RedState Briefing 10/01/2014

Five Weeks and No Coherence

Have you noticed the Republicans have given up a concentrated effort against Obamacare? They have. It is barely on the radar. More and more stories come out every day about how close races are across the country. More and more stories come out about tightening polls. More and more races the GOP must win to take back the Senate seem to be slipping away from them. We are five weeks from the election and the Republicans’ message? Crickets. They have not campaigned on securing the border because they do not want to secure the border. The sure as heck are not campaigning against Obamacare.

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Someone Claiming to be From the CDC Called Me About the Ebola Patient in Dallas   As you guys know, I have a radio show on the largest talk station in the country, WSB Atlanta. The CDC is based in Atlanta. Yesterday evening, during break, an individual called the program claiming to work for the CDC and to have knowledge of the patient in Dallas, TX.   Read More Sponsored

Gee, How Could President Obama Possibly Have Underestimated ISIS? In case you missed it, on 60 Minutes Sunday, President Obama threw the intelligence community under the bus by claiming that Jim Clapper, et al dropped the ball in assessing the threat that ISIS posed. This is not the first time Obama has tried to blame his subordinates for providing him with faulty information about ISIS. When confronted with the manifest error of his comment in January that ISIS was the “JV” of Al Qaeda, Obama attempted to claim that based on the information available to him, no one could have possibly foreseen that ISIS would become the problem that it has. This ridiculous claim prompted leaks from the Pentagon that indicated that Obama was unambiguously briefed about the threat of ISIS over a year ago. It beggars the imagination, really, to suggest that the reason Obama has consistently underestimated ISIS is that no one told him ISIS was dangerous, and it also raises the question of why, if this is true, Clapper has not been fired on the spot for what would doubtless be a major failure of intelligence. Read More

Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Who are you going to believe? Me or recorded history? For those haven’t been following the fun, Sean Davis at The Federalist has been using science-y bloviator Neil DeGrasse Tyson as a chew toy. See: Super Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson Doesn’t Understand Statistics Did Neil deGrasse Tyson Just Try To Justify Blatant Quote Fabrication? In each of those Davis unmasks Tyson’s lack of integrity. While not rising to the level of Ward Churchill or Michael Mann levels of dishonesty because the examples Tyson gives serve to show the superiority of science-y stuff, and of Tyson’s intellect, over judges, politicians, etc. Naturally, Tyson’s acolytes haven’t been amused. When the faked quote controversy was appended to the worshipful Tyson Wikipedia biography, the “objective” editors at Wikipedia refused to allow mention. In retaliation, Wikipedia attempted to remove the entry on The Federalist. Read More

Sponsored   The Inconvenient Truths of Evil and ISIS   A couple of weeks ago I wrote that we must eradicate the evil of ISIS by killing them. More and more Americans are coming to this realization, including our reluctant President, who has been dragged kicking and screaming into the real world. I deliberately used the word “evil” repeatedly in that diary – I wanted to make the point that ISIS is made up of a group of evil people who use evil means to try to accomplish their objective of a world-wide Islamic caliphate that they envision will eventually conquer the United States and all of the West.   Read More

Dogs Don’t Like Leashes: Some South Carolina pols don’t like Nikki Haley’s reforms According to the Greenville News, a couple of South Carolina politicians (one is a Democrat and the other a Republican) are grumbling that roll call votes makes them feel like fenced-in dogs. Read More

The Democrats Hope You Are an Idiot The crop of Democrats up for election right now were last elected in 2008. For most of the actually vulnerable Democrats, this was the first time they ran for election. All elected Democrats are always at least secretly opposed to any measures that actually promote the national security of the United States of America, and given the mood of the country in 2008 they were allowed to let their dove flags fly and cruise to election, for the most part. In 2008, Kay Hagan ran against Elizabeth Dole and her positions on the Iraq War were basically lifted wholesale from the comments section at DailyKos. Ditto Mark Begich. Bruce Braley won his house seat in 2006 primarily by campaigning as a rabid anti-war candidate. Read More

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino nukes Gov. Cuomo   Trailing Gov. Andrew Cuomo by nearly 25 points and unable to get New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, head of the Republican Governors Association, to help him take on Cuomo, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino nukes Gov. Cuomo with a remake of LBJ’s infamous “Daisy” ad The ad’s message, as stated by a narrator is, “These are the stakes. Do we reelect a governor who may end up in jail?” The ad means to refer to Cuomo’s treatment of his Moreland Commission to Combat Public Corruption, which Cuomo shut down in March. As Jaime Fuller puts it, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York is looking into the circumstances of Cuomo’s shut down of the Moreland Commission’s – for possible obstruction of justice or witness tampering.   Read More Sponsored

The anti-vaccine cult One of the interesting things about the elevation of science to a secular religion is watching as science begins to mimic the behavior of religion on the eve of the Thirty Years War. In its purest form science is devoted to discovery. Truths are proven. Axioms are tested and retested. Science today has become a hodgepodge of beliefs that have more in common with the methodology of an aboriginal shaman than they do with actual science. Earlier we looked at the behavior of Neil DeGrasse Tyson and his followers. No discussion of this phenomenon would be complete without acknowledging Michael Mann and his fellow travelers. While this can be amusing, one has to keep in mind that listening with open mouthed credulousness to charlatans is not harmless. Mann and his ilk seek to destroy the economy of the industrial world. Guys like Paul Ehrlich aim at reducing the human population by the billions. One of the more dangerous groups are the anti-vaccine advocates who are not satisfied in killing their own kids but want to kill yours as well. Read More

Sincerely yours, Erick Erickson Editor-in-Chief, RedState