Month: September 2017

Yesterday, a report was released that there were over 6,500 voters in the 2016 election who used out-of-state driver’s licenses to vote in New Hampshire. Of that number of voters, over 5,300 had not established residency in the state by getting a New Hampshire driver’s license as of August 31, 2017.

It’s actually state law that if you move to the state with the intent on staying in the state, you must give up your former driver’s license and get a New Hampshire driver’s license within 60 days. The 5,300 who voted with out-of-state drivers’ licenses in the 2016 election never established residency. Either they weren’t ever going to establish residency or they broke the law.

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There is zero evidence that Russia hacked the “presidential election” yet New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen leads her New York Times editorial with, “The Kremlin hacked our presidential election.”

It is difficult to take much she says seriously most days, but opening with an unsubstantiated talking point makes the rest of her remarks difficult to accept, which is sad. Russian hacking and cyber war, in general, is a real thing worthy of some attention.

Jeanne Shaheen isn’t serious about that or anything else unless it advances the party line and partisan politics. 

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The biggest reason for Obamacare’s rate hikes? Two of its most popular provisions, guaranteed issue and community rating. These are the technical terms for Obamacare’s ban on insurance companies denying coverage or charging people who are sick more.

The McKinsey report found that in Georgia, these mandates added between 44 and 52 percent to premiums. In Ohio, they were responsible for 41 to 50 percent of the hikes — and in Pennsylvania, as much as 62 percent. In Tennessee, guaranteed issue and community rating accounted for between 73 and 76 percent of premium increases.

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…

…It’s over.

The election is finally over.

Democrats finally have accepted the results.

Trump saw this, and cashed in on Wednesday. He is playing the Democratic Party leadership against the Republican Party leadership that for nine months have blown him off.

Indeed – what has the Congressional leadership done with Trump? Gorsuch and a number of anti-regulation legislation – one biggie and a lot of little stuff.  None of it would hurt them politically. Easy-peazy.

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This was originally linked at New Media Militia but given what an “active” topic this is I thought I’d share it here as well.

Jim Simpson, who’s been a friend of the Grok, more or less, since 2014, has written about the report by Dave Gaubatz shared here back on August 5th. Jim Comes to the defense of the rating system used to declare the mosque in Manchester as “a Sunni/Saudi and Pakistani front for Islamic based terrorists groups such as Al Qaeda and ISIS.”

Jim explains.

(Dave Gaubatz) has investigated over 280 mosques in the U.S. alone and uses a rating system developed by a former Islamist, Tafik Hamid.

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New Hampshire Democrat Party Chair Ray Buckley doesn’t even have the decency to apologize for implying that thousands of likely New Hampshire voters are white supremacists. Instead, he has a spokesman spin his treachery to blame Republicans.

“The Republican outrage apparatus is expectedly taking this comment out of context to manufacture controversy,” Ronan said. “Chairman Buckley would never characterize unregistered, disaffected voters as white supremacists.

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SHOT: House Overwhelmingly Passes $7.9 Billion Harvey Aid Package

By a 419-3 vote, the House of Representatives passed an initial $7.9 billion aid package to help victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana.
The bill is now on its way to the Senate — where some have said an increase to the nation’s debt ceiling could be tacked on — before it reaches President Donald Trump’s desk for final approval.

“This is a chance to be your brother’s keeper,” Rep. Al Green (D-TX) said. “This is a chance for the unity that we express when we’re before the cameras to manifest itself in the votes that we cast here in Congress.”

CHASER: Not yours to give…Davey Crockett

One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:

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New Hampshire Democrat Party Chairman Ray Buckley’s remarks last weekend should leave a mark. Yes, a Party Spokesman claims they were taken out of context but that’s not going to cut it because the actual context was not only evident, other recent events make matters worse for Ray and New Hampshire Democrats.

In responding to the matter of a new pro-Trump group reaching out to rural voters, Buckley said, “The organizing and activating of these extremists, these white supremacists, really could have a detrimental effect on the entire culture of New Hampshire.”

These extremists and white supremacists?  That’s clear as vodka Comrade Buckley.

So what did I mean when I said matters are much worse for New Hampshire Democrats?

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…haven’t gone back to “regular order”, jammed up against funding deadlines and AGAIN have to pass a crappy “Continuing Resolution”.

But they seem to be all in on Obama’s unconstitutional DACA and “making it all better” – after years of whining this was THEIR job and not his.

So WHEN are the DC Republicans going to do their job(s)?  Sure, passed a bunch of regulation busting legislation – I’ll take it.  But this is not the “why we pulled the lever” – this is failure that, I think, makes 2005 and previous look like championship work (and that gave Democrats control in a lot of places including here in NH).  I agree with the above- failure will not be rewarded.  If those losers think that the Dems in their districts roasted them in their home district townhalls, just wait.  Just wait.

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