The Right Stuff In The Morning
October 23, 2014
Good morning! Leading the news today, we find that Senate Democrats are taking off the gloves
- and pounding the White House; something's wrong with the White House's claims of rampant sex assault on campus; Elizabeth Warren hints she may actually run in 2016; and if there's an Ebola vaccine, you can thank Dick Cheney! Keith
Senate Dems start lashing out at White House . . . The relationship between the White House and Senate Democrats hit a new low Tuesday
evening after the administration's press office released a transcript of first lady Michelle Obama's appearance in Iowa on behalf of Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Braley. The problem: The subject line of the e-mail referred to Braley as the "Democratic candidate for governor." National Journal Wendy Davis: I'd welcome Obama . .
. Democrat Wendy Davis said Wednesday she would welcome President Barack Obama campaigning for her in Texas after largely keeping distance from him throughout her underdog run for governor. Still trailing by double digits in some polls with less than two weeks until Election Day, Davis is no longer so cautiously staying at arm’s length from Obama. Associated Press White House sex assault claims can't be true . . . White House claims that one in five women will be sexually assaulted while in college, and that just 12 percent report the crime, cannot both be true, according to American Enterprise scholar Mark J. Perry. “Using actual reported crime statistics on sexual offenses at almost any US college and applying the White House claim that only 12% of campus
sexual assaults actually get reported, we have to conclude that nowhere near 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted while in college,” Perry wrote. Examiner Obama more optimistic about stopping Ebola . . . President Obama said Wednesday he is "cautiously more optimistic" about stopping Ebola in the United States as his new czar began his first day of work. The president noted that dozens
of individuals who had contact with the Liberian man who brought the virus to the U.S. had tested negative and said two nurses with confirmed infections "seem to be doing better." The
Hill Chuckle Alert
. . . Here's a satirical piece I wrote yesterday - "Ron Klain's unpromising first day" - lampooning our callow new Ebola Czar. White House
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More Ebola restrictions . . . The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday announced that all travelers arriving in the U.S. from the three Ebola-stricken
African countries will be subject to a 21-day monitoring program. Fox
News Syria airstrikes kill 521 bad guys . . . Air strikes by U.S.-led forces have killed 521 Islamist fighters and 32 civilians during a month-long campaign in Syria, a monitoring group which tracks the violence said on Thursday. Reuters Squandered victory . . . Concerned Veterans for America puts out a video of a U.S. Marine lamenting the "sacrifice wasted" winning
Iraq. "Just about every area that I served in In Iraq is now under the control of ISIS." Watch it here. |
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Warren opens door to 2016 run . . . Asked whether she was mulling a bid in 2016, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., used language that made it sound like a run wasn't out of the question. “I don’t think so,” she said at her Cambridge, Mass., home for this week’s issue. “If there’s any lesson I’ve learned in the last five years, it’s don’t be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.” The Hill
Don't think an inexperienced lefty running will be a Godsend to Republicans. That's what some thought in 2008. Including me.
Paul summons strategists to powwow . . . Sen. Rand Paul is summoning his top strategists and political advisers to Washington one week after the November election for a strategy session over his widely expected 2016 presidential bid. National Journal Paul to lay out foreign policy visions . . . Rand Paul, whose foreign policy views have
become a frequent target of his GOP critics, will use a high-profile speech in New York on Thursday to urge the United States to exercise restraint when engaging in wars overseas.
Politico
With the public alarmed by ISIS, Paul will have to be careful not to sound like a neo-isolationist.
Dem GOTV official nabbed endorsing voter fraud . . . A video, released by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, shows Meredith Hicks, director of the political canvassing group Work for Progress, endorse the casting of fraudulent mail-in ballots for ineligible voters. “If they are not eligible to vote, and all these people are throwing out ballots, lets use those ballots to vote. So we can get as
many votes as possible,” O’Keefe tells Hicks in the video. “Yes, definitely,” she responds. Free Beacon Sign of a wave? . . . More registered Republicans than registered Democrats have cast a ballot during early voting in Iowa for the first time in a modern-day election, according to a GOP memo. Fox News Things looking up for GOP in Colorado . . . Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., is looking better and better in his campaign to unseat incumbent Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., with the latest batch of polling data showing the Republican challenger ahead by seven points, according to a USA Today/Suffolk University survey released Wednesday. The survey of 500 likely Colorado voters shows that 46 percent prefer Gardner, while only 39
percent say they’re going to go for Udall. Examiner Cooked votes in Cook County? . .
. Early voting in Illinois got off to a rocky start Monday, as votes being cast for Republican candidates were transformed into votes for Democrats. Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan went to vote Monday at the Schaumburg Public Library. “I tried to cast a vote for myself and instead it cast the vote for my opponent,” Moynihan said. Watchdog.org |
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Canada's PM: Shooting rampage was terrorism . . . Two deadly attacks in three days against members of the military stunned Canadians and
raised fears their country was being targeted for reprisals for joining the U.S.-led air campaign against an extremist Islamic group in Iraq and Syria. "We will not be intimidated. Canada will never be intimidated," Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed in a nationally televised address. Associated Press
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Ebola Vaccine? Thank Dick Cheney . . . At least seven drugs now being tested -- including some used to treat Ebola victims in the U.S. -- grew from biodefense measures first approved after Sept. 11. Cheney said he feared assaults by bioterrorists could be far more devastating than what happened that day, and became an advocate
in the George W. Bush White House for the appropriation of billions of dollars to stop deadly pathogens. Congress agreed, funds began flowing to scientists and breakthroughs followed. Bloomberg Big Three networks ignore anti-Obama election . . . The nation’s Big Three TV networks that breathlessly reported the 2006 anti-Bush election which gave Democrats control of Capitol Hill have practically ignored this year’s anti-Obama midterms that are expected to return full control of the Hill to the GOP. Examiner A lot of the bias in news reporting comes out in the stories that are chosen. Reporters often cover their butts by trying to make individual stories looked balanced by throwing in comments from "the other side." But they'll choose to do pieces reflecting the priorities of liberals. The poll tax that wasn't . . . The hard numbers suggest that the number of voters getting locked out by voter ID laws is diminishingly small. Politico Shaheen campaign kicks Breitbart
reporter out . . . The campaign of Democratic incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) kicked this reporter out of an event at ReVision Energy on Wednesday afternoon. Shaheen’s campaign asked the owner of the business—who refused to identify himself—to say to this reporter that “this was a private event and you’re not welcome here." Breitbart Todd: Fox "obsessed" with media bias . . . NBC's “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd had some harsh words for Fox News, saying it has an “obsession” with finding media bias in every story. “I think it's amusing to me, their obsession with trying to make everything about media bias. Whatever story, whatever angle, whatever stories is out
there, there's always some sort of supposed media-bias angle to it." Politico If you you don't want REDLINE but still would like occasional White House Dossier alerts, reply to his email with the message: "Just White House
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