Conservative Insurgent Thursday delayed

I'm hoping to get today's episode of Conservative Insurgent Thursday completed later today, as we've been sidelined by a veterinary emergency. 

Meanwhile, here's a video by the last Conservative Insurgent Thursday icon, Lauren Southern, on her participation in the Defend Europe Mission. It was posted about 7 months ago amid her being banned from Patreon for some sort of violence-related b.s.

Conservative Insurgent Thursday delayed 1 week because THE MEMO

I had planned on starting my Conservative Insurgent Thursdays segment today, but the THE MEMO is supposed to be coming out today and it's going to overshadow everything, so  - bad timing.  Instead Conservative Insurgent Thursdays will start next week.

Meanwhile, stay tuned for memo news.

Obamacare delays - success is not an option

You shall not...commence?

Yet another delay has been announced in an on-going series of delays for the Obamacare rollout.  Politico has a list of the Obamacare delays.  But it's not a complete list.  If you combine it with the list from the New York Times and the delays that Hot Air notes the New York Times forgot to include, you get closer to the real number of delays.  Fox News today was quoting over 30 delays in total.

It seems that Democrats really don't want the ACA to succeed after all.  Anything they can do to delay the rollout until after just one more election cycle they seem to be quite willing to do.  Success is not an option.  Meanwhile they are claiming that it is the law of the land and that repeal will never happen so Republicans should just forget all about that.

While all of that is going on, the Hobby Lobby case against Obmacare's contraceptive mandate is being dumped on by Supreme Court justices appointed by Obama and if they get their way with swing vote justice Kennedy, they'll have more legal precedents with which to arm themselves.

Speaker Boehner summed it up best (for a change) with this:

On Democrats delaying Obamacare

How the World Works, on the possibility of Democrats delaying Obamcare.

More politicizing Hurricane Sandy

Elections can wait...

Yesterday I postulated that the impact of Hurricane Sandy would be used as an excuse for Obama's impending loss in the 2012 election (after the fact). I neglected to consider that liberals would try to use the storm as a time out on the election clock countdown.

WASHINGTON (AP) - One week before a close election, superstorm Sandy has confounded the presidential race, halted early voting in many areas and led some to ponder whether the election might even be postponed.

It could take days to restore electricity to more than 8 million homes and businesses that lost power when the storm pummeled the East Coast. That means it's possible power could still be out in parts of some states on Election Day next Tuesday - a major problem for precincts that rely on electronic voting machines.

But as the storm breached the coast, even some of those intimately involved in the election seemed in the dark about what options are available to cope with the storm. Asked Monday whether President Barack Obama had the power to reschedule the election, White House press secretary Jay Carney said he wasn't sure.

Not sure? The real storm is going to be a GOP tsunami on election day, and trying to postpone it for voters to 'come to their senses' and return to Obama, is an act of desperation.  A few facts - the storm has had a major impact in a relative small geographic portion of the country.  New York and New Jersey are locks for Obama already, as is most of New England.  The impact in a swing state like Ohio is not enough to justify making special considerations there.  In other words, the impact on the outcome of the election is negligible unless a lengthy delay could actually help Obama.  It's the equivalent of a do-over but before the fact.

One last consideration for liberals to ponder.  If this was 2008 and Bush were president and his press secretary Dana Perino said that she didn't know whether Bush had the power to reschedule an election you would be screaming Martial Law and bloody murder over it.

There is ZERO justification for delaying the election.  Disenfranchising voters is peanuts compared to moving the goal posts or changing the rules right before the end of the game.  That's pure manipulation.

Keystone bends but not the White House

According to a Fox News report, TransCanada is willing to re-route the Keystone pipeline after the Obama administration said it needed at least another year to assess the environmental implications of running the pipeline through some environmentally 'special' areas.  You would think that would be a big step forward considering that the alternative being openly contemplated is for Canada to sell that 700,000 barrels of oil per day (approximately 3.5% of U.S. daily consumption), oil to the Chinese.  But that's not the case.

Obama Trading Time For Voters

President Obama is buying time There's a debt commission. There's going to be a commission into what happened with the BP platform of the coast of Louisiana that caused the oil slick, before any more drilling is allowed. The drilling he's referring to is the drilling he recently 'allowed'. He backed off on immigration reform, saying that he had just worked Congress very hard on health care reform and there is no appetite to tackle another controversial issue right now. Punt, punt, punt.  The President is buying time.  He's stalling.