Morning Briefing
For November 16, 2012
1. NLRB To Force Companies To Turn Over Employee Telephone Numbers & E-Mails To Unions?
Now that the re-election of Barack Obama has taken place, this is back on the table.
Unfortunately, this is not a new idea… . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. New Foreign Policy
Now that Obama has won reelection, news of how he plans to run his new administration has been springing forth fast and furiously. Despite alluding to a time of peace in his reelection speech last week, the latest on foreign policy going forward indicates otherwise. Like so many other issues, the new foreign policy agenda would have been nice to know before the election. According to the LA Times, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan and missile defense are all currently being “reassessed” by the Obama administration.
Previously, the policy on Iran has been limited to diplomacy and sanctions. The week before the election, Iran fired on an American drone; an event that wasn’t made public until 2 days after the election. President Obama responded the same day the news was released as he has before, with more sanctions against Iran. The sanctions weren’t because of the drone attack, however, the administration claimed they were because Iran was “jamming satellite broadcasts and blocking Internet access for ordinary Iranians.” Iran responded in their usual fashion in a statement by the Vice President of Iran saying, “We will break [the] grasping hands of Obama and we will be successful in bypassing the sanctions.” This week, the White House is indicating it is open to resuming negotiations with Iran that could result in Iran continuing to enrich “low level” uranium, while the international community “monitors” the situation. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Presidential Politics Does Not Define Conservatism
Allow me just to repeat the title of this post: presidential politics does not-and should not-define conservatism. I will confess this is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. Every cycle many on the right seem to believe the GOP primary and then the general election results define conservatism. Folks are excommunicated for whom they support and the results are cited as proof of the life or death of the movement.
This is neither healthy nor effective. The conservative movement is a complex coalition of people and ideas that seek to impact popular culture, public policy and electoral politics based on its ideals and principles. To take something this complex and diverse and equate it with an election at the highest possible level is to both over-simplify and devalue it. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Obama’s I won, let’s compromise and do things my way post-election press conference
On Tuesday, President Obama held the 16th “full” White House press conference of his presidency. That’s right Obama goes golfing more than six times for every press conference he gives.
This was the first scheduled, solo news conference for Obama since March. The last time Obama saw fit to allow the White House press corps an opportunity to formally ask him questions on U.S. soil was his “hastily-announced” appearance in the White House briefing room on June 8, 2012, during which he infamously said “the private sector is doing fine.” . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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