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Once again, the GOP Ruling Class and Higher Than Us is taken to task for looking down their noses at those “Trumpian rubes” – how dare the great Unwashed speak up, ignore us, and dare not to give us their votes for OUR candidate to which we are entitled?  Er, boys?  Let’s go back to the original tenet of politics – you earn the votes.  David Limbaugh writes (reformatted, emphasis mine), once again, that the GOP Intelligencia is completely missing the boat at best, or joining in with the Democrat Socialists at worst. A couple of snippets (go read the whole link):

These commentators seem more disgusted with Trump defenders than with President Obama’s destructive agenda and the threat it represents to America.  Their angst, I would argue, is not primarily about Trump. Their real beef is with Reagan conservatives and others who refuse to be calm about Obama’s assaults and are sick of lectures on bipartisanship and “civility.”

Which seemingly is true.  The GOP has spent more time, from the view of Joe and Jane Sixpack, fighting what should be seen as the most passionate part of their base.  Their only sin is that, in the eyes of the Smart People, is that they actually believe what the GOP says it does (but often doesn’t do).

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Great line by Steve on Heritage’s showing their take our NH Delegation to DC (Frank Guinta (R), Jeanne Shaheen (D), Kelly Ayotte).  Given that, my  question is this – is Kelly Ayottee, ostensibly from the Party that champions individual Freedom, at ALL concerned that Ann Kuster is that close to her in the rankings? That there is little to no difference between the two (13 points)? Does that show a real difference in governance style – especially as Kuster actively campaigned the first time around as being the “most Socialist”?

Will there be a tinsey bit of “oopsies” there now that a Big Flashlight has been shined at her? It certainly will be indicative if votes are compared from now until the election to those from now and previous.

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Yep, that’s what it is, Scott.  This time, it is Allison Gilbert whining out of both sides of her mouth in the Concord Monitor about the NH Executive Council’s vote on Planned Parenthood contract denial (reformatted, emphasis mine):

My Turn: Executive councilors have questions to answer

I am outraged and disgusted by the New Hampshire Executive Council’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood in New Hampshire. I want to thank Colin Van Ostern and Chris Pappas for voting in support of all New Hampshire women and families. We all know that Planned Parenthood in New Hampshire provides critical sexual and reproductive health care and educational services to low-income women and men.

Ah yes, like Obamacare doesn’t exist to supply ALL of our needs – including “critical sexual and reproductive health care”.  Thus, you should be able to go ANYwhere you want (er, that IS why the Incremental Socialists known as Democrats passed it) right Allison?  That’s what we were told over and over, right?  Oh wait!

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We’ve blogged a number of times that the last time the Republicans held all 5 seats of the NH Executive that they voted to deny funding to Planned Parenthood here in NH.  Then, so it seems, that the Federal Government’s Ambassador to NH, Jeanne Shaheen, just happened to ante up lots of Fed money (e.g., NH taxpayers’ money) to “federally override” a lawfully elected NH Exec. Council’s vote.  Surprised?  No – that is what Progressives do – they sneer at local control and authority.  But NH Right To Life had to file suit to get their FOIA (Right to Know) information behind how that money got delivered – and have been stonewalled by the US Government (Irony: Obama promised to have the most transparent Administration EVAH – how’s that worked out so far??).  From LifeNews  (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Obama Admin Defends Secrecy of $1 Million Grant to Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz

The Obama administration is defending the secrecy of a $1 million grant to the New Hampshire affiliate of the Planned Parenthood abortion business in 2011…The Obama administration is keeping documents secret related to a non-competitive grant the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded directly to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England in 2011 without going through state approval or standard protocols and despite the fact that the state decided not to fund Planned Parenthood that year.

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“Forget that health care is a right, not a privilege“

“Your blog is widely read and respected”

As I mentioned here, Lance Gilliam (a Partner at the Waterman-Steele Group, a real estate and PR firm in Houston and internationally) who is the head of the Houston Housing Authority  contacted me about my post on an impending use of eminent domain in Houston’s Fifth Ward that would also “take out” a couple of churches. My original interest was that lesbian Houston Mayor Annise Parker was so upset with pastors rising up against her HERO ordinance (“yes, we will let men into the ladies bathrooms; stop complaining!) that she issued subpoenas against them demanding their sermons, all correspondence and communications, and the like if they discussed any aspect of homosexuality.  In essense, Government was all too willing to censor the Free Expression of religion, contra the First Amendment.  She lost the court suit and now it has to go to the ballot. His message was that Parker’s actions are not connected to his even if churches are involved.

So with that as a background, in steps Lance Gilliam.  During our conversation he tried to make equivalence between he and it on politics to a degree.  I’ve given him the chance to write a rebuttal and invited him to be on GrokTALK! – thus far I have not heard back.  So, I decided to do a bit of looking around – are we the same?  Here’s some snippets (one is above)

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That is the question asked at Townhall on yet again, Senate Majority Mitch McConnell puts morality behind a government shut down in priorities of DC.  Or to put it another way – is this yet another battle that the Republican elite, that much of the base cares deeply about, will runaway from?

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell strongly implied yesterday that he wouldn’t push to defund Planned Parenthood in the September appropriations negotiations. McConnell seemed to express fears that such a fight could backfire on public perception of Republicans, particularly if it led to the threat of a government shutdown:

“We’ve been down this path before,” McConnell said. “This is a tactic that has been tried going back to the ’90s and it always has the same ending — that the focus is on the government shutdown and not on the underlying issue that is being protested.  We are not doing government shutdowns and we are not threatening to default on the national debt.”

Yes, we have been down this road before.  What was the effective result of the very partial government shutdown?  Well, blowhards in punitryland

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This is HIGHLY disturbing – and very much illustrates that Obama’s words of “a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world“. What does it say about being a proud citizen of the United States when HE can’t hold his own to his fellow Dems in Congress and has to bring in our historical enemies to “vouch” for him.  Anyone else see this as absolute insanity as well as proving him to be not just a Post-Constitutionalist but a Post-American as well? Reformatted, emphasis mine:

Nothing says the Iran nuclear deal is great for America like sending Chinese and Russian lobbyists to convince Democrats to vote for it.

Some of Washington’s less reliable partners are worried too: Top diplomats from Russia and China joined a rare meeting of world powers’ envoys on Capitol Hill this week with roughly 30 Senate Democrats to tamp down concerns over the nuclear agreement.

When ELSE have you ever heard of this?  Trust me, the Chinese and Russians do NOT have America’s best interests in mind.

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