Here is your Morning Brief for the morning of October 8, 2014.

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Gay Marriage and Republicans

While Senator Ted Cruz is angry about the Supreme Court punt on Gay Marriage, other Republicans might be breathing a sigh of relief according to TIME.

 Advisors to multiple likely 2016 candidates told TIME after the news broke that they are hopeful that swift action by the Supreme Court will provide them cover. “We don’t have to agree with the decision, but as long as we’re not against it we should be okay,” said one aide to a 2016 contender who declined to be named to speak candidly on the sensitive topic. “The base, meanwhile, will focus its anger on the Court, and not on us.”

I would hope that Republicans would stick to the issues of the economy, Obamacare, and the security of the country instead of being bogged down in the gay marriage debate.

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Panetta Turns on Obama

President Obama is getting beat up in the press by his former Secretary of Defense. According to CNN, Obama's decision on ISIS isn't going over well with Leon Panetta.

A former senior member of President Barack Obama's national security team is panning the administration's decision to rule out the use of ground troops to fight ISIS and questioning Obama's leadership style.

"I take the position that when you're commander in chief that you oughta keep all options on the table...to be able to have the flexibility to what is necessary in order to defeat the enemy," former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta told CNN. "We're conducting air strikes. But to make those air strikes work, to be able to do what you had to do, you don't-- you don't just send planes in and drop bombs. You've gotta have targets. You've gotta know what you're goin' after. To do that, you do need people on the ground."

Panetta's comments are a stinging rebuke of Obama at a crucial point in his administration as the president battles multiple national security threats, including ISIS, a resurgent Russia and the spread of Ebola.

His memoir, "Worthy Fights," describes a White House that did not use its "leverage" to try and keep a residual force in Iraq.

"Those on our side of the debate viewed the White House as so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests," he wrote in the book.

You can read the full story by clicking on the link above.

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