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Nice to see how easy it is for the Republicans mentioned above to backslap themselves in advancing the Democrat agenda item in moving socialized medicine forward. Limited Government? Less intrusive Govt? Free Markets? Ah….nope.Just once again proving to the base that the NH GOP is really the Bipartisan Fusion Party (aka, the Jr. Lackeys of the Welfare State).

Soon we can add to that NH State Rep title and call you the “NH Income Tax Daddy”.  But that’s all right, there are plenty of Republican Leaders acting as your handmaidens in this birthing.  Let me just mention the Republican starring roles in this celebration of more taxes (as NH taxpayers are also Federal taxpayers – thanks for adding to our already hunched over shoulders from the burden you in the Political Class throw onto us) (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Gov. Hassan signs Medicaid expansion extension bill

NH Senate OK’s Medicaid expansion

CONCORD — About 50,000 low-income adults will be able to continue their health care coverage for two more years after Gov. Maggie Hassan signed House Bill 1696 into law Tuesday. “We did it,” said the bill’s prime sponsor, Rep. Joseph Lachance, R-Manchester, as he threw his arms in the air and the 100 or so people attending the bill-signing ceremony broke out in applause.

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I guess Mr. Chase doesn’t believe in local control in education. Which also means that with local control, it means local responsibility for funding the decisions that come from local control if a town decides it wants full time kindergarten.

That was my comment left at Tom Chase’s LtE in the Concord Monitor (after the jump; hey, if yer gonna debate Libs, ya gotta go where they flock) on berating Republicans for not financing full time kindergarten. He seems angry that some Republicans whose districts already have full time kindergarten voted down HB1563 – I have no clue why because OBVIOUSLY their towns decided they should shoulder their own expenses, why should they pick up the tab for someone?

And what is the morality behind increasingly having some pay more and more for the many?  When does it stop – what is the limiting factor?  At least the Republicans SAY that they favor local control – so I’d chalk it up to being in step with what the Rs believe: local means local.

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Ayup – and no surprise, either.  Here, let me give you a hint:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senator John Cornyn, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Lamar Alexander, Senator John Barrasso, Senator Roy Blunt, Senator John Boozman, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Senator Bill Cassidy….

And yes, the list on that amicus brief is in alphabetical order.  Amicus brief, you say, Skip? Ayup.  What is it on?  Oh, let’s just say it was something that our now Junior Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) once campaigned really, really, really hard on.  It was like she lived and breathed it when I saw her on the stump.  Now?  Not so much, I guess:

Forty-three U.S. senators presented a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court today arguing that President Barack Obama is seeking to “implement his policy preferences” in dealing with certain classes of illegal aliens “by the extra-constitutional assertion of a unilateral executive power. With millions of illegal aliens not permitted to remain in this country, work in this country, or receive government benefits pursuant to federal law, the Executive decided to provide such privileges to them anyway through administrative fiat,” says the brief.

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And as I have been writing about, NH Rebellion is right in the middle of it. With the march of Democracy Spring now headed to DC, what’s the status?

…Democracy Spring, which is currently in the midst of a 10-day protest march from Philadelphia to DC, with plans for a major escalation in DC on April 11. On that date, the group says it is plotting “one of the largest civil disobedience actions in a generation.” As of this writing, 3,404 activists specifically pledged online to participate in the main civil disobedience event and risk arrest on on April 11 in D.C.

And is this the “anvil” as now there seems to be a second wave: Democracy Awakening.  Promising more of the same now is a second wave (the “Hammer“):

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THE HYPOCRISY OF PAYPAL’S ‘MISSION AND CULTURE:’ The online payments company cancels plans to expand in North Carolina while maintaining offices in some of the most anti-gay countries in the world.

It is because the LGBT mafia see Christianity as its greatest enemy here in the United States and as easy marks as many won’t fight back at all.  But in those countries that actively kill their LGBT populations?  Like many on the Left, they won’t stand up to the Muslims because they know they’d get hurt (at best) – they hide under the rubric of “cultural norms”. (H/T: Instapundit).

From the post, this sums it up:

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I try to make the rounds of the NH newspapers; this morning at the Concord Monitor I came across a Letter to the Editor from someone who definitely doesn’t understand his civics (emphasis mine):

Letter: Cheated by Ayotte, GOP

Sen. Ayotte was recently quoted as saying she believes “the American people deserve to have a voice in the direction of the court.” That was code for her position that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is right to not even consider President Obama’s nomination of Judge Garland for a seat on the Supreme Court until a new president is elected.

That’s all fine and dandy, but what about my vote? One of the reasons I voted for Barack Obama in 2012, and not Mitt Romney, is I wanted Obama, not Romney, to nominate the candidates to fill any Supreme Court vacancies that occurred during the following four years. I feel cheated by Sen. Ayotte and her Republican colleagues.

Perhaps the executive branch should stop using tax dollars to fund the current expenses of the U.S. Senate, on the assumption that the Senate elected in November will be more responsive to its constituents.

JOHN V. KJELLMAN

Well of course, I couldn’t let that stand:

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Shot: NH Senate President, Republican Chuck Morse – in implementing Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion: this will protect NH Taxpayers

Chaser: NH Rep Dale Sprague (D-Somersworth) – in arguing that NH ought to have a choo-choo train to Boston: The House also ignored the fact that the $4 million project development phase can be completed without impacting New Hampshire taxpayers.

And of course, we all know both of these two are lying and the proof is simple –

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I know I’ve put this kind of thing up before but I just can’t stop thinking that we are seeing yet another slow motion crash / cave in with the Republicans.  Yes, McConnell and Ayotte have said no deal, but this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this two-bit rodeo show and it always ends the same way.  The Hill reports (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Sen. Kelly Ayotte will meet with Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland next week.  

The New Hampshire Republican plans to meet with Garland on April 13, according to her office, even though she thinks the Supreme Court seat should remain vacant until next year.   “I will meet with the president’s nominee out of courtesy and respect, and I also plan to explain my view that the people should have a voice in this important nomination through their votes in November,” Ayotte said in a statement.  She told reporters in New Hampshire during the Senate’s two-week recess that her office had set up a meeting with Garland, though she wasn’t sure when it would be.

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BUMPED: in doing some research (after all, we pretty much talk about all things political so with close to 25,000 posts, the ‘Grok has become its own research center), I came across this where NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn was boosting Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion.  First published on 11/18/2013, it shows that, 3 years later, how well the Bipartisan Fusion Party / Jr. Lackeys of the Welfare State had “the fix” in even back then.

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