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Paywalls.  I’d love to be able to link to a lot more articles but those dang paywalls.  I understand news is not produced for free and in our capitalist system, they should charge what the market can bear.  The problem is that TMEW has already let me know what she is willing to let me bear in running this joint and therefore there’s no way I can afford to pay for all of the subscriptions I’d really need.

Sidenote: No, not the financial cost – the relationship cost.  And after almost 33 years of marriage, it’s now priceless.

Anyways, I went to access the Union Leader for something and my nose hit the paywall message:

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One of the key architects of the law, Ezekiel Emanuel, has been starting to dish the inside scoop on how ObamaCare was put together, because he has a book to flog. Usually, this sort of thing is supposed to happen only years after the law takes effect, but that might be “never,” given the administration’s habit of deferring the law’s key provisions year after year. So the insiders’ books are going to come out first, and they’re going to start saying some unexpectedly honest things about the law’s purpose.

Emanuel gives us one big answer to our question. What was the point of ObamaCare, if not to insure the uninsured? To destroy the insurance companies….

Well, it’s not like we haven’t already figured this out already.  Progressives hate capitalism and hate profit making so Obamacare is really at least a three-fer for them:

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Steve had it first so I figured that this might help the meme out:

(H/T: Powerline)

After all, how much more bossy can you get as she showed an absolute total lack of respect for small business owners that knew that HillaryCare would put them out of business:

‘I can’t be responsible for every under-capitalized small business in America’!

Translation: get out of MY WAY – I can’t be bothered with the likes of you!

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Sigh…if our highest elected officials in the land have internal knowledgebases like these vaunted US Senators, well, maybe that’s why we’re in the deep doo-do we are.  Yes, newly US Senator Corey Booker (D-NJ) has driven from NJ to….where??

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(H/T: IJReview).  Yeah, that car must have had MASSIVE MPG to get to Hawaii – 2,000 miles one way.  Hey, it’s a long enough time jetting over – I know as I’ve been lucky enough to have had to fly it several times for business.  But for the double, hardly anything ever beats our very own Congressional Constitutional historian, US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX):

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Note: emphasis by ME (not Jane).

The Belknap County Delegation has been working to put together a fair and equitable budget for our citizens.  Unfortunately, there have been those who seek to demonize the conservative majority for their desire to prepare a fair and fiscally conservative budget.  The hysterical hyperbole from Rep. Ruth Gulick and Rep. Dennis Fields has been at times most unprofessional.  In addition, a goodly portion of the desired information requested by the delegation (from the Administrator and Commissioners) has not always been delivered in a timely or complete manner. It cannot be denied, the Belknap Convention budget process has been almost painful in the extreme.

There was discussion at the Feb. 24 Delegation meeting about the current trajectory of spending being quite unsustainable.  One citizen at the public hearing rightly pointed out,  ‘If overspending continues, workers could find themselves without jobs!’  Money will eventually run out if this trajectory does not change.  Some members of the delegation have issues with discussions about ‘taking the taxpayer into account‘.  But, it is important to note, taxpayers pay not only 100% salaries and benefits of the public sector, they frequently do so with the inability to fund these type of benefits for themselves.  We should never ignore this fact. And while public workers do indeed pay taxes as well, one should be empathetic towards the taxpayer who may not be able to fund their own insurance, but are expected to subsidize others’ health insurance.  This issue, though most contentious, will need to be addressed in the near future.  No matter where you may stand on this issue, the money will soon run out. And honest compromise will be the linchpin to finding a solution to possible dissolution!

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There’s almost always something just to make a comment about and this week is no different as the first segment had NH State Senator John Reagan, Josiah Bartlett Public Policy Center’s Exec. Dir. Charlie Arlinghouse, and Republican political operative Jim Merrill.  Each had something that evoked a quick comment.

• Reagan: Morse’s attempt was to extract a maximum of federal dollars to save the NH budget.  That was the plan – gather over $400 M in Federal dollars.
  • Right.  When in trouble, why is it that the Feds are the FIRST resort of refuge?  How about resetting of internal priorities instead of trying to be everything to all people and all issues?
  • Is the NH Budget in that bad a shape that the first thought is that the Federal Government’s “chains attached” actually palatable?
  • Money over independence?  It’s not like the State’s budget is overwhelmingly driven by “outside” money but geez…
  • I agree with Steve – instead of “moneygrubbing it back” into the State, how ’bout keeping it from leaving the in the first place?  When the $17 trillion debt finally accomplishes it “BOOM!”, isn’t it better to be unhooked as much as possible?

• “We thank them when they’re right!”: Reagan said he changed his vote as he realized that instead of being a boon, this legislation ran counter to his Principles (and the Brits’ National Healthcare System debacles helped his decision as well).  BRAVO, Senator!

• Arlinghouse- GOP was going to look for a compromise?

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From This Week With George Stephanopolous about Obama’s latest unilateral Unitary President proclamation changing Obamacare saying that if you have a plan you can now keep it for another two years

Sidenote: (to be repeated as often as the MSM brings up old news as well) You know, Bill Clinton’s wonderkid who now masquerades as a non-partisan “journalist”.  You may remember him as the Democrat tool that was the tip of the spear that brought the meme that Republicans want to ban access to contraceptives during the Republican Prez Primary Debates):

A snippet from the panel:

Jonathan Karl: What is means it that voters will not cancellations a month before the mid-terms. That’s the point here. That’s the biggest point.  It is politics, absolutely.  It’s no question.

Ann Navarro: Absolutely

Martha Raddatz (who has the definitive line): Certainly there’s politics in everything.  C’mon, We’re in Washington DC.

Right.  Sure, that may be true in DC but it never seemed to be that way everywhere else.   

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From Meet the Press with David Gregory was this exchange concerning a slight from a hard Left Democrat and a hard Right Democrat over the poor.  It was clear that the Democrat has a “sniffling” attitude that perpetuates the meme that Conservatives (and Republicans) hate the poor in a backhand slap against the just ended CPAC meeting.  I guess she’s never read “Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism” by then liberal Professor Arthur Brooks from Syracuse University.  A couple of comments from me afterwards (as well as in between).

Ralph Reed: People don’t care what you know until they know that you care (Jack Kemp) and the Republican Party has gotta do with Francis is doing with the Catholic Church. Francis is putting the poor, and care for the poor, and amelioration of the poverty where it belongs which is at the center of the Gospel. If people who are lower middle class are struggling, who are poor, and are wanting to climb that ladder of opportunity but are having a hard time grabbing that first rung? If they don’t think that Conservatives and republicans have a vision for the future that includes them? Their message will be badly damaged.

Rep Karen Reed (D-CA): I do think that if we look at Republican policies, if we look at the budgets over the last couple of years, there really isn’t anything there that says that we’re going to reach out to the middle class. I mean, in fact…

And this is where it starts…

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