Wednesday, October 9, 2013

RedState Briefing 10/09/2013

Morning Briefing
For October 9, 2013




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1.  This is the Strategy. Now Do It.
Conservatives need to push the debt ceiling fight off the front burner to after Christmas.

Republican Leaders are begging us to merge the continuing resolution fight and debt ceiling fight. They covet this with all their mind and heart.

They do not want a stand alone fight on Obamacare. They want to conflate it with the debt ceiling so they can do a grand bargain and leave Obamacare alone.


Consider Rep. Paul Ryan’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. He wants a grand bargain and not once mentions Obamacare. Not once.

Friends, as I noted the other day, we lose everything if we merge the continuing resolution and debt ceiling fights.

What’s more, if the debt ceiling gets pushed to just before Christmas, the GOP will collapse in that fight just like they did with Obamacare in 2009. . . . please click here for the rest of the post

2.  The Little Eichmanns of the Government Shutdown
If anyone had any doubt about the vicious and petty character of Barack Obama and his administration the past week should have put those doubts to rest. Not even Nixon’s “enemies list” can compete with Obama. Nixon’s list was focused on not inviting certain pustulent bags of crap, like Daniel Schorr, to White House function. Obama and his minions have effectively declared all Americans the enemy in an attempt to make the impact of the government shutdown artificially painful. . . . please click here for the rest of the post

3.  Shame on Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. He Lied to Bill O’Reilly
Last week, reports surfaced that the Senate GOP had a meeting in which Senators screamed at and berated Senators Mike Lee and Ted Cruz. Senator Ron Johnson appeared on Bill O’Reilly’s show to deny that anyone yelled or screamed at Senators Lee and Cruz in that meeting.

Ron Johnson is a damn liar.

There was one, and only one, Senator screaming at the top of his lungs in that room — Senator Ron Johnson. . . . please click here for the rest of the post

4.  Take THAT America!
The Obama administration is taking their ball and going home. In the wake of the (sort of) government shut-down, Americans from sea to shining sea are feeling the pinch. At least, we assume the sea is shining after the (sort of shut-down) government moved to close it. Yes the pain of a (sort of) closed government is being universally shared. With unattended open-air monuments, giant canyons, mountains, lakes, forests, roads and highways, and even critical websites boarded up and hid from view, the (semi-) closed state of our government is more noticeable, more annoying, and more finger pointy than ever before. And amid this closedpocalypse, the heroic democrats are here to tell you that the ouchies are all thanks to republicans taking you hostage with guns. Why, just yesterday John Boehner himself took over a bank and demanded a bus and nude photos of Bea Arthur. And we wouldn’t know about this evil without the Obama administration cleverly turning off all the lights, that the darkness might illuminate it. . . . please click here for the rest of the post

5.  Obama’s Debt Ceiling Mendacity
Earlier today, the ever melodramatic president suggested that it is unprecedented for an opposing party in Congress to deny a request for a clean debt ceiling increase.  He asserted that “nobody in the past has ever seriously threatened to breach the debt ceiling until the last two years. and this is the credit worthiness of the united states we’re talking about.”

Actually, as Sean Davis noted, there have been a number of epic budget battles over the debt ceiling dating back to President Eisenhower.  Many of them resulted in some serious concessions by the sitting president.  But what is more important is Obama’s amnesia from his own days in the Senate. . . . please click here for the rest of the post

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