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October 21, 2014 Good morning! Republicans are gaining
confidence they may have an historic sweep on their hands. But don't forget, just before Election Day 2012, we were told about . . . President Romney. Also in the news today: Obama says those Dems who are hiding from him really do dig him; the best way to get at Obamacare is to attack the subsidies, which are under challenge in the courts; evangelicals seek to get back in the game using Obama's methods; and a strange theory about the Kennedy assassination.
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GOP bullish with two weeks to go . . . Two weeks from Election Day, GOP hopes of capturing congressional control continue to rise. "We are going to win the Senate. I feel very good about that," National Republican Senatorial Committee
Executive Director Rob Collins said last week. His optimism is well-founded: The GOP needs to net six seats to take the upper chamber, and positive polls in Colorado, Arkansas, Alaska and other battlegrounds have Republicans buoyant. House Republicans are also aiming for historic gains to pad their majority. Meanwhile, Democrats privately fret that the battle for Congress may be slipping away as President Obama drags his party down. Their hopes of hanging on rest in
their sophisticated ground game. Democrats have spent more than $60 million on field efforts, and strategists in both parties say that could net them a point or two on Election Day. The Hill |
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Obama: These Democrats actually support me . . . Obama delivered a blow to Democratic Senate candidates looking to distance themselves from his flagging approval ratings Monday, saying lawmakers avoiding him on the campaign trail were “strong allies and supporters” who have
“supported my agenda in Congress.” The Hill Surprise, Mr. President! . . . The president and his staff have seemed flat-footed, reactive,
surprised, and at the mercy of outside events rather than in command of them. National Journal No rush to end affirmative action . . . In a new interview, President Obama said
courts should allow affirmative action for the foreseeable future, but he believes he can do more for the cause of racial justice with policies to help black students obtain high school diplomas. Washington Times Six times Obama declared a crisis, then did nothing . . . IRS, Fast and Furious, Benghazi. These were all supposed to be a Big ^$%#ing deal. And then it was on to something else. Breitbart's Ben Shapiro reports. Government pays millions for workers to sit home . . . The federal government has shelled out more than $700 million in paid leave to more than 57,000 employees
who were home from work for time periods stretching from one month to three years, a Government Accountability Office report has found. Examiner It's the subsidies, stupid . . . The Obama administration has funded a new study by top consulting firm RAND Health that startlingly finds that if taxpayer subsidies are eliminated, Obamacare exchanges will fall into a "death spiral." Eliminating premium subsidies entirely would 'cause large declines in enrollment and substantial increases in premiums,' RAND
Health concluded. In short — Americans are far less likely to want Obamacare coverage, or to be able to afford it, when taxpayers aren’t footing the bill. Daily Caller Perez: Immigration raises wages . . . Labor Secretary Tom Perez asserted Monday that allowing more foreign workers into the United States would have the effect of increasing U.S. wages, contrary to the findings of several studies, and the law of supply and demand, which say more workers would mean reduced wages. The Blaze |
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Ebola Czar to skip hearing . . . Ron Klain, appointed last Friday by President Obama to direct the nation's response to the Ebola crisis, sent his regrets Monday to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which had invited him to testify this Friday. Fox News
Klain officially starts work Wednesday. Rubio to introduce flight ban . . . With calls increasing for a ban on travel to the United States from countries ravaged by the Ebola virus, Sen. Marco Rubio says he'll introduce legislation next month to prohibit new visas for people from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Newsmax Anonymous Ebola patient recovers . . . Dallas, Texas nurse Amber Vinson continues to receive care at Emory University Hospital after contracting the deadly Ebola virus while an anonymous patient leaves the hospital, cleared of the disease and heading to an undisclosed location. Breitbart Bachmann given security detail . . . Rep. Michele
Bachmann has been provided with a “limited” protection detail after a picture of her appeared in a video by the Islamic State. Fox
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Democrat candidate: Obamacare hurt my wallet . . . Democratic Senate candidate Amanda Curtis confessed that Obamacare has driven up her healthcare costs during a debate with incumbent Steve Daines (R., Mont.) on Monday. Free Beacon
Evangelicals seek political revival . . . The evangelical movement wants to be back on top of national politics, and to do it it’s borrowing from an unlikely playbook
— Barack Obama’s. Groups like Faith and Freedom Coalition and Susan B. Anthony’s List are beefing up their grass-roots efforts this year, turning to strategies more often embraced by President Obama than the Christian right, like using online data and micro-targeting to reach or visit hundreds of thousands of voters in key counties. Politico
Nunn uses HW in ad, despite plea . . . Democratic Senate candidate Michelle Nunn once again has used former President George H.W. Bush’s image to push her own Senate bid, despite repeatedly being asked by the 41st president not to do that. Fox News
GOP makes gains on Ebola . . . bola has moved to
the front of campaign issues before U.S. November elections, as fear and criticism of the government's response to cases of the virus in the United States opened a new line of Republican attacks against President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats. Reuters
Kasich backs Obamacare . . . Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich threw unprecedented support behind Obamacare in an interview with The Associated Press released Monday. Kasich spoke to The AP about GOP efforts to repeal the health-care law if Republicans win the Senate in the November elections. “That’s not gonna happen,” Kasich said . . . “The opposition to it was really either
political or ideological,” Kasich told The AP. “I don’t think that holds water against real flesh and blood, and real improvements in people’s lives.” Daily Caller Grimes,
McConnell tied . . . A new independent survey of the Kentucky Senate race shows Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) locked in a dead heat with his Democratic opponent, Alison Lundergan Grimes. The poll gives McConnell 44 percent to Grimes' 43 percent among likely voters. Libertarian David Patterson takes 5 percent support. That marks a decline in support for Grimes from three weeks ago, when the last Bluegrass Poll showed her taking 46 percent to McConnell's 44 percent. The Hill |
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Franklin Graham: Is Islam really a religion of peace? . . . Reverend Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, has sometimes criticized Islam, and in a recent Facebook post questioned whether Islam is “really
a religion of peace” noting that the Islamic State, in the latest issue of its magazine, Dabiq, defends slavery and the use of women as sex slaves “as a firmly established aspect of the Shariah.” CNS
News Kennedy's Secret Service agents too hungover? . . . Several had drinking until 3 am. Sound familiar? From the Daily
Mail: Justice Warren noted that some on the scene noted seeing the barrel of a gun sticking out of the Texas School Book Depository and questioned why the service members didn't see it . . . After the first shot, the agents were slow to react. At the wheel of Kennedy's car was 54-year-old agent William Greer, whose advanced age was also questioned after the assassination, and instead of accelerating or swerving he pressed the brakes, according to witnesses. Of the agents
in the follow car, only Hill raced towards the president. By the time he reached the car in front of him, another shot, this one fatal, had struck Kennedy in the side of the head.
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