Morning Briefing
For July 3, 2013
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1. Abortionists Declare Their Team: Chant “Hail Satan” as Christians Sing Amazing Grace
This is staggering to behold.
As Texas
gears up to push legislation that would prohibit late term abortions —
those conducted after 20 weeks — Christian activists in the Texas State
Capitol sang “Amazing Grace.” Abortion rights activists, there to
support killing kids, tried to shout down the Christians by chanting
“Hail Satan.”
Yes, there is video. Remember, these people support the party that booed the inclusion of God in the DNC platform.. . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. But Won’t People Die?
They told
us we had to do it. We had to rush through Obamacare; passing it to
find out what was in it, as Nancy Pelosi told us. We had to do it and it
could not wait because lives were depending on it. We needed to save
lives and we needed to provide women access to birth control.
Suddenly,
yesterday, the Obama Administration announced it would deny women
access to contraception paid for by their employer after campaigning
throughout 2012 on just how important paying for abortions and birth
control under employer provided plans would be.
If you
aren’t following along, Barack Obama has decided to delay implementation
of the employer mandate — the mandate that employers must provide
health insurance to employees — until after the 2014 election cycle. The
law that had to be passed quickly to save lives can now be delayed. So
how many people will die? That was their rhetoric. Lives depended on
Obamacare. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Go Rogue or Go Home
Time and
again when less conservative or moderate Republicans win, they expect
the conservatives to hold the line. You know what? Conservatives do. But
when the moderate to liberal Republicans lose, they run to the media,
blame conservatives, and start supporting the other side.
It is
time conservatives behave the same way. From the Dakotas to Ohio to
Kentucky to Louisiana to other parts of then nation, conservatives
should get involved, find really good candidates, and work like hell to
win. And if they lose, consider free agency. Make the Republican who
wins earn conservative trust instead of letting him presume he has their
vote.
I don’t
think Sarah Palin was flat out endorsing a third party and I don’t
either. But I think she was, like me, suggesting conservatives stop
being such cheap dates. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. What Three Dissents Signal for Marriage’s Future
Not only
was the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act baseless
and just plain wrong, you won’t learn much from reading Justice Anthony
Kennedy’s majority opinion. Except that he thinks only bigotry can
explain support for marriage as it was until the year 2000—a male-female
union.
You can
learn something, however, from reading the three dissenting opinions
closely. The conservative justices’ dissents are like flares signaling
the path that marriage proponents must take from here.
First,
Justice Samuel Alito makes clear the actual constitutional status of
marriage laws. We know what a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court has
said, but what does the Constitution really say?
Justice
Alito frames the debate as a contest between two visions of
marriage—what he calls the “conjugal” and “consent-based” views. It’s a
contest in which the Constitution takes no sides. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. Dear GOP: Don’t Get Cute With This
The
President has decided to scrap the employer mandate in Obamacare. It is
questionable if he actually can do this without Congress okaying it. But
no one will challenge him. The scrapping is really a delaying until
after the election.
Republican
strategists are already opining that we should fight to repeal the
individual mandate too. What’s good for employers should be good for
people after all.
Republicans,
please take note — that’s stupid. It muddies the message. It gives the
Democrats at out that will make the overall law both more expensive and
less onerous to the American public. Do not get cute here.
Americans
sent Republicans to Washington to end Obamacare, not mend it. Repeal
the whole damn thing, not parts. If Obama wants to unilaterally exempt
employers, let the employers suddenly start pushing Americans off to
health care exchanges and watch as Americans become enraged — suffering a
government run exchange and an individual mandate.
That will generate even more contempt for this law.
The
Democrats broke it, let them own it. Do nothing short of fully
repealing it or, at a minimum, fully defunding it during the debt
ceiling fight. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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Erick Erickson
Editor-in-Chief, RedState
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