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In Sunday’s Roanoke Times, Lt. Governor Bill Bolling offered up an op-ed with some basic, sound ideas for improving the economy to President Obama in what amounted to an open letter. He provided seven suggestions to the president’s economic team, but the likelihood of the administration adhering to any of them is slight at best. After all, not only is this the most ideologically left-wing rooted president in history . . . but he doesn’t have an ecomomic team. They’ve all resigned (Business & Media Institute).

Just in case someone remained behind, the White House should take heed from someone who, in his role of Chief Jobs Creation Officer, meets with people every day who create jobs, not theoriticians who have worked in government their entire lives. The country is overtaxed, over regulated and feels the weight of the behemoth government suffocating the life out of our economic system.

Among the ideas offered by the LG are to extend all of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and provide additional tax relief, reign in the job-killing EPA and relax restrictive regulations preventing banks from lending money to businesses for expansion. He also advocates repealing “those portions of the federal health care bill that impose massive mandates, fines and penalties on businesses.” That may be almost all of the new law, but he should have stated simply that it should be repealed in its entirety.

Lastly, Mr. Bolling wisely suggests a reduction of federal spending by at least  five percent per year until it reaches 2006 levels. A good start, and better than the House Republicans’ “Pledge To America” which plans to bring  spending down to the 2008 level. But the federal budget was in the $2.5 trillion range even in 2006. There is much more fat to be cut.

If Republicans do succeed in winning control of either or both chambers of Congress, it’s first test will be to prove their seriousness in significantly reducing the size and scope of governement and to provide a glide path down to solvency.

You know it’s bad when your liberal allies in the mainstream media reject your ideas (Atlantic Wire). That’s the case with the White House and the Democrat National Committee right now, who can’t even get CBS to buy into their allegation that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and some conservative groups are taking foreign money to ”buy” the midterm elections (see Media Research Center). The DNC has put out an ad to that affect, even calling certain conservatives and the GOP unpatriotic. The Chamber of Commerce unpatriotic?

The irony is stunning, coming from the party of Charlie Trie, Al Gore’s “no controlling legal authority,” and the Obama campaign’s anonymous millions from gift card donations, not to mention forced labor union dues from Big Labor. It proves the axiom that when the left accuses you of something, it usually means they’ve done it themselves (and are tyring to divert attention from real issues). 

MoveOn.org also is in this game with its own echo television spot. This from the group that takes uncountable sums from the likes of George Soros and the same left who accuses anyone of disagreeing with them as questioning  their patriotism. Even the New York Times has disproven the charge. No matter to the White House, which now includes the Chamber of Commerce, once a health care ally, on its enemies list.

For the left, then, it’s about control. Whether through a leviathan government or through intimidation, the left wants absolute conformity. When Bob Schieffer of CBS confronted Obama henchman David Axelrod  about whether he had any evidence of the foreign money allegation, Axelrod snapped chillingly:

Do you have any evidence that it’s not?

So, in the Age of Obama, it’s guilty until proven innocent! The proof? An allegation, and any allegation will do. Especially when you’re desperate.

An incredulous Bob Schieffer can’t believe the shear gall from the president’s chief of enforcement.

Just curious about something: Why is it when something from way back in a conservative candidate’s past comes to light, or even something more recent that was taken out of context, or even something he or she has apologized for, the angry left and the mainstream media hound on him or her about it forever, no matter how irrelevant it is to the office the candidate seeks, and portrays the conservative as the most despicable human alive?

But when even the slightest embarrassing revelation comes to light about a liberal candidate . . . the conservative opponent still is the meanest, most despicable human alive because, of course, he or she must have had something to do with it. Not to mention the fact that the media and left wing lionize the liberal candiate into an aggrieved, victimized hero.

Our friends at the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy informed us today that the breakfast with author Jay Richards, which we wrote about last week, and which was scheduled for tomorrow, has had to be postponed. We will post the new date soon as it is rescheduled.