Articles by Grady Means

As Hillary Clinton looks forward to 2016, this is an especially important year for New Year’s resolutions. The next 12 months will set (actually, reset) the narrative for her presidential run, and Hillary, with her vast, left-wing army of elves in the media, unions and progressive interest groups have a lot of work to do. Maybe we can take a sneak peek at Hillary’s thinking and resolutions for the new year.

As the Obamacare program continues to founder, Democratic members of Congress and the White House are systematically making it clear that they “misled” (code: outright lied to) the American people.

I have to warn you, if you repeat any of what I tell you, people will run from you at cocktail parties. About electric cars: When the White House hasn’t been selling Obamacare, it has been touting “alternative energy” and electric cars — and hugely subsidizing them with your tax money. I’m just wondering if they could be as wrong about energy as they are about health care.

During the past couple of weeks, the Obama administration’s favorite word — with everyone on message from the White House to the Cabinet to the liberal media — has been “phony.”

The nomination of former Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew as the next secretary of the Treasury and the discussion on raising the national debt ceiling should send a clear message to Congress. It is time to close down the Office of Management and Budget and to vote no on any increase in the debt ceiling.

Federal energy development is an important answer to the questions on jobs, national security, the environment and federal budget that plague our nation right now. A focus on energy production is crucial to reviving our economy. In particular, we must turn our attention to natural gas because America is awash in it.

The dismal state of our national finances is going to require that the United States downsize the government over the next four years. We don’t have any other options. At the same time, we must fight any expansion of government that will guarantee the bankrupting of our country and mortgaging of our future. Under President Obama, America is well on the way to becoming a mortgage-backed security that not even Goldman Sachs would try to sell.

Those wild and crazy Mayans put down their marker that the end of the world would occur on Dec. 21, 2012 — about two months from now. There is, of course, some small chance that they might be right. On the other hand, there is a very large probability that the real end of the world will occur around March 4, 2014.

Mitt Romney made a wise but risky choice in selecting Paul Ryan as his candidate for vice president. He’s a good pick to stabilize the budget and Medicare as well as support global economic recovery and political stability. The election is now focused on the very highest stakes.

Last week, we were treated to one of the biggest con jobs in this political season. Vice President Joseph R. Biden took the NAACP back to Jackson, Miss., and lynchings and even said that the same Supreme Court that approved Obamacare would become racist under Mitt Romney. Whoa, that’s breathtaking overreach and dishonesty, even for Mr. Biden. But it does open some interesting questions.