Morning Briefing
For September 10, 2013
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1. House GOP Leaders Prepare “Hug It Out” Strategy to Fund Obamacare
Eric Cantor is always looking for new and imaginative ways to
screw conservatives. He has Pete Sessions (R-TX), as Rules Chairman,
helping him with his latest creative way to screw conservatives. I’ve
already well documented Pete Sessions’s increasingly bitter attitude
toward Ted Cruz and staggering contempt of his own constituents who want
to defund Obamacare.
Cantor and Sessions’ latest idea tops even his most absurd
shenanigans. The plan is to pass the real CR that fully funds Obamacare,
then pass a fake bill that defunds Obamacare. The Senate will pass the
CR, and throw the defunding bill in the garbage. But, Cantor and
Session’s theory is that conservatives are so stupid that they will clap
like trained seals at the fake bill, and meanwhile not notice that the
House just fully funded Obamacare.
Let me break down their plan for you. House leadership will pass a
continuing resolution in the House. It will fund Obamacare. Cantor and
Sessions will also make sure a separate resolution to defund Obamacare
gets passed that would amend the CR to defund Obamacare if the Senate
votes for it, which they of course will not. These two separate votes
will be combined with great fan fare to make it look like House
Republicans are voting for a CR that defunds Obamacare. But the Senate
will pass the CR that funds Obamacare, sending it to the President, and
ignore the defund resolution.
Obamacare will be fully funded, but the GOP will get to tell its
voters that it supported defunding Obamacare. Yes, they did. But only
because they rigged the defunding effort to fail. This is a head pat to
conservatives designed to screw them and the nation at a time more and
more Americans are seeing employers shove them to part time work,
cutting spousal benefits, or refusing insurance altogether because of
Obamacare.
Consequently, conservatives need to rally immediately for House
conservatives to vote against the rule on this. Outside groups need to
make clear they will score against any rule that does this. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. The Soft Power of the Obama Administration
On Friday, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha
Power, gave a surreal performance that seemed a cross between the start
of a 12-step program and primal scream therapy. Speaking at the left
wing Center for American Progress, Power said . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Pete Sessions Latest Texan to Run Scared From Funding Government Without Obamacare
Congressman Pete Sessions – steadfastly avoiding serious town
halls where he may face conservatives / tea party activists in Dallas –
recently was caught on camera arrogantly claiming 1) that he was unable
to get Obamacare defunding language from Senator Cruz (false), and 2)
that this language supposedly does not work (language he co-sponsors). . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Illegitimate states, dubious wars, and diplomacy by gaffe
Let’s see if I’ve got this right: our headlong rush to war in
Syria was so important that not even the U.S. Constitution could be
allowed to stand in its way. But
at the eleventh hour, President Obama decided he needed some
accomplices in case it turns into a fiasco, and the British Parliament
vote against was in Syria made unilateral cowboy aggression by Obama
politically difficult, so he decided to let Congress weigh in after all. No
one in the Administration would promise to respect the outcome of the
vote – unless they voted “yes,” of course, in which case it would be the
most historically wonderful congressional action since ObamaCare passed
in the dead of night on a party-line vote that still required special
deals and kickbacks to buy off half of Obama’s party. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. The New York City Mayor’s Race: Race, Crime, Unions, Taxes, and…Other Stuff
Today – Tuesday, September 10 – New York City voters go to the
polls to pick the major-party candidates for their next Mayor.
Candidates need 40% of their party’s vote to avoid an October 1 runoff
election among the top two finishers in the primary. At this writing, it
appears that the nominees – possibly without a runoff – will be
Republican candidate Joe Lhota (a former Rudy Giuliani aide and more
recently Andrew Cuomo’s appointee to head the MTA transit system) and
Democrat/Working Families Party candidate Bill de Blasio (a former David
Dinkins aide and the city’s Public Advocate). To get from here to
Election Day, the City may reopen old racial wounds and have to grapple
with the legacy of its last three Mayors. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
6. Spoken Like a Democrat Married to a Democratic Operative
Chuck Todd thinks Democrats opposed to going to war in Syria are “principled”.
But Republicans opposed to going to war in Syria are doing so because of politics.
Really.
Let’s use this as a timely reminder that Chuck Todd was once a
Democratic staffer to Senator Tom Harkin and is married to Kristian
Denny Todd who served as a communications person for the Democratic
Party and then helped found Maverick Strategies and Mail, a consulting
group for liberal candidates.
And yes, for you media folks offended by me implying that
marriage can infiltrate the objective analysis of reporter, continue to
disagree, but I’ve adopted Crank’s view as my own — to find out where
one stands on any issue in Washington, find out who they are sleeping
with. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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