Morning Briefing
For August 9, 2013
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1. We Should Not Have to Hold Our Noses
Cory
Gardner was a tea party hero. In the last 48 hours, he’s become a
weasel. Gardner bailed on a Tea Party Express event to support
Congressman Meadows and Senator Lee’s attempts to defund Obamacare. Cory
Gardner caved to pressure from the GOP leadership.
We sent
him to Congress as a fighter and instead he’s become a lover of the
establishment. It’s a fact and I suspect you’ll now see him try to
weasel his words over the next forty-eight hours to claim he’s for full
repeal and defunding doesn’t do enough, so he won’t support it — or
something like that. It’s what John Cornyn has been saying.
When they
can get a pass, these guys will vote for symbolic votes against
Obamacare. But when the heat is on, they won’t vote to defund it. How
many times have they cast symbolic votes? And now that they have a
substantive vote and fight on the issue they fold like cheap suits.
In
Kentucky, Mitch McConnell’s campaign manager was caught on tape saying
he would have to hold his nose for two years to run McConnell’s
campaign. Jesse Benton’s loyalty is with Rand Paul. Rand Paul wants to
run for President. So Rand Paul is coddling the establishment and Jesse
Benton is working for Mitch McConnell with his nose closed.
Conservatives should not have to hold their noses to vote in primaries.
At the
RedState Gathering, the NRSC outreach guy told me the NRSC would spend
every dime they have to defend Mitch McConnell from Matt Bevin and other
Republican Senators from primary challengers. He said if the NRSC spent
all its money defending incumbents and then lost the general, it would
be conservatives’ fault for daring to primary incumbents. In fact, he
told me, no Republican should ever dare challenge an incumbent.
This is the same NRSC that will not target Democrats over Barack Obama exempting Congress from Obamacare.
Friends, we should not have to hold our noses and support incumbents. We should be willing to primary incumbents who’ve . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. The Obama Administration’s War on the Constitution
The
more we learn about the antics of our national intelligence apparatus
the more we are left with the image of a bunch of smart guys operating
with no sense of boundaries or propriety. Rather than being servants to
and guardians of the the people they have striven to become our masters.
When
Edward Snowden alleged that he, as a low level IT technician, could
access communications by virtually anyone simply by asking there was a
howling from the general direction of Fort Meade, MD that this was not
true. Because FISA Courts. Because The Constitution. Subsequent
reporting by Glenn Greenwald (or one of his sock puppets. it is really
hard to tell… ) indicates that Snowden was more right than wrong. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. The ‘Police State’ Of Delaware Is No Longer Theory
Michael
Rogers and Delaware State Police Officer Mathew Morgan had a meeting on
August 1st that did not bode well for Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers a 53
year-old man was at his home at 22507 Deep Branch Rd. just five miles
east of Georgetown Delaware on a quiet country road in Sussex county,
when a knock came at the door that would change his life.
Mathew
Morgan, a young Delaware State Police veteran of three years came to
the house that Rogers was sharing with his elderly mother, to
investigate an alleged hit-and-run incident on a parked car in Millsboro
Delaware. The events that occurred during that home investigation defy
explanation. Apparently the officer questioned Mr. Rogers about a hit
and run incident on the parked car, and Mr. Roger denied the allegations
and asked the officer to leave his residence.
Mr.
Rogers was reported to be intoxicated at the time of Officer Morgan’s
arrival at the residence, but being intoxicated within your own
residence is not a violation of any crime. Although Mr. Rogers judgement
was probably impaired, he was perfectly within his rights to ask the
officer to leave the residence. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Senator Brian Schatz (D, Hawaii): did you have carnal relations with that sheep?
No, I never thought that I’d have the opportunity to write that out, either. But apparently this is the world that we live in, now. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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