Morning Briefing
For March 12, 2013
1. Fight Club vs. the Weenie Brigade
Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) is doing what needs to be done in the House. He is proposing voting against all rules for legislation that increase the size of government or have a majority of Republicans opposing the underlying legislation. “Rules” are the instructions dictating how much time will be spent on debate of legislation, how many amendments can be offered, etc. The minority party typically votes against the rules, which means if enough conservatives also vote against the rules, the underlying legislation can either be killed or opened to lots of amendments.
This is a needed and worthy goal that I have been calling for, for some time. Rep. Dave Schweikert (R-AZ) is joining Rep. Salmon in this.
I hope you will consider calling their offices and thanking them. Let them know you support them. You can reach Rep. Salmon’s office here and reach Rep. Schweikert’s office here. Tell them thank you. Maybe if they hear from enough of you other congressmen will know it is safe to join them.
These gentlemen and the conservative fight club in the House stand in stark contrast to the weenie brigade lording over the GOP in Congress.
Byron York has a piece at the Washington Examiner that exposes just how timid some of the Republicans are becoming.
I noted yesterday the rise of this weenie brigade that wants the GOP to talk about no issue and fight on no ground lest they offend anyone. It’s as if Bob Michel is back in charge. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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2. The drive to defund ObamaCare: doomed, but useful
[T]he drive to defend ObamaCare is not an exercise in futility. For starters, it’s the right thing to do, and it is appropriate for the Republicans to insist on it. What chance do they have to bring Americans around to their way of thinking, if they insist on compromising with ruin, because they need another half-dozen Senators to help them find their convictions? Sometimes there is value in choosing political values carefully, but refusing to engage in any doomed vote until reinforcements arrive via ballot box is a formula for dejected submission. That doesn’t make voters eager to put more Republicans in Congress; it makes them wonder why they bothered voting for the ones who are already sitting there.
It is also appropriate for congressional Republicans to keep Democrats on the defensive when it comes to ObamaCare. Don’t meekly accept the program as an immutable fact of life, an argument Americans lost forever in 2009; make the Democrats defend it, over and over again, even as they wail about the unbearable agony of sequestration “cuts” that stack up to five percent of ObamaCare’s budget bloat. Make the Democrats explain to the American people why they can’t have air-traffic controllers, meat inspectors, or firemen, but they have to spent twenty times as much to fund a health-care boondoggle they hate. Help the public understand why there is no reason to take any ObamaCare supporter seriously on the topic of “deficit reduction.” The political price paid by Democrats for ramming ObamaCare down our throats in 2010 was a tiny down payment on the price that should be extracted from them forever. It was a horrible mistake to refrain from collecting another big installment in the 2012 election, and that’s something Rep. Ryan’s running mate needs to answer for. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Bloomberg’s 16 ounce enforcement shows ignorance about measurements
New York City’s ban on select beverages larger than 16 ounces struck many of us as a progressive nanny state running its due course. It was a senseless blow to liberty, expanding government in a pointless way, that also happened to affect less-wealthy New Yorkers disproportionately.
But as the city turns toward enforcement of the ban, which a court threw out yesterday only to see New York promptly appeal the ruling, new developments in city government point to a disturbing revelation: New York City’s health department knows nothing about science, about testing, or about how to use calibrated instrumentation to make accurate measurements in restaurants.
In expanding the nanny state, Mike Bloomberg reveals New Yorkers probably aren’t very safe under its growing umbrella. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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