We have posted quite a bit today so please scroll down to check out those earlier posts. Here are a few things that our associates sent in later in the day that may pique your interest.
- This was a big new Ferguson story earlier on Twitter, until of course they found
out he was a black guy. Ferguson Police Officer Raped Woman in Jail - The posted comments to this QC Times article are what make it worthwhile: Police botch Ernst aide’s DUIs
- More on Republican Senator Rob Portman from Gary Bauer at Campaign for Working Families.
Election Signaled Time To Cooperate With Obama?
Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) may be a great lawyer, but he doesn’t get the big picture. He showed what he thought about the Republican Party platform last year when he completely abandoned his defense of marriage as the union of one man and one woman after his homosexual son confronted him. His surrender did not stop there.
Since then, in virtually every public interview I have seen, Portman has parroted big media, big business and elite opinion rather than offering bold, Reaganesque conservative ideas.
He did it again on CNBC this morning when asked about the impending immigration battle. The senator expressed disappointment that the president was going to act unilaterally, not because Obama was abusing his power, but because in Portman’s opinion the clear message from the election was that the public wanted Obama and Congress to work together.
Please, senator! What on earth leads you to the conclusion that the voters who gave your party control of the Senate did so because they want you to cooperate with the president? The message of this election was a repudiation of Obama’s left-wing extremism; they elected Republicans to fight back! If the voters truly wanted to end gridlock in Washington, they would have elected more Democrats.
Why is it so hard for Republicans like Portman to say, “The clear message from the American people was that President Obama is out of control and they elected Republicans to rein in his extremism”?
Portman assured CNBC that if Obama would just back off of his executive order on amnesty, he and other Republicans would be able to make a deal with him.
But rather than cooperating with Obama’s conspiracy of illegality — people illegally sneaking into the country and Obama illegally pardoning them — conservatives want Republicans to fight back by defending the rule of law and the economic well-being of working class Americans struggling in Obama’s economy.
