The Right Stuff In The Morning
Monday, January 5, 2014
Good morning and Happy New Year! In the news today: Boehner gets a challenge from the right; Obama to keep on issuing executive orders; Afghan prez to U.S. prez: Stay awhile longer; Huckabee quits Fox to consider a run; Sharpton's shakedowns; and archaeologists may have found the site of Jesus's trial.
Have a great day.
Keith
Gohmert challenges Boehner . . . U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert, a conservative Tea Party Republican from Texas, said on Sunday he would challenge John Boehner for speaker of the House of Representatives. Gohmert's announcement came a day after fellow Republican Representative Ted Yoho of Florida said he might be willing to put his name up against Boehner, the Ohio Republican who is widely expected to retain the top job in the chamber when the full House votes on Tuesday. Reuters
Activists launch anti-Boehner website . . . On the heels of Texas Republican Louie Gohmert’s announcement Sunday that he’s officially a candidate for Speaker of the House, conservative activists have launched a website aimed at getting present Speaker John Boehner voted out. The Blaze
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A pivotal year . . . In both foreign and domestic affairs, President Obama is taking the easy path, the Leftist path, the path that provides short-term shots-in-the-arm of good feelings but will lead to major trouble down the road. The president pursues “peace” and “diplomacy” abroad, failing to recognize the immutable evil of our enemies and recoiling meekly from the fights a great power sometimes must wage to keep itself secure. And he rules increasingly by decree at home, realizing the dreams of the Left while failing to do the hard work of creating legislation. In the process, he is erasing vast portions of the Constitution. White House Dossier
The Obamas dine with the .01 percent . . . Obama and his wife Michelle ate the other night at one of the most exclusive restaurants in the country, Honolulu’s Vintage Cave. The place reportedly features a $295 tasting menu, which means once you start adding in wine, tax, and tip, you’re headed toward a meal for two costing $1,000. White House Dossier
Another year of executive action on tap . . . The Obama administration is preparing another active year of executive action in 2015, pumping out new rules and enforcing others for the first time — setting tougher standards on everything from air pollution to overtime pay to net neutrality, food safety, commercial drones, a college ratings plan and a crackdown on for-profit colleges that don’t prepare their students for well-paying jobs. There’s even going to be the first draft of a rule for organic pet food. Politico
Obama crack amnesty lags . . . Obama’s sweeping plan to commute the sentences of nonviolent drug offenders who were caught up in the disparities in laws governing crack and powder cocaine is lagging, burdened by vague guidelines, lack of Justice Department resources and the unusual decision to invite advocacy groups like the ACLU to help screen applications, according to lawyers close to the process. Politico
Loretta Lynch accused of trampling victims' rights . . . Paul Cassell, a law professor at the University of Utah, said Ms. Lynch’s office, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, never told victims in a major stock fraud case that a culprit had been sentenced — denying them a chance to seek restitution of some $40 million in losses. Lynch has been nominated to be attorney general. Washington Times
Obama policies boon to Wall Street . . . Six years into his agenda, Wall Street is roaring higher than ever, with the Dow topping out over 18,000 for the first time recently and the top 10 percent of wealthy Americans amassing wealth at a double-digit pace. But on Main Street large numbers of Americans have dropped from the job market, middle-class wages are stagnant, and even larger numbers of Americans are now dependent on some form of government subsidy for disability, jobless benefits or food stamps. Washington Times
Seeds of a new housing crisis . . . Mel Watt has been the government’s manager of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for only a year, but his efforts to boost access to home loans over the past 12 months have the incoming Republican majorities in Congress concerned, provoking fears that he is leading the mortgage giants down the same path that led them to fail in 2008 and receive massive taxpayer bailouts. Washington Examiner
Watt is an Obama appointee put in place to repeat the mistakes of the past - putting people in houses who can't afford them. And then, like they did last time, Democrats will simply blame "fat cat GOP bankers" for causing the inevitable crash.
States to challenge EPA rules . . . State lawmakers across the country are expected to take aim at a proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule to limit carbon emissions from power plants, a move that would test the agency's will to impose sanctions on states that run afoul of the regulation. Washington Examiner
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Afghan president: U.S. should rethink departure . . . Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that the United States might want to "re-examine" the timetable for removing the remaining U.S.-led coalition troops in the country by the end of 2016. Reuters
Another Iraq in the making. But that's okay, the next president will have to deal with it.
Al Qaeda learning to avoid drones . . . The most dangerous al Qaeda affiliate to the U.S. homeland is teaching fighters how to avoid detection by the Predator drone, the terrorist group’s feared assassin flying over Yemen. Washington Times
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Mia Love backs Scalise . . . Representative-elect Mia Love, R-Utah, the first black woman elected to Congress as a Republican and one of the GOP’s 74 fresh faces scheduled to be sworn in on Tuesday, says House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-Lousiana, should remain a leader to the newly reinvigorated party. Scalise came under fire last week after he reportedly addressed a civil rights workshop organized by a group of alleged white supremacists in 2002. ABC News
Huckabee quits Fox, tests presidential run . . . Mike Huckabee will make sure that he can raise at least $25 million — or even up to $50 million by the first week of February — before declaring for the Republican presidential nomination, the former Arkansas governor told The Washington Times on Sunday.
Jewish Republicans gird for a fight . . . The Republican Jewish Coalition — facing the loss of its leading champion and tensions within the GOP — is planning an aggressive push in 2015 to enforce the hawkish pro-Israel consensus it helped build within the party over the past two decades. Politico
GOP Chairmen seek to put gavel to Obama policies . . . Republican senators poised to lead major committees when the GOP takes charge are intent on pushing back many of President Barack Obama's policies, setting up potential showdowns over environmental rules, financial regulations and national security. Associated Press
Hotline likes Bush, Rubio . . . Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are one and two on The Hotline's list of favorites to get the GOP nod. Rand Paul is third and Scott Walker fourth. National Journal
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Black Brunch is served . . . In a twist on sit-in-style protests, civil rights activists entered several restaurants in New York City and Oakland, Calif., on Sunday in what organizers billed as “Black Brunch.” About three dozen people participated in demonstrations in New York, where they momentarily “disrupted” meals at popular midtown eateries. Yahoo News
Sharpton Shakedown . . . For more than a decade, corporations have shelled out thousands of dollars in donations and consulting fees to Sharpton’s National Action Network. What they get in return is the reverend’s supposed sway in the black community or, more often, his silence. New York Post
Cops turn backs on de Blasio, again . . . Thousands of NYPD cops, still seething over Mayor de Blasio’s characterization of them as the bad guys, defied their commissioner and turned their backs on Hizzoner Sunday as he eulogized the second of two officers killed by a police-hating assassin. New York Post
Police deaths on the rise . . . FBI Director James Comey on Sunday honored murdered New York City Police Officer Wenjian Liu and remarked that he was shocked and bewildered by the increased number of police officer deaths in 2014. “One hundred and fifteen were killed last year,” he said. “That’s a shocking increase from 2013. I don’t understand evil and I cannot try.” Fox News
Will Obama demand that people stop killing police?
Protestors shout down 100-year-old veteran . . . A 100-year-old Navy veteran who served five tours in the Pacific Theatre during World War II and crashed his plane once in the Pacific Ocean had to ask a group of protesters for a chance to speak at a town hall meeting being held by Democrat Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden on Saturday. Daily Caller
Few answers to out-of-wedlock birth explosion . . . About 40 percent of babies born in America these days are born outside of marriage. That’s true of about 30 percent of non-Hispanic whites, more than 50 percent of Hispanics and more than 70 percent of blacks. And the answers to the problem are in short supply. Washington Examiner
Where is Obama on one of the most critical issues of our time?
Washington and Lee to stop classes on MLK Day . . . Washington and Lee University, which recently wrestled with questions about the display of Confederate flags, in the next school year will stop holding classes on the federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Washington Post
Possible site of Jesus's trial found . . . As archaeologists carefully dug down, they eventually uncovered something extraordinary: the suspected remains of the palace where one of the more famous scenes of the New Testament may have taken place — the trial of Jesus. Washington Post
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