Morning Briefing
For October 22, 2013
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1. The Republican Schism
There is a
data set within yesterday’s CNN poll that even CNN largely overlooked,
but that explains so much of the current tension within the Republican
Party.
Long
after we are dead, pundits and political reporters will still talk
about the Rockefeller Republicans vs. the Conservatives and other such
archaic divisions that no longer exist except in the rhetorical habits
of pretentious political reporters. The real division within the
Republican Party now isn’t even between those who call themselves tea
partiers fighting the establishment. “Tea party”, like “conservative”
and “Republican”, has less meaning these days and I increasingly dislike
using the word. Admittedly though, everyone would consider me one based
on the general parameters of what the tea party is.
In any
event, the real fight within the Republican Party now is between those
who believe we actually are at the moment of crisis — existential or
otherwise — and thereby must fight as we’ve never fought before and
those who think the GOP can bide its time and make things right.
At this
moment, this boils down to a fight largely between Main Street and the K
Street/Wall Street Alliance within the GOP. This gets us back to the
CNN poll and the data set even CNN really missed. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. The high cost of ObamaCare deception
President
Obama’s Rose Garden press conference on the ObamaCare disaster featured
a group of 13 human props, lined up on stage behind him to put a face
on the alleged virtues of his health care scheme. It
turns out none of them had actually purchased an ObamaCare insurance
plan, and only three of them had even completed the application process.
. . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. MS Word’s Spell Check Still Flags “Obamacare”
Maybe
that’s with good reason. The latest incriminating—well-written, too, I
dare say—account I’ve read of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act (PPACA or “Obamacare”) is at MoneyMorning.
We’ve
all read such accounts. They’re proliferating and coming, uh, “fast and
furious,” from everywhere. I think it’s inevitable that, once the
federal government corrects the glitches in its PPACA sign-up websites
and people are actually able to apply for coverage, the rage at
increased costs—required by law, no less—will become epidemic, and that
rage will only grow when costs and taxes increase more next year, all as
a result of the PPACA: all part of the plan. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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Erick Erickson
Editor-in-Chief, RedState
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