{"id":21894,"date":"2014-11-21T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T17:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=21894"},"modified":"2014-11-22T10:48:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T16:48:33","slug":"linkswarm-for-november-21-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=21894","title":{"rendered":"LinkSwarm for November 21, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Austin, we&#8217;re enjoying a temporary respite from Winter in November, but I don&#8217;t expect it to last long.<\/p>\n<p>Links!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Columns\/2014\/11\/21\/Why-Gruber-gate-So-Devastating-Democrats\">All the lies of ObamCare<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The growing impression that politicians don\u2019t play straight with their constituents is completely toxic, particularly to Democrats, who actually want to use government to improve people\u2019s lives. It\u2019s one thing to downplay unpalatable choices made in the law; it\u2019s another to never disclose the consequences of legislation until it\u2019s too late for anyone to react. Combine that with the moustache-twirling of a Jonathan Gruber, saying that the idiots should be happy for what they got, and you have basically every conservative stereotype about liberal elites confirmed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also: ObamaCare is designed for people buying insurance through it to get a nasty sticker shock in year two. (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/198639\/\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<li>House Republicans file suit over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2014\/11\/21\/house-republicans-sue-obama-administration-over-obamacare\/\">Obama&#8217;s unilateral actions on ObamaCare<\/a>.\n<li>The administration is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2014-11-20\/getting-to-the-root-of-obamacares-inflated-numbers\">lying about ObamaCare signup numbers<\/a>. Again.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/politics\/why-texas-could-remain-a-republican-stronghold-for-another-generation-20141112\">&#8220;Why Texas Could Remain a Republican Stronghold for Another Generation.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>&#8220;The president\u2019s promises <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/campaign-spot\/393210\/democrats-giant-bet-voters-short-memories-jim-geraghty\">have been proven to be worthless<\/a>&#8230;How many illegal immigrants want to come out of the shadows and identify themselves to law enforcement based upon this promise?&#8221;\n<li>Jay Carney admits that with his illegal alien amnesty, Obama is doing something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/jay-carney-yes-obama-literally-doing-what-he-previously-called-unconstitutional_819718.html\">he previously called unconstitutional<\/a>.\n<li>Mickey Kaus thinks the courts could very well act quickly to <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/11\/20\/dont-count-out-the-court\/\">squash Obama&#8217;s illegal amnesty<\/a>, much as they did with Harry Truman&#8217;s steel mill seizures.\n<li>Aaron Worthing thinks illegals will pass on Obama&#8217;s amnesty <a href=\"http:\/\/allergic2bull.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/obama-grubers-illegal-immigrants.html\">as a bad deal<\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;These illegal aliens are willing to do the work that Americans will no longer do \u2014 namely, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news_opinion\/columnists\/howie_carr\/2014\/11\/carr_desperate_dems_change_their_tune\">vote Democrat<\/a>.&#8221;\n<li>How desperate are the Democrats? They&#8217;re saying Republican opposition to Obama&#8217;s illegal alien amnesty will <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDemocrats\/status\/535572411278954496\">lead to ethnic cleansing<\/a>. (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/moelane.com\/2014\/11\/20\/social-media-ethnic-cleansing-republicans-democrats\/#more-85976\">Moe Lane<\/a>.)\n<li>Top Obama bundler <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2014\/11\/20\/kiah-lawson-terry-bean-human-rights-campaign-gay-sex-obama-prison-column\/70021560\/\">arrested on child rape charges<\/a>.\n<li>Lefty lawyer Alan Derschowitz on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/alan-dershowitz-campus-sexual-assault-rules-preclude-a-defense-for-the-accused\/article\/2556312\">Harvard&#8217;s kangaroo court sexual assault rules<\/a>: \u201cHarvard&#8217;s policy was written by people who think sexual assault is so heinous a crime that even innocence is not a defense.&#8221;\n<li>How come Bill Cosby gets convicted in the media for rape allegations by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/2014\/11\/21\/rape-allegations-hurt-bill-cosby-but-sail-past-bill-clinton\/YTIsUoXS2uxrW1mW2JSuRM\/story.html\">Bill Clinton gets a pass<\/a>? &#8220;There is more sympathy for a white southerner like Clinton than a black comic like Cosby.&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/newsite\/article\/a-giant-leap-backwards-for-womankind\/16208#.VGoA4vmsUgg\">A giant leap backward for woman-kind.<\/a>\n<li>Price of ground beef <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/ali-meyer\/415-pound-ground-beef-climbs-another-record-high\">hits record highs<\/a>.\n<li>Oh lovely: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/194338-here-come-the-autonomous-robot-security-guards-what-could-possibly-go-wrong\">Microsoft is deploying Daleks<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Austin, we&#8217;re enjoying a temporary respite from Winter in November, but I don&#8217;t expect it to last long. Links! All the lies of ObamCare: The growing impression that politicians don\u2019t play straight with their constituents is completely toxic, particularly to Democrats, who actually want to use government to improve people\u2019s lives. It\u2019s one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,13,24,255,18,12],"tags":[2200,2558,354,2559,622,1196,2412,806,2866,498,2876,2865,2861],"class_list":["post-21894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-economics","category-elections","category-obamacare","category-regulation","category-republicans","category-texas","tag-alan-dershowitz","tag-bill-cosby","tag-border-controls","tag-due-process","tag-feminism","tag-inflation","tag-jonathan-gruber","tag-microsoft","tag-obamacare","tag-rape","tag-regulation","tag-republicans","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21894"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21964,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21894\/revisions\/21964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}