Morning Briefing
For March 6, 2013
1. Today, House Conservatives Will Prove They Are the Problem
Yesterday, the White House announced it would stop White House tours in response to sequestration.
Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas responded by offering an amendment to the pending continuing resolution that would prohibit federal dollars spent to cover the costs of President Obama’s golf games.
Speaker John Boehner and the Republican Leaders ruled that Congressman Gohmert’s amendment was not relevant to the continuing resolution and threw it out.
Today, House conservatives will join with their Republican colleagues to vote on what is called a “closed rule.” This is a vote that will allow Republican leaders to bring to the floor of the House of Representatives the continuing resolution without having to deal with Congressman Gohmert’s amendment.
It will also prevent Republicans from being able to defund Obamacare.
Today, House Republicans will vote on a rule in the House of Representatives that, once approved, will allow the continuing resolution to pass while enabling and funding Obamacare.
House Conservatives will make it happen. In fact, House Conservatives who vote for the rule are voting to fund Obamcare. Passing the rule then conveniently voting against the actual continuing resolution cannot be given a pass.
Today, conservative groups must set a new standard — voting for the rule on the continuing resolution must be scored against. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Coin-operated government
Why should any self-respecting citizen agree that Uncle Sam must be paid off with fresh tax revenue, before he’ll even consider cutting down on the fruit-fly sex studies and federally subsidized Star Trek conventions? After years of relentless federal growth – and just two months after massive tax increases, whose last-minute imposition is wreaking havoc among our already stressed-out tax serfs – why should it be unthinkable to call for some big spending cuts first? Notice how politicians of every stripe are perpetually promising to eliminate billions in waste, fraud, and abuse… but they never actually do it. That’s always a carrot dangled above our heads, and we might just get a nibble, if we agree to close a few “tax loopholes” and pay Washington a few billion dollars more. Why should it be out-of-bounds to insist on that long-promised, top-down audit and reform before we entertain a moment’s thought of tax increases? . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Obama’s Machiavellian Sequestration Pain Game: Putting Politics Over Public Safety
I’m going to just state what is on a lot of people’s minds (and lips) these days regarding the Obama Administration’s handling of the sequestration cuts:
If I didn’t know any better–I don’t, by the way–I would wager a bet that the current occupants of the West Wing and their DNC accomplices are hoping that, as a result of certain sequestration cuts made, someone somewhere will die. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Planned Parenthood Clinic Faces Lawsuit Claiming Negligence, Battery
A doctor at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains allegedly performed an abortion with no anesthesia against the will of Colorado Springs resident Ayanna Byer, according to charges in a lawsuit Byer filed on February 6. Byer’s suit brings claims of negligence, battery, uninformed consent, false imprisonment, extreme and outrageous conduct (emotional distress), and breach of fiduciary duty against the Planned Parenthood facility and a doctor identified in the complaint only as “Dr. John Doe.” . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. Medicare Trustee Cautions States on Obamacare Medicaid Expansion
Medicare Board of Trustees member Charles Blahous released a Mercatus Center report on March 5 recommending states take advantage of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2012 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) ruling by mostly rejecting the law’s Medicaid expansion. Blahous concluded that states “all appear to face one common, powerful incentive arising from the court’s ruling: to decline to cover childless adults at or above the FPL [federal poverty line] under Medicaid.” . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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