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Medicaid Reform, Security Sweeps and a Dead Body: CPAC 2017
Jim Geraghty
February 24, 2017

“Sir, you just walked through a crime scene, I’m going to need to see your ID.”

 

That’s how my Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference began; how was your day? Apparently someone jumped from the top floor of a parking garage about one block away from the Gaylord convention center. The streets had been blocked off with yellow crime scene tape and perpendicularly parked police cars, so I had walked through the garage of the Wyndam hotel to get around the blocked-off area. Apparently the entire block had been ruled a crime scene, so the polite, professional officers needed everyone to hand over their driver’s licenses and log the information.

 

* Word from the police is that the jumper was an employee of a nearby business, and the act is not believed to be related to the conference. But it was an odd, macabre start to what should be one of the happiest CPACs ever. After all, there’s a Republican president, GOP control of the House and Senate, a terrific Supreme Court nominee in the batter’s box, a slew of GOP governors and state legislatures, giving a leg up in the redistricting after 2020. The weather was unbelievably warm and enjoyable for late February. Literally and figuratively, the sun is shining on the conservative movement.

 

For all of the thermonuclear reactions in the press, the just-barely-started Trump administration hasn’t really had an un-fixable mistake yet. Yes, the rollout of the executive order on immigration and refugees was a mess from start to finish, but the administration has the option of a mulligan and they’re taking it. (In retrospect, don’t even bother trying to enact a controversial change without your own attorney general in place to defend it legally.)

 

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* Oh Sure It Just Happened When The Evil Hateful Republicans Were In Town. biggrin.png

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Thoughts from CPAC
David Sussman
Feb 23 2017

Most of the big wigs are being shown live on the news. From Media Row, so far we have had the pleasure of watching Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. Scott Walker, Kellyanne Conway, Betsy DeVos, Reince Priebus, and others. We are taking a Secret Service hotel sterilization break due to Vice President Pence coming.

Like most political conventions, the real action is outside in the halls, breakout rooms, and media stars (Jesse Watters is very popular). This convention is part post-election celebration, part thanking the faithful, and part planning for the future. The one takeaway from today thus far was seeing the elusive Steve Bannon telling the crowd he is intent on ensuring every promise Trump made will be fulfilled.

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Said one twenty-something: “In 2012 we didn’t riot or have temper tantrums after losing an election we thought we would win. We just disagreed. But thanks to the Progressives’ post-election hysterical behavior, the youth is adopting conservativism.”

 

The young student activists at Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) bodes well for the future indeed.

 

More to come.

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