The Right Stuff In The Morning
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Good morning! In the news today: DOJ unlikely to prosecute officer Darren Wilson; Congress pulls third-trimester abortion bill; businesses find calorie counting costly; SOTU ratings worst in years; and Romney and Bush will hold a summit.
Have a great day.
Keith
DOJ unlikely to prosecute Wilson . . . Justice Department lawyers will recommend that no civil rights charges be brought against the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo., after an F.B.I. investigation found no evidence to support charges, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and his civil rights chief, Vanita Gupta, will have the final say on whether the Justice Department will close the case against the officer, Darren Wilson. But it would be unusual for them to overrule the prosecutors on the case, who are still working on a legal memo explaining their recommendation. New York Times
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Obama announces plan to give Americans their first job . . . In a surprise post-State of the Union announcement, President Obama Wednesday made a dramatic entrance into the White House briefing room and offered a proposal for the government to provide every American “who wants a job” with their first job out of college. White House Dossier
Yes, it's satire, but I had you going for a moment, didn't I?
Boehner sticks it back to Obama . . . With President Obama about to finish what will no doubt be a dangerous new deal with Iran, House Speaker John Boehner today announced that he has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington to speak next month to Congress directly, bypassing the White House. White House Dossier
Domino's to Obama: Calorie rule unworkable . . . The final Obamacare regulation forcing restaurant chains to display calorie information is causing headaches for companies that say it is “impossible to comply” with the new rule. Washington Free Beacon
Too bad, Domino's. Because who could possibly know that pizza is fattening, and that adding sausage to it makes it more fattening?
Government rehires Obamacare website geniuses . . . Seven months after federal officials fired CGI Federal for its botched work on the Obamacare website, the IRS awarded the same company a $4.5 million IT contract for its new Obamacare tax program. Daily Caller
SOTU ratings worst in 15 years . . . Nearly 32 million Americans watched President Barack Obama's 2015 State of the Union address on television, the lowest turnout since President Bill Clinton's final State of the Union address in 2000, according to newly released Nielsen ratings. Politico
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Obama goal not to eliminated Iran nukes . . . A senior official in the State Department admitted on Wednesday that the Obama administration’s goal during negotiations with Iran is delaying the regime’s development of nuclear weapons rather than shutting down the Islamic Republic’s contested nuclear program. Washington Free Beacon
It was the goal originally. Now we'll be on the cusp of an Iran bomb forever, even with the best agreement they can do.
Obama mum as Yemen strategy implodes . . . With Shiite rebels eroding Yemen's government, President Obama's anti-terror strategy — which included using Yemen as a model for action against Islamic terrorists and even opening a terrorist halfway house in the troubled gulf country — is in free fall. But the White House is declining to say whether the administration plans to go ahead with its plans to open a rehabilitation center for Guantanamo Bay detainees in Yemen. Washington Examiner
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McCarthy: GOP to surrender on amnesty . . . "Prepare for the next betrayal: Republicans are about to surrender on Obama’s amnesty for illegal immigrants. The surrender, which will be portrayed as a reluctant but noble compromise for the sake of “homeland security,” was baked in the CRomnibus cake," writes Andrew McCarthy in PJ Media.
The surrenders are just beginning. Someone tell the Republicans they won the election.
Romney: Climate change is a big problem . . . As he considers a third presidential campaign, Mitt Romney said Wednesday night that one of the country's biggest challenges is climate change and that global solutions are needed to combat it. "I'm one of those Republicans who thinks we are getting warmer and that we contribute to that," he said. Associated Press
Bad climate in the Senate . . . Fifty senators, including five Republicans, agreed that climate change was real, human-induced and solvable. Washington Examiner
Santorum: Sometimes it's difficult to listen to the Pope . . . Asked about the latest eyebrow-raising comment from Pope Francis that suggested Catholics need not breed “like rabbits,” Santorum conceded that given this statement, and many others that have caught the imagination of the world’s media, “sometimes it’s very difficult to listen to the Pope.” Washington Free Beacon
Reid to have surgery for partial blindness . . . Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid will undergo surgery Monday in an attempt to recover vision in his right eye, his office announced on Wednesday afternoon. Politico
Romney, Bush to meet . . . Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney are scheduled to meet privately this week in Utah, raising the possibility that the two former governors will find a way to avoid competing presidential campaigns that would split the Republican establishment next year. The meeting was planned before Mr. Romney’s surprise announcement two weeks ago to donors in New York that he was considering a third run for the White House. Mr. Bush proposed the meeting. New York Times
NJ: Keep Christie away from the White House . . . Nearly three in five registered voters in New Jersey do not think their governor, Republican Chris Christie, would make a good U.S. president, according to a poll released on Thursday. Reuters
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