Jeanne Shaheen

Shaheen Received Money from IRS Employees Union

May 17, 2013

Open Secrets identifies the National Treasury Employees Union, which covers the IRS, as Liberal.  Go figure? They only donate to Democrats, which includes New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, according to this recent press release… Senate Democrats received more than $570,000 from IRS Union Washington, D.C. – This week news broke that Senate Democrats were guilty of pressuring [ Read more ]

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Shaheening – 501(c)(4) For Me But Not For Thee?

May 17, 2013

Shaheening; to be Shaheend: Named after our soon to be former New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, defined as either applying political pressure against the same thing you are simultaneous hoping to take advantage of for yourself, or being the victim of the pressure applied. Ex: While New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen and her Senate allies [ Read more ]

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US News.com Says Jeanne Shaheen Pressured IRS

May 15, 2013

Not exactly a bastion of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, US News connects the dots between public rhetoric and policy efforts by Democrat Senators that specifically mention right wing groups, with the ongoing partisan actions taken by the IRS against conservative and TEA party groups. From “Senate Democrats pushed for Tea party snooping before criticizing it…” [ Read more ]

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NH US Senator Jeanne Shaheen: on Both Sides of the IRS “Targeting Tea Party Groups”

May 14, 2013

New Hampshire US Senator Jeanne Shaheen on Feb 16th, 2012 (In a letter she signed and sent to the head of the IRS requesting they investigate 501(c)(4)’s in the run up to the 2012 elections) “We write to inquire if the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is investigating or intends to investigate whether groups designated as “social welfare” organizations, and thus receiving [ Read more ]

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IRS Admits to Targeting Tea Party Groups

May 11, 2013

This deserves more coverage than I’ll give it here but I am leaving for Concord to record GrokTALK!   We” consider this a primer. The right accused the IRS of targeting TEA Party groups for exception grief and scrutiny while ignoring similar groups on the left. The IRS has officially admitted to do doing this. The [ Read more ]

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Congressional Democrats in DC – Can Congress grant ourselves a waiver from Obamacare – it costs too much!

April 26, 2013

And I am hoping it is going to cost them dearly – and not just as another deduction from their Federal tax paid payroll checks.  Like many Conservatives, my heart dropped when the Supremes declared it Constitutional – being penalized for simply being an American citizen that breathes if you decide to do “nothing”?  A [ Read more ]

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I Think She’d Say Something like this, Harrell!

April 26, 2013

Yesterday morning hapless Harrell ‘Jersey Shore’ Kirstein (The New Hampshire Democrat Propaganda Minister) tweeted this. PPP is left leaning and always suspect, with a tendency to over-sample for favorable Democrat outcomes, but maybe HK was just looking for a silver lining seeing as the UNH Poll, albeit with a smaller sample, came out with some contradictory results he chose NOT to [ Read more ]

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New Hampshire Democrat Women! How Do You Think Live Birth Abortions Should Be Performed?

April 17, 2013

No point in beating around the bush.  Kermit Gosnell has put live birth abortion front and center and so should we.  It is a thoroughly documented fact that this is something that a number of prominent Democrat women in New Hampshire support.  Democrat leaders in the state and the Democrat party support it.  So we [ Read more ]

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“We have to fight back if they come for Jeanne. She shares our values and stands up for them,” -Senator Bob Menendez

April 9, 2013

It looks like Senator Robert ‘Bob’ Menendez is fundraising for New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen.  Well, there’s a wise decision.  Robert has been  implicated in a number of suspect behaviors for a sitting US Senator, not the least of which was accusations of sex with underage Dominican prostitutes. What are the Shaheen optics on that, “well, as long [ Read more ]

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Ovide Lamontagne – strong words from the nicest guy in politics for the Jeanne Shaheen Machine (Nasty??)

April 3, 2013

Ovide Lamontagne was on WMUR’s Close Up this past Sunday (and yes, I DVR it and yes, I forgot that I had transcribed this, so putting it up now.  Josh McElveen, trying to wheedle out of Ovide whether or not he’s going to run for a specific office this time around.  Here, he tries to [ Read more ]

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US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) votes the UN Small Arms Treaty over the Constitution?

April 2, 2013

“”To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.“” Guess how our Senior Senator from NH, Jeanne Shaheen voted? The UN just passed their Small Arms Treaty that may well run into our Constitution – specifically the Second Amendment (here, here).  It also is a [ Read more ]

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Jeanne Shaheen – Enemy of the Constitution

March 24, 2013

Yesterday, the US Senate voted on an amendment to “uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty“. While this issue could come up for another vote during the session, this action essentially rejected the UN Gun Ban Treaty - officially called the “Arms Trade Treaty” (ATT) - which was [ Read more ]

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It’s Maple Syrup Season Again…

March 11, 2013

  ..so it must be time to make fun of Jeanne ’Global Warming’ Shaheen. (Or just Greene Shaheen if you prefer.) When Mrs. Greene Jeanne ran for the Senate in 2008 she made a point of making some dire predictions about the ill effects of Global Warming–if left unattended.  (Back in 2008 they were still calling it that even [ Read more ]

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Occupy Senator Shaheen’s Office

February 6, 2013

A new Event just sprang up on Facebook called ‘Occupy Senator Shaheen’s Office.’  They’d like you to spend some “quality time there tomorrow and… Demand an end to indefinite detention without charge and extrajudicial assassination of American Citizens under the NDAA. Obama’s lawyers have laid out who he can kill. “[T]he confidential Justice Department “white [ Read more ]

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Thanks, Jeanne Shaheen – for raising our healthcare costs TWICE!

January 14, 2013

Health-insurance premiums have been rising—and consumers will experience another series of price shocks later this year when some see their premiums skyrocket thanks to the Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare. We’ve already seen a lot of premium hikes – mine as gone up 20% this year.  And now, it’s going to get worse?  Glad to [ Read more ]

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I really hope that Kelly Ayotte, BFF with John McCain, is not playing this game

January 7, 2013

Captains Quarters on the incipient Gun Control activities by the White House and the “set up” in Congress (emphasis mine): They want to turn hunters against the NRA and modern sporting rifles. Fat chance. That didn’t work out so well for David Petzal or Jerry Tsai. Their plans to divide and conquer the NRA will [ Read more ]

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This Isn’t Sexist?

January 5, 2013

Hypocrisy from the left is always on my radar and let me tell you–my radar is always beeping.  Take this for example.  Just imagine if former Senator John Sununu (or any man anywhere) had said this… Keep the New Hampshire Delegation in men’s hands. I can smell the tar boiling from here.  So who has [ Read more ]

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PUC Approves PSNH Rate Increase – Observe the Democrat’s Circular Green Firing Squad!

December 29, 2012

Back in September PSNH announced that it would need to rasie rates to deal with about 67 million dollars a year in costs associated with RGGI (and other state energy mandates)- a tax (RGGI) that Maggie Hassan was proud of, if you’ve forgotten.   (Grokster Tom also has a nice treatment of those same stories here.) [ Read more ]

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Jeanne Shaheen Wants to Ban Guns

December 17, 2012

Tragedy always attracts a parade of progressive mountebanks, anxious to peddle their faulty wares as cures for what ails us, and US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D- Utopia) is no different.  In response to the heinous criminal acts perpetrated in Newtown, Connecticut she observed that… “We need a comprehensive approach that includes improving access to mental [ Read more ]

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This 2012 Nobel Prize For Science Might Piss Democrats Off

October 8, 2012

Democrats and their Abortion advocates keep saying they are the party of science, and that Republicans will ban abortion (stay with me, they are related).  First, Republicans do not believe in the kind of monarchical government where that is even possible, and just for the record (again), even if Roe v. Wade was overturned, all [ Read more ]

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Obamacare and the IRS – such a cute couple

October 7, 2012

So much for Democrats wanting to protect your privacy – I guess, like all of the anti-war protesters when Bush was President, the privacy advocates have all gone silent in support of The Won.  It just goes to show that for almost all Progressives, it’s all for show – if they truly believed in what [ Read more ]

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S.3307 The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act…Guess Who Voted for It?

September 25, 2012

S.3307 (2010)is the legislation that empowered the Feds to regulate local school lunches.  It is the regulation that is driving up the cost of school lunches by law, because the law demands parity of price regardless of cost.  It is the law that limits the number of calories and other nutritional elements to a national [ Read more ]

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Seeing The Global Warming Forest For the Trees

September 22, 2012

I like to pick on Senator Jeanne Shaheen because she is a left wing hack, particularly when it come to Global War-ming.  Today’s installment takes us back once more to her 2008 Senate Race during which she claimed, and I quote…(from her long since scrubbed then Senate campaign site…) REVERSE GLOBAL WARMING Reversing global warming [ Read more ]

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Get “Used” to This – Part 2

September 8, 2012

Steve just posted about the “Death Panel” deciding that women don’t need as many mammograms as folks have had in the past (and forget PSAs for prostate cancer protection for men).  These expert wondertwits have decided, most likely, that the cost to Government is not worth it (you won’t mind, will you?).  The Left is [ Read more ]

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Did Maggie Cilley Ever Denounce Bill Clinton? (Video Added)

August 23, 2012

While we’re on the topic of denouncing things, not long ago, Bill Clinton, impeached perjurer and accused serial rapist and sex offender, came to New Hampshire to endorse Maggie Cilley for Governor. Maggie Hassan, the actual object of the endorsement, stood on stage next to the accused rapist, as have almost every New Hampshire Democrat [ Read more ]

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