RedState Briefing 10/08/2014

Throwing Barack Obama Under the Bus

People have been expendable to Barack Obama for a very long time. As soon as they become inconvenient to him, they meet the underside of the Obama bus. Barack Obama is now about to meet the underside of Hillary Clinton’s bus. The only chance Hillary Clinton has of winning in 2016 is to blame shift to Barack Obama and sacrifice him for the good of the party. Leon Panetta has begun the process. We know what’s going on, but it is important to understand why it is happening.

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House Democratic campaign operatives feel abandoned by their party right now.   "House Democratic strategists are frustrated that key outside groups are putting their money into the fight for the Senate, leaving House campaigns starved for cash. "Spending on House races by organized labor as well as groups representing women and environmental organizations dropped by \$18 million compared to the last cycle, the groups said. "Democrats are worried their lost seats in the House could be in the double digits, making it that much harder to take back the chamber in 2016, a presidential election year when the party hopes turnout will be better."   Read More Sponsored

Leon Panetta: Obama to blame for Iraq mess The new memoir titled “Worthy Fights” by former Secretary of Defense and former CIA Director Leon Panetta is causing a stir. In the book, Panetta firmly lays the responsibility for the current mess in Iraq at Obama’s doorstep Read More

Mark Pryor Won’t Answer a Simple Question Sen. Mark Pryor, running for re-election to the Senate in Arkansas, actually ran an advertisement attacking his Republic opponent Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) blaming Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) for the Ebola crisis. Katie Hunt of MSNBC asks Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) a simple question: does he think the President has appropriately handled the response to the Ebola crisis. Pryor’s (non)response is comedy gold. Read More

Sponsored   US Army in action in Iraq– and still no SOFA   This is significant for a couple of reasons. First, it underscores what a lot of us have said from the beginning of this misadventure, that airpower alone is a necessary but insufficient element in stopping the advance of ISIS. Second, while not technically on the ground the AH-64s are Army and they are based in Iraq and carrying out attacks within Iraq. Third, they are doing so without a Status of Forces Agreement passed by the Iraqi parliament.   Read More

ObamaCare, that most callous of ‘reforms’ The next wave of ObamaCare insurance cancellations is under way, flying largely under the national media radar… until Wal-Mart announced it would be dropping coverage for all its part-time employees. Read More

Marriott gets off easy for its Denial of Service attacks Have to say, sometimes enforcement of things is rather inconsistent in this country. If you or I (or Aaron Swartz) were caught making unauthorized access to other people’s computer equipment, to engage in a Denial of Service attack, we’d risk criminal charges. Marriott International? Not so much. A \$600,000 fine for engaging in DoS attacks on customers’ network access may sound like a big deal, but when you consider the criminal charges you or I would face, if we did the same to their networks, that’s peanuts. Read More

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