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Skip His baby is in flames – and he ain’t a happy camper. I just watched a snippet of is Rose Garden “who do these barbarians think they are” apologist speech on Hannity – I do have to find it and watch the whole thing for giggles. Just watching his body language, the pauses in his … Read more
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The Seacoast Republican Women
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Monday, October 21, 2013
6:30 p.m.
At the Portsmouth Public Library
Levenson Room
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Panelists:
(H/T: Mac)
His story on Kelly Ayotte had this line in it:
Ayotte had been successfully straddling the line between Tea Party favorite and establishment Republican — until the shutdown occurred.
This is pretty much the same level of “journalism” we see from a lot of these ink-stained (he’s old enough for that phrase) “reporters” lately when they try to report on Second Amendment issues and plunge into talking about calibers, cartridges, rounds, ammo, automatics, semi-automatics, muzzle loaders….and of course, assault weapons vs assault rifles. Concealed carry, open carry, law abiding, criminals, gun show loophole vs private sales – often they are a disaster because they don’t know what they’re talking about.
DiStaso, being one of the “Political Reporters” in the state, should know far better. He knows that the TEA Party supported Ovide Lamontagne – to the hilt and given 2, maybe three more weeks in the primary, might have eliminated that 1600 vote advantage she ended up with. But let’s be clear (sorry for the Obama-ism) here – Kelly was NEVER a “Tea Party favorite” – not then and certainly not now. Yeah, we voted for her, but given her opponent, who wouldn’t have? She was “EStablishment” from the get-go; she knew it, they knew it, and we certainly knew.
But it shows that DiStaso is showing the rest of us one of two things:
Glenn of Instapundit: “If ObamaCare needs twentysomethings to sign up in order to be a success, why did Obama support letting them stay on their parents’ insurance?“ Good point – this whole Obamacare ripoff is another Ponzi scheme to redistribute wealth from the poor but healthy young adults to sick old farts like the Boomers … Read more
Children’s temper tantrums. They’re a fact of life. But when one little girl was screaming and crying recently, rather than getting frustrated or yelling back, her father took a different route. Instead of rebuking his daughter, he decided to “lip sync” and act out her entire tantrum — and record it on video. A clip … Read more
Steve does the real work – books the guests, runs the board, does the post production – and comes up with those killer parodies! Me? I just set up the camera as a back up. But, some like the audio, and some like the video – and we try to give you the information “your way”!
Segment 1: Steve and I yak about the events and issues of the last week.
Segment 2: Max Abrams comes on to update us on his court case
The conservative base is looking for STRONG candidates – those that know the issues, those that have actual stances of granite built on solid philosophy (instead of dingleberry type positions that flapped in every political wind / event that comes along), and those can inspire them that they will do what they say and keep their promises. Love’em or hate’em, folks like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee certainly know the issues and have crafted their stances.
And NO ONE can say that they are, or have, failed to keep their promises to those that “brung them to the dance”. They said what they would do and they are doing in. Bold, Bright Colors.
New Hampshire conservative voters should be so lucky! Looking at this headline from Pindell’s site is not giving me confidence – are we damned with only faintness (and take that anyway you want):
“GOP candidates for House, Senate avoiding standing with Cruz or Ayotte on debt deal”
…slim and none. Methinks Pindell might have just been looking for a word count:
Jack Kimball/Jeff Chidester: If this pair of friends decides to publicly get behind someone in a Republican primary, it will serve as a clear signal to tea party activists of which way to go. Kimball is the former state Republican Party chair. Chidester is a radio talk-show host and the former state director for Michele Bachmann’s campaign. Guinta won the 2010 primary because of the inroads he made with the tea party, but that segment grew disappointed with some of his votes when he got into office. Innis might be too moderate for some of them, but if he earns their trust on national security and privacy issues — which he mentioned in his campaign announcement video — things could get very interesting. This assumes, of course, that Chidester isn’t running for the seat himself, something he is considering.
Knowing both well, I highly doubt that Guinta or Innis will get an endorsement here. Why? Here’s some history and points Pindel left out:
This is from Pindell: “Ayotte is now acting like the person people thought they voted for.” James, let me remind you that I’m not the only one – and they were LOUD. He continues:
However, during the shutdown, Ayotte came into her own politically. She was no longer following the lead of mentors like U.S. Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham. When she reportedly confronted Republican colleague Ted Cruz on his shutdown tactics, even Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was suddenly following her lead.
Really? Tell me – what was she saying contraposed to Maverick and Grahamnesty? Neither of them have fight left in them – expect to fight those actually fighting FOR real Republican values (Grokster Scott has a great article on this – go read it or go read it AGAIN if you already have). Neither of them were supportive of the Cruz / Lee movement in saying “no mas” to a larger government, more debt, and most wrongly – letting Obama now further subvert the Constitution (Article I Section 8) having no limiting authority to increase the debt to what ever he wants.
What she told her base was “I will not fight for the values that are most important to you”.
… the first day the federal government was able to borrow money under the deal President Obama and Congress sealed this week. The debt now equals $17.075 trillion, according to figures the Treasury Department posted online on Friday.” Thank you, Kelly, Carol, Annie, and Jeanne. That would be US Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), US Congressman … Read more
The vision that Progressives / incremental socialists is that we should be overjoyed to have technocrats run an “ordered” society – where all of us would know our place in society and that things would be ever so “efficient” under the wise gaze of of absolutely non-partisan bureaucrats who only care about “good” outcomes regardless of ideology. Well, that last part has been blown out the door with the IRS scandel where citizens were targeted multiple ways simply because they disagreed with the current Administration and advocated for, well, a more limited government. Thus, we saw the retaliation by these same folks that Progressives said we were to trust!
Not only that, we were to trust that their policies AND their procedures, having been created and deployed by EXPERTS!. Umm, haven’t we heard this before with respect to Obamacare?
It’s worth revisiting some of the assurances from administration officials over the summer that the technology to support the federal health-care exchanges would be ready for the October rollout:
Despite concerns that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are behind schedule in preparing to implement the Affordable Care Act, leaders from CMS and the Internal Revenue Service testified before Congress on July 17 that their technologies will be ready for the data-sharing that will commence Oct. 1.
“The ACA designates HHS as the conduit for information being shared with the marketplace,” said Daniel Werfel, the principal deputy commissioner of the IRS. “The taxpayer data supplied by the IRS will be transmitted over secure, encrypted channels to the HHS data hub, which was developed to facilitate these data transfers.”
Werfel was emphatic: “We are on target to have these systems ready when open enrollment in the marketplace starts on October 1 of this year.”
From Big Journalism, the set up graf:
Fox News political analyst Brit Hume conceded that Republicans that grew the federal government while they were in power the last decade may have ultimately been responsible for the recent standoff over the budget because their actions helped create the Tea Party that now stands fiercely opposed to their goals.
…Hume, along with those like Charles Krauthammer and George Will in the veteran punditocracy, has fiercely criticized Cruz during the fight to defund Obamacare. And he acknowledged that though “in conventional terms, it seems inexplicable,” Cruz “and his adherents do not view things in conventional terms.”
Indeed. And it is, writ small, what my talk at the Merrimack County Republican Committee was about. It ISN’T about “conventional terms” – and not “conventional politics”. It is not about “progress”, it isn’t about “moving forward”, it isn’t about “doing something”, and it isn’t certainly NOT about conducting business as usual. Thus, they (Democrats, Progressives, and Establishment Republicans) just don’t get it. They don’t understand that what has been the historical process of how things work is not what is important.
The key grafs – glad to see someone gets it right (emphasis mine, reformatting):
A very disturbing, but not unsurprising, story out of Utah (via The Blaze) where it seems that both Democrats AND Republicans are saying “its for the children”, they have no problem in taking it from YOUR children – really (Emphasis mine, with some reformatting)!
‘Put Up or Be Quiet’: Large Families in This State May Soon Be Paying More for Education
Utah parents may be footing a tax hike amounting to roughly $400 million in total if State Senator Patricia Jones’ proposed legislation goes through. The state lawmaker has reportedly been pushing an end to the state’s child tax credit, saying the state should put the money into public education instead. “I think it’s tax fairness at its best,” Jones is quoted as saying. “It is bold, but our students deserve bold.”
Not so much, parents who are, you know, RAISING those kids that you consider to be “our students” (yes, once again, we hear from the village idiots). As opposed to, you know, the hard working families keeping their own money for their own families? “Bold” – since when has it been bold for a Democrat to propose a new tax on the productive? Proposing more taxes on non-entitlement families? Happens all the time – you know, these greedy politicians couldn’t smile at all if some “Bold” new tax idea didn’t pop into existence in that evil vacuum on top of their shoulders (I was going to say heart, but that seems to be as black and dense as a burnt out star – no compassion for the working families can find even a miniscule pinhole to land there).
As I reported from the First Annual Strong New Hampshire Conference, I was not expecting the reaction that the crowd had when Howie Carr asked them what they thought of Kelly Ayotte’s behavior lately. Go here if you have forgotten. One of our loyal readers sent this Letter to Ayotte’ s office and gave us permission to post (emphasis mine):
Senator Ayotte:
One of the primary reasons I voted to send you to Washington was to promote fiscal responsibility. Unfortunately, you have failed me on this.
The way I was taught the Constitution, spending originates in the House. Budgets are spending. When was the last time the Senate even had a vote on a budget? Budgets are one of your duties; the House has duly passed a budget every year, yet I have not heard you trying to force Senator Reid to bring one up for a vote.
Not passing a budget that has been negotiated has allowed the Republican caucus to play into the hands of the Democrats, one manufactured crisis to another. The Continuing Resolutions, fake crisis. The only reason they are being used is that the Senate has not even tried to vote and reconcile with the budgets passed by the House.
‘To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.’
– Winston Churchill, Lord of the Admiralty, Prime Minister of Great Britain
(H/T: Protect the Second Amendment – Resistance New Hampshire)
UPDATE and BUMPED: I followed the link to NHPR that Steve provided where Ayotte said this:
There few words that can describe the sheer madness in that he actually believes that somebody will actually believe this (without violating Rule #1):
McConnell lamented that the agreement would not seriously address ObamaCare, but vowed to keep fighting against the law.
“This is far less than many of us had hoped for, frankly, but it is far better than what some had sought,” he said.
Far Better? Oh My God – calling nothing “far better”? You got nothing for passing a Continuing Resolution that does little to advance a Conservative agenda, you got nothing for giving yet ANOTHER blank check to put US further into debt, and a throwaway that Obamacare income verifcation would actually be enforced (Obama must have gone though a box of tissues for all the tears shed laughing his tochkes off). WHAT WAS “BETTER”? This was your only chance.
There are very few words that I can use that can adequately express my disgust at these two RINOS (“Republican” Peter King and Aaron Schock) (and shredding Rule #1 altogether):
Yes, the same folks that asked me to leave their meeting a while ago – gotta give them kudos for giving me this opportunity. Details: 6:30pm Howard & Robyn Pearl’s Farm 409 Loudon Ridge Road Loudon, NH I will be presenting a “different” kind of talk – I hope it does not disappoint. It will … Read more
The Senate vote on the Continuing Resolution and to allow the Obama Administration to spend even more of our kids’ money had the following Republicans voting “NO!”: The 18 Republicans voting no were: Senators David Vitter (La.), Ted Cruz (Texas), Mike Lee (Utah), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Pat Toomey (Pa.), John Cornyn (Texas), … Read more
Not a theology with which I am familiar. I’m talking about Steve’s post on the vandalization of the NH GOP HQ in Concord. While I chuckled when I read Steve’s interpretation of what the anti-GOP jerks did (“We Will Just Destroy…Healthcare for Everyone.”), here are sycophants of the Democrat Party who fellow sojourners BOOED any attempt to put a mention of God back into their Party Platform trying to use Jesus as a political club. Yes, those folks; the Leftists that are always most likely to scream (like toddlers) “Separation of Church and State”!!!
WWJD – What Would Jesus Do? Once again, let’s remember that Jesus came to call individuals to salvation (and not Obama’s apostate view that it is a Collective effort) by individually repenting of their sins and then to individually and voluntarily receive the free gift of God’s salvation. The WWJD movement, when it first started, was intended to be a personal remembrance – what should I do in my walk of salvation to more emulate Him in a given situation. Now, given that almost everything becomes political after some amount of time, it is being used here as a threat, not a call to be still and be open. It is being used as a slur, an epithet, as a “how DARE you not be willing to act collectively – how DARE you fight us”!