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Sure, I Ruined Health Care – But Let’s Not Talk About That…

Free speech under assault againNew Hampshire Democrats are attacking Scott Brown as if he is running for Senate in New Hampshire.  Me too.  Scott Brown should be running in Massachusetts where many Democrats and a lot of Republicans are just like Scott Brown; Blue dogs, or blue-collar Democrats.  But that’s not how the landscape is laid out.  For the time being the Brown RINO likes the smell of Granite and I expect he’s here until the primary.

So New Hampshire Democrats, fearful that the Brown Democrat can beat their Green one, are going after him with this thing called the People’s Pledge, a nearly worthless gesture that pretends to address the so-called issue of outside influence.  It doesn’t.  (And I only bring it up because it could appear in the face of whomever wins the primary.)  All the Pledge does is give embattled Democrats who can’t defend the destruction of the American health Care system an ‘Oh yeah?!’  as in, ‘Oh yeah?!, well why hasn’t Scott Brown signed the People’s Pledge?

Why?  Could it be because he isn’t even officially running for the Senate – yet?

That hasn’t stopped the Shaheen campaign from spending outside money (which is most of the money Shaheen raises) on ads questioning why Brown hasn’t signed the pledge, while quoting him as a proponent of it.   Personally, I think he should sign it because that is all Shaheen has.   He signs it and her whole campaign strategy evaporates.  All that leaves them with is Big Oil and Wall Street.  Shaheen gets all her money from out-of-state special interests, lawyers, and bankers.

Big oil pays for their own R and D, wages, benefits,with their own money, and produces a product people need.  The biggest gripe the left has about big oil is that Republican candidates are inclined to let them keep what they earn.  That leads to more development, and jobs, and lower prices that will put hundred of billions of dollars back into the economy just from savings realized from lower gas and home heating fuel prices.

The only hundreds of billions relating to energy that Shaheen can brag about are how the Democrats loaned hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to green energy companies that went bankrupt and will never pay it back.

I happen to like that policy math.  Any Senator who thinks that companies should use more of their own money to save me money is a winner.  The alternative, the Shaheen/Obama plan, is to take more of my money from me and throw it down a hole so that daily life costs a lot more than it needs to.

Or how about this?  Republican’s running against Shaheen could come up with a counter pledge.  We’ll call it the ‘Keep Your Plan Pledge.’ Jeanne Shaheen or the Democrat party promises to pay half the cost of the premiums or deductibles of everyone in New Hampshire who couldn’t keep their plan or their doctor when she said they could.

By the way, before we proceed, has anyone heard the “no more pledge” New Hampshire Democrats repeat the People’s Pledge Narrative?  The Cilley Democrats ran for Governor on a “we think pledges are stupid platform.”  They lost, but it’s out there so any Jackie Cilley Supporters found ranting about the People’s Pledge should immediately be challenged.  I’d check the Facebook and Twitter feed of that ass-hat Peter Sullivan first, then work out from there.

Anyway, as a Party, New Hampshire Democrats have latched onto this ‘People’s Pledge’ narrative (would cling bitterly work?) and are pumping that narrative out faster than a cocaine study monkey can press the “more” button.   The biggest problem New Hampshire Democrats can think of is the People’s Pledge, unsigned, by a guy who is not yet even running against their left-wing dead-fish placeholder from St Charles Missouri, in the US Senate.   The people’s pledge is more important to New Hampshire than a sitting US senator adding 8 trillion to the debt in five years or destroying the entire US health care system.

It’s a big deal to them.  So what does it do? Like I said, nothing.  Not really.  If an outside third-party (Super PAC) spends money on the campaign the candidate promises to give a sum equal to half that spending to a charity of their opponents choice.  This works great for Democrats because all of their ‘charities’ are donors to their campaigns, electioneer, or do issue advocacy for Democrats.

And how well did the Pledge work when Brown and Warren tried it?

Warren and Brown, combined, raised close to 70 million for one Senate seat in Massachusetts,  60% of which came from outside their state.  Over 40 million in out-of-state money.

For contrast, Shaheen, in her two Senate bids combined, only spent 13 million.  Shaheen and Sununu combined in both races couldn’t come close to the amount of outside money shoveled into the Brown and Warren campaigns just by those out-of-state interests.

So the People’s Pledge, by all accounts, funnels more direct money from outside interests into candidates hands, while excluding all other voices from speaking without the campaigns approval.  It is  institutionalized political messaging.

How great does that sound?  The only people allowed to speak to the matter of the candidates, their election or the issues, must be approved by one of two conduits approved by the ruling class aristocracy?  And in the case of Brown and Shaheen, two ruling class progressive conduits?

Maybe we sohuld call it the ‘Some Animals have More political Speech Rights than other’s’ pledge?

Better yet, if I may be so bold as to simplify the deabte….how about we insert and expletive followed by the word ‘That!’

 

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