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November 21, 2013

Did Maggie Hassan’s Magic Touch Doom Medicaid Expansion in NH?

New Hampshire’s troubled Governor can add yet another failure to her policy quiver.  And it’s a big one. The Democrat controlled New Hampshire House had more than enough votes without any cover from the reliable RINO’s to pass Medicaid Expansion.  The Republican Majority State Senate appeared willing to make a deal that would have locked …

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That’s Why We Call Them Hypocrats. Nuclear Hypocrats, That is…

Lets hop in the not-so-way-back machine to see what some ‘prominent Democrats’ thought about the US Senate “going nuclear” (to end filibusters)… Hypocrat Barack Obama… Obama: “If They Choose To Change The Rules And Put An End To Democratic Debate, Then The Fighting, The Bitterness, And The Gridlock Will Only Get Worse.” SEN. BARACK OBAMA: “The …

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Bill O’Brien…On a Miselading Letter Sent to NH House Reps on Medicaid Expansion

William O’Brien    11:05pm Nov 20 So there is this letter that liberals are sending around to some state representatives this evening (not me, because I am probably a lost cause to them) trying to persuade them to vote for ObamaCare Medicaid Expansion. It is interesting to see what they are saying and then the facts: …

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If Legislators Were Brave They’d Do It The Right Way

Yesterday, in a post in which I observe that Republicans are giving cover to Democrats on ObamaCare if they expand Medicaid, I added… The alternative to just saying no to either whore in either dress (to saying no to either the Democrat or Republican ‘plan’ for expanding Medicaid) is to identify an actual problem, if …

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Harrell Kirstein, care to comment on these numbers?

Grokster Steve’s post has Harrell trying to rewrite “cold-heartedness”: The @NHGOP & @NHGOPsenate turned their back on thousands of working families today in favor of the tea party #NHpolitics — Harrell Kirstein (@HarrellKirstein) November 20, 2013 Harrell, IBD wants to edumacate you: The U.S. is hugely generous to those who can’t afford to pay for …

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Oh goody: a GREAT example of Progressivist language redefinition – Fascism as Free Market

Provided by Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo), you can’t have a Free Market when it is a Government spawned entity.  But there is a word that describes that spawned entity (emphasis mine, reformatted): Sen. Claire McCaskill (D- Mo.) says Republicans are “misleading people” about ObamaCare, which she calls a “free market solution”.  McCaskill told MSNBC viewers …

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