RedState Briefing 10/10/2013

Morning Briefing For October 10, 2013 >> Today's Sponsor 1.  House GOP Preparing to Give Up I’m being told by several sources that Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor are plotting to give up trying to either defund or delay Obamacare. This comes at the same time the Obama administration admits it will be months before their Obamacare website will be fixed and Kathleen Sebelius is saying if people want out of the mandate they can pay a fine. Nonetheless, Cantor, Boehner, and with them Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn are expected to cave in and fully fund, unimpeded, Obamacare. They will work up a new deal that includes a debt ceiling increase with a few sops to the GOP as cover. The only change they are still considering it the medical device tax repeal, which is being heavily lobbied for by former Boehner and McConnell staffers who left for K Street. . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 2.  The Shame of Chuck Hagel As we documented yesterday, the Obama administration has decided that the way to convince Americans that government is necessary is to make the shutdown as unpleasant as possible for the maximum number of citizens as possible. At first it was merely churlish: preventing America’s veterans from visiting monuments. Then it became vindictive: evicting people from their homes simply because they were located on leased land. Now it is simply disgusting: declining to pay the death gratuity for members of the armed forces killed in combat and not providing transportation for their bereaved families to Dover to witness the repatriation of their remains. . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 3.  The priority problem The shutdown drama has given Americans an eye-opening look at our massive government’s inability to prioritize.  If you take the apologists for President Obama and his Shutdown Theater performances at face value, the Administration assigns extra manpower to keep people out of national parks and memorial sites… and also has plenty of warm bodies available to facilitate an immigration rally on the National Mall.  Great: the four-trillion-dollar government that can’t handle its duties to the existing populace – can’t even launch a website correctly, despite years of preparation and over a billion dollars spent – wants to invite another thirty, forty, or fifty million people in. . . . please click here for the rest of the post → >> Today's Sponsor Sincerely yours, Erick Erickson Editor-in-Chief, RedState Forward This Email to a Friend Take me to RedState