The Right Stuff In The Morning
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Good morning! In the news today: Officer Darren Wilson and Ferguson's police chief both may be fired; White House faced with uproar over aide who called Netanyahu "chickenshit;" Dems are race baiting to save their seats; and Obama's formerly adoring millennials now back the GOP.
Have a great Thursday.
Keith
Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson may be fired . . . The first steps in a major shakeup of the Ferguson, Missouri police department – including the resignation of Chief Thomas Jackson – could come as early as next week, according to local and federal officials who’ve been briefed on plans still being worked out by city and state leaders. The plan, described by a source with direct knowledge of the plans as “extremely delicate,” said the details are still being hashed out in closed-door meetings between Ferguson city and St. Louis County officials who have sought consultation from the Justice Department, which is conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in August.
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the plan could include not just the resignation of Chief Jackson but the resignation of Officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed Brown on a Ferguson street, setting the city into weeks of unrest. A full-scale take over of the Ferguson force by the St. Louis County police could follow. MSNBC
If Wilson's story is correct, and all signs suggest it is, then this is pure mob justice.
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White House tries to walk back "chickenshit" . . . The White House on Wednesday sought to tamp down the controversy over a magazine piece that detailed deep tensions between the U.S. and Israel – and quoted an unnamed senior Obama administration official calling the Israeli leader a “chickenshit.” Administration officials did not deny the quote. They also did not signal there would be any robust effort to find out who said it. But the asserted the criticism does not reflect how the rest of the administration views Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Fox News
Boehner blasts remark . . . House Speaker John Boehner lashed out at the Obama administration for reports that a senior official described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "chickenshit," while another unnamed official described him as a "coward." Boehner said the comments suggesting Netanyahu is more concerned about his political self-interest than forging peace in the Middle East could threaten America's relationship with Israel and the long-term security of the region.Newsmax
Jewish leader demands apology . . . Rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder and Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, has called on President Obama to "name, apologize for, and repudiate" the anonymous official quoted in an Atlantic Magazine article describing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "chickenshit." Fox News
Activists fear Obama to scale back legalization . . . Immigration activists close to the White House worry that President Barack Obama could delay or scale back executive actions on immigration that he has promised to take before the year ends. Reuters
Obama scores Ebola policy opponents . . . A visibly agitated President Obama on Wednesday ripped into critics of the U.S. response to the Ebola virus, insisting that his administration was leading the charge to “snuff out” the deadly disease. “When I hear people talking about American leadership and then are promoting policies that would avoid leadership ... [and have us] hiding under the covers, it makes me a little frustrated,” the president said, joined by healthcare workers who treated the disease in West Africa, including American Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly. Examiner
Labor secretary likes 12-months of paid leave . . . Labor Secretary Tom Perez on Wednesday praised Germany’s policy of giving new parents a full year of paid time off from work, and suggested the U.S. should adopt similar policies. The Blaze
Perez may be our next attorney general.
Holder's one regret: targeting Rosen . . . Attorney General Eric Holder says he has one regret: his department's court order for Fox News reporter James Rosen's emails labeling him a criminal "co-conspirator." Fox News
One regret? Seriously?
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US health system unprepared for Ebola . . . The U.S. health care apparatus is so unprepared and short on resources to deal with the deadly Ebola virus that even small clusters of cases could overwhelm parts of the system. Associated Press
Budget cuts blamed for friendly fire deaths . . . The “friendly fire” airstrike that killed five American soldiers in Afghanistan on June 9 is the first known case of a battlefield catastrophe that can be linked to automatic defense spending cuts that greatly curtailed prewar training.Washington Times
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Democrats race baiting to save midterms . . . In the final days before the election, Democrats in the closest Senate races across the South are turning to racially charged messages — invoking Trayvon Martin’s death, the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and Jim Crow-era segregation — to jolt African-Americans into voting and stop a Republican takeover in Washington.
The images and words they are using are striking for how overtly they play on fears of intimidation and repression. And their source is surprising. The effort is being led by national Democrats and their state party organizations — not, in most instances, by the shadowy and often untraceable political action committees that typically employ such provocative messages. New York Times
I'm trying to decide if this is more pathetic, disgraceful or scary. Democrats will now officially do anything to get elected.
Millennials back GOP . . . Millennial voters, in a shocking shift, now prefer a Republican-controlled Congress and give President Obama his second lowest grade ever. A new and massive poll of 2,029 18- to 29-year-olds from Harvard’s Institute of Politics just released found that of those who say they will “definitely be voting,” 51 percent want the GOP in charge, 47 percent favoring Democratic control. Examiner
Latino support for Dems falling . . . After more than a year of inaction by Congress and President Obama on immigration reform, Democrats maintain a wide, but diminished, advantage among Hispanic registered voters, according to a new nationwide survey of 1,520 Hispanic adults, including 733 registered voters, by the Pew Research Center.
Walker opens up seven-point lead . . . Republican Gov. Scott Walker leads Democratic challenger Mary Burke 50% to 43% among likely voters in the latest survey by the Marquette University Law School. That represents a change from other Wisconsin surveys in recent weeks — including a Marquette poll two weeks ago — that showed the race essentially tied. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Charge: Burke's family fired her . . . In attempting to explain her two-year work hiatus in the early to mid-1990s, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke has said she was just burned out after an intense period of leading European operations for Trek Bicycle Corp., her family’s Waterloo-based global manufacturer. In fact, Burke apparently was fired by her own family following steep overseas financial losses and plummeting morale among Burke’s European sales staff, multiple former Trek executives and employees told Wisconsin Reporter.
Purdue leads Nunn by eight . . . Businessman David Perdue has galloped to an 8-point lead over incumbent Georgia Democratic Sen. Michelle Nunn, a poll released Wednesday shows. The Monmouth University poll finds that Perdue has the support of 49 percent of likely voters, while Nunn has 41 percent – and that Perdue leads not only among men, 52 percent to 38 percent, but also with women, 47 percent to 43 percent. Newsmax
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Alliance with Turkey in ruins . . . The increasingly hostile divergence of views between Turkey and the United States over Syria is testing the durability of their 60-year alliance, to the point where some are starting to question whether the two countries still can be considered allies at all.
Turkey’s refusal to allow the United States to use its bases to launch attacks against the Islamic State, quarrels over how to manage the battle raging in the Syrian border town of Kobane and the harsh tone of the anti-American rhetoric used by top Turkish officials to denounce U.S. policy have served to illuminate the vast gulf that divides the two nations.Washington Post
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HSS: Illegal kids didn't bring enterovirus . . . Of the 68,541 unaccompanied illegal alien children who entered the U.S. in fiscal year 2014, none were reported to have the enterovirus, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. CNS News
Duck Dynasty goosing the vote . . . Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson has starred in a flurry of political ads in his home state as election day nears. “You Christian folks sit on them pews and you don’t go register to vote," he says in one. "Half of you don’t even register, and only half of the ones of you are registered actually vote. Duh! If you want more of the same of this politically correct crap, just keep sitting on the pew and you’re going to get more of it." Washington Times
Veterans triple-dipping on benefits . . . One veteran on disability collected nearly $210,000 in benefits in 2013, while another earned more than $122,000 — nearly three times what his actual military pay would have been — according to a watchdog report being released Thursday that found tens of thousands of veterans are triple-dipping on disability.Washington Times
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