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“Sometimes people look at what’s taking place in Washington and they say, not enough is getting done that helps me with my life.”

“My goal is to make Washington as inconsequential to your daily life as possible”

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That would be NH State Senators Sharon Carson, Russell Prescott, and Dave Boutin (Republicans).  I guess the folks behind the leaflets are a bit unhappy that their taxes (remember, just because it may be “free money” to the State, it still means we New Hampshirites are paying for it – but politicians love the sound of “free money” and thinking that we’d actually believe that fairy tale when they throw the pixie dust into the air).  Here’s the one for Senator Carson (I imagine that Senator Prescott’s and Boutin’s were similarly configured. 

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After all, led by those that were once vociferously FOR Obamacare (and if not vociferous, certainly smarmy Schoolmarmish in the case of one of them), those Democrat women are now AGAINST it (funny, neither of look or sound like “Lurch” Kerry even after he’s plumped up his facial features).  And in opposing Obamacare for the BEST of reasons (er, protecting their Collective Democrat backsides), aren’t they continuing the #WarOnWomen – denying them their contraceptives for reasons Grokster Steve pointed out oh so very well:

What do you call it when you exchange women and sex for money?  ObamaCare!

Guy in an Obama or SEIU shirt walks up to you on the street.  “Hey man.  You interested in a woman who signed up for ObamaCare?  She’s got her free birth control?”

Seriously, I cannot believe how fast Obamacare is dying politically.  Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and other conservatives risked their careers in doing the right thing in trying to see it defunded and Democrats were howling about how they wanted to wreck death and destruction and now?  Now Democrats like the NH Dem Female Trio (let’s not forget uber-Progressive Annie Kuster) are running just as fast or faster to put in measures that will keep putting off the Obamacare from being further implemented.  Cruz wanted to defund it – against all odds and the odds won. But now??  

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Reminder: “So, I help to elect Democrats, eh?” (thank you, Mark Sanborn).  To recap:

WHY IS THE GOP / NH GOP IN TROUBLE?

Let’s get to the Nitty Gritty of this “discussion”: There is a tremendous split in the Republican Party – and especially in the NH GOP. And for three extremely binary reason – each this or that and never the twain they’ll meet.

1. Don’t Talk About it

2. Two Types of Republicans

So I rolled into those ‘two” philosophies:

3. Two sets of Political Philosophy (or Three – the clueless)

Why?  The core problem.  We’re about to go deep here.

What are the philosophies of each of those two groups?

There are two countervaling philosophies at play here, at the voting level and at the basic philosophy level and with neither, there is no coming together – they are orthagonal in nature and there is no “uniting” at all:

To the first, voting level – a split in attitude of High vs Low (like churches): 

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Kirsten Powers on Special Report (a Liberal) tonite was talking about Obamacare – the theme was that the Obama Administration was not and has not be honest with the American people as to why the new Obamacare healthcare insurance plans are WAY more expensive.  She took issue that HER plan was considered to be “substandard” by Obama even as it had every feature that an Obama “better plan” had to have

There is no explanation for the doubling of my premiums other than the fact that it is subsidizing other people.  They need to be honest about it that that’s the reason why they don’t want to change it because they are basically taking the people who are responsible enough to get healthcare insurance in the individual market and asking them to subsidize other people.  So they are taking young healthy people and asking them to subsidize other people.

“Asking them to subsidize other people“.  Again, I go back to the meme that Liberals and Progressives MUST change the language, MUST redefine fundamental meanings, to have any chance at all of winning their arguments or persuade LIVs of something else other than “generalized” impressions. “Asking”  – sounds awfully polite, doesn’t it?  Sounds like it is someone that is hoping you will say yes to their request, right?  Helping other people – the RIGHT thing to do, yes?

WRONG! 

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“Cloward – Piven:  Obamacare is not about given healthcare coverage to the poor, or even assuming just Control over 1/6th of the US economy.  It is THE tool to collapse the entire system.  Not just healthcare. Everything”

Or one of appeasement (er, under the guise of “taking it off the table” aka “they can’t club us with it anymore”) in which the Democrats get what they wanted anyways.Again, from DiStaso:

State Senate President Chuck Morse and Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley briefed that committee on their alternative plan to Medicaid expansion ahead of the opening of the special legislative session.  Most on the committee supported it, but a few didn’t, we’re told.

$2.4 Billion from a Federal government that is in arrears of $17 Trillion, and the Republican Party Wise Men and (joined by Wise Woman, Nancy Stiles) think that by simply not spending it like the Democrats would (in traditional Medicaid fashion) but purchasing “private insurance” from the Monopoly Insurance carrier in NH, Anthem (thanks to both Jeanne Shaheen and Obamacare) makes it all OK.  It doesn’t and because of their concentrating on merely State level politics, they are failing to see the Big Picture.

How does this fit the Major Republican Pillars of Limited Government, lower taxes, and adherence to Constitutional values (both US and NH)?  For the life of me, I can’t figure it out at ALL (although Democrats continually abuse “the General Welfare” phrase in the US and in the NH, each town and city is to provide welfare services).  Suffice it to say that concerning the Establishment Republicans and the phrase “Jr. Partners of the Democrats in expanding the Welfare State”, the conservative base is thinking just that in terms of of that old joke about a lawyer before a judge: 

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This is not rocket science – he has been a successful biz dude and have been playing in politics far longer than I.  But even with that, he cannot be given a pass for this faux pas.  Unless of course, it wasn’t and he only wished to have it perceived like the Democrats use those words (which sends quite a message in and of itself).  Again, from DiStaso:

FLAT EARTH SOCIETY? Republican National Committeeman Steve Duprey acknowledged referring to the “far right fringe of the Tea Party” as “flat earth believers” at a state party executive committee meeting last Monday night, Nov. 4.

Well, at least he’s being a sight more honest in what he believes than what Obama keeps saying about what he says…but still wrong.

Duprey told us, “I’m not against the Tea Party. It is a movement grounded in fiscal conservatism, which I support. But it does contain some who don’t believe in any government and who think anarchy should rule, and they are on the far, far fringe.”

Glad to see that the NH GOP RNC Committeeman decided to adopt the exact same the language of the Democrats with as much skill and as much actual knowledge of the TEA Party as when the NHDP called a Progressive Republican, Charlie Bass, a TEA Partier.  Not even Libertarians are anarchists – while they believe in probably even less money than I do…

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The federal government shutdown may have distorted the US employment report for October — but not the US economy.

Blowing away expectations, the Labor Department reported a surprisingly large 204,000 gain in October non-farm payrolls vs. a 125,000 consensus. Add in a combined a 60,000 upward revision to job gains in August and September and the three-month average is 202,000 vs. 154,000 in the August-October period in 2012. Capital Economics:

Apparently, the near three-week Federal government shutdown had little, if any, impact on payrolls. Manufacturing increased by a healthy 19,000, construction increased by 11,000 and retail increased by 44,000. … the US economy appears to be overcoming a summer swoon.

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OK, I get distracted from time to time.  Sometimes, I get distracted a LOT!  I did say a while back:

…As my talk to the MCRC said (another part to go up tonite), their is an irreconcilable void between the two types of Republicans and the two types of philosophies…

And then I never did (Parts I and II here and here).  So, time to get back to work.  And post the video (again, I have to start practicing public speaking more).

 WHY IS THE GOP / NH GOP IN TROUBLE?

Let’s get to the Nitty Gritty of this “discussion”:  There is a tremendous split in the Republican Party – and especially in the NH GOP.  And for three extremely binary reasons – each this or that and never the twain they’ll meet.

1. Don’t Talk About it

And we never ever discuss it when we all get together in these groups or understand why it is there.  Oh, I do – very well.  After all, I have been thinking about this for a long time and writing about it for a long time.

It’s  like “Hey, we found this important tin can we’ve been looking for – but only keep scratching the surface – but thinking we’re done.  The can never gets opened to see the void inside, that dark place where few are fearless in treading.  Instead of trying to figure out “what is this chasm”, the can scratch seems to be enough and then victory is always declared and “We must unite because we’re Republicans!”

Ditto for the rest of the Groksters…but a lot of times, we are seen as the agitators…

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(emphasis mine, Ayotte’s Letter after the jump)

Senator Ayotte:

Thank you for taking time to reply.

A few questions, if I may:

1. Who shutdown the Government? The House sent over bills funding everything BUT discretionary spending on Obamacare. Senator Reid refused to bring any of them to the floor. What did you do to force a vote on anything sent over? The Democrats were not negotiating, they were bargaining in bad faith, something they have done since 2008. To me, one of your constituents, you hold responsibility for enabling them in this tactic.

2. How much of the government was actually shutdown? Reports ranged from 15% to 20% meaning that 80 to 85% was still open. Are you implying that the current size of the Federal Government can’t function on less than 100%?

3. Who’s money is it? My wife and I work hard for our paycheck, yet the current attitude in Washington is “I didn’t earn that” or “I have enough”. What gives the Government the right to decide that I have enough? It’s my money, my employer feels that I’ve earned it, why do I not get to keep more of it? This pertains directly to the debt ceiling; enough with continuing resolutions, force a budget talk. At this point in time I’d settle for a budget equal to the last budget passed by House and Senate. I have to live in a budget that gets smaller and smaller every day because you (Government) feel that you have more right to my income than I do.

4. Tying in with #3, do you honestly believe that the Federal Government cannot survive on a spending level of 95% of the last passed budget?

I will have more as I have more time to spend on your response; I need to go earn another dollar that I get to keep 50% of.

M. Remski

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