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After all, he was at the meeting, check in hand, for Planned Parenthood’s Action Fund – you remember, the political arm of Planned Parenthood whose mission is to get rid of NH GOP Committeeman Steve Duprey’s sitting Republican US Senator, Kelly Ayotte (R-NH).  Yeah, having it both ways at once.  Sorry, his “justification” in my eyes doesn’t wash, that he’s raised lots of money for pro-life Republicans as well.  That’s hedging, pandering, and not being honest – straddling and triangulating really only worked for Bill Clinton.

Anyways, it seems like the US House passed a bill today that the President of Planned Parenthood (who was at that same meeting with Steve Duprey) at which Cecile Richards was RATHER upset:

The U.S. House passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortions after nearly five months, 242-184 on Wednesday, the two-year anniversary of the conviction of infamous abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell.

Remember Kermit? The abortionist that finally brought the true reality of abortion in the country’s living room – failed abortions, utterly miserable Third World conditions, neglected live births, “kept” children (in formaldehyde and freezers) and dead mothers (better than the back ally coat-hangers we’ve been fear-mongered at for decades)?  And this is what Cecile Richards had to say about it: unconstitutional….hurt women?

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Reformatted, emphasis mine:

After only three months on the job, Elissa Voccola is no longer the executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party, WMUR.com has learned.  Party sources said Voccola’s last day on the job was Friday and the parting was by mutual agreement.

Hmm, that’s pretty much code speech of “resign and we go easy else we quote The Donald”.

Voccola, 26, joined the NHGOP in early February after serving as executive director of the Connecticut Republican Party since mid-2013…While in Connecticut, Voccola reportedly had open disagreements with 2014 gubernatorial nominee Tom Foley on hiring, allocation of resources and fundraising. It’s unclear if any similar problems led to her departure from the New Hampshire post.

But I’m betting DiStaso hit this dead nuts on (even as Republican Jim Rubens was on the same kick):

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Yup, to me, Joe Taxpayer, they want to spend a whole lotta money for not a whole lot of paying riders – and NONE of them will be full-boat payers, either.  With all of the rail projects around the nation, be it subway, light rail, or regular rail, they just refuse to see the fiscal problems of them – especially that of the the MBTA – the system they want NH attached to.  Here’s the “Anti-Planner” with some stuff from California’s woe-in-progress for its “desperately needed” high speed rail.  I generally don’t repost an entire post, but I just couldn’t figure out what parts that could be left out without “losing the story” (emphasis mine):

California Representative Nancy Pelosi famously told Congress it would have to pass the Obamacare bill to find out what it said. Now California officials are telling residents they will have to spend tens of billions of dollars building the San Francisco-Los Angeles high-speed rail line to find out how much a ticket will cost. As one official says, “We will not know until late in the game [meaning after the line is built] how everything will turn out.”

Can you say “man-made disaster”?  Who the heck does that kind of thing without figuring out the costs??  No entrepreneur I know – but politicians, yes, those self-assured incompetents, certainly know “it’ll all work out in the end”.  Question is, whose “end” is going to get reamed?  Not theirs, I bet….

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The Free State Project may soon be leaving NH. http://t.co/xNMQa3QZrd

— susanthe (@susanthe) May 10, 2015

Yeah, she certainly made it clear, this highly Progressive “activist” (who does troll here from time to time). Since there is a candidate in Poland who is vying for the Presidency on what I would call a very strange and disturbing platform:

Polish presidential candidate Janusz Korwin-Mikke explains his plans to scrap all benefits, legalise child pornography and stop women from voting, as Poland votes for a new president

Oh, I get it – she just believes that all Libertarians MUST be obscene because

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“I don’t think either Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton have much time for my district.”

That being a rather interesting admission by rather elderly (in comparison) Democrat  Maureen Mann running against youthful & vigorous (hey, if the Dems can play this game (see below), well, so can I!) Republican Yvonne Dean-Baily in the special election coming up (Concord Monitor).  And haven’t I heard, over and over, that the Democrats are the “community of being communal” – an “all in and leave nobody behind?” and their legislation forces it.  But when it comes to voluntary actions, like in this, it seems like Mann is being hung out to dry and on her own.

Wait!  Isn’t that what the all the Democrat Socialists always saying about Conservatives and Libertarians?

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Well, they certainly were all over the goodness of NHTI in an editorial yesterday:

But the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, offered a ray of good news last month. In a report that attempted to quantify the value added by colleges – in other words, how much graduates of an institution outperformed their expected average salary – Concord’s own NHTI came in first among two-year schools. Not second, not third.

First.

And they rave about its 41% graduation rate.  Let me give a bit of “balance” to that – I present the #1 worst as assembled by Fiscal Times: Granite State College

10 Public Universities with the Worst Graduation Rates

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Yes, I do believe that the story that NH GOP Committeeman Steve Duprey supporting the Planned Parenthood Action Fund “has legs”.  Certainly here at GraniteGrok (where we hate it when we catch Establishment GOPpers being political hypocrites – because it shows they ARE hypocrites) it is But – Steve has a very good point:

And even if we abandon any conception of complicity with regard to the event or any like it (not that we’ll ever get any of them to admit that complicity begins at conception), the optics on this in a Republican Presidential primary year are awful. Duprey has become little more than ballast at this point and needs to realize that he can still support Republicans without being a dead weight in a Presidential election year.  (What campaign will dare embrace him for fear of losing all the conservatives and pro-life grassroots voters?). Given the predicament he presents to Republicans he should either step aside or the NHGOP must propose an amicable separation and move on.   The curtain has been pulled aside. You can’t just close it and hope everyone forgets what is behind it.

After all, the Establishment NH GOP MUST have learned SOME kind of lesson from November when it was clear that the Conservative, especially the Pro-life contingent, are no longer willing to lock-step with the Republican Party – we are rejecting the snickering thought of “WELL! Where else will they go?”.  They showed that by utterly punishing the top of the ticket holders – Walt Havenstein (waffling between pro-life personally and pro-choice semi-publicly) and Scott Brown (who was vehemently trying to out-abortion Jeanne Shaheen).

But neither is the NH Media letting go (even as they’ve dropped looking at the Dems malfeasance with the Federal Election Committee fining them); this from WMUR (emphasis mine, reformatted):

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 “circumvent minimum wage, overtime and anti-discrimination laws.”

Not me!  Very few Socialists, when push comes to shove, will not walk the talk that they do with other peoples’ money with their own.  And Kshama Sawant is no different.  Remember, she was the Seattle politician that was absolutely adamant that companies, large and small, MUST be forced to pay their employees a minimum wage of $15/hour – or ELSE!  Well, karma for Kshama (reformatted, emphasis mine):

A Seattle City council member is in a bit of hot water over her handling of campaign staffers. Kshama Sawant has allegedly structured her employees in a way that allows her to avoid payroll taxes, overtime, and insurance. Now, none of what she’s accused of allegedly doing is illegal — in fact, it’s very standard and necessary. But her own supporters — the folks who join her in her fight to demonize big business as exploiting the work force — are upset.  We learned of this story over at Publicola — a progressive online offshoot of Seattle Met Magazine.

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