A New Year With the Same Problems
Morning
Briefing
For
January 2, 2014
Before I get back to business, I feel compelled to point out
that today is the ninth day of Christmas. We all come back to work, groggy
and apprehensive, and we forget. We're still in the Christmas season. I
won't turn off the Christmas tree lights until bed time on January 5th to
get ready for Epiphany. I hope as you get resituated back at your job, you
remember what my friend Ben told me recently — Christmas is D-Day. The
beaches have been stormed. Now we march on to victory at the cross this
Easter. So while I wish you a Happy New Year, really, I'm still wishing
people a very Merry Christmas.
God bless,
Erick
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A New Year With the Same Problems
Having managed to work every day of my vacation, getting back
into the swing of things isn’t really swinging. I hope you all had a Happy
New Year.
As we cross over into 2014, there is not a lot that has
changed these past couple of weeks. People will not fully feel the effects
of Obamacare. The economy is still “recovering.” And New York has gone
full Marxist.
Republicans are still cowards. The Chamber of Commerce has
decided to fight in Republican Primaries against conservatives. But the
polling for the Democrats continues to go down. And that’s the thing.
The Democrats have decided they’ll make 2014 about the minimum
wage. It’s a Democratic mimicking of the GOP’s efforts in 2004 to put gay
marriage initiatives on the ballot. Democrats think people will go to the
polls to vote for them and for increased wages. I suspect they won’t be so
successful.
People are about to feel the tax bite of Obamacare. The out of
pocket costs for many are going to go up. Businesses are still going to
make adjustments that hurt workers — and businesses affected by minimum
wage increases will make even more adjustments. Democrats would have you
believe that 2014 will not be about Obamacare. I happen to think they are
right.
I think 2014 will first be about the disastrous Obama foreign
policy coming back to bite America. And then it’ll be about Obamacare. I
would not be surprised to see the Middle East implode and the Sea of Japan
fall into turmoil. The catastrophic ramifications of both will draw
American attention out of our preferred isolationism. On top of that, the
economic drain from Obamacare will ripple through the economy.
I’d like to think that 2014 would be better than 2013. But I
think we’re on a glide path to Gomorrah and only Jesus saves.
On the bright side, Ragnarok comes on February 22nd.
Happy New Year. .
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Sincerely yours,
Erick Erickson
Editor-in-Chief, RedState
Editor-in-Chief, RedState
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