Morning Briefing: Bob McDonnell Thinks You're an Idiot

Morning Briefing For February 25, 2013 1.  Virginia's Governor Bob McDonnell Thinks You're an Idiot On Friday, March 15, 2013, at 8:00 a.m. Bob McDonnell will go to CPAC and address the Faith & Freedom Coalition Prayer Breakfast. For those of you who attend this event, you will be sitting staring at a liar. If you are a conservative, remember Bob McDonnell thinks you're an idiot. That's the only explanation I can think of for what just happened in Virginia this week. That, and that McDonnell is an unprincipled fake conservative whose promises are without value, an exemplar of the kind of big government pro-tax Republican who ruined the party's stature with fiscal conservatives. Bob McDonnell promised when he ran for governor that he'd never raise taxes. He talks a good game to conservative audiences, about principled leadership and the like. He can pretend he's one of you. He's got great hair. He'll speak at the Faith & Freedom Coalition Prayer Breakfast at CPAC as if he is one of us. But when push comes to shove, when the time comes that being a conservative demands that you stand up for what's right and reject the easy way out, Bob McDonnell is not going to stand on principle. He's going to cave to what the media calls "leadership" which is really just big government liberalism. Bob McDonnell was getting all kinds of praise on the Sunday shows for his big transportation tax hike, which passed the Virginia legislature this week. He was getting praise from big government liberals like Tim Kaine and Terry McAuliffe and Martin O'Malley for his evenhandedness, his leadership, not like those troublesome conservatives in Washington who refuse to wheel and deal. That should tell you all you need to know about the transportation tax hike McDonnell pushed through. But it's a whole lot worse than that when you look at what really went down.  . . . please click here for the rest of the post → >> Today's Sponsor 2.  Just the Fracks, Ma'am Natural gas is a cheap, abundant American resource, and cleaner than all of its viable alternatives to boot. It would be hard for a reasonable person not to favor natural gas as a component of our national energy mix, but then anti-frackers like Josh Fox, Yoko Ono and their ilk put little value on being reasonable people. They are the neo-Luddites resisting a modern energy revolution, standing between the people and the prosperity promised by affordable domestic energy. We've considered Fox and his irrational fear-mongering before. His Gasland cartoon (above) clearly suggests that the well-stimulation process known as fracking can directly contaminate ground water since the induced fractures in the horizontal section of a gas well propagate into water-bearing aquifers. The scenario Fox depicts is categorically impossible. The fracturing process is applied to wells 5,000 feet and more below ground level. Fresh water is usually at 1,000 feet or less. A fracture induced at depth tends to grow vertically, but at shallower depths, the preferred direction of growth would be horizontal, parallel to the surface. (Engineers may recognize the principle from Strength of Materials: the plane of failure is perpendicular to the least principal stress.) . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 3.  Mario Loyola's Fluffernutter Ode to Mitch McConnell In 2014, if conservatives can drum up a primary against Mitch McConnell of value, the conservative movement will finally have the brush fire of liberty it needs to burn up the under brush of the movement. Add Mario Loyola to the list of Republicans first, conservative second with this entry. I'm really trying to keep the sexual slang and innuendo to a minimum in describing what he does here to Mitch McConnell. I realize most of you have never heard of Mario Loyola, but when we set up our wikipedia of those within the conservative movement who've done us harm, he'll be on the list with ACU. This is really some fluffernutter . . . please click here for the rest of the post → >> Today's Sponsor Sincerely yours, Erick Erickson Editor-in-Chief, RedState Forward This Email to a Friend Take me to RedState

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