HHS Secretary Sebelius with President Obama

Jenny Beth Martin writing for Breitbart.com asserts that Senate Republicans can stop Obamacare.

“There is a clear path to victory and the folks comprising the new Republican leadership emerging in the House and Senate are smart enough and bold enough to take that path.” Martin writes.

“Understanding the options available to these new leaders requires an understanding of a few of the basics of Senate rules and process.  Otherwise folks like Karl Rove will tell you to “do the math” counting Democrat Senators without telling you that Senate Republicans have the ability to change the formula.
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Senator Tom Coburn

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Senators Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) today introduced the Audit the Pentagon Act of 2013, that provides incentives for the Department of Defense, which is the only Federal agency that has never fully complied with financial management laws, to meet its audit schedule and instituting consequences for further failure to follow the law.

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure.  Every year the Pentagon fails to produce a viable financial audit they not only violate the Constitution, but put our nation’s security at risk because of a failure to effectively prioritize spending,” Dr. Coburn said.

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Updated: Including the shooter 13 people are dead and 14 others injured after a gunman opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday. The FBI says Aaron Alexis, an information technology employee with a history of mental heath issues acted alone.

While the Washington Post Monday reported the event “spreading fear and chaos across the region as authorities sought to contain the panic” video seems to show reasonable response by all.

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The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that a top congressional appropriator on Monday suggested the State Department and CIA might have been stockpiling weapons for Syrian opposition fighters when they came under attack by jihadists in Benghazi, Libya.

“I firmly believe that whatever the State Department and CIA were doing in Benghazi had a direct connection to U.S. policy in Syria—a policy that to date has not been fully revealed to the American people or Congress,” Rep. Frank Wolf (R., Va.) said Monday evening during a discussion focusing on “unanswered questions” surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012, attack that killed four Americans.
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