Morning Briefing
For November 4, 2013
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1. Mitch McConnell Embraces the Anti-Rush Limbaugh Playbook
For the
last year, the left has engaged in an organized campaign to drive Rush
Limbaugh off the air. Knowing they cannot go after Rush Limbaugh
directly, the left has launched repeated boycotts against any
advertisers who dare advertise while Rush Limbaugh is on. Consequently,
some advertisers decided to stop advertising at all on political talk
radio, depriving the genre as a whole of resources.
And it still hasn’t hurt Rush Limbaugh.
Mitch
McConnell has decided to embrace the same strategy in his war against
the Senate Conservatives Fund. He can’t attack the Jim DeMint created
Senate Conservatives Fund outright, so instead he will launch an all out
war against anyone who does business with the Senate Conservatives
Fund.
This
story, from the New York Times, is intriguing. McConnell has demanded,
via the National Republican Senatorial Committee, that anyone who wants
GOP support stop hiring Jamestown Associates. The organization is used
by a number of Republican elected leaders and candidates. In fact,
Senator Ted Cruz uses Jamestown Associates. So does Governor Chris
Christie. For that matter, Senators Marco Rubio, Roy Blunt, Mark Kirk,
Dan Coats, and Pat Toomey use Jamestown Associates too.
But
McConnell is perfectly happy destroying a private company his Senate
Republican colleagues use because Jamestown Associates also helps the
Senate Conservatives Fund. And the Senate Conservatives Fund just
endorsed Matt Bevin against Mitch McConnell.
McConnell
would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven. He’d rather be minority
leader, than have a Republican Senate majority without him. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Families Hurt By ObamaCare Share Their Stories
President Obama made many promises about ObamaCare. And President Obama has broken many promises about ObamaCare.
He
promised that if you like your current plan, you could keep it. He
promised that ObamaCare would make healthcare more affordable.
Today, millions of Americans are finding out that’s not true. Their plans are getting canceled. Their premiums are increasing. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Why So Shocked? You Were NEVER Meant To Keep Your Health Insurance Under #ObamaCare
It
takes some time to fundamentally transform America and, while they may
be wrong about almost everything, in this instance, Democrats are right
about one thing: The term transition is absolutely the correct term when
discussing the debacle known as ObamaCare. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Will Pedophiles be Covered Under Senate “ENDA” Bill?
As
we noted on Thursday, the Senate “ENDA” bill (S.815) would bestow civil
rights status on anyone who claim they were denied a job because of
“such individual’s actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender
identity.” As
part of a trial lawyer’s dream, the term “gender identity” is so vague
and subjective that it includes “the gender-related identity,
appearance, or mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics of an
individual, with or without regard to the individual’s designated sex at
birth.” . . .
On
Friday, the Washington Times broke the story that the American
Psychiatric Association in its new edition of Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders, reclassified pedophilia as a “sexual
orientation” instead of a mental illness. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. Is There a Hydrogen Car in Your Future?
A
couple of weeks back, I blogged about the State of California’s use of
monthly user fees on utilities to create massive programs to benefit
alternative energy (“Robbin’ the ‘Hood”: California’s Green Energy
Schemes Benefit the Well-Connected). One of the highlighted programs
will build 10 refueling stations for hydrogen vehicles at a cost of $15
million. That’s chump change compared to the $1.6 billion
total the state spends to encourage green programs, but at $66,000 per
H2 vehicle currently on the road, it seems a bit … lavish.
But what the hey . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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