Morning Briefing
For September 9, 2014
The GOP’s Missing Electoral Link
Paul Ryan is a smart man, and probably represents the mainstream thinking of the Republican Party, though like every ambitious politician he likes to position himself as a critic of the crowd. But In a recent interview with Matthew Continetti Ryan started out well by complaining about the GOP consultant class. “The consultant class always says play it safe, choose a risk-averse strategy. I don’t think we have the luxury of doing that.” But then when called on to provide a non-risk averse strategy he comes up with this: “We need to treat people like adults by offering them alternatives.” But what Republican consultant would tell his candidate not to offer alternative policies and ideas? There is none.
Every Republican thinks that offering a positive vision and new policies is the key to winning elections. Of course sometimes, as in the midterms this fall, the Democrats have screwed up so big that they are practically handing Republicans a victory. Just don’t count on it for 2016. In fact, Ryan embraces the conventional GOP wisdom: “The only way we beat an Obama third term is to offer a spirited alternative and bring it up to a crescendo where we’re really giving the country a very clear choice of policies and ideas.”
I wouldn’t bet on it. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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Wednesday Obama is supposed to address the nation on his plan for combating ISIS. The signs are not hopeful . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Sen. Mark Udall (D, Colorado) has no right to exploit murdered journalists
“In the course of an hour-long debate with Gardner in Grand Junction, Colo., [Mark] Udall said that “ISIL does not present an imminent threat to this nation.” He cited his membership on the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee to substantiate that assertion, and he even invoked the names of the American journalists murdered at the hands of the Islamic State in the course of his pleas for restraint.
“I can tell you,’ Udall said, ‘Steve Sotloff and James Foley would tell us, don’t be impulsive. Horrible and barbarous as those executions were, don’t be impulsive, come up with a plan to knock ISIL back.’” . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Ray Rice, Abortion, and Being Led About by the Viscera
The gossip web rag TMZ released video this morning of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee Janay Palmer in the elevator of the Revel Casino in Atlantic City. I’m not going to embed the video in this post; if you are curious enough to actually see it you can Google it and see several versions of it that are variously enhanced. It appears to Palmer and Rice as they enter the elevator (where Palmer apparently swats at Rice while he is walking in front of her). Then the two enter the elevator and Palmer stands in front of the buttons apparently pushing the button for their floor. Rice approaches her to the side, and she raises her arm as if to push him away. At least potentially, this motion struck him in the face, and Rice appears to strike her once in response and move to the other side of the elevator. Then Palmer advances towards Rice and in the only truly clear action of the whole video, Rice unleashes a brutal left hook which knocks Palmer to the ground, unconscious. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Rotherham and the failure of multiculturalism
The awful truth here is that the officials in Rotherham, and probably other places in the UK, had placed a premium on ethnic sensitivity and denigrated the concept of assimilation to the point where uttering the word made you a racist. We’re seeing the same shambling, grunting, slouch towards Gomorrah in America. An utterly misogynistic body of law, Shari’a, had been allowed to govern arbitration between private parties. Large parts of our legal profession and educated class see nothing wrong with the grafting onto American life something both foreign and is opposition to American culture. We print ballots in multiple languages when a requirement to receive citizenship is some fluency in English. We’ve gone from teaching our children about the virtues of the Melting Pot to extolling the virtues of a “salad bowl.” . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Tom Udall vs. The First Amendment
Pretend moderate Tom Udall (D-NM) has teamed up with avowed socialist Bernie Sanders (Socialist-VT) to pen a lengthy, meandering, hypocritical, and logically challenged piece in Politico describing a constitutional amendment they have submitted that is designed to ensure that only Democrats and socialists can participate fully in the Democratic process. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Dan Bongino’s campaign (MD-06) ignored by the media
After the 2010 Census, Maryland Six was gerrymandered to turn it into a Democrat seat by adding a large chunk of reflexively Democrat Montgomery County. I don’t have a problem with that because I do believe elections have consequences and if you can’t take the time to win them then you have no reason to complain when bad things happen to you. Bad things happen a lot to Republicans in Maryland because one of the most incompetent and instinctively fratricidal state Republican parties in the nation is Maryland’s GOP.
This year we have a strong candidate running for Congress in Dan Bongino. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Guess who predicted the anti-Christian discrimination at Vanderbilt and Cal State?
A couple of weeks ago, an article appeared in Christianity Today which re-ignited the interest in the Vanderbilt University policy change in 2011 which removed official student group standing from Christian campus organizations such as the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF)*. The piece was written by a student leader, Tish Harrison Warren, who described how she is apparently “the wrong kind of Christian”. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
The Blue States’ Economic Paradox
Blue states have a problem. Although there are some recently notable exceptions, most vehemently oppose cutting taxes, favoring instead a tax-and-spend or top-down redistribution approach. They require high taxes to finance the pet projects they believe the market is too short-sighted to support, like Solyndra. At the same time, however, these big government states try to pursue goals of economic growth, even if they believe the best way to achieve growth is through central economic planning rather than free markets. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
The Vine
While friends and families gathered to celebrate Labor Day (and we unpacked), taxpayer-funded PBS took the opportunity to promote late-term abortionist by airing, “After Tiller.” The pro-abortion film follows four late-term abortionists and seeks to create empathy for the hard work they do killing babies. As expected, the film leaves out the details that would reveal the truth about abortion and the men and women who perform them. Not only does the film not show a late-term abortion procedure and/or what it entails, it excludes the perspective of the many women who have been injured by them. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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Erick Erickson
Editor-in-Chief, RedState
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