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Expanding Medicaid is not as good a deal for New Hampshire as it sounds.

We all know that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The Senate Republicans also believe that taxpayers deserve to know how their tax dollars are being spent. Likewise, we have an obligation to carefully consider any new potential increase of government entitlements, which will affect both those being charged to pay for the program and the recipients. It is this thinking that led the Republican-controlled state Senate to defer making a rash decision of leaping into Medicaid expansion before carefully considering all options.

Due to the lack of any plan put forth by Gov. Maggie Hassan to consider how Medicaid expansion could be implemented, the Senate has taken it upon itself to do the work. Frankly, we did not say “yes” or “no.” We recognized that neither the governor nor the Democrat-controlled House has considered the policy implications. Voters expect the Legislature to consider policy changes and create a plan that is in the best interest of the state, and we plan to do just that.

So while the governor frets about the potential loss of free money and looks to find ways to circumvent the legislative process, the Senate is taking a measured view of Medicaid expansion. Despite the criticism from some that the Senate has killed expansion, the reality is that nothing could be further from the truth. The Senate budget is specific. We believe we should better understand and analyze the options, do the math, and then make a decision.

So, what is there to consider with Medicaid expansion? Actually, a lot.

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It is graduation time around the country, and once again, wussy school districts all over just can’t stand the idea of having to face up to ANYone complain that “Thou Shalt Not Pray to God, Thou Shalt Not Praise [the Christian] God, or mention The Bible – else, “they” will sue us.  Yes, we wet ourselves when confronted by controversy in this Publicly constructed Political Correctness Jail that we have built around ourselves.  Like this poor fellow, who simply wanted, at his gradumacation, say “Thank You” – and had his mic cut off.  And now, the Joshua Independent School District has gone all CYA (read more and watch the video at Hot Air).

And then there is the flip side – as this country seems to be sliding more and more to be Orwell’s 1984, it seems that some are more equal than other.  Aw heck – there is a “positive” discrimination towards Muslims as everyone tip-toes around Islamic Jihadi terrorism, proclaiming that Islam is the Religion of Peace.  Why?  Go ahead, draw a cartoon of Muhammad and hand deliver it to a radical fundamentalist mosque – doubtful you’ll get the Red Carpet treatment (and yes, I will resist typing the snarky comment here – just to make you think).

Back to topic – so a high school grad can’t mention God.  The ACLU and the militant Atheist groups sue to not have graduations in churches (even if they are the only venue that can handle such crowds), to remove creches at Christmas, remove the 10 Commandments, free Bibles from the Gideons in hotels…yeah, the whole 9 yards.

BUT!  Taxpayers be forced to pay for Islamic prayers at San Francisco Airport for a smallish number of Muslim cabbies; from Creeping Shariah:

San Fran airport’s garage now a mosque complete w Islamic foot bath

Praying for our demise. via Airport’s garage now Muslim house of worship (h/t: SFGate)

Here’s a sign of the changing times — Muslim cabbies now have their very own place at San Francisco International Airport to wash their hands and feet before they pray.

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My Jr US Senator, Kelly Ayotte, make the rounds of the Sunday morning talking head shows to make her announcement that she is in McCain’s sidecar when it comes to voting for the Gang of Eight’s Amnesty Immigration Plan (she also sent me a personal email – hope the NSA read it!):

It will take tough decisions to solve our nation’s immigration problems. After careful review of this bill, I will support it and plan to vote for amendments offered to strengthen it.

This legislation secures the border first, with more border agents, more fencing, and better surveillance technology.

Eyup – border first.  Right.  Really?  Um, that’s not what one of the Gang of Eight Republicans, Marco Rubio himself, said on Univision yesterday (emphasis mine):

 “Let’s be clear,” Rubio said. “Nobody is talking about preventing the legalization. The legalization is going to happen. That means the following will happen: First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border. And then comes the process of permanent residence.”

In most of his public appeals for the Gang of Eight bill, Rubio has stressed its enforcement provisions, saying that border security must come before immigrants are granted legal permanent resident status. What he has not stressed so much is the fact that the bill would legalize the 11 million almost immediately, after they have passed background checks and paid some sort of fine. That would happen before any new security measures are completed, or even begun.

Yes, Rubio is one of Schumer’s  “our Republicans”.  What say you now, Kelly, since Rubio has now has contradicted himself and said “Amnesty first – securing the border later”?  OUR border, Kelly.  How long can a country stand when it cannot control its own border?  How WORSE is it when a country REFUSES to control its own border?

Now add this factoid about border security law that has already been passed:

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Several variations of this are out there as to who is to be the recipient – no matter; still brings a smile to my face!

A female libertarian wrote a lot of letters to the Canadian government, complaining about the treatment of captive insurgents (terrorists) being held in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities. She demanded a response to her letter. She received back the following reply:

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National Defense Headquarters
M Gen George R. Pearkes Bldg., 15 NT
101 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa , ON K1A 0K2
Canada

Dear Concerned Citizen,

Thank you for your recent letter expressing your profound concern of treatment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists captured by Canadian Forces, who were subsequently transferred to the Afghanistan Government and are currently being held by Afghan officials in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities.

Our administration takes these matters seriously and your opinions were heard loud and clear here in Ottawa . You will be pleased to learn, thanks to the concerns of citizens like yourself, we are creating a new department here at the Department of National Defense, to be called ‘Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers’ program, or L.A.R.K. for short.

In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided, on a trial basis, to divert several terrorists and place them in homes of concerned citizens such as yourself, around the country, under those citizens’ personal care. Your personal detainee has been selected and is scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your residence in Toronto next Monday.

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By ‘Warmists”, I mean those folks that believe that the Earth is warming AND that human activity is responsible for it (if not entirely, certainly a large proportion of it).  Thus, just like the “Coolists” that I read back in the 70s who declared that a New Ice Age was imminent.  Now, between Warming and Ice Age, I’d take the former as the the latter is MUCH more dangerous to humankind – one can grow food in the heat (yeah, let’s stick it to the GMO h8ters for a second) but kinda hard to harvest wheat on an ice field.

In either case, both sets of folks had the same solution – that the Smart People were / are to be put in charge and implement their ideas so as to save us all (or, some of us, as a lot of these Smart People also believe that most of humankind should be wiped out anyways – so either event should make them happy but gets the question as to why we should let these Watermelons (green on the outside, Red on the inside (and I refer to the historic use of Red in describing Communists and Socialists) totally change society in the first place?  And in the case of the Warmists, they have been using Climate Change Models to show how bad things are going to get, and have been screaming that scientists are all in consensus that Warming is Real and We are Responsible.

Sure – but what about this?  Aren’t the modeling projections supposed to mirror ACTUAL observations?  Isn’t the Scientific Method all about seeing an event, setting up a hypothesis of what might be happening, and then carrying experimentation (in this case, via computer modeling).  Then, and most importantly, see if those experimental results actually match what happens in real life?

Um, Warmists? Looks like your modeling, upon which we are to believe sufficiently to trade our Liberty and Freedom (and most of democracy along with it)  for their ideas of a low energy and low standard of living future (if indeed, anything above cave level if the Sierra Club’s maniacal protestations and machinations against any use of fossil fuels is to believed) , is having a major malfunction?

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Oh, they will never say it is is such – directly.  They’ll use other words to mask it, hoping (knowing) that the Low Information Voter (who knows more about Kim Kardashian’s pregnancy with “Daddy Babby” Kanye or what’s with American Idol / The Voice / America’s Got Talent than who their Senators or Congressmen are) will only “hear” the words and never ponder them.  Heck, answer me this – how many of these same folks remember from school how our government even works?  And with the current state of our Educational system, how many of them truly understand the difference between a Right, an “earned privilege” and an entitlement?  Words have meanings and these are all different.

Obama (and most Progressives are, too), however, is BANKING on the fact that most people don’t and that he can use a word outside of its definition to cement in a fundamental change to a word – and going backward, our Founding Documents.  As Grokster Susan pointed out (she beat me to it!), Obama had the temerity to say:

““Quality, affordable care is not some earned privilege – it’s a right

 No, it has never been nor should a Right be ever be defined as something that is simply given or afforded to someone:

• Right – an attribute associated to someone simply for being a human; in the US, our Rights are enumerated  in the Constitution (mostly).
• Earned Privilege – status obtained through work or via meritocrisy; not something that accrues simply for the act of being alive
• Entitlement – a government program providing benefits to members of a specified group; also : funds supporting or distributed by such a program

And that is where Obama wishes for the Masses to delude themselves in thinking that there exists a “Right” to healthcare.  Hey, if someone wants to go and purchase healthcare supplies and give themselves “health care”, but my guest.  Please note that it costs no other person anything for you to exercise that Right .  If you wish to speak, I am not obligated to pay anything for you to speak (including paying attention) – ditto for the other Rights accorded to us as being US Citizens.  However,  to believe Obama is correct that healthcare is a Right for you to independently exercise is to also believe that you have the Right to place someone else into servitude to provide that care – commonly called slavery.

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I could not leave it alone – Grokster Susan quoted a partial of what Obama said to Dem donors at yet another campaign stop, and given that I quoted it yesterday during our first half hour on GrokTalk!, I figured I’d requote it:

The truth of the matter is Michael and I — I know that there are a few Republicans here in the audience — if you talk to us, it turns out we’re pretty common-sense folks. We don’t think government can do everything. We don’t think that top-down solutions are the right way to go. We believe in the free market. We believe in a light touch when it comes to regulations. We don’t want to tax all businesses out of business. But we do think that there’s a role to play for government.”

I’m betting that any Conservative will get it right away.  If not, after the jump

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