The Right Stuff In The Morning
Thursday, February 15, 2015
Good morning! In the news today: Jordan vows revenge for burning of pilot, executes two Islamists; Biden and many Dems may skip Netanyahu speech; peeved Obama may not meet with Netanyahu again; Republicans try to show they like vaccines; White House actually agrees with Christie; and Axelrod says Obama didn't like Romney concession call one bit.
Have a great day.
Keith
Jordan's Abdullah vows revenge, quotes Eastwood . . . He said there is going to be retribution like ISIS hasn't seen," said Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr., a Marine Corps veteran of two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, who was in the meeting with the king.
"He mentioned 'Unforgiven' and he mentioned Clint Eastwood, and he actually quoted a part of the movie." Washington Examiner Jordan executes two Islamists . . . Jordan hanged two Iraqi jihadists, one a woman, on Wednesday in response to an Islamic State video showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive in a cage by the hard-line group. Islamic State had demanded the release of the woman, Sajida al-Rishawi, in exchange for a Japanese hostage whom it later beheaded. Sentenced to death for her role in a 2005 suicide bomb
attack in Amman, Rishawi was executed at dawn. Reuters Arabs unite to condemn Jordanian pilot's murder . . . The
burning alive of a Jordanian pilot by Islamic State militants is reverberating around the Middle East, a region that’s no stranger to public hangings and beheadings. Bloomberg This is a link to the video of the Jordanian pilot being burned to death. I WARN YOU: It is gruesome, horrifying, and you may not be able to get it
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Israeli newspaper: Obama may not meet with Netanyahu again . . . Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “toast” at the White House following his acceptance of an invitation to address Congress, and President Obama may never meet with him again, according to
one of Israel’s leading newspapers. White House Dossier Biden, many Dems may skip Netanyahu speech . . . Dozens of House Democrats are
privately threatening to skip the March 3 address, according to lawmakers and aides. Politico White House
aligns with Christie on vaccines . . . The White House today offered up an opinion on measles vaccinations that appears all but identical to that of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, suggesting that laws and mandates should not be created to force people to get the vaccine. White House Dossier 
Video || World in chaos, Obama at peace . . . Obama’s perceptions of the consequences of his presidency are cocooned within the warm embrace of fantasy. Beyond the palace gates at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, though, the world is beginning to crumble. Here is the wreckage of President Obama’s foreign policy, contrasted with the irrelevant musings of
his State of the Union speech. When will the destruction be wrought here? White House Dossier Obama was irritated by Romney concession . . . Obama was
shocked and irritated by Mitt Romney's concession call in the 2012 presidential election—and claimed Romney insinuated that Obama won only by getting out the black vote, according to a new book by presidential campaign strategist David Axelrod. Obama was "unsmiling during the call, and slightly irritated when it was over," Axelrod writes. Politico Holder: I cleaned up Bush's partisan Justice Department . . . Attorney General Eric Holder refuted Republicans who said the Justice Department, under his leadership, had become little more than a political machine to push liberal causes — and said that he’s actually cleaned up
all the politicking that had taken place under the former Bush administration. Washington Times Obama deficit "cuts" questioned . . . Obama's budget is relying on a series of familiar accounting tricks to show $1.8 trillion in deficit reduction over a decade, an amount that would shrink by almost half if they were excluded. Associated Press Obama expected to sign vet suicide prevention bill . . . Congress has passed and the president is expected to sign into law a bill that is intended to make it easier to help veterans suffering from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder and at
risk of committing suicide. Newsmax Obama Schedule || Wednesday, February 4, 2015
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Obama to release national security strategy . . . The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s brutal slaying of a Jordanian pilot and concern about the Obama administration’s strategy to confront the extreme terrorist group are
ratcheting up expectations for the White House’s long-awaited national security doctrine. Obama plans to release the long-overdue document Friday, and counter-terrorism experts are hoping it will outline a robust, multi-pronged approach to fighting the Islamic State. Washington Examiner Obama underestimating ISIS in Libya . .
. A top adviser to Libya’s prime minister warned Tuesday that the Obama administration and the U.S. intelligence community have dramatically underestimated the Islamic State’s expansion into his nation — a development that could have been avoided had Washington led a more aggressive counterterrorism strategy after Moammar Gadhafi’s ouster in 2011. Washington Times
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Who thinks vaccines are dangerous? Democrats! . . . The financiers of the anti-vaccination movement now blamed for a resurgence of measles in the United States include trial lawyers suing drug companies that manufacture vaccines and high-profile
Democratic fundraisers, public records show. Washington Free Beacon Republicans line up to support vaccines . . . On the day after
remarks by Sen. Rand Paul and Gov. Chris Christie seemed to raise questions about whether children should be vaccinated, other potential contenders for the presidency lined up to make clear their support for vaccines and the science behind them. Washington Examiner Daily Beast editor to Rand Paul: "Fuck You" . . . "Today I am getting my booster vaccine. Wonder how the liberal media will misreport this," Paul wrote on Twitter. "Fuck you," Justin Miller, the senior
editor, wrote back. Politico 
Average guy Christie's above-average tastes . . . King Abdullah of Jordan picked up the tab for a Christie family
weekend at the end of the trip. The governor and two staff members who accompanied him came back to New Jersey bubbling that they had celebrated with Bono, the lead singer of U2, at three parties, two at the king’s residence, the other a Champagne reception in the desert. But a small knot of aides fretted: The rooms in luxurious Kempinski hotels had cost about $30,000; what would happen if that became public? New York Times
DWS damage control after criticizing intermarriage . . . Debbie Wasserman Schultz is now attempting damage control
after audio surfaced last week of her telling a Jewish audience that “too many” Jews are marrying non-Jews. Daily Caller GOP effort to oust Reid stalls . . . With Gov. Brian Sandoval delaying any decision until summer, his indecision is costing Republicans precious time in their quest to oust the party’s biggest target in 2016. The Hill
Harry Reid's brother screws up . . . Reid has been arrested for drunk driving, battery of a police officer, and possession of a gun while under the influence. Washington Free Beacon Cruz smoked pot as a teen . . . "Teenagers are often known for their lack of judgment, and Sen. Cruz was no exception," a Cruz spokesperson said. "When he was a teenager, he foolishly
experimented with marijuana. It was a mistake, and he's never tried it since." Daily Mail Yeah, well, he loved it and doesn't regret it, just like everyone else who smoked it. |
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Gallup CEO: Unemployment numbers "a big lie" . . . He points out that the Department of Labor simply doesn’t count someone as unemployed if they gave up looking for a job after four weeks of
fruitless searching. Adding that as many as 30 million Americans are truly out of work or severely underemployed. Breitbart Keith Koffler
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