Morning Briefing
For July 18, 2013
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1. ‘This Town’ Needs an Enema
Mark
Leibovich of the New York Times has written a pretty scathing book about
Washington, DC, called This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus,
Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America’s Gilded Capital. It is a pretty
accurate portrayal of the Washington, DC more and more Americans have
come to hold in contempt. There exists in Washington a new aristocracy
where, for example, a poor boxer from Searchlight, NV, can get elected
to the United States Senate, become wealthy enough to live at the Ritz,
and see his family profit from K Street.
It is a city where the new aristocrats move and do not want to leave. It is a
town in need of an enema.
Consider the Republicans in the United States Senate up for re-election in
2014. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Fear of the Missing White Voters
RealClearPolitics election analyst Sean Trende has come under coordinated
red-hot
rhetorical fire from the Left for his thesis that one of the major
causes of Mitt Romney’s loss in 2012 was that a disproportionate number
of white voters – mostly downscale whites outside the South – stayed
home. Much of the criticism of Trende’s thesis is based on deliberately
misreading his policy prescriptions – but it’s also based on a simpler
failure to grasp the basic math behind his calculations. Like any
exercise in reading exit polls and census data, Trende’s assumptions
(which he lays out explicitly) can be critiqued by people who are
serious about understanding the issue; there are no definitive answers
in this area other than final vote counts. But the vehemence directed at
Trende’s number-crunching suggests a Democratic establishment that
fears honest debate intruding in its narrative of an inevitable,
permanent Democratic majority built on a permanently racially polarized
electorate. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. The Debasing of Marriage
Up front I’ll tell you that I am opposed to homosexual marriage. I am
opposed for a wide variety of reasons beginning with my belief that
Lawrence v. Texas was a travesty. Be that as it may, I have to agree
with many homosexual marriage supporters that it is heterosexuals who
have succeeded in debasing marriage and we shouldn’t be surprised when
the course we’ve charted for marriage over the past seventy or so years
arrives at its logical conclusion in which marriage is treated as the
punch line in a gay sex joke.
In Western Civilization, marriage has traditionally indissoluble. The
break with that tradition occurred when Henry VIII made himself head of
his own church so he could procure divorces when the headsman was
indisposed. Even so, in the context of dynastic politics he had a point.
Unfortunately, societies tend to be run by elites who are often
dismissive of norms of behavior and the masses which
emulate them (let’s face it, a married man getting fellated by a woman
thirty years his junior was totally déclassé until Bill Clinton arrived
on the scene. Video taping your sexual antics was considered bad form
until Paris Hilton turned hers into fame).. . . please click here for the rest
of the post →
4. House Conservatives Beware the New Whipping Strategy
Over the past few years, the number of conservatives in the House has grown
exponentially. Well, at least to the extent that you can’t count them on your
fingers. Unfortunately, House conservatives are about to become a victim of
their own successes if they fail to change course.
In a sane world, Republicans would have more leverage than the Democrats over
the legislative process. They have full control over the House and a
filibuster-strength minority in the Senate. Consequently, they have the
ability to block bad legislation from passing the Senate, while jamming the
Democrats with good bills from the House. . . . please click here for the rest
of the post →
5. There Are No Indispensable Men
There are no indispensable men, but go to Washington and everyone treats
everyone else as indispensable.
Mitch
McConnell and John Boehner have been in the United States Congress since 1985.
In that time the national debt has grown from
$1,823,103,000,000.00 to $16,066,241,407,385.89. In that time the GOP
went from being the part of small government to the party of slightly
smaller than the Democrats. No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, TARP, the
General Motors bailout, and so much more happened on their watch.
But they
remain and voters who vote party and not person keep supporting them.
But they are not indispensable. No man is indispensable. The longer one
stays in Washington though, the more desperate one becomes to stay in
Washington. They collaborate in a system of arrangements whereby they
get more power and more influence. Their staff leaves to K Street
creating a feedback loop. They and their Democratic counterparts reward
friends and steer policy not toward ideas and ideology, but toward power with
themselves in the center of it.
No man is indispensable. Mike Enzi (R-WY) is right there with them.
Mike Enzi
is a fine Republican, but he is not putting points on the board for
conservatives. We need more like Ted Cruz and less like . . . well . . . Mike
Enzi. We need less rudderless Republicans who shuffle around at
the direction of their leadership and lobbyist friends. . . . please click
here for the rest of the post →
6. Pro-Abort Intimidation: YMCA Evicts Pro-Lifers In Texas
As the
abortion battle continues in Texas, a local YMCA chapter told Students
For Life Of America (SFLA) to leave the premises after anti-lifers
intimidated the assistant branch director to renege on their agreement
to use the center’s shower facilities. The SFLA had
embarked on a 3o-hour bus ride to Austin to rally in favor of the
pending Texas bill that will ban abortions twenty weeks into a
pregnancy. Pro-aborts have also staged demonstrations
against the new regulations, which passed its first legislative hurdle
in the Texas House. The Texas Senate expects to pass the bill soon. . . .
please click here for the rest of the post →
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The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it
necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the
application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states,
shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall
be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this
Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the
several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one
or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress;
provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one
thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first
and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that
no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage
in the Senate.
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