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Yup, Kelly Ayotte voted with NH’s Senior Senator Jeanne Shaheen (you know, the one that Scott Brown tried to “out-abortion – and failed? I just don’t understand why he lost  ;^)  ) in keeping funding for Planned Parenthood in the budget.  I really want to hear the spin on how this “advances the Republican agenda” – does “bipartisanship” cover this?

Senators voted 47-52 on ending debate on the short-term continuing resolution, well short of the 60 votes needed. The legislation would have funded the government through Dec. 11. The vote divided Republicans, with eight of them breaking ranks. Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Susan Collins (Maine), Tom Cotton (Ark.), Dean Heller (Nev.) Mark Kirk (Ill.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Ben Sasse (Neb.) all voted against moving forward.

And the actual result on not obtaining cloture (ending the debate to get to the actual vote? Yeah -> another spelunking session:

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From Instapundit in its entirety:

THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS WAS JUST A NOVEL, RIGHT GUYS? RIGHT? GUYS? ‘Camp of The Saints’ Seen Mirrored In Pope’s Message.

The novel, which has been translated into English, is entitled Camp of the Saints, and posits that the liberalism of the West would cause Western nations to throw open their doors to so many migrants that it would spell the doom of liberal society itself. Raspail’s thesis, quite simply, is that liberalism is inadequate to defend liberalism.

All around the world, events seem to be lining up with the predictions of the book. The novel features a new pope, born in Latin American, who is “in tune with the times, congenial to the press” who preaches “universal love” and calls on the Western world to open its borders to the world’s migrants. Now, as in the novel, prominent political officials are urging on ever larger waves; secular and religious leaders hold hands to pressure blue collar citizens to drop their resistance; media elites and celebrities zealously cheer the opportunity that the migrants provide to atone for the alleged sins of the West— for the chance to rebalance the wealth and power of the world by allowing poor migrants from failed states to rush in to claim its treasures.

Raspail argues that the inability of the Western conscience to erect walls, to “put her foot down,” to turn people away, will lead to the undoing of Western civilization itself.

As the world’s eyes turn to the U.S. arrival of the pope, many conservatives are arguing that Jean Raspail’s book has perhaps come to life.

That’s silly. It’s like suggesting that Fallen Angels was prophetic.

It’s all about assimilation – as Rush said,

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We had the EPA and the VA in a recent post – no one in the Obama Administration facing punishment for malfeasance.  You? Me? If we did that here in the private sector, just see how swift our”correction” would happen.  And so, in that same vein, here’s the same thing, IRS version, of “every bureaucrat is sacred” (emphasis mine, reformatted):

SILLY SENATOR. CONSEQUENCES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE. Hatch wonders about IRS discipline over political scrutiny.

The Senate’s top tax writer asked Tuesday why the IRS has cleared most employees referred for potential improper political scrutiny since the agency’s Tea Party controversy erupted in 2013. Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) noted that Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration had referred 47 employees to the IRS in recent years for potentially breaking the rules for reviewing tax-exempt applications.

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who spoke on the topic: “Restoring Unalienable Right – the meaning of the 9th Amendment”.  I had never seen Dr. Keyes in person when he gave a speech – a cross between an academic lecturer and a fiery Gospel preacher tied together with a passionate defense of Constitutional principles:

Part 1                                                             Part 2

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That is an astounding number: 6 in 10 Republicans feel “betrayed” by their Party.  Now betrayed is a very strong, emotionally laden word.  I know, I’ve used it before – years before – here on the ‘Grok.  And its cause is rather simple: they see that the elected Republican officials won’t act according to what they say they believe.  Let me put that another way: they say one thing and then do another.  Frank Guinta, Kelly Ayotte, Shawn Jasper – have they done EXACTLY what they campaigned on (ok, take the first two as Jasper is all in to his Democrat masters that handed the NH Speakership to him, but you can see that the Republicans under his leadership all but caved to what the Democrats wanted in the budget.  And oh yeah, let me not forget the NH State Senate Republicans Chuck Morse and Jeb Bradley for the biggest expansion of NH government evah by installing Obama’s Medicare Expansion)?

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“…The fourth IPCC report [para 9.1.3] says : “Results from forward calculations are used for formal detection and attribution analyses. In such studies, a climate model is used to calculate response patterns (‘fingerprints’) for individual forcings or sets of forcings, which are then combined linearly to provide the best fit to the observations.”

And then the author talks about a number of “parameters” to which we know have impacts on climate, some small and some quite large, that because they are not fully understood, get left out of a lot of those models.  Yet, it is these models that are being used to determine major policy decision, taxation levels, spending allocations – and of course, redistribution from the wealthy “guilty” to the “innocent oppressed” (e.g., just don’t follow the money but watch those that want to be the ones that direct those money flows).

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