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Morning Briefing
For November 21, 2013
1. New Obamacare Defense: Blame Everyone But Yourself
Yesterday at the conclave of the Wall Street
Journal’s CEO Council, Barack Obama got a chance to demonstrate what he
does best: blame others and make excuses. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. DHS Admits Iraqi Terrorists As Refugees
One of the great things about working for an
administration with absolutely no standards is that your job is never
really in jeopardy so long as you toe the party line. That is the secret
of Janet Napolitano’s success. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. A Second Chance for Republicans
Now that the entire country sees the
ten-alarm fire that has set our healthcare system ablaze, Democrats feel
compelled to do something. Their Mr. Fix It plans are akin to an arsonist posing for a photo op with a 2-liter pitcher of water to put out the wildfire. Will Republicans continue to pose with them in the photo op or will they kick them aside and smother the fire? . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Medicaid: A Placebo for the Poor
Many GOP governors have been criticized for
refusing to participate in the wild and ill-conceived expansion of the
Medicaid program under Obamacare. There is good reason. While the
expansion is underwritten by the Federal government in the near term, in
the out years the states will be forced to either have their budgets
consumed by Medicaid or take the politically difficult step of raising
the eligibility requirements to pre-Obamacare levels. The left has
glommed onto this yet another example of the heartless GOP wanting to
kill off the poor. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. Texas Abortion Law Remains In Effect
Earlier
in the month I wrote about the decision of the Fifth Circuit to leave
in effect the Texas abortion law that made Wendy Davis modern day
priestess of Baal as far as the left is concerned. Planned
Parenthood appealed to the US Supreme Court to overturn the Fifth
Circuit ruling pending a hearing in January. Yesterday, Planned
Parenthood got the bad news. The Supreme Court upheld the Fifth Circuit
and allowed the Texas law to go into effect. The impact is that
abortion, for all intents and purposes, is illegal in substantial areas
of Texas. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
6. ObamaCare’s “branding” problem
Yesterday
morning, a peevish White House adviser, Dan Pfeiffer, snapped under the
burden of explaining why President Obama was blowing off the 150th
anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. At
first he claimed the snub was due to an unavoidable scheduling
conflict, but the merest glance at the President’s daily agenda (which
his political team sometimes seems to forget is available to the public)
showed that was not true. Pushed
beyond his breaking point, Pfeiffer growled on Twitter, “Oh, I don’t
know, there’s this whole website thing that someone suggested might
destroy the Dem Party.” . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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