RSS Feed MenuByron York talks to John Weaver, one of the consultants who had been advising John Huntsman, about the campaign-that-didn’t happen:
“He [Huntsman] had not made a decision to run for president, but he had made a decision to prepare to run,” says Weaver. “We were probably a month away from announcing the formation of a political action committee, so we were pretty far down the road.”
That’s all shelved at least for now. What’s the future that Weaver foresees instead?
“If it’s 2012 and our party is defined by Palin and Limbaugh and Cheney, then we’re headed for a blowout,” says strategist John Weaver …. “That’s just the truth.”
balconesfault // May 20, 2009 at 9:33 am
“balconesfault: Each infrastructure project should be required to complete a non-political, non-partisan, economic study showing what national benefits, if any, would accrue from the project. And that should be put out for public review on the Internet *before* the project is ever funded. IOW, we ordinary folks surfing the Internet will have the right to review it–and say it has no benefit for us.”I like that system. There are costs, mind you – I can already imagine the speculative booms that some postings would generate, which could actually drive up the cost of the projects, but I’m sure some creative minds can work around that.This could be a natural extension of USASpending.gov , the website that came out of legislation from Tom Coburn and Obama a couple years ago.