The Right Stuff In The Morning
Friday, November 14, 2014
Good morning! In the news today: Obama's amnesty executive order is coming as soon as next week and, as feared, will affect millions; Krauthammer uses the "I" word, a move sure to stir Republicans to thinking; the administration is reconsidering its no-ground-troops-to-fight-ISIS stance; latest Gruber video suggests Obama may have been down with the deception; and another Ebola patient is headed to the United States.
Have a nice weekend.
Keith
Obama executive order to affect up to 5 million . . . President Barack Obama is poised to act soon to unveil a series of executive actions on immigration that will shield possibly around 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally from deportation, according to advocates in touch with the White House.
The estimate includes extending deportation protections to parents and spouses of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been in the country for some years. The president is also likely to expand his 2-year-old program that protects young immigrants from deportation. Associated Press
Krauthammer: An impeachable offense . . . Commentator Charles Krauthammer said President Obama’s plan to grant amnesty to 4.5 million illegal immigrants was “an impeachable offense.” Krauthammer said that prosecutorial discretion, which Obama is invoking to justify his executive action, is only meant for extreme cases in which one or two individuals are prevented from being deported. Free Beacon
Limbaugh: Amnesty would be permanent . . . When a caller suggested that the GOP accede to Obama’s likely gift of blanket amnesty, then reverse it two years later, Limbaugh responded: "There's no reversing this. This is not like a piece of legislation that you might think you could repeal, or vote out, or whatever. You can't reverse this. We've never, ever reversed an amnesty." Breitbart
Rush has it right. Technically it's temporary, but are we really going to be able to revoke the status of 5 million people after they've been legalized and start operating normally within society?
GOP split on how to respond . . . Congressional Republicans have split into competing factions over how to respond to President Obama’s expected moves to overhaul the nation’s immigration system, which are likely to include protecting millions from being deported. Washington Post
Ripe for the picking by the GOP? . . . Immigrants have a low level of party affiliation, and those who do identify as Democrats are more conservative than members of the Democratic party overall, according to a new study by The Partnership for a New American Economy.
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Gruber video suggests Obama in on deception . . . The latest video to emerge of Jonathan Gruber boasting about his exploits suggests President Obama may have been party to the effort to disguise a tax on individuals that was passed as part of the Affordable Care Act. White House Dossier
White House Dossier fake quote of the day: “Sometimes, to make an omelette, you have to lie to a few eggs.” - Jonathan Gruber
How the Secret Service let a man in the East Room . . . Secret Service officers bungled the response to a White House intruder by committing a series of what one lawmaker is calling a “comedy of errors,” including one officer who was on his cell phone when the man jumped the fence and multiple officers who assumed bushes would stop him. Fox News
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Administration rethinking ground troops . . . President Obama’s top military advisers revealed Thursday that the administration is rethinking whether to deploy combat ground troops in the fight against the Islamic State, as signs emerged that the terrorist group may be setting aside its differences and is working with al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria — the Nusra Front — to attack U.S.-backed rebels in the region. Washington Times
Here's the way in for Obama: He says that now ISIS is allied with al Qaeda, and we're at war with al Qaeda, so ground troops are now justified.
U.S. to fix major problems with unsafe nukes . . . The Pentagon will have to spend billions of dollars over the next five years to make emergency fixes to its nuclear weapons infrastructure, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will announce on Friday, after two separate Pentagon studies concluded that there are “systemic problems across the nuclear enterprise,” according to senior defense officials. New York Times
ISIS leader not so dead after strike . . . Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi urged his followers to "explode the volcanoes of jihad everywhere," according to the 17-minute message posted online Thursday. Associated Press
Report: $420M in weapons missing in Afghanistan . . . Nearly $420 million in weapons and other “sensitive items” have gone missing from U.S. Army bases in Afghanistan and are not likely to be recovered due to mismanagement and improper accounting, according to an internal report by the Pentagon’s inspector general obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Spy program targets your cellphones . . . The Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of cellphones through fake communications towers deployed on airplanes, a high-tech hunt for criminal suspects that is snagging large number of innocent Americans, according to people familiar with the operations. Fox News
Combat pilot who tried to halt lesbian kiss is out . . . The Army is moving to discharge a decorated combat pilot who intervened to stop two lesbian officers from showing what he considered inappropriate affection on the dance floor during a full-dress formal ball at Fort Drum, New York, in 2012. Washington Times
Celebrities who honor our troops . . . Here are 10 celebrities who have gone overseas and visited combat zones to boost the morale of our troops. Daily Caller
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The ten seats that will decide the next Senate . . . The Senate map for 2016 might not be as bad for Republicans as it looks. The GOP has a bigger cushion than expected for its new majority, probably 54 seats. More veteran senators may stick around to preserve safe seats. And some vulnerable incumbents will have committee chairmanships that could pump up their profiles. Politico
Republicans who may face a primary challenge . . . More than 20 Republican-held Senate seats will be up for election in 2016, and conservative political operatives are already looking at which GOP incumbents could be vulnerable to conservative primary challengers.Daily Caller
Senate passage of Keystone in doubt . . . The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives prepared to vote on Friday to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline that will help transport oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, but a companion bill in the Senate may lack votes to pass next week. Reuters
Obama: My position hasn't changed . . . President Barack Obama said on Friday his position on the Keystone XL oil pipeline has not changed, as the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives prepared to vote to approve the project to transport oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Reuters
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New photos of Che Guevara's corpse . . . Warning: Might be disturbing. Guevara was killed on October 9, 1967 and had been captured the day before by the Bolivian army, the wire service noted. Daily Mail
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The culture of imminent danger and the Left . . . This is the thinking liberals like President Obama want taking root in this country. That there are dangers everywhere. That some small chance of a mishap is magnified into something imminent just waiting to happen to the next sucker who risks stepping outside their home. The Left has the perfect palliative: the warm, comforting embrace of government. White House Dossier
Income inequality is not what you're being told . . . Former Sen. Phil Gramm and Michael Solon explain a study questioning whether income inequality is really the exploding problem it’s made out to be. White House Dossier
Another Ebola patient coming the the U.S. . . . A surgeon working in West Africa's Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown to the United States for treatment on Saturday, according to a person in the federal government with direct knowledge of the case. Associated Press
School: Muslims' faith stronger than Christian . . . Is the faith of most Muslims “stronger” than that of the typical Christian? That’s what one public high school in North Carolina apparently is teaching students. Outraged over the “correct” answers to her son’s ninth-grade assignment about Islam, a mother in Union County, N.C., turned to local news reporters to shed light on his school’s fill-in-the-blank worksheet. Daily Signal
TV smackdown: Loesch vs. Schultz . . . TheBlaze TV’s Dana Loesch made good on her vow to appear on MSNBC and debate Ed Schultz about Obamacare on Thursday — and things got tense in a hurry. The Blaze
Coffee prevents diabetes . . . Drinking up to four cups of coffee a day can slash the risk of diabetes by 25 per cent, according to new research. Daily Mail
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