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“[H]ere’s the thing: In December, we never left Washington, D.C., until the day after Christmas. Never. Mr. Bush and his wife, Laura, would always depart the White House a few days before the holiday and hunker down at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland,” Curl wrote in a 2013 column that was republished Thursday.

After a few years, curiosity finally got to the former Washington Times reporter and he asked a low-level administration official why.

“I still remember what she said,” Curl wrote. “’So all of us can be with our families on Christmas.’”

“Who was ‘us’?

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Hillary is a statist, through and through.  She is the epitome of such – ONLY Government (and those employed by it) can effect good and it MUST be in charge of all aspects of our lives.  Even when it is obvious that Government has screwed up and made things worse.  Instead of leaving well enough alone, learning its lesson, and let perfectly reasonable adults make their own decision, I am betting that this will turn out QUITE badly.  Notice what she DOESN’T say? Emphasis mine:

On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton belatedly acknowledges that Obamacare, a.k.a. the Affordable Care Act, gave employers an enormous incentive to move their employees from full-time to part-time:

“That’s why they’re going to part-time, that and also the Affordable Care Act. You know, we’ve got to change that because we have built in some unfortunate incentives that discourage full-time employment. A lot of employers believe if you don’t work 40 hours a week, you don’t get benefits, and that includes you don’t get a health care benefit; that might include you’re not eligible for the Family and Medical Leave; you’re not eligible if they have paid sick days. So there is a disincentive within our system that we need to deal with, and I’m really worried about it because there’s a trend to try to move more and more people into part-time work.”

The whole idea to redefine what full time work was is a decision by Democrats, to define it downward to 30 hours/week, for the purposes of Obamacare.  It was MEANT to make it so that companies HAD to pay for additional benefits they otherwise would not be on the hook.  Democrats were quite proud of this fiat decision, never thinking that the private sector would NEVER react to it.  That’s the Progressive mindset / worldview:

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All by his lonesome from his perch in the Executive Branch. If you are from the States where your CCW was formerly recognized by Virginia, yer outta luck (emphasis mine):

Virginia attorney general Mark Herring (D, in case you were wondering) has announced that he will be severing Virginia’s firearms license reciprocity agreements with a slew of states. Herring, a Tennessee native who now resides in Fairfax County and enthusiastically accepted contributions from anti-gun plutocrat Michael Bloomberg during the election in 2013, apparently wants to do all he can to cut down on the number of Virginians and others who can legally carry a concealed firearm in the Old Dominion. According to the Washington Post, the list of states that have had the agreements severed include . . .

Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

The Corner had something in its post on this that caught my eye – and something that I’ve been blogging about for years:

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Breaking: Omnibus passes House 316-113; Update: Senate approves, 65-33

Ahem. It doesn’t take much leadership to push through a bill that the opposition supports and that Obama wants to sign. John Boehner could have done that. The huge expansion of H-2B visas alone should have killed this bill, especially with millions of American workers still sidelined from the Great Recession. …If anyone wonders why a demagogue like Donald Trump can dominate the Republican presidential primary race, this is Exhibit 492B.

Kelly Ayotte voted for it.  Frank Guinta against it.

Last week, the DC Republican Leadership demonstrated why they are feckless and why they are no longer deserving of our support (re: our votes).  Pretty much, it’s the same thing here in NH where the Concord GOP Mafia dons want our votes and then just want us to shut up.  Campaign promises?  Check.  Soaring rhetoric?  Well, no, but close enough – check.  Lots of requests for our money?  Check?  Great talking points about how Democrats are bad?  Check.  And of course, like Ted Cruz says, “campaign conservatives”?  Check.

Except they don’t ACT like it.

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…why is it that so many Democrat / Republicans who think Open Borders /  low end immigration think that the Economy for our low skilled workers would fare better?  All we keep hearing is that all immigration will be great for our economy – so how come their home countries are basketcases?

MASS immigration has driven down the wages of British-born workers in low-skilled jobs, an official Bank of England report has confirmed.

The influx of EU migrants can lead to pay reductions of nearly two per cent in some industries including catering, hotels and elderly care, the research showed. Campaigners last night seized on the document as official confirmation that EU migration is undermining the living standards of the UK’s least paid workers.

Hmm, lowering of pay doesn’t sound all that great now, does it?  So why would Dems and Repubs both hate our poor by increasing our levels of immigration?  I always thought that a nation’s leadership was supposed to RAISE living standards, not intentionally lower them!  But then again, it seems politicians all over are the King Canutes of economics.

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