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The U.S. national debt jumped $339 billion on Monday, the same day President Obama signed into law legislation suspending the debt ceiling.  That legislation allowed the government to borrow as much as it wants above the $18.1 trillion debt ceiling that had been in place.

The website that reports the exact tally of the debt said the U.S. government owed $18.153 trillion last Friday, and said that number surged to $18.492 on Monday.

And Kelly Ayotte’s vote, joining with a minority of Senate Republicans and the vast majority of Senate Democrats, made that possible.  Forty percent of yet another Trillion in 1 working day.  Bazau!  Our children will laud you, Kelly Ayotte, for years as you have now helped to dragoon them (or would you prefer the less politically correct term, Shanghai’d?) into paying this extra amount for years to come.  And!

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After all, this:

I have no feeling for the electorate anymore. It is not responding the way it used to. Their priorities are so different that if I tried to analyze it I’d be making it up.

And John E Sununu is out in the hustings hustling for John Kasich; it is clear that the Sununus have gone all in on and for him.  But I guess I’m part of that electorate Papa Sununu doesn’t get.  So, when I look at the stances that the Sununus must be in favor of (after all, Kasich holds them out), I don’t get how these are Republican values: illegal alien amnesty, supporting Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion, bigger Government and spending.  Go ahead and do the “if A & B” formulation – I can point to the NH GOP Platform where the planks are AGAINST Kasich’s and, by inference and endorsement, Sununu’s.

Yeah, their priorities are so different than what good solid conservative Republican ones are – well, does it really need analyzing?

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I read this post that seemingly has blown the cover of a “secret” meeting concerning

Sidenote:  if this was supposed to be “secret”, who couldn’t keep their mouth shut?  Or is seeking “fame by proxy” by running to blab?  Either way, I hope they feel great about themselves in betraying a Trust that is no longer there.  If we find out who..

this meeting about the NH Senatorial Primaryand then took a call from a reader of the ‘Grok that pointed me this section:

Businessman Andrew Hemingway, who received nearly 40 percent of the vote in the 2014 Republican gubernatorial primary against nominee Walt Havenstein, replied, “No comment,” when asked by WMUR.com if he is considering taking on Ayotte.

Understand that

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This week’s CLOSEUP had a couple of tidbits in it that I just went “really”?  For instance, in his first interview, with Hillary Clinton, he had the chance to put her under the journalistic microscope with a follow up question.  No, not a CNBC type gotcha type – but just good journalism.  Result?

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Insistent on adopting Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion while crowing about all that “free money” that’s going to make it happen (or the other way of doing the same lie – “bringing Ohio’s money back home”.  Stuff takes money to do and why is it that ALL state level politicians talk about Fed money as if their citizens never had to pay a Federal tax?). Or that even more evilishness – attacking anyone that doesn’t agree with him as being a bad Christian.  Last time I read that “new part”, I didn’t see Jesus pleading with either Pontius Pilate (the Roman Governor) or the High Priest in Jerusalem nor any of the Pharisees or Saducees to implement massive government programs for the poor – but he did implore individuals to do just that.  Kasich?  Not so much (in addition to having favorable words for the CNBC moderators):

The expansion has already run $1.5 billion over budget, and more people are enrolled than the state thought would ever sign up. . . . The Department of Medicaid reports that nearly 60 percent of these able-bodied adults aren’t working at all. By unilaterally adding more than 600,000 able-bodied adults to Medicaid under Obamacare, Kasich has made Ohio the most dependent state in the Midwest.

So, just like NH State Senators Jeb Bradley, Chuck Morse, Nancy Stiles, and others of their ilk, let’s make people who are or COULD be self-reliant be government-dependents.  Yep, that’s what the Republican platform calls fer, don’t it?

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The reverberations of last week’s GOP Debate and the utter disdain that the CNBC “moderators” (aka, Democrat Socialists with bylines) held towards the candidates have not yet echoed out.  But this from one of the “lions” of the Journalist Class, Carl Bernstein of Watergate investigative reporting fame, said this that caught my eye, even as he said that the lamestream media had better start paying attention to the conservative media:

Bernstein also said that the “contempt for government” Republicans had “was really extraordinary” and “Democrats are going to have to show that government has a reason to exist.”

Well then!   Let’s unpack this backwards:

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The losers that the private marketplace already judged them to be from the get-go.  Obama famously said he’d put a million electric cars on the road – he hasn’t.  But is that the purview of Government or even being the President, to decree to citizens what kinds of cars (and the energy they use) out of the blue under the Progressive / Socialist rubric (and “tell”) “It’s good for you”?  Progressive Socialists certainly think so – look at all the tax monies that have been wasted propping up “green” companies that then go belly up – in fields that the marketplace has already judged them to be poor value.

The problem is that States also followed along like timid sheep in the “helping to pick winners” with all – like Georgia (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Without Government Subsidy, Electric Car Sales Crash in Georgia

For more than 15 years, Georgia offered one of the country’s most generous tax credits for people who bought electric cars.  But the $5,000 subsidy went away three months ago, and a look by Watchdog.org at how the tax credit’s expiration has affected sales shows a dramatic drop in the number of all-electric cars such as Teslas and Nissan Leafs purchased in the Peach State.

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From Powerline. Lord knows that I rail about pop culture values a lot here: Political Correctness, collapse of respect for The Rule of Law, the ascendancy of “political expediency” over “right and wrong” from the Political Class, the fall from grace of absolute moral values from attack of moral relativity and equivalency (which is to say, a nihilistic view of “right and wrong”) – I could go on for a while.  Yet, this shows the dark underbelly of Muslim values and subjugation of women in fundamentalist Islamic societies. 

My only question is, where are the big “F” Feminists on this? Or is the reason we hear the quiet of crickets from them is that they know that while they can pick on Western men, the Middle Eastern (et al) Muslims males would beat the crap out of them?  After all, remember what happened to Lara Logan just trying to do some reporting? Or what is now going on in Europe as the Muslim invasion migration consisting mostly military aged Muslim males are bringing their values to those Western countries?  Not working well and gives truth to the picture.

This is the rot of

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