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A little publicity is a dangerous thing, as Erick Erickson explains:

Late yesterday RedState broke a significant story, found in this morning’s Morning Briefing, which points to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nations premier public health organization, making a conscious decision to stop publishing the only federal report on abortion.

To briefly recap, for 40 years the CDC has published the Abortion Surveillance Report. For 40 years that report has appeared in the last November or first December issue of CDCs journal, the Morbidity and Mortality Report Weekly Report. This year it didnt. A RedState tradition has been to use this report for our annual retrospective on abortion. When it didnt appear in November or December or in January we decided to ask why.

That inquiry and its response led to our article yesterday.

The internet is an amazing thing. After weeks of checking and phone calls and emails no report. Then one blog post at RedState later, and suddenly the CDC is falling over themselves to produce something. Funny how that works. Two hours and six minutes after the post went live we had an official response from CDC.

What did Jefferson say, embedded in concrete at the entrance to the Chi Trib Tower on Boul Mich, about the relative importance of free government and a free press? (Help me here, someone.) Believe it, people.

Erickson:

According to the CDC we should move along because there is nothing to see here. Really? Were not so sure. It’s never the action, it’s the cover up.

They would prefer that, would they not?

READ THE FULL DETAILS HERE.

says Erick E., who is editor at RedState.com

Some Bad reviews for Pledge to America

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Michelle M: she's also smart.

From Mike Fahy:  The Republican Pledge to America is 21 pages; the Contract with America was 869 words.

David Frum at Frum Forum — “The Pledge to America is a repudiation of the central, foundational idea behind the Tea Party. Tea Party activists have been claiming all year that there exists in the United States a potential voting majority for radically more limited government. The Republican Pledge to America declares: Sorry, we don’t believe that.”

RedState — The Pledge to America is “milquetoast rhetorical flourishes in search of unanimity among House Republicans because the House GOP does not have the fortitude to lead boldly in opposition to Barack Obama.”Club for Growth — The GOP Pledge to America is “so milquetoast that it proves to me that these guys just aren’t ready to lead.”

Doug Powers at Michelle Malkin — “It’s a real shame that the Constitution has to be re-branded once in a while – I kind of like the original.”

Hot Air — “Missing from the list of key agenda items — nothing on cultural issues. [Only] one line, buried at the end of the preamble on page one, and according to sources, even that was only added at the very last minute after Mike Pence objected.”

American Spectator — “Republicans have learned nothing from their time in the wilderness. The House Republicans are interested in attaining and then maintaining power, and not concerned with advancing the cause of limited government at a make-or-break moment in American history.”

Reader D:  Did someone expect more than half a loaf by these leftover Republicans and RINOS? It’s a first step. Get the new breed to Washington and tweak it properly. Right now it’s a start.

I think it’s also telling news from Jim DeMint that the Good Old Boys let the “Republican” who lost to Joe Miller in Alaska retain her clout:

Senate Republicans held a closed-door meeting yesterday afternoon to elect someone to replace Senator Murkowski as the top Republican on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Or so we thought.

Rather than taking away Murkowski’s leadership position on the committee, Senate Republicans decided to let her keep it. One senator after another stood up to argue in favor of protecting her place on the committee — a position she will no doubt use in her campaign against Joe Miller, the conservative Republican nominee.

So what can we expect from most of what we have on the Hill today?

Blithe Sp: The Murkowski ploy is more telling than the Pledge, I think, as does D, I’m sure.

Better off the party of “no”

Erick Erickson.
Erick being interviewed

Red State’s Erick Erickson on the just released Republican “Pledge to America”:

These 21 pages tell you lots of things, some contradictory things, but mostly this: it is a serious [sic] of compromises and milquetoast rhetorical flourishes in search of unanimity among House Republicans because the House GOP does not have the fortitude to lead boldly in opposition to Barack Obama.

Other than that, he’s all for it.

He will vote Republican in November, he says, but “will not carry their stagnant water.”

Loyal opposition, therefore.

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