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Morning Briefing for August 9, 2012

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 9th, 2012 at 04:44 AM  | 

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August 9, 2012

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1. Collusion between Obama for America and Priorities USA on ‘their’ lying Soptic ads.

The Story So Far: two days ago, the Obama administration – using the fig-leaf/cutout of Super PAC Priorities USA – accused Mitt Romney of being a murderer because a company that Romney used to own closed down a steel mill (several years after Romney left that company) and that meant that the wife of the husband who lost his job at that steel mill (one Joe Soptic) didn’t have any insurance after the wife left her job several years after the layoff and several years after all of that the wife was diagnosed with cancer and then died. As Erick notes in the link above: if that’s an acceptable logic chain that legitimately leads one to a charge of murder, then (to give just one example) this administration murdered US Border Agent Brian Terry and Eric Holder needs to give himself up right now.

But wait! It gets even more convoluted. You see, the Media is balking – absolutely balking – at taking this line of attack seriously, and the Obama administration has already done its best to distance itself from the Priorities USA ad, to the point where Obama for America (OfA) spokesman Stephanie Cutter denied that they had any knowledge of Soptic’s story.

So… who’s that voice at the end of this conference call, Stephanie? Your evil twin?

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2. Housebreaking Romney: The Importance of Being Vocal

Mitt Romney’s ardent supporters are fit to be tied today. Andrea Saul cited Romneycare approvingly, conservatives rightly piled on, and Romney supporters are defending the guy.

“You’re hurting him,” cried one.

“Thanks for making this the big story of the day, Jackass,” cried another.

Andrea Saul made this the big story of the day. She is hurting Romney. She is an official voice of the campaign. This was an unforced error of monumental idiocy and the blowback is deserved, appropriate, and — most importantly — absolutely necessary.

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3. MUST SEE: Senior Obama Campaign Advisor Robert Gibbs Refuses to Condemn Ad Calling Romney Murderer

Let me warn you up front that this is a 9 minute video. Let me further warn you that it is from this morning’s edition of Morning Joe on MSNBC. But let me urge you to watch anyway so you can see the depths with which the Obama campaign is unwilling to condemn something as blatantly outrageous as accusing Mitt Romney of being responsible for the death of a cancer victim.

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4. Why Won’t Eric Hovde Sign the ‘No New Tax’ Pledge?

It is one area where Eric Hovde is to the left of Tommy Thompson. He will not sign Americans for Tax Reform’s “No New Tax” pledge.

Hovde has, instead, launched a broadside attack on ATR and Grover Norquist claiming that Norquist is in the pocket of corporate interests. Pot, meet kettle.

In fact, I have well documented concerns about ATR and Norquist, but the pledge itself is a no brainer. Hovde is trying to out think the pledge. He is already playing to the DC media elite that hate Republicans unwilling to raise taxes.

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5. Report: Fast and Furious Weapon Linked to Assassination Plot

The details surrounding failed gunwalking operation Fast and Furious just keep getting worse and worse. We’re already aware that the guns involved were involved in the deaths of hundreds of Mexican citizens and in the deaths of Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata, but now it has been reported that they might also have been involved in a plot to assassinate the police chief of Tijuana.

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6. The Con$ultant Cla$$

I await the GOP getting Brian Terry’s family on film to respond to the ridiculous Priorities USA advertisement that Romney killed some guy’s wife.

In the meantime, the GOP Super PAC ads continue to be mostly forgettable while the Super PAC’s themselves continue to raid the pockets of GOP multi-millionaires.

Now add two more data points.

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  • commonsenseobserver

    Look at the top comments on each recent Romney video.

    Something about molesting some nephew named Alan Rivers. No proof, of course. It seems the liberal grassroots have, in desperation, decided to take matters into their own hands. One wonders if we can predict Obama’s newest attacks based on the astroturfing of online liberals.

    In any case, it’s, to quote a distinguished and dignified Senator, cute.

  • earlgrey

    Great candidates and they let you either pick favorites or they allocate the cash based on needs.

  • lineholder

    Quote:

    “House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) told a recent gathering of the Women?s Political Committee that the spirits of suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul spoke to her at the White House.”

    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/pelosi-swears-spirit-susan-b-anthony-spoke-her-white-house

  • PowerToThePeople

    problem is I also believe them to be demons. She is just mislead as to who the spirits are when in fact they are her future roommates in a very hot place.

  • lineholder

    Just an example of the honesty and objectivity coming from the “bitter clingers of government dependency” forces in our society!

  • lineholder

    Classic example of our gender in the Liberal fantasy-world of “protecting women’s rights”. And totally destroys any narrative the left might try to use about how it is Conservatives females who are….uhhh, ignorant!

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    The only thing that might have made this better is if the reporter had been a female. Just to twist the knife a little more.

  • lineholder

    And they don’t seem to have the slightest clue about where “the government’s money” comes from.

    Plus, did you get the comments of the lady who basically said it would be better for poor people to kill their babies? Typical Dem, huh?

  • checkmate2012

    have to question their thinking ability or lack thereof, DOH!

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    There has to be something in their ear going “breathe in/breathe out” to prevent them from death from forgetting to breathe.

  • PowerToThePeople

    they are nothing more than…

    I would be banned for the next words so let us just play fill in the blanks.

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    When it comes to the kind of attitude that liberal females have toward abortion and contraception, and how little value they place on the lives of these babies…

    I empathize with you. I genuinely do.

    Let’s kill babies to prevent poverty and hunger! /sarc

    It doesn’t get much more ridiculous than that!

  • lineholder

    It’s as embarrassing as the dickens to me as a female, tnfriendcoal. Much less to have them claim the mantle of “speaking for women” or “standing up for women”.

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    And if anyone asks them a question that actually requires deductive reasoning to take place…they can’t do it.

    The video makes that point very plainly.

  • checkmate2012

    they are brain washed into believing there is only one correct answer to any problem and that’s all they know. No reasoning.

    Prime example, Debbie Wah Wah on any news show: blah, blah, blah. Do you think that (insert any question). It’s like I said, blah, blah, blah. Well what about? Regurgitate same response and repeat.

    She can’t think or refuses to stray from her pre-programmed mantra of talking points, lest she loses her train of thought!

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    After a bout with Shelly Adelson’s elite ninja squad of lawyers, Debbie Wah Wah croaks out ‘no comment’ when Mr. Adelson’s name comes up.

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    When she’s on screen, she presents this image that portrays females as completely and totally incapable of having any original thought of their own.

    She’s even lower on my scale of “people to respect” than the emotive-reasoning-only liberal females are.

  • fightnright

    ‘Romney will take away all the healthcare choices that females have won since the fifties’ has GOT to be an idiot.

    (Any guy too).

    Obamacare is specifically about creating a path to eventually taking away ALL women’s health care choices – except for one. The government choice.

    If any of these women has ever been *forced* to use an overcrowded, understaffed, dingy medicaid clinic (and to be honest, Sandra Fluke and most women in these videos or DNC/leftist PAC commercials don’t look like they’re accustomed to government-style clinics), they’d be in shock. These pampered ladies would quickly discover what it means to be voiceless, faceless, disrespected, and to *really* have something to whine about.

    The irony is, didn’t Joe Soptic say in one of his DNC spots that he was reduced to take his wife to a County hospital because she didn’t have health insurance? Wait till Joe sees what hospitals will begin to look and feel like under nationalized healthcare. If his wife got a bed in a room instead of a gurney in a hallway, that County hospital would probably start looking like heaven.

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    Also, Pam Bondi, Gov. Fortuno, Gov. Walker and GA’s attorney general.

    From the RNC:

    Tampa, Fla. ? Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus today announced five additional headliners who will address the Republican National Convention August 27-30. More convention speakers, including the keynote, will be announced in the coming days. The five speakers announced today are:

    ?Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Florida?s 37th attorney general and first female attorney general in state history;

    ?Texas Republican U.S. Senate Nominee Ted Cruz, former Texas solicitor general (first Hispanic and youngest person in that position);

    ?Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortu?o, first Republican elected governor of Puerto Rico since 1969 and first Republican representative from Puerto Rico elected to Congress;

    ?Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens, former chairman of the Cobb County Commission; and

    ?Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, 45th governor of Wisconsin and the first U.S. governor to have successfully kept their seat in a recall election.

    ?These five remarkable individuals will bring a diversity of experiences and perspectives to the convention stage in Tampa, where they will voice their support for Governor Mitt Romney. They have each served the public in their own impressive ways, and they all share a dedication to the Republican principles of individual opportunity, responsible government and personal liberty,? Chairman Priebus said.

    This is great news.

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    Source: http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/08/obama-lets-repeat-auto-rescue-with-every-manufacturing-131566.html

    Quote:

    “President Obama, while villifying Mitt Romney for opposing the auto industry bailout, bragged about the success of his decision to provide government assistance and said he now wants to see every manufacturing industry come roaring back.

    ?I said, I believe in American workers, I believe in this American industry, and now the American auto industry has come roaring back,? he said. ?Now I want to do the same thing with manufacturing jobs, not just in the auto industry, but in every industry.

    ?I don?t want those jobs taking root in places like China, I want those jobs taking root in places like Pueblo,? Obama told a crowd gathered for a campaign rally at the Palace of Agriculture at the Colorado State Fairgrounds here.”

    Tell me again…how much did the auto industry bailout cost? How much return on investment have American taxpayers seen from that bailout? How can the outcomes be defined as a “roaring success”? How many jobs from the companies that were bailed out have ended up going overseas?

    This doesn’t have diddly to do with wanting to spur our economy or generate jobs. What Obama wants is a modern-day WPA, just like the ones that existed back in the “good old days” of the New Deal. And the manufacturing sector is just a means to an end in achieving this goal.

    Just another massive power grab. Government would dictates wages for manufacturing jobs. Government would dictate quotas for products. Government would dictate prices. Government would regulate society as a whole into subsidizing this boondoggle by implementing just about every kind of mandate that could be dreamed of on the American people.

    Just another way to get more people dependent on government for their survival.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    He bailed out the union. GM and Chrysler would have gotten the same from structured bankruptcy and private equity. The only difference is the long term debt to the union and union contracts would have been reduced or invalidated in bankruptcy. All Obama did was use tax payer money to save the UAW. Steve Rattner is a private equity manager and he handled every other piece of the bailout just like private equity investing in a bankrupt company. Barack Obama didn’t bailout GM and Chrysler; he bailed out the UAW.