David Keene
David Keene
David A. Keeneis an American political consultant, former Presidential advisor, and newspaper editor, currently the Opinion Editor of The Washington Times. Keene was the president of the National Rifle Association for the traditional two one-year terms from 2011 to 2013. From 1984 to 2011, he was the chairman of the American Conservative Union. Keene has worked for the political campaigns of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Robert Dole, and Mitt Romney...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 May 1945
CountryUnited States of America
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We don't just look at a small piece of the SOA stack. We've integrated all these technologies to work together as part of a platform.
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They like Bush. But they are frustrated and disappointed with some things the administration has done. And the frustration is deep because government spending and growth of government are at the core of beliefs of many people here.
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I'm 57, and I was the youngest person there. Everybody grew up and went away.
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You can't do these things on a basis of trust. There have to be some sort of checks and balances. Lurking behind this is something nobody knows about.
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Conservatives throughout the United States are increasingly losing faith in the president and the Republican leadership in Congress to adequately prioritize and rein in overall federal spending, American taxpayers have witnessed the largest spending increase under any preceding president and Congress since the Great Depression.
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Big government conservatism is an oxymoron. In 1965 Lyndon Johnson built public housing. Now it looks like we will build trailer parks. This will be defining, in the sense that the neo-cons will end up saying government can do this. The real hero of these people is FDR. I don't happen to believe any of this will work. You can't rebuild New Orleans society.
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You can think of our BAM technology as a real-time system for building operational dashboards to let you understand what's going on in your business processes.
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This is not a partisan issue. It is an issue of safeguarding the fundamental freedoms of all Americans so that future administrations do not interpret our laws in ways that pose constitutional concerns.
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This is the dangerous side of what's going on.
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It is the most politically volatile issue out there. What Bush has done is not really change the program. He's always had border control in it. But now he has put border security first, rather than as an afterthought. And I think that makes it more salable.
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The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.
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The one big strategic error -- which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions -- was the prescription drug bill.
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I've been astounded by Bush in his relationship with Republicans in Congress. In my lifetime, there has been no Republican president who has spent as much effort and as much time electing people of his own party to the Congress, or less time talking to them after they got there.
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No one would deny the government the power it needs to protect us all. But when that power poses a threat to the basic rights that make our nation unique, its exercise must be carefully monitored by Congress and the courts.