DAILY BELLWETHER 03/08/2016

Here are the top Bellwether stories of the day House Conservatives Push For Steeper Cuts With New Budget As the House Budget Committee approved a $1.07 trillion budget plan on Wednesday night, a leading conservative group was set to propose its own fiscal blueprint that spends less money, in the hope it would inspire the Republican conference to move in the same direction. The Republican Study Committee’s budget, which will officially be ... Read More What Happens to Delegates Won by Rubio, other ex-Candidates? With Marco Rubio dropping out of the Republican presidential race Tuesday, the Florida senator leaves a large cache of delegates behind. So what happens to them, and the delegates of other former candidates, at the convention in Cleveland? ... Read More Kerry Finally Acknowledges ISIS is Committing Genocide From the better late than never category, Secretary of State John Kerry has finally declared that ISIS is committing genocide against Christians, Yazidis & Shi'ite Muslims in Iraq, Syria & Libya. As recently as last month, Kerry resisted utilizing the term when he appeared in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and was taken to task for this by longtime Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher. But Congress and Christian groups like The Knights of Columbus kept up the pressure on the Obama Administration. ... Read More Garland Would Rule Very Differently Than Scalia Standing in the Rose Garden this morning, President Barack Obama concluded his speech in typical condescending fashion: “I have fulfilled my constitutional duty. Now it's time for the Senate to do theirs.” The former constitutional law professor should know better. As ... Read More