Morning Briefing
For April 24, 2013
A few weeks ago I noted that there are many groups out there these days who want you to sign petitions or collect money from you, but who do no real advocacy and who do no real on the ground grassroots work.
Then there are groups like Campaign for Liberty. That you've probably heard of them is testament to their work. They are active. They are engaged. And they're not out trying to take your name and money to line pockets, but rather to actually fight for liberty. In an age when so many charlatans are on the political scene, this is a group that actually breaks a sweat working hard to do exactly what they say they'll do.
— Erick
1. RedState Will Key Vote Against the Helping Sick Americans Now Act, H.R. 1549
Mind you, we don’t have a scorecard, but we may have to use this vote to start one. The Republicans have decided to intercept the Democrats’ political football and make a touchdown for the Democrats.
The Helping Sick Americans Now Act is a great sounding law that lets the GOP contrast themselves with Barack Obama on health care. But let me explain in the simplest terms what it actually does. It fixes part of Obamacare that the Democrats designed. It makes Obamacare less bad, more palatable, and more likely to stick around instead of collapsing under its own weight as Paul Ryan and others have kept saying it would.
Basically, the GOP, in a noble effort to appear likable instead of effective, wants to move money from one part of Obamacare that is wasteful and does no good to anyone and instead prop up the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, or as the wonky conservatives who have decided to support this to look more humane and less wonky call it, PCIP.
Frankly, the GOP should not be in the position of wanting to save the pre-existing conditions mandate in Obamacare.
In fact, the GOP should not want to fix Obamacare at all.
Only a bunch of idiots in Washington, DC in the Republican Party could look at the rising animosity of the American people toward Obamacare and all its costs and burdens and say, “By God let’s fix it!” . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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2. HAHAHAHA. Meet Americans for a Conservative Direction, the Latest GOP Scam in Washington
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
breathe.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
No wait . . . hang on . . . HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. I’m sorry.
I’d like to introduce you to “Americans for a Conservative Direction.” It’s got Haley Barbour as the head of it, whose nephew was on the RNC audit committee. He’s joined by Sally Bradshaw of the same RNC Audit Committee. They’ve also got Joel Kaplan of Facebook, Dan Senor whose wife is Campbell Brown formerly of CNN, and Rob Jesmer.
Jesmer, you will recall, headed the National Republican Senatorial Committee and backed Arlen Specter, Charlie Crist, Trey Greyson, Bob Bennett, and every other terrible squishy moderate to liberal candidate the GOP could field.
And now they want to call themselves “Americans for a Conservative Direction.”
You know how conservative the direction is they want to go?
They’re already bilking their donors for dollars to support . . .
wait for it . . . seriously . . . wait for it . . .
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Marriage as Purposeful Institution
When a baby is born, a mother always is nearby. The question is whether a father will be involved in the life of that child and, if so, for how long.
Marriage increases the odds that a man will be committed to both the children that he helps create and to the woman with whom he does so.
The recent oral arguments at the Supreme Court highlighted this and other key questions about redefining marriage as we’ve always understood it in America. That is, marriage is the union of a man and woman as husband and wife to provide any children of that union with a father and a mother.
A leading argument from liberals is that marriage so understood unjustly excludes same-sex relationships. However, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, during arguments on California’s Proposition 8, resisted any characterization that marriage was about “excluding a particular group.” . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. To Start Winning Again
By now everyone knows all about the GOP’s report on the path forward. In a nutshell, we need to embrace serious structural reform, gay marriage, and open borders. The kids these days hate us, the old folks don’t trust us, and we need to do some poll tested, kid approved things to get everyone to like us again.
Next month, the RNC will make a home porno with its mascot and “accidentally” leak it online, then do the late night shows in an act of contrition to show how cool they are. All the really cool celebrities do that these days. It’ll be the first step forward. Damn the policy, accidentally leaked shot on the iPhone home porn is all the rage these days.
In fact, however ridiculous that may sound, it’d be a lot easier to do than what the GOP must do to turn the corner. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. Internet Sales Tax is Interstate Power Grab
The Commerce Clause of the Constitution has been used as a garbage can of left-wing jurisprudence to grant the federal government infinite power over the the citizenry for years. Ironically, the original intent of the Commerce Clause was to serve as a check on state power grabs across state lines, not as a new power for the Feds to wield over the people. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
6. Were People Too Busy Going Blind to His Filibuster to Actually Listen to It?
Matt Drudge is lighting up Rand Paul over a comment he made on drones. On Fox News, Senator Paul said:
“I’ve never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on …. If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash. I don’t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him.”
The Ron Paul crowd is bashing the Rand Paul crowd and everyone seems to be going after Rand Paul.
Did they not listen to him in the filibuster? . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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