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Back to 2010’s election cycle when the NH Senatorial race was running – the Big Dog from the $$ perspective was “hundreds millionaire” Mr. Binnie.  If I remember right, he spent the equivalent about $450/vote in the Primary – and didn’t even come close (Note to Bernie Sanders: pay attention that money sometimes doesn’t make a difference).  But man, Bill must be thanking himself for his own restraint.

Jeb!, not so much:

Jeb Bush spent about $25,000 for every vote he got in Iowa. He outspent everyone just to stay barely competitive. He came in sixth place, behind Rand Paul (who may or may not be wondering whether risking his own Senate seat is worth it at this point), which is a frankly embarrassing finish for someone who spent so much.

For a lousy 3% of the vote last night; a horrible return on investment on time, effort, and money.  My prediction, as his donor’s political crack money supply is drying up faster than California was before El Nino, NH may be his last stand.  If he’s not substantially above that, and not placing in the top 3, he’s toast.  While he could slink onward to South Carolina, I bet he’s got to be looking in that mirror and going “what the heck has happened”?  Will he continue to the bitter end (re: no money at all) or take the more honorable and more honest route and finally admit “This is not my time”.

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“Seven years ago, we made a huge mistake,” Christie said at Wellman’s Pub in West Des Moines. “We elected a first-term United States senator to the presidency of the United States. Somebody who had never managed anything more than a 30-person Senate staff, and who never had made a decision of consequence that they were going to be held accountable for where people’s lives were on the line.”

No, Obama’s problem wasn’t that he was a first term Senator cum President.  If you look at what he said he was going to, fundamentally transform the US, I would he has succeeded.  He has made Congress irrelevant, cowered the Republican, neutered the will of the We the People by ignoring election results, embraced and enriched (in terms of power and money) his friends and allied groups, and weaponized the Federal Government against those that oppose him (the EPA, the IRS, Labor Department, DOT), and unilaterally instituted every Lefty group’s idea of deindustrialization, regionalization, removing “offending” industries (e.g., coal) and hamstringing others (e.g., Frank-Dodd), reduced religious liberty (via Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate as well as pushing the LGBTQRSTUV agenda), and further taking over and nationalizing our education system. And insulted our former allies and made a mockery of the US in the sight of our enemies.  And I predict that his “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” will result in Iran getting AND USING the Bomb.

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Remember while reading the below that two of the three top finishers are TEA Party associated (emphasis mine):

And the night’s biggest loser wasn’t Donald Trump (though he indeed lost big), but the GOP establishment, what William F. Buckley once referred to in the initial mission statement of National Review as the “Well-fed right whose ignorance and amorality have never been exaggerated for the same reason that one cannot exaggerate infinity.” They suffered a loss so ignominious and dramatic that one needs to step back a bit to reflect on its comprehensiveness. The campaign began with seventeen GOP candidates, of whom eleven had longtime pre-Tea Party era experience in elected office, including several senators and the former Governors of Texas, New York, and Florida. Between pre-caucus drop-outs and election night performances, those eleven candidates took just nine percent of the vote combined. Nine percent. The other ninety-one percent of the vote went to candidates who had neither not held office before 2010 or whom had never held office at all.

In the face of repudiation this total,

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for spilling the beans.  So, it doesn’t matter what the Republican primaries churn out – it will be a brokered (e.g., “smoke filled back room of Party hacks”):

N.H. Republican Power Broker Says NO Trump, NO Cruz – Promises Brokered Convention

So says former New Hampshire Republican governor Judd Gregg, a longtime and highly influential Republican power broker in the Granite State who during an interview with Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business network this morning declared all current polling in New Hampshire to be null and void, and the likelihood of anti-establishment GOP front-runners Donald Trump or Ted Cruz winning New Hampshire as unlikely.

Well, that will be of matter of opinion and most of them not your’s.  Be that as it may, though, it’s that last part about the convention that should be most concerning – a very good application of the Progressive “tell” – ‘we know what is best for you’.  Which generally means “better for us, who cares about you and what you think”.

Then he dropped a bombshell that clearly had Fox Business host Neil Cavuto a bit stunned.

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Over at WeekendPundit, Chan quoted moi (but not my extreme liking for their breakfast burritos – darn!):

This is a lesson any mature business has to relearn again and again if it wants to stay in business.

This is what happens when McDonald’s listens to its customers – success.

Some corporations get so big that they believe they can dictate to their customers what to buy. But examples abound that disprove that notion, some of which meant the bankruptcy and dissolution of many companies who ignored the old axiom “The customer’s always right.”

That one extra step?

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We’re in the BEST of hands!

New House Task Force Considers Push Against Presidential Overreach

House Republicans have put together a team to address what they consider unauthorized expansion of presidential power. In coming months, the Task Force on Executive Overreach will explore how Congress can begin to reassert its legislative authority.  But it’s not political. So says House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who authorized the task force.

The effort is meant to address some of the habitual abuses against the constitutional separation of powers, he said.

Ay-yi-yi! Clutzes to the left of me, morons to the Right!  Hey, geniuses, it only took you SEVEN years to figure this out?  But here’s their big problem:

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Al Litizio and Dennis Senibaldi.  Remember, they started whimpering like feral curs after they attacked fellow Grokster Kimberly (as well as threatening GraniteGrok with legal proceedings).  We don’t cotton to that much around here.  As the Knight Templar said in Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail: “He [they] chose poorly”.  Now someone else has made the same decision.  Silly wabbit.

Yes, NH State Rep Joe LaChance who said that this past week to a little ole’ sweet Texan belle friend of our: Susan Olsen.  That would be OUR Susan Olsen as she was challenging him on being the Prime Sponsor (and perhaps, patsy) for the NH Republican cum Democrat Leadership cabal to continue foisting Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion, thinking that his fellow NH citizens are too stupid and will believe “NH taxpayers will never pay for this”.  What a dope – I guess he’s at the lower end of the scale for not realizing that most NH taxpayers are also FEDERAL taxpayers.  By being the Leadership’s scapegoat, thanks for picking my pocket (as well as condemning 10s of thousands of our fellow NH residents to Medicaid because if you fall into  its clutches YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PURCHASE their own insurance; that’s the law.

It’s not like these facts aren’t known – we’ve been blogging about Obamacare for years.  And just for the record, numbnuts, here’s the Supreme Court decision that said that Obamacare Medicaid Expansion is NOT mandatory settled law – that it was deemed to be unconstitutional and coercive to withhold other Federal funds because a State refused to expand their Medicaid Expansion.  Hey, I guess we could hold a class for both you AND NH State Senator Nancy Stiles who didn’t believe me either.

We’ll be HAPPY to give you an education.  Oh, that starts now –  

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That would be NH State Senator Jeb Bradley (and I wonder what NH State Rep Joe LaChance thinks of this?).  Boy, he’s turning into being the Poster Boy for Crony Capitalism – on the Government side.  Of COURSE they will give “voluntary” contributions.  He certainly can’t call them payoffs for his other bill that essentially made “no compete” areas for these same hospitals – rendering the CON-Board impotent.  So now they can charge what they want.  Steve has the info: Jeb Bradley’s Hospital Monopoly Bill

Jeb Bradley’s Health Care CON board bill is on the State Senate to-do list today. It sounds like your average, run-of-the-mill regulatory business as usual, which is usually bad enough. This particular bit of regulatory “business as usual” is much worse.  It will create health-care fiefdoms around the major players (Hospitals) in the state, dividing the territory like a crime family, and forcing other players to bow to the regulatory gods of Bradley Care or get out.

SB 481 will result in,

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1. Women are depressed. Polling shows that with the widespread availability of the contraceptive pill, rather than entering into blissful sunny uplands of consequence-free sex, women are, well, sad, increasingly so.

2. Young women are even more depressed.
3. Declining rates of marriage.
4. Fatherless children. When Daniel Patrick Moynihan first raised alarms about fatherless black children back during the Nixon administration, he was excoriated. The black fatherless rate at that time was roughly 25 percent. It is now more than 70 percent. The white fatherless rate now stands where the black rate used to be. The nearly intractable problems in the black communities are coming to a white suburb near you.
5. Our immense porn culture.
6. The objectification of women.

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We have Democrats, once again, calling for an Income Tax here in NH.  We have Republicans getting ready to pass a huge increase in the size and cost of NH State Government – Medicaid Expansion using Obamacare money (whose percentage of payments by the Feds about to downard trend leaving NH taxpayers on the hook).  The Republicans are creating the reason for the Democrats’ call for that tax (for neither will cut other parts of Government as a trade-off).  I ask you: how well did implementing an income tax in NJ because of high property taxes work out for their overall taxes?

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