Here is your Morning Brief for February 12, 2015.

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Perry Slams Obama

Governor Rick Perry on Thursday slammed the Obama administration according to the Washington Post over comments made by President Obama over the motivation of terrorist when they attack a kosher market. The President, who was then defended by the State Department and the White House spokesman, said that the attack on the kosher market was random and not directed at Jews. Perry responded with a very good statement.

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a longtime and staunch supporter of Israel, got it. “I am appalled that President Obama has chosen to deny the vicious anti-Semitic motivation of the attack on a kosher Jewish grocery in Paris on January 9th.  What he called a ‘random’  attack was obviously meant to kill Jews — which is precisely what happened,” he said in an email. “The individual victims may have been those unlucky enough to be in the grocery that day, but it was far from random. In Paris and throughout Europe, anti-Semitism is once again growing and constitutes a daily menace for many Jews.”  He summed up: “While there is no easy solution to this terrible problem, our response must begin with acknowledging exactly what’s going on– and that is the test Mr. Obama failed. It’s time to tell the truth.”

And that really is what is so disturbing about the whole incident. The president and a number of advisers were willing to convince themselves of an absurdity rather than recognize the horrible reality that Islamic terrorists want to kill Jews because they are Jews (and Christians because they are Christians). Unfortunately the thinking is part of a pattern; it’s a necessity if you want to maintain a foreign policy entirely at odds with reality.

Good statement from Perry. Though, what do people expect to hear from President Obama? This is the guy who thinks Islam has nothing to do with Islamic Terror. This is a President who won't even say Islamic Terrorism.

DHS Budget Fuels Republican Tension

House and Senate Republicans are at odds over a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. The House has passed a bill, but the Senate is stuck. According to FOX News, a looming deadline has House and Senate Republicans at odds with each other.

The House already passed a bill that includes provisions overturning President Obama's controversial immigration executive actions. But despite repeated attempts last week, the Senate was unable to pass that bill -- as Democrats blocked it, over and over again. Democrats want the immigration provisions stripped.

Yet House Republican leaders are refusing to take another crack at the bill. A senior House GOP leadership aide told Fox News there is no backup plan -- they are insisting the House-passed bill is the only proposal.

This is a dare not only to Democrats but to their Senate Republican colleagues, who are equally adamant that the House should make the next move.

"I can tell you I think it's clearly stuck in the Senate," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters after a closed-door lunch of Senate Republicans. "And the next step is obviously up to the House."

For his part, House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday said the House has done its job and it's time for the Senate to act. He put the onus on Democrats, saying they need to "get off their ass."

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's office shot back, with a spokesman saying: "We know Speaker Boehner is frustrated but cursing is not going to resolve the squabbling among Republicans that led to this impasse."

The flare-up Wednesday underscored the worsening stalemate on Capitol Hill with funding for the Homeland Security Department set to expire Feb. 27. Republicans aren't sure what comes next and one senior source told Fox News, "There is no plan, which is scary."

Who will blink first?

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