Morning Briefing
For July 23, 2013
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1. The RedState Gathering 2013 #RSG13
We’re two
weeks away from the RedState Gathering in New Orleans, LA. It’ll be
August 2nd and 3rd. You can still register at www.redstategathering.com.
The
event starts at 9am on August 2nd and runs through the early evening of
the 3rd. This year I’m pleased to announce the following speakers:
Governors Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, and Rick Perry.
Senators Tim Scott and Ted Cruz
Congressmen Steve Scalise, Jim Bridenstine, and Mick Mulvaney
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp
Special
Guests Matt Bevin, Milton Wolf, Kevin Kookogey, Bryan Smith, Art
Halvorson, Rob Maness, Greg Brannon, and Jenny Beth Martin
We may even have a few surprises in store.
This will
be a really exciting RedState Gathering this year as we celebrate some
truly disruptive Republicans who’ve helped move the nation in the right
direction and introduce some candidates who might join their ranks in
the future.
See you in New Orleans. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Primaries Bring Fresh Air to Foul Odor Emanating From GOP Establishment
Conservatives have been ill-served by a prevailing conventional wisdom pertaining to flaccid incumbent Republicans. The
conventional wisdom dictates that every incumbent should automatically
enjoy a rubber stamp for 6 more years in the Senate unless he/she is
plagued by some egregious scandal or overtly votes with the Democrats on
almost every major issue. If
we continue down this path of reauthorizing failure in the primaries,
elected Republicans will never have an incentive to represent the ideals
of those who elected them. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Why It’s Time To Replace Mike Simpson
It’s
not just that Mike Simpson boasts an abysmal 58 percent on the Club for
Growth’s Congressional Scorecard, or that Citizens Against Government
Waste has called Simpson “hostile” to the Taxpayer, or that Heritage
Action for America gave Simpson a 47 percent last year. (By way of
comparison, Idaho’s First District Congressman Raul Labrador has a
lifetime 99 percent on our Scorecard, is called a “Hero” by CAGW, and
received an 87 percent from Heritage.)
It’s
not just that Simpson is a career politician, who has been in public
office since 1984 while opposing term limits every chance he gets. Or
that he voted to bail out Wall Street to the tune of $700 billion and
voted to spend billions on wasteful pork projects outside of Idaho such
as a Lobster Institute in Maine, new exhibits at a Jazz Museum in Kansas
City, and shellfish research in New Jersey. All of which he did while
voting to raise his own pay nine times. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Spending tomorrow’s money is easy
The short explanation for the demise of Detroit is that time caught up with it. Decades of corruption built a mountain of liabilities, while scaring off the taxpayers needed to finance those promises. It’s
like a movie trailer for the blockbuster disaster film to come, when
America’s declining demographics catch up with the federal government’s
vastly higher mountain of unfunded commitments. Detroit is the city our debt monster destroyed to get limbered up for the greater fiscal carnage to come. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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Erick Erickson
Editor-in-Chief, RedState
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