{"id":5420,"date":"2010-05-24T11:47:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T15:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5420"},"modified":"2010-05-24T11:47:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T15:47:46","slug":"djou-in-paul-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5420\/djou-in-paul-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Djou In, Paul Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last few days offered a study in contrasts.\u00a0 Charles Djou <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/article\/20100523\/NEWS01\/5230383\/1352 \" target=\"_blank\">won a plurality special election<\/a> becoming just the third Republican to represent Hawaii in Congress.\u00a0 He did so by sticking relentlessly to a pro-growth, low tax message that resonated in a heavily Democratic district.\u00a0 While Djou won\u2019t vote with the GOP on every issue, his commitment to fiscal conservatism will be a huge factor in whether he gets reelected to a full term in November.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast Djou\u2019s steady drum beat approach to Rand Paul\u2019s improvisational jazz.\u00a0 The Kentucky GOP senate nominee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/Parties-battle-over-Paul_s-rocky-start-in-Ky_-Senate-race-94698184.html \" target=\"_blank\">erased the euphoria<\/a> of a double digit beat down of the establishment candidate last Tuesday by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=126985068\" target=\"_blank\">questioning the constitutionality<\/a> of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a federal law mandating racial equality.\u00a0 His points aside, Paul took his eye off the ball by engaging the issue.\u00a0 The 2010 midterm election results \u2013 and Rand Paul\u2019s popularity \u2013 are not the product of a national rethink on the scope of Congress\u2019s power to enforce the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment\u2019s equal protection clause.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about the economy, Rand.\u00a0 The safest ground for limited government types this cycle is to stay on message that tax-and-spend must end.\u00a0 Just Djou it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last few days offered a study in contrasts.\u00a0 Charles Djou won a plurality special election becoming just the third Republican to represent Hawaii in Congress.\u00a0 He did so by sticking relentlessly to a pro-growth, low tax message that resonated in a heavily Democratic district.\u00a0 While Djou won\u2019t vote with the GOP on every issue, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1081,626,84,19,1097,1082,670,669,38],"class_list":["post-5420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-charles-djou","tag-civil-rights","tag-congress","tag-economy","tag-fiscal-conservative","tag-hawaii","tag-kentucky","tag-rand-paul","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5425,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions\/5425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}