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The Patriot Post Digest 4-25-2016
From The Federalist Patriot
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Mid-Day Digest
Apr. 25, 2016
THE FOUNDATION
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.” —Thomas Jefferson, 1775
TOP RIGHT HOOKS
Romney Was Right: Cruz and Kasich Align to Defeat Trump1
The campaigns for Ted Cruz and John Kasich announced2 they are coordinating their campaigns in at least three upcoming primaries in order to hurt Donald Trump’s ability to collect delegates before the Republican National Convention. In statements released Sunday evening, the campaigns said that Kasich would pull his campaign from Indiana’s May 3 primary to give Cruz a better chance of beating Donald Trump. Likewise the Cruz campaign agreed to step back and let Kasich surge ahead in Oregon and New Mexico, which hold their primaries on May 17 and June 7, respectively. The campaigns are finally listening to Mitt Romney.
In February, the former presidential candidate argued that3 the campaign playbook that governed past primaries was “shredded.” He suggested candidates gang up against Trump, and for conservatives to cast strategic votes in their respective states for the best-performing candidate whose name doesn’t rhyme with “chump.” That way, delegates could choose an actual conservative at a contested convention. Currently, neither Cruz nor Kasich can collect 1,237 delegates in the 12 weeks before the convention. Their only hope is for a contested convention. Now, it might be a little too late. This strategy could have worked well in last week’s New York primary where Cruz got 15% of the vote and 0 delegates, while Kasich got four delegates to Trump’s 89 (with a couple still undecided).
Naturally, Trump is none-too pleased by the coordination, something he calls unfair. He said in a statement4 on his website, “It is sad that two grown politicians have to collude against one person who has only been a politician for ten months in order to try and stop that person from getting the Republican nomination.” It’s because Cruz and Kasich are seasoned politicians that they know the advantage of temporary alliances, and that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Obama Threatens to Send Ally to Back of Economic Queue5
Barack Obama was in England this weekend to celebrate the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, but also to discourage the country from declaring independence from the European Union. Of course, he didn’t say his reason for the visit was to sway British subjects ahead of the nation’s June referendum on whether to leave the EU, but the signs were there. In a Telegraph op-ed6, Obama said the UK’s membership in the EU “helped spread British values and practices.” But that’s a load of bullocks, according to London Mayor Boris Johnson, who pointed out7 it’s the EU that writes the majority of British law. Furthermore, Johnson said Obama was downright hypocritical because America would never stand for the meddling, open borders and loss of sovereignty that comes with a membership in the EU. Well, Obama would…
But the most notable empty threat from Obama came when he warned that Great Britain would lose out economically if it decided to distance itself from the rest of Europe. “I think it’s fair to say that maybe some point down the line, there might be a U.K.-U.S. trade agreement,” Obama said during a press conference with Prime Minister David Cameron by his side, “but it’s not going to happen anytime soon, because our focus is in negotiating with a big bloc, the European Union, to get a trade agreement done, and the U.K. is going to be in the back of the queue.” The trade deal with the EU isn’t even popular8, but that’s not going to stop Obama from dissing allies and lecturing the world on how he thinks it should work.
Turning Virginia Blue9
Virginia Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe just gave Hillary Clinton a big gift ahead of the November election. McAuliffe signed an executive action granting voting rights to 200,000 ex-felons, and people with criminal records tend to vote Democrat. Virginia House Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford) said in a statement, “The singular purpose of Terry McAuliffe’s governorship is to elect Hillary Clinton President of the United States. This office has always been a stepping stone to a job in Hillary Clinton’s cabinet.” But given that Hillary herself should be a felon, this was the obvious move. McAuliffe’s action won’t help only Clinton, either, but every down-ballot Democrat in Virginia.
For his part, McAuliffe told Republicans to get over it: “Well, I would tell the Republicans, ‘Quit complaining and go out and earn these folks’ right to vote for you. … I think some of the language that has come out of the Republicans — I would tell them to be very careful at how they frame this, very careful of their rhetoric.” Fair enough, but Democrats are all too happy to paint Republicans as racist homophobes who oppress the poor, and their Leftmedia mouthpieces repeat the charge loudly and often. Defending Rule of Law is the harder position to defend when your opponents are emotionally demo-goguing the issue.
Meanwhile, recall that Barack Obama’s Justice Department released a few thousand10 nonviolent federal prisoners late last year, with thousands more on the way. In general, Democrats treat prison reform and voting rights as a method of gaining more votes for themselves. But they “care.”
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
John Goodman: What if the Left Doesn’t Really Want to Achieve Its Policy Goals?11
George Will: The ‘Settled’ Consensus Du Jour12
Peggy Noonan: That Moment When 2016 Hits You13
For more, visit Right Opinion14.
FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
The Department of Extortion15
By Robin Smith
Despite Barack Obama’s repeated public statements identifying his primary regret while in office as not “healing the divisions” in Washington, he has done more to cause the problem than anyone. Take for example his recent actions rewriting a bipartisan education law. In short, he’s proving that South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson was accurate when he interrupted Obama’s 2009 State of the Union Address to thunder, “You lie!”
In what has happened only a few times during Obama’s tenure, bipartisan legislation was passed — this time to rewrite No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in December 2015. Obama declared at the signing that the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was “a Christmas miracle.” Further, Obama noted, “Today, I’m proud to sign a law that’s going to make sure that every student is prepared to succeed in the 21st century.”
Well, he was mighty proud until it became apparent his unelected federal bureaucrats couldn’t make demands of your state education departments and your local school districts through the extortion of funding. And now the Obama Department of Education is rewriting rules to circumvent the law to return to their previous modus operandi: “Do what we say to get your money.” |
