The Right Stuff In The Morning
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Good morning! In the news today: Obama strikes a questionable deal with China to cut carbon emissions; HHS wants the Dreamers to have Obamacare ASAP; Gruber gets more stupid; America wants the GOP to take the reins from Obama; evidence of Death Panels; and W's date with Nixon's daughter. Didn't go too well.
Have a great day.
Keith
China Deal Sets U.S. for dramatic emissions cuts . . . President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that the U.S. has set a new goal to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by between 26 percent and 28 percent over the next 11 years as part of a climate change agreement with China.
The new target is a drastic increase from earlier in Obama's presidency, when he pledged to cut emissions by 17 percent by 2020. By contrast, Obama's counterpart, Xi Jinping, did not pledge any reductions by a specific date, but rather set a target for China's emissions to peak by 2030, or earlier if possible. Fox News
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McConnell: China deal "unrealistic" . . . Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) wasted little time Tuesday night in blasting President Obama’s climate agreement with China as another costly, unpopular environmental move. The Hill
Burwell: Dreamers need Obamacare . . . Health and Human Services chief Sylvia Burwell made an appeal for immigration reform and extending Obamacare benefits to DREAM-eligible illegal immigrants on Tuesday while promoting the health-care law. Daily Caller
Get ready to subsidize illegal immigration with your growing health care expenses.
Gruber says he regrets "stupidity" comment . . . ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber said Tuesday he regrets saying that the health care law was written in a way that took advantage of the “the stupidity of the American voter,” adding he spoke “inappropriately.” Fox News
Another video of Gruber calling Americans "stupid" . . . Yet another video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans “stupid,” and bragging about how the Affordable Care Act’s drafters had to deceive the public in order to pass the law. Daily Caller
Obama picks a bunch of fights with the GOP . . . In the week since the electoral drubbing, Obama has renewed fights with Republicans over climate change, immigration reform and nuclear negotiations with Iran, in addition to picking a new battle with the GOP over net neutrality. Examiner
The president Tuesday took time out from his Asia trip to call the New York City doctor who just recovered from Ebola to praise him, even though the doc initially deceived health workers by claiming he had quarantined himself.
Is Nepotism Justice? . . . The Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General has released a report saying that Justice’s Office for Immigration Review has a widespread nepotism problem, one that has allowed EOIR employees to secure spots for their own children in a coveted student hiring program. The Blaze
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SEAL who killed Bin Laden speaks . . . The former Navy SEAL who shot and killed Usama bin Laden told Fox News’ Peter Doocy in an exclusive interview that the elite team who took out the terrorist believed that it was “going to be a one-way mission," but it would be "worth it to kill him." Fox News
NYC police attack appears to be terrorism . . . The suspect in the Oct. 23 hatchet attack on two New York City cops had been searching online for jihadist propaganda and foreign terror organizations -- as well as information on martyrdom and suicide bombings -- in the weeks leading up to the assault, according to a city counterterrorism bureau intelligence assessment obtained by Fox News.
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America to Obama: Let the GOP run things . . . A new Gallup poll shows that the majority of Americans would rather Obama back off and let Republicans take the lead in the new Congress. The poll supports Republican claims that last week's midterm elections were in fact a referendum on the president. Daily Mail
GOP aiming for January on border security bill . . . Sen. Ron Johnson already has a border security bill in the works. The Wisconsin Republican, who is the incoming chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said the bill will include a guest worker program to reduce incentives for illegal immigration, with hopes it can be passed under the new Republican-controlled Congress in January. Examiner
Dems plot to dump her in two years . . . House Democrats are sticking with Nancy Pelosi as their leader after their party suffered humiliating losses in last week’s elections, but many of them are privately eyeing a post-Pelosi era, saying they think she will cede power when President Obama’s tenure ends in two years. Washington Times
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Netanyahu signals he'll wait to bomb Iran . . . Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled that Israel won’t rush to attack Iran if the international negotiations to curtail the country’s nuclear program don’t reach a deal by a Nov. 24 deadline. Instead, the Israeli leader said yesterday that failure should lead to more sanctions rather than a military conflict. Bloomberg
Maybe this is a ruse . . . He'll want the element of surprise.
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The Death Panels are coming . . . The US Preventive Services Task Force is an independent body authorized by Congress to make “evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services such as screenings, counseling services, or preventive medications.” And since the onset of Obamacare discussions, the Task Force recommendations for treatment and screening have become less and less generous. Ben Shapiro
Missouri Governor: "Violence will not be tolerated . . . A grand jury is set to decide sometime in mid-to-late November whether to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown. Ahead of the decision, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon reiterated at a press conference Tuesday that the unrest in August following Brown's death was “ugliness” that “cannot be repeated,” regardless of what the grand jury decides. Examiner
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