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 California begins to reward residents who cut water use with rate increase to make up for lower water use.

…you get shafted for doing EXACTLY what they wanted.  Once again, we see Progressive Government proving that F.A. Hayek’s “The Fatal Conceit” true- that a single individual or committee canNOT ever know enough to be able to ably make decisions for hundreds of millions of people.

We’re already seeing this story play out in two other venues: cars and electricity.  DRIVE smaller calls, the environmentalists demanded – and normal folks said “go pound sand”.  So the environ-“let’s deindustrialize back to the Middle Ages”-mentalists joined with Progressives to use the force of Government to change the MPG standards to FORCE you to drive smaller, more efficient (and more dangerous – doubt me and you sit in your Fiat 500 as I T-bone you in my Suburban) tin-cans.  Sure, they get better MPG (as if that’s the only metric that counts – it is for them, however) but like all Progressives, they keep forgetting two little words:

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Kim’s post on Jeb! making the decision to cut his staffers’ salaries brought a thought to my fingers:

Shot:

Jeb!: We’re making campaign staffing cuts, but it’s from a “position of strength”

Chaser:

Obama: President tells CBS’s Steve Kroft in interview previewed on-air Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s moves into Syria are out of weakness, not strength

IAM confused – what is

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Yep, National Debt Ceiling time again and we’ve seen this movie already.  Kelly Ayotte has a new bill (2/15) and Kim had a post on it here; US Senate sponsors are: “Mr. Portman (for himself, Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Lee, Mr. Rubio, and Mr. Toomey)”.  By setting up “automatic” appropriations  to take effect if Congress can’t get its second act and responsibility together and actually passing legislation, it kicks in to save their collective butts for a job poorly done (i.e., setting the nation’s priorities via a budget) – it lapses their responsibilities (yes, again) and puts the government onto autopilot.

Tell me again – WHY then do we need Congress?  You have TWO jobs – protect Citizens from attack (and yes, I would say that includes a slow rolling invasion via open borders that you continue to allow) and figure out what to spend on and how to pay for it.

Yet, Kelly Ayotte is all cheerful like in absolutely miserable  radio ad being run by CommittmentsKeptNH (an org on which I wrote about here) and its funding PAC, ESAFund (formerly Ending Spending Action Fund, info here, here, here, here, here, and here).  I first saw this on TV – can’t track down the video but the radio ad transcript after the jump.

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MITT ROMNEY: DEMISE OF LEGACY MEDIA EMPOWERING CONSERVATIVE ‘INSURGENTS,’ PREVENTING MORE ‘COLLABORATIVE ACTION’

Ugh…this post about Romney, divisiveness, Democrats, media, and Paul Ryan is wrong on so many levels….but that’s why I pay myself the big cents to wade through this slosh. Emphasis mine, reformatted:

Failed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney lamented that the demise of traditional media is empowering Republican “insurgents” and preventing establishment Republicans from compromising more with Democrats.

Gak!  First thought – it was BECAUSE the traditional media that the Left didn’t appear to be all that Left in the first place.  Why?  There was no contrarian and competing media to present other views.  Homogenous was all you get – and all of the news anchors of the Big Three Networks were very much Liberals as well as the powerhouse print media.  It really wasn’t until Rush went and took talk radio over (from around 125 stations at the time to over 1500 today) that stalwart conservative views were heard on a wide basis.

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It’s Hunger Games from DC.  After all, don’t they know what is BEST for us all – even if the lunch programs are losing money, food is just thrown away, and kids opt out by brown bagging it, scampering out to the closes fast food joint, or go into a homegrown “food black market”.  We’ve documented all this for years (re: “Thanks Michelle”).

So Londonderry, NH decided to opt out like a rising number of districts who, by the way, almost immediately see participation rates go back up, happier kids, and programs no longer losing money.  So, in the face of this rebellion from our Betters, what happened (emphasis mine, reformatted)?

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So Frank, whatcha gonna do?  Vote for the anointed that seems to think more highly of immigrants than native born, or this time, vote to protect your constituents?

At the meeting, Paul Ryan told a predominantly Hispanic audience that the job of a U.S. lawmaker is to put oneself in the shoes of foreign nationals who want to come to the United States, then work to discover solutions to make their lives better.

Funny, I thought it was for those he represented in his actual district. I find this very disturbing -a Republican, Paul Ryan (R-WI) who would basically erase the borders of the USA to anyone that could get here, would ascend to the Speakership AND be a scofflaw minded person towards American sovereignty? 

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We hear this from Obama’s Secretary of State about Israeli citizens arming themselves against the Palestinians that are attacking them in what is being called “the third intifatah” (emphasis mine, reformatted)

Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters today that Israel has a right to defend itself, but discouraged against “self-help” responses to random stabbing attacks from Palestinians.  Israeli authorities have encouraged citizens with gun permits to carry when they’re out and about, as they can possibly stop an attacker before police can get on the scene.

Of COURSE he did – American Liberals, of which Kerry is a Prime case, hate the idea that Force should be shared – FORCE should be the purview and monopoly of The State. Firearms should only be owned and used by agents of the State (note to Kerry – the reason why older Americans carry guns is that we can no longer carry cops on our backs). However, the Israelis seem to know better.  After all, they are THERE (versus their “Better” deigning from thousands of miles away) where the knives, guns, and cars are being used to injure, maim, and kill Jews.  They’ve already been through this – I hope they tell this blowhard to go pound sand (or rather, go wander around Gaza for a while – without his armed bodyguards):

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That would be THIS post: So, will Frank Guinta (R-NH) vote for “open borders” Paul Ryan for US Speaker of the House?

I got a call from Guinta’s Chief of Staff, Jay.  I did think it a little bit amusing that he said “you could have called me” to which my rejoinder was “Not at around midnight, which is when that post went up”.  To make this a short post, let’s just say that that Frank is supposed to sit with Paul Ryan next week to “discuss issues”.  I asked a simple question: without the spaghgetti code of an omnibus type bill (re: a “Continuing Resolution” or CR, which may be coming up because the Republican majorities in the House AND Senate couldn’t get the job done of “regular order” appropriation / spending bills done) and simply on Principle, would Frank vote against Paul Ryan (R-WI) for Speaker of the US House (and third in line in the Presidency) for his open borders stance, given just the “overwhelming success” of the open borders we’ve had the last decade?

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The national debt ceiling is maxed out and the vote is coming up on whether to increase it.  I’ve already heard / read that a bill may be getting ready that duplicates the Iran Nuke bill but for the debt – again, the Congress may totally toss out its power and responsibilities and hand Obama total control over increased spending and that Congress would have to have a 2/3rds vote NO to stop him (instead of CONGRESS determining what the spending should be and must decide YES with a majority).  Why bother having a Congress at all if all they are going to do is emasculate themselves simply to “have consensus and be able to govern” (note to idiots – that ain’t “governing”)?  Especially in light of what came out of the Dems’ Prez debate the other night for spending that would make Obama look like a piker?

Anyways, how will our NH Federal Delegation vote?

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From Matt Ridley via Café Hayek:

In the mid-1970s it was briefly fashionable for journalists to write scare stories about the recent cooling of the globe, which was presented as undiluted bad news.  Now it is fashionable for them to write scare stories about the recent warming of the globe, which is presented as undiluted bad news.

Like I’ve said before, I’ve been listening to both sets of dribble (“It’s gonna get cold!”, “It’s gonna get hot!” and swinging back to “cool?”) for 40 years.  Everything is a crisis and only a few know how to “fix” whatever the latest crisis is being waddled around as IMMEDIATE!!!   And in those 40 years, three things have been crystal clear:

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…he should know.  And if he knows, and is willing to let on, how much further Left has the Dems NOT been willing to admit to?

Remember, before becoming a “journalist” (ok, talking head), he was a long term Democrat Party operative.  And here he is, telling everyone how far Left the Democrat Party has gone.

Pretty much, I think the question is not what is the difference is between the Democrats and Socialists, but would there be much difference between their future for the United States and what is happening in the self-proclaimed Socialist State of Venezuela (hope you stashed some T.P. away) or Cuba.

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