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Morning Briefing
For December 2, 2013
1. Healthcare.gov Still Barely Works
As
we get back up and running from the Thanksgiving Holiday, the deadline
for the Obamacare website has come and gone. CNN was able to get it to
crash live on national television.
But that’s okay. The Obama Administration got
the New York Times to run a full page ad . . . errr . . . they actually
called it journalism … claiming that the site is better. They can’t
actually claim it is fully operational, but remember their goal before
we adjourned for Thanksgiving was just 80%.
Like in so many other areas, the Obama Administration is intent on defining deviancy as normal and failure as success.
The
website remains more or less unusable, but conservatives are wrong to
fixate on it. The press is going to cheer it on the next few weeks as
the 404 errors stay, but with less frequency.
Conservatives
need to keep their focus on the law overall. The website is a
reflection of a terrible law. The law is causing millions to lose
insurance, millions more to pay more for insurance, and the best the
Democrats can do is claim it’d work well if the GOP didn’t think nasty
thoughts about it.
As
we all get back to business today, we must remember the law itself is
the problem — not the website. The website they can fix. We must deny
them the opportunity to fix the law itself. Let the American people see
big government in all its glory. Then offer a repeal. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Assessing The Wake of Legislative Hiroshima
The nuclear option, which was triggered by
Harry Reid last Thursday, is always characterized by the “puppet press,”
but never described. And there is good reason for this.
The
nuclear option is nothing but an exercise in fraud. A majority of
senators stand up and vote for a reading of the Senate rules that is
absolutely palpably factually untrue — and that everyone knows is
untrue. It is like voting that “black” is “white.” But it is successful
because the lie is enforced by absolute brute force.
In
this case, 52 Democrats successfully overturned the ruling of the Chair
that 60 senators were required to shut down debate on a nomination —
even though 60 senators were clearly required to shut down debate on a
nomination. Like “you can keep your insurance,” it is the most recent
step in the employment of demonstrable, indisputable fraud for the
purpose of achieving legislative gains.
You’ll
notice the evidence that the perpetrators understand that they are
liars and frauds: Originally, the “nuclear option” could, supposedly,
only be invoked the first legislative day of Congress. Then, after the
first day had passed, only for executive branch nominees. Now it applies
to virtually all executive and judicial nominees. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Delayed, Not Dead: Obama’s Labor Department Announces Timing Of New Persuader Regulations
Besides the damage that ObamaCare is doing to
the job market, if people believed that the President’s administration
would be a “lame duck” in the his second term, they don’t know the Obama
Administration.
In fact, without a re-election to worry
about, Barack Obama’s second term may, in fact, be worse for companies
than the first when it comes to new onerous regulations. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Hunger Games: White House Does Photo Op Of @FLOTUS’ & @BarackObama’s Visit With Pro-Amnesty Activist & Ex-@SEIU Boss
On
Friday, the day after Thanksgiving–using @LaCasaBlanca, the Spanish
twitter handle for the White House–Barack and Michelle Obama tweeted a
picture of themselves posing with immigration reform activists who are
on a hunger strike. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. @BarackObama’s (and the Democrats’) war on the scourge of piano teacher nonprofit associations.
Background:
the Federal Trade Commission got a bug up ah, decided that some
boilerplate, non-binding, non-enforceable language in the Music Teachers
National Association (a small nonprofit out of Ohio) represented an
attempt to jack up prices in the high-stakes, ruthlessly competitive
world of piano lessons (average lesson, according to the WSJ: $30). Not
having any friends in court – and no, I don’t think that I’ll strike
that out, given that it’s brutally truthful – the MTNA simply
surrendered to the tender mercies of the FTC. The result? . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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