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Tag Archives: Obama
Why Is the President Throwing So Many Friends under the Bus? | HughHewitt.com | 05.12.14
Sometimes it seems there is nothing so dangerous as being a friend of this administration – dangerous in terms of how the administration treats you. I am not sure I had ever heard the term “throw under the bus” until, during the 2008 campaign, candidate Obama did exactly that to his deceased grandmother, suggesting she […]
Posted in Economic Policy: General Also tagged HughHewitt.com, Minimum Wage, Unemployment Comments closed
The Crimea and The Global Leadership Deficit | HughHewitt.com | 03.20.14
The March 19th front-page headline in the Wall Street Journal announced, “Defiant Russia Claims Crimea as Violence Flares in Region.” For the first time since the end of the Second World War, one European country invaded and annexed the territory of another. The unseen subtext of so many similar headlines around the world was that the end […]
Charles Krauthammer and Frederick Hayek in Newport Beach | HughHewitt.com | 03.14.14
The Pacific Research Institute held its annual Baroness Margaret Thatcher Orange County (California) Dinner last week. The site was the Island Hotel in the coastal town of Newport Beach. The honoree was former California gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon. The main speaker was syndicated columnist and Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer. A dour man on camera, […]
Posted in Political Commentary: General Also tagged Democrats, GOP, HughHewitt.com, Obamacare Comments closed
Division and Confusion: Europe Without America | HughHewitt.com | 03.10.14
If you want to see why American leadership is essential to the effectiveness of Europe in global affairs, just meet with a multinational collection of European political and other officials. I had occasion to share an evening with such a group this past week. The discussions were on background, not for attribution, so, as with […]
Administration Lawlessness? Executive Orders Aren’t the Half of It. | HughHewitt.com | 02.19.14
Talk about a smokescreen. When President Obama pledged to use executive orders to do what he couldn’t get Congress to do, no one thought such an extreme, in-your-face challenge could be a diversion. But it now looks as though that is what it might have been. For some of the most extreme unilateral administration actions […]
A Dangerous Place Already, This Week the World Became More Dangerous | HughHewitt.com | 02.27.14
When based on principle, partisanship can be a good thing. Due to a series of coincidences, I have spent much of the past five days listening to lectures from foreign policy and national security intellectuals and former policy makers of the Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43 administrations. All were partisans, of course. But all […]
Posted in Global Issues Also tagged Benghazi, foreign policy, GOP, HughHewitt.com, National Security, Republicans, Syria Comments closed
Solution… Make Obamacare Voluntary | HughHewitt.com | 1.06.14
In the closing days of 2013, Senator Ron Johnson (R., WI) made national news when he opined that Obamacare could not be repealed. Too much about health insurance coverage had changed since the program’s implementation commenced on October 1st. There was no longer a way to go back. Set aside that, judging from the vagueness […]
Help Wanted: Leaders Who Can Follow | HughHewitt.com | 12.27.13
Perhaps like me you have had a busy holiday season. You have focused on family and friends and forgotten, for a moment, the larger world – including, like me, deadlines. Now, I am trying to catch up. The polls tell what most of us see all around and in ourselves – that this divided nation […]
Posted in Political Commentary: General Also tagged Democracy, Gridlock, History, HughHewitt.com, Obamacare, World War II Comments closed
Flash: Obamacare Dangerous To Health of Poor | HughHewitt.com | 12.05.13
Well, Halleluiah. The Obamacare website is up and running. Of course, at only half a million applications processed so far… and accounting for the ones that the system garbled or couldn’t verify or seems to have lost… and anticipating the tens of millions of Americans predicted to lose coverage once the employer mandate kicks in […]
Obamacare and Snap of the Fingers Government | HughHewitt.com | 11.25.13
Last week a senior Washington political journalist told me this story. According to the journalist’s inside-the-administration sources, a memo went from the Obamacare website developers to the White House several months ago. It laid out in detail the problems with the now-infamous website and recommended – maybe begged is closer to it – the launch’s […]
The Cure for Obamacare: The Widely Accepted Alternative and a New Idea to Go with It | HughHewitt.com | 11.18.13
At a luncheon in Washington last week, I stumbled across something new in the Obamacare debate. Most of the attendees were reporters. The inevitable question came up: If not Obamacare, what? And when a Republican ran through an answer (equalizing tax treatment of insurance bought through employers and individually; allowing insurance policies approved in one […]
Prognosis for Obamacare: Terminally Ill, All Too Likely to Survive | HughHewitt.com | 11.10.13
Well, there is one thing you can say about Obamacare. Yes, it reflects the kind of “sweep away everything to impose our vision of the ultimate good on everyone” mentality that we all loved so much about the Soviet Union. But it took the Soviet Union 75 years to fall of its own weight. It […]
Posted in Political Commentary: General Also tagged Election, HughHewitt.com, Obamacare Comments closed
Postmortem: The Budget Battle on the Morning After | HughHewitt.com | 10.17.13
“Obama Wins.” That’s the lead morning headline at Politico.com and the unanimous view in this city about the outcome of the government shutdown and debt ceiling standoff of the last few weeks. In policy, we have the status quo ante: The government is funded at sequester levels; the debt ceiling has been suspended so the government can […]
Posted in Economic Policy: US Debt Crisis Also tagged debt crisis, Democrats, GOP, HughHewitt.com, Republicans Comments closed
Greek Tragedy in Washington: Obama, Obamacare, Republicans, Ted Cruz and the Shutdown | HughHewitt.com | 09.30.13
Greek tragedy is all about hubris — overweening pride and how it brings men down. Hubris could be the story of the coming week in Washington but not for the reasons most think. As the whole world knows, this city is fixated on a standoff between the president and Congressional Republicans (all in the House, […]
Posted in Economic Policy: Health Care Also tagged cruz, HughHewitt.com, Obamacare, Republicans Comments closed
Midgame (Not Endgame) for Fighting Obamacare: Seeking Team Ricochet’s Reaction | Ricochet.com | 09.24.13
In response to Ted Cruz’s promised filibuster, critics are shouting “what’s your endgame?” I have a different question, directed in particular to GOP governors and gubernatorial candidates: What’s your midgame? Here is the key fact: We can’t repeal Obamacare until 1) the GOP wins the White House and both houses of Congress (the Senate by […]
Posted in Economic Policy: Health Care Also tagged GOP, Obamacare, Republicans, Ricochet, Ricochet.com Comments closed
Washington Deadlock: Obama Speech v. Paulson Presentation | HughHewitt.com | 09.19.13
If you want to see why Washington has been in such deadlock since the GOP took over Congress, look no farther than two talks of this past Monday. The first was President Obama’s speech on the economy, delivered in the noon hour within the White House complex. Many commentators described it as “unhelpful” and that […]
Posted in Economic Policy: The Great Financial Crisis Also tagged Federal Reserve, HughHewitt.com, Monetary Policy, speech Comments closed
Putin Rescues Obama | HughHewitt.com | 09.13.13
Many in the media have reported today (Wednesday) that, with the chemical weapons deal he offered to Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin saved Syrian president Bashar Assad. Nonsense. Mr. Putin saved the American president, Mr. Obama, even as he humiliated him. Here are some key points about Tuesday night’s speech and beyond: After the speech I […]
Posted in Global Issues Also tagged foreign policy, HughHewitt.com, Putin, Russia, Syria Comments closed
Answering Senator Rand Paul’s Questions About Syria | HughHewitt.com | 09.05.13
In a highly intelligent article posted at the Time magazine site this morning (http://tinyurl.com/nyore9m), Senator Rand Paul asks a series of questions about intervention in Syria. Here they are with my responses: Senator Paul’s Question #1: “Bashar Assad is clearly not an American ally. But does his ouster encourage stability in the Middle East, or would his ouster […]
Posted in Global Issues Also tagged foreign policy, HughHewitt.com, Rand Paul, Syria Comments closed
The March on Washington – Today and 50 Years Ago | HughHewitt.com | 08.28.13
Today is the 50th anniversary of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a Dream” address. A commemorative march will climax with speeches on the same site as Dr. King’s storied remarks. President Obama will take the role of star speaker, clearly a marker for how much the […]
Posted in Political Commentary: General Also tagged Civil Rights, Democrats, HughHewitt.com, MLK, Republicans Comments closed
Economic Canaries – and Obamacare is the Cat | HughHewitt.com | 08.22.13
Just as the Washington Establishment is trumpeting the economy’s revival, an alarming other story is gaining traction. It isn’t a new edition of the headline grabbing “end to the stimulus” tale. Instead, it is of obscure financial data that may be signaling bad time ahead – and pointing to a cause. Call it the canary […]
Posted in Economic Policy: Health Care, Uncategorized Also tagged debt, economy, HughHewitt.com, Obamacare, Unemployment Comments closed
The Global War on US — What Should We Do About It? | Ricochet.com | 08.20.13
Egypt, Syria, Iran, Pakistan and all the rest: Since the Obama Administration disclaimed the “Global War on Terror,” every crisis has been addressed ad hoc. That may be one reason our foreign policy seems to stagger around blindly, knocking over tables, breaking plate and pots, ever more dumbly desperate. The Foundation for the Defense of Democracy’s […]
Posted in Global Issues Also tagged China, foreign policy, National Security, Ricochet.com, Russia Comments closed
Flash: Obamacare is Unworkable… For Everyone | HughHewitt.com | 08.14.13
When will the charade stop? The New York Times reports this morning that yet another feature of Obamacare is proving unworkable. The Administration has postponed to 2015 implementing a feature of the law that limits out of pocket medical costs to $6350/year for individuals, $12,700 for families. Furthermore, the paper adds, “some group health plans will […]
Posted in Economic Policy: Health Care Also tagged Failure, Federalism, HughHewitt.com, Obamacare Comments closed
The Buck Stops Somewhere Else | USNews.com | 07.26.13
Haven’t we seen this act before? This week, President Obama denounced Republicans in Congress who were trying, he said, to destroy Obamacare by mucking up its implementation. You’ve got to admire the president. A man of many gifts – intellectual, rhetorical – but none of his gifts matches that of passing blame. Harry Truman may […]
President Obama’s Clueless Economics | HughHewitt.com | 07.25.13
Yesterday President Obama delivered a much-heralded (by himself and his minions) speech on the economy. It was a transparent attempt to change the Washington topic from, as he put it, “phony scandals”. Phony scandals? Let’s see. Could he have been referring to the White House-ordered IRS audits of the Administration’s political opponents, precisely the same […]
Posted in Economic Policy: General Also tagged economy, Energy, Freedom, HughHewitt.com, speech Comments closed
Should Conservatives Fight Obamacare – Or Is There Nothing That Can Be Done To Stop It? | HughHewitt.com | 07.09.13
Last night, after a gathering of politios here in Washington, a prominent writer and authority on health care detailed for me the tremendous gloom among Capitol Hill Republicans and conservatives about Obamacare in recent days. The just-announce full-year postponement in implementing the employer mandate was not an admission of failure, I was told, but an […]
Posted in Economic Policy: Health Care Also tagged GOP, HughHewitt.com, Obamacare, Republicans Comments closed
President Embraces Flat Earth Science… and Economics | HughHewitt.com | 06.26.13
Yesterday President Obama joined the Flat Earth Society. That’s not how he put it, of course. Just the opposite. He said, “We don’t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society,” i.e. those not prepared to join him in embracing radical anti-fossil fuel policies. Put another way, he meant forget about Congress. Congress […]
When Professors Become Presidents | USNews.com | 06.20.13
Quick now. U.S. policy in Syria on one hand; Dodd-Frank, Obamacare and immigration reform on the other. What do they have in common? The answer is hidden in reports that have the Obama Administration saying both that it is attempting to create a democratic, pluralistic Syria and quickly end the civil war there. The administration has also made clear […]
Overheated Frauds and Fools | The American Spectator | 06.13.13
Who can forget it? In April 2008, as he campaigned for the Democratic nomination for president, Barack Obama intoned that history would say of his election, “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” The messianic declaration sounded over-the-top laughable, political theater meets theater […]
Posted in Book Reviews Also tagged Global Warming, Rupert Darwall, The American Spectator Comments closed
Breaking Bad in Washington | HughHewitt.com | 06.07.13
So the morning papers are full of talk about the administration’s massive sweeping up and mining of communications data of all forms in the US. The New York Times editorializes today that the Obama White House has “lost all credibility” on questions of domestic surveillance. And the surveillance program does look might broad. Who called whom […]
Posted in Constitution and Law Also tagged constitution, HughHewitt.com, Scandal, Terrorism, war Comments closed
The Scandals and the Unwritten Constitution | HughHewitt.com | 05.29.13
All the talk about the IRS targeting conservative for audits and the Department of Justice hacking into the email files of the Associated Press is disturbing enough. But it may be only the start. Reports have been circulating in the past week that other agencies have engaged in similarly aggressive behavior towards administration critics. The […]
Posted in Constitution and Law Also tagged AP, constitution, Holder, HughHewitt.com, IRS, Scandal Comments closed
The First Amendment Under Siege | USNews.com | 5.23.13
It has been a bad few weeks for the First Amendment. The sinister commonality to the Internal Revenue Service and AP scandals and the James Rosen affair is that each appears to have been (strike “appears “: each was) an attempt to suppress a core American right. Freedom of the press was clearly the target […]
Posted in Constitution and Law Also tagged AP, constitution, IRS, Scandal, U.S. News Comments closed
The AP, the IRS and President Obama’s Leadership | HughHewitt.com | 05.21.13
It will come as no surprise to anyone when I say that Washington is in full scandal mode these days. I attended a Washington dinner this past week — one of those fancy affairs in a fancy room with fancy speakers, fancy food, and funds raised. There may be a dozen such events a night […]
Posted in Political Commentary: General Also tagged AP, Benghazi, Department of Justice, IRS, Scandal, Tea Party Comments closed
Watergate, Monicagate, and Benghazi | HughHewitt.com | 5.13.13
During Watergate, President Richard Nixon’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler, became infamous for such remarks as, “This is the operative statement; the others are inoperative” in the face of the developing scandal. Say what you want about Mr. Ziegler, who passed away a decade ago, that phrase was at least an admission that something the presidential […]
Posted in Political Commentary: General Also tagged Benghazi, Clinton, HughHewitt.com, Lewinsky, Watergate Comments closed
Question re. Benghazi: Does this Administration Have Any Idea How to Handle a Crisis? What is the Protocol? | HughHewitt.com | 5.08.13
Today the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on Benghazi. In case you’ve missed all the scuttlebutt, Wes Pruden, editor emeritus of the Washington Times, has an excellent curtain raiser in his paper this morning (http://tinyurl.com/ccrzea2). The committee will hear that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cut out her department’s counterterrorism experts […]
Posted in Global Issues Also tagged Benghazi, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, HughHewitt.com Comments closed
Two Examples: Obama On How NOT To Lead. Thatcher On How TO Lead. | HughHewitt.com | 4.08.13
If you want a measure of what it means to have an administration in Washington that puts failed ideology first, take a look at last week’s jobs report. If you want an example of how a president should be acting in a time like this, look at how Margaret Thatcher, who passed away this morning, […]
The Case for More Sequester | USNews.com | 4.08.13
I’m guessing you missed the latest troubling economic news. I am not talking about last week’s unemployment figures. A record 90 million Americans are now out of the workforce, taking the U.S. labor participation rate back to Carter administration levels – 63.5 percent. The White House tried to blame The Sequester. But the job trend […]
Posted in Economic Policy: The Great Financial Crisis Also tagged Carter, debt, Dollar, economy, foreign policy, U.S. News Comments closed
Obama’s Quiet Declaration of War on Oil and Gas Production | USNews.com | 03.18.13
Last week, the president traveled to the Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago to deliver what the White House billed as a major speech on energy. To see what is wrong with the administration as it enters its second term, you could do worse than carefully reading that address. Despite the speech’s “energy” label, the oil […]
President’s Second Term Prescription: Poison Pill Politics | HughHewitt.com | 2.20.13
FoxNews.com posted a home page story this evening that began, “President Obama pinned the blame on Republicans Tuesday for looming spending cuts that may be triggered by what was originally a White House proposal….” Well, duh. Hasn’t staging one deadlock after another been the Obama White House’s transparent game plan since Day One of Term […]
What Will Tonight’s SOTU Tell Us? | Ricochet.com | 2.12.12
Do we even need to ask? Mr. Obama’s recent inaugural address was 1937 all over again. It seems government can achieve anything by decree, except revive the sick economy. This SOTU is being advertised as a “bookend” to the inaugural — bookends without books, I suppose. Mainly, as with after-the-fact edits to the Congressional Record, […]
SOTU Address To Double Down on Climate Change. Why? Why now? | HugHewitt.com | 2.11.13
In case anyone doubted, the White House has indicated that in tomorrow night’s State of the Union address, President Obama will follow through on his inaugural address calling out of climate change as a major policy focus in his second term. Whether you come from a perspective of science, economics or politics, you’ve got to […]
Posted in Communication Strategy Also tagged HughHewitt.com, SOTU, state of the union Comments closed
The Surprises No One Sees Coming | 1.28.13 | USNews.com
Whenever a new presidential term begins, everyone asks what surprises might the next four years bring. Think of the Bush 41 presidency. On inauguration day 1989, how many American experts expected the Soviet Union to collapse before the next election? How many anticipated Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and our troops going to war in the […]
Inaugural Address: Right for the President; Wrong for the Country | HughHewitt.com | 1.22.13
It is 1937 all over again. In his second inaugural address yesterday, Barack Obama channeled the style, structure and substance of Franklin Roosevelt’s second inaugural with all but unprecedented fidelity. Each president employed a comparable rhetorical device to identify himself with his audience and with the programs of his first term. For FDR it was […]
Leader of a Country or a Faction? | HughHewitt.com | 1.15.13
In his press conference yesterday, the last before the inauguration, President Obama spoke in a tone remarkable – actually unprecedented — in the post World War II era, perhaps in the history of the nation. He presented himself as the leader, not of the country, but of a faction. Again and again, the president wasn’t […]
Who’s Right, Gallup or Rasmussen? Today may tell. | Ricochet.com | 10.19.12
By now it is clear that, in terms of public perceptions (maybe on points, too), all three debates have been winners for Romney-Ryan. But have they been big enough winners to push the GOP ticket over the top? In Washington, the question is being framed this way: Is Romney up 49-47 points, as pollster Scott […]
Posted in Political Commentary: Campaign 2012 Also tagged 2012 election, campaign, election 2012, Ricochet, Romney Comments closed
Biden’s debate night bluster looks even worse 48 hours later | Ricochet.com | 10.13.12
Rick Wilson persuasively argues below that Vice President Joe Biden’s principal objective going into Thursday night’s debate was to reenergize the dispirited Democratic base. If so and if the vice president’s clownish performance fitted the script, it only confirms the cluelessness of the supposedly brilliant Chicago-based managers of the Democratic campaign. Everything I learned about […]
Posted in Political Commentary: Campaign 2012 Also tagged 2012, 2012 election, campaign, Democrats, Republicans, Ricochet, Romney Comments closed
“Lesson for POTUS Debate #2: It isn’t over ‘til it’s over” | HughHewitt.com | 10.15.12
Can things get any worse for the Obama-Biden ticket? Two weeks ago the president debates the first capable opponent of his career and comes off as an empty suit. One week ago the vice president puts on a clownish performance in his matchup with Congressman Paul Ryan. Then the polls tanked. On Saturday this week, […]
Posted in Political Commentary: Campaign 2012 Also tagged 2012, 2012 election, campaign, Democrats, HughHewitt.com, Republicans, Romney Comments closed
Hidden factor in the election: Obama advertising advantage | Ricochet.com | 10.09.12
While, as Mollie notes below, the just released Pew poll showed a big move of voters producing a convincing Romney advantage, the Rasmussen poll today rates the race tied. This was after a post-debate shift that that took Romney from two points down in Rasmussen’s tracking to as many up. The two-point move between yesterday […]
Posted in Political Commentary: Campaign 2012 Also tagged ads, election 2012, Romney Comments closed
“Why the Obama Campaign and Such Friends as Paul Krugman Shout “Romney Lies” Even Though Romney Speaks the Truth” | HughHewitt.com | 10.08.12
Yesterday, the Sunday morning talk shows were filled with Democrats touting their new excuse (they always have excuses) for President Obama’s inability to engage during last week’s debate: Mitt Romney lied. Governor Romney’s brazen misstatements, they said, left the president so overwhelmed with disbelief that he found himself all but speechless. If you are like […]
Posted in Political Commentary: Campaign 2012 Also tagged debate, election 2012, Paul Krugman, Romney Comments closed
Five Debate Night Ideas for Romney and His Team | Ricochet.com | 10.02.12
Last week Peter emailed me an invitation to join the Ricochet gang. I immediately said yes. As he explained in his generous introduction below, Peter and I met in Ronald Reagan’s White House, where we both served as speechwriters, first to Vice President George H.W. Bush, then to President Reagan. Peter was one of the […]
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Reality Check: Mitt Romney’s Campaign Is Not Over | USNews.com | 09.29.12
To read Politico, The Washington Post, and just about every publication in the MSMosphere, the Romney campaign is over. Done. Running 4.1 percentage points behind the president, as of Friday morning in the RCP average he is deader than a doornail. I don’t believe it. Yes. Yes. I’ve seen all those polls in the average: Rasmussen, Fox, Gallup, Bloomberg, […]
Posted in Political Commentary: Campaign 2012 Also tagged 2012 election, media bias, polls, Romney, US News Comments closed
Advice to Romney: Go Big, All In | HughHewitt.com | 10.01.12
In GOP circles, the call continues to build for Governor Romney to deliver major addresses on the economy and foreign policy. In last week’s column, I noted that, in addition to my column the week before, this sentiment was being expressed among Republicans and conservatives around the nation. I mentioned hearing it from another former […]
Posted in Political Commentary: Campaign 2012 Also tagged 2012 elections, GOP, Romney Comments closed
Two Speeches Governor Romney Should Deliver on National Television | 09.17.12 | HughHewitt.com
If you are wondering why President Obama came out of Charlotte with a week-long bounce, consider this: In the fortnight covering the Republican and Democratic conventions, the Obama campaign and allied independent expenditure committees ran roughly 41,000 ads, twice as many as their pro-Romney counterparts (http://tinyurl.com/8r2rhqq). Apparently the Obama people did not trust their man’s […]
Posted in Political Commentary: Campaign 2012 Also tagged advertising, economic policy, foreign policy, HughHewitt.com, Middle East, Romney, speeches Comments closed
Real Story of the Campaign: President’s Crony Capitalism Prolonged the Downturn | 09.11.12 | HughHewitt.com
Last week, the Democrats in Charlotte partied as if there were no tomorrow… and no yesterday. Friday morning, following the president’s peculiarly disconnected speech of Thursday night, reality returned. Last week’s jobs numbers – few new ones, an entire city of Americans dropping out of the workforce in the month before – were enough to […]
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Picking Ryan – Romney Shows He’s Got Serious Policies and Great Political Instincts | HughHewitt.com | 08.13.12
On Saturday Mitt Romney proved he is a serious man and will be a serious president. He also demonstrated that he is a shrewd political strategist. In picking Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate, Romney bet both his election and his administration on a central task, reducing the national deficit and debt […]
Posted in Political Commentary: Campaign 2012 Also tagged debt, deficit, election 2012, HughHewitt.com, Medicare, Obamacare, Obamacare decision, Romney, Ryan, Social Security Comments closed
Lesson of the Week: For this administration, only faux compromise welcome | HughHewitt.com | 02.14.12
One fact has become sharply clear this past seven days: it is no ordinary administration that occupies Washington just now. In the face of a fiscal crisis of unprecedented magnitude, yesterday the president submitted a budget of fake spending cuts (“a mirage” the Wall Street Journal called them this morning) and gigantic tax increases guaranteed, […]
SOTU: Did I hear that right? | HughHewitt.com | 01.25.12
It sounded like such a soft, even conservative speech. But let me get this straight: 1) banks will be punished (do I understand this right, by a committee headed by Eric Holder?) if their lending is too risky, 2) and they will be required (by the same committee) to give more home loans (meaning, it […]
Flash: World Falling Apart. U.S. Responds… How?| Hugh Hewitt |2.6.2015