCain said in excerpts of a speech he is to deliver later in Columbus, Ohio.

Although U.S. presidents deliver annual "State of the Union" speeches to Congress at the start of each year, those formal addresses do not include a question-and-answer session

I still haven't digested this one yet but it seems like a horrible idea.

First, granting some first term loony Senator or Congressmen access to question the POTUS (which will quickly delude into a 10 min diatribe on his pet grievance) will prove to be a complete waste of time!

Second, If McCain wants to take questions he should invite both party's leadership to a regular meeting at the White House where they can ask questions from their members on his terms and turf.

This could turn into a political nightmare!

DocJ - chiming in: I'm with you on this one, Steve - this is a God-awful horrible idea. We don't have a parlimentary system and I hate that we're already well on our way to the Judiciary becoming a "super-legislature" - further bluring of the lines between the branches is beyond counterproductive.