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Yeah, the GOP is alREADY saying “wait until next time!”

Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer are laughing and laughing at this gutless wonders that promised us everything but have given us Conservatives essentially nothing in this “bipartisan” agreement.  As Steve pointed out here and especially here at “On the Crossing of Aisles”:

This is not ‘Democrats’ reaching across anything. This is State Senators elected as Republicans giving Democrats something else they want. Again.

The GOP, may I remind you, hold the House, the Senate, and the Oval Office – they could steamroll the Dems and PROTECT the GOP agenda.  But NOOOOoooooo, they flopped.  In their fear of the Federal Govt shutting down (they don’t remember that after the last time, they GAINED seats in Congress), so much so I swear that I need to send them some of The Grandson’s diapers, the GOP basically gave the Democrats EVERYTHING they wanted – us who brung’em to the dance got shafted.  To wit, to keep the Feds open until September:

• bowed to Democratic demands to eliminate hundreds of policy restrictions aimed at curbing regulations
• no money for starting the border wall (in fact, restrictions from even starting it)
• no more money for Border Agents
• no new restrictions on money going to so-called sanctuary cities that don’t fully enforce federal immigration laws
• FULLY funded Planned Parenthood
• EPA – instead of its budget getting cut, it was RAISED by $81 million and no staff cuts

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NH State Rep Dan Itse also spoke on Jerry’s behalf in his inimitable fashion and Jerry’s wife Sue, a former NH State Rep, recounted what has happened over the last year, oft in very emotional terms, and shared a letter from Jerry with the crowd:

and the closing remarks by Jack Kimball and Sue and Karen Testerman closing out with a rendition of “God Bless America”:

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Yesterday at the Rally for Jerry, I said the above to a prominent GOP activist here in NH when she said “not to worry” in that the DC GOPers will get the job done and repeal Obamacare.  I thought she’d about fall off her chair – she knows I don’t kid about such things.  I think that any Right leaning voter ought to be intently looking at that line and starting thinking “is any of this (support GOPers unconditionally) worth my effort any more”?  Sorry, I’m really starting to believe that we’ve been double-crossed.  Again. By the GOP.

Remember, almost every Obamacare repeal bill since its inception has pretty much been unanimous by Republicans.  Remember, almost every Republican campaigned on its repeal.  They knew their base wanted it GONE.  Remember how they cajoled, begged, pleaded, and asked: “give us the House…give us the Senate…give us the Presidency.  Then and ONLY then we can make that happen.”

Consistency yields Trust yielding Votes.  We believed what they said.  Remember,

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University of California Berkeley is the “fabled” home of the free speech movement back in the 60s.  Nowadays, not so much as we’ve seen the political correctness/cultural Marxism reach its nadir with respect to LIMITING that same concept.  You know, some dribble about offense, safe spaces, and oppression except it hasn’t stopped at just debate – the Left, as Steve notes, is more and more willing to resort to either the threat or actual violence to limit other peoples’ speech as the we saw at UCB (first with Milo and now with Ann Coulter) and other college campuses (notably Middlebury College where Charles Murray and a Middlebury College professor were physically assaulted).  It is, I’m afraid, going to get much MUCH worse before (if?) it gets better as it seems that the radicals of the 60s have made good at “turning” students into anti-American droids (all the while using our tax monies to do so).

A reminder of how a former CA Governor handled similar problems at UCB (emphasis mine):

In an extremely controversial move, for which he never apologized, Reagan declared a state of emergency and sent in 2,200 National Guard troops. He enacted a curfew and banned public assembly for two weeks. The National Guard patrolled the streets of Berkeley, dispersing any crowd of four or more. It wasn’t pretty, but they restored order.

There is a classic, should-be-in-the-Smithsonian clip of Reagan at a press conference after the fact with university administrators. He says: “Those people told you for days in advance that if the university sought to go ahead with that construction, they were going to physically destroy the university.”

And now for THE line that says it all:

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Higher sodium intake associated with lower blood pressure. You read that right.

Wait.  WHAT??  You mean I have deprived myself (except on French fries and corn on the cob) all these years for nothing (reformatted, emphasis mine)?

In another blow against decades of accepted medical wisdom, one of the most prestigious, long-running studies reports that lowering sodium intake doesn’t reduce blood pressure. The study also implies that most Americans are consuming a perfectly healthy amount of salt, the main source of sodium. But those who are salt-sensitive, about 20 to 25 percent of the population, still need to restrict salt intake.

One who is NOT salt-sensitive is TMEW as she puts salt, copious amounts of salt, on everything (except, perhaps ice cream – haven’t PERSONALLY seen her do that, but I can’t swear to it).  Yet, her blood pressure is WAY low – like being “athlete low” except she doesn’t exercise at all.

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