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Morning Briefing
For October 21, 2013
1. To Each His Own
I
don’t really care if you want to stand with Mitch McConnell in his
re-election. I hope you might go with Matt Bevin, but I’m not going to
get worked up over it. I’m excited to support Matt Bevin.
Likewise,
I’m very pleased to support Chris McDaniel in Mississippi against Thad
Cochran, who has been Mississippi’s Senator since I was three years old.
But I’m not going to be upset if you don’t.
There
is a whole lot of outrage at the Senate Conservatives Fund for
endorsing Matt Bevin today. I will personally be sending SCF more money
to help with their fight. There was, likewise, a lot of angst over Club
for Growth throwing in with Chris McDaniel. I’ll have to remember to
send them some money too.
I think
many of the Republicans in Washington need to be replaced. It is not
that they are liberal and my picks are conservative. It’s that I think
we can do better. It’s that I think they have lost touch with their base
and many of them have been corrupted by their long tenure in
Washington.
I
do not expect to have to win every one of the races, but then the
brilliance of this effort is that the establishment must win them all
and we don’t have to. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. The Abortion Truce Trap
We
social conservatives are often counseled to not fight on “divisive”
social issues as they are presumed to be losers. Take for instance
abortion. As early as 1996, a “truce” was declared within the GOP on the
subject to soft pedal opposition to the normalization of in utero
infanticide. In an article titled GOP Strikes Truce on Abortion Issue,
CNN covered the machinations of the pro-abort faction of the GOP to
torpedo the pro-life language in the GOP platform . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Chuck Schumer Introduces the ‘McConnell Rule’
Last
week, I noted that Mitch McConnell’s slick debt ceiling plan would pave
the road for permanently abolishing the debt limit, as long as members
would get a ceremonial vote of disapproval. Well, it didn’t take long for the idea to grow roots. On
Meet the Press, Chuck Schumer, who has enthusiastically praised
McConnell for doing his bidding, announced that he would introduce
legislation echoing the “McConnell rule.” . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. The Tea Party vindication
Tea Party supporters are supposed to be disheartened by how the great shutdown saga turned out. We’re
back where we started, following an expense of political capital that
achieved nothing, with polls showing damage to the Republican “brand.” Worse, the balance of power in our representative government has permanently shifted toward the executive branch. The legislature is now virtually powerless. Raising the debt ceiling is a hollow ritual to be performed every few months. Continuing resolutions to fund the no-budget government will continue, on automatic pilot, forever. The House will never dare exert its entirely hypothetical “power of the purse” again. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. Wireless Spectrum: Free Market or Rigged Market?
The
debates over mobile spectrum aggregation and the auction rules for the
FCC’s upcoming incentive auction — like all regulatory rent-seeking —
can be farcical. One aspect of the debate in particular is worth
highlighting, as it puts into stark relief the tendentiousness of
self-interested companies making claims about the public interestedness
of their preferred policies: The debate over how and whether to limit
the buying and aggregating of lower frequency (in this case 600 MHz)
spectrum. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
6. Looking Beyond Abortion
In
the pro-life community you hear a lot about the number of babies that
have been aborted. Indeed, the numbers are astounding. Over 54 million
children have been murdered in abortion since Roe Vs. Wade. Over 3,000
babies will be murdered today, around 10 in the time it takes to read
this post. And those numbers are just in the U.S. However, there are
other numbers we don’t talk about as much as we should. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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