Steve MacDonald

When Mayor Bloomberg set his anti-gun sights on Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) over his opposition to new gun ownership restrictions, Democrats changed their tune.  Democrat Senators Charles Schumer and Harry Reid, even former President Bill Clinton, who according to TIME reporter Mark Halprin,

 “…asked Bloomberg to temper his enthusiasm for attacking politicians who oppose stricter gun laws if those politicians happen to be Democrats.”

Mark Pryor (D-AR), Kay Hagan (D-NC) and Mark Begich (D-AK), all Senate Democrats, offer an opportunity for us to explore the real motivation of New Hampshire Democrats on the issue of expanded Background checks.  Is it principled and honest, or just opportunistic, shallow, and political?

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“Letter to the editor” – Concord Monitor

The Monitor has recently published several letters and written a couple of editorials supporting Medicaid expansion in New Hampshire. Every one of these pieces has implied that expanding Medicaid is “free” because the federal government is paying for it. I don’t know if in our race to become an entitlement society we’ve become willfully ignorant, or whether this is a partisan political ploy, similar to the lies selling Obamacare, to shut down debate and marginalize those who might disagree with you, but it cannot stand without objection.

Expanded Medicaid is not free.

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Snow and cold are a sign of global warming.   Income is a sign that you don’t pay enough taxes–unless you are a Democrat or in entertainment.  Opposition is a sign that you are a racist, a misognyst hater unless you oppose self-responsibility, affordable government, and low taxes (Republicans, or the TEA Party).   The Affordable Care Act costs more and is less accessible–meaning less care (leaving us with nothing but the act.)   And demanding an extension for unemployment benefits…is a sign of your amazing economic recovery.

Democrats are looking to extend unemployment benefits, again. Why?

Because when Democrats run things, and run them for as long as they have, good paying American jobs are like Bigfoot.  People talk about it.  They want to believe in it. And a few people actually claim to have seen one.  But most everyone else thinks it is a hoax.

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Back in 2008 NH Democrat Jeanne Shaheen scared people with promises that Global Warming was real and that it would put an end to New Hampshire Winters–and our touristy-like winter wonderland of commerce.  It was settled science.  I heard that, didn’t you hear that?

A few years later, after 15 years of flat or declining average global temperatures, the same people who advised Shaheen on that ‘fact’ are insisting that Global Warming now makes it cold, and predicts increased snowfall.   That must be the new “settled science?”

I guess the settled science isn’t that settled yet.  Can we call that a Global Warming Theory induced Gore-tex?  It’s like a vortex but then it’s not, but if you close your eyes and wish real hard….

However unsettling the settled science may be none of this matters until you attack a sitting Democrat US Senator by comparing what she claimed with reality.

That’s the cue for the progressive flying monkeys to attack.

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Trib

A federal judge on Monday stripped away a key element of Chicago’s gun ordinance, ruling that it is unconstitutional to prohibit licensed gun stores from operating in the city.

U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang found that the city failed to convince him that banning the sale of guns by licensed dealers was necessary to reduce gun violence.

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Still thinking about expanding Medicaid In New Hampshire?  Or maybe you are just indifferent.  Well you can’t afford to be.

The bait expires and the annual stipend is not guaranteed.  In fact, given the Federal debt and deficit situation, any expectation that the Feds will not cut funding to Medicaid and other programs as debt and deficit management become critical are simply fanciful.

Paying only 10% of the expansion costs after the expansion bait-money is gone will already extract millions from the state economy.   But that will pale in comparison to the state’s assault on town and city budgets when it goes looking for money to feed this beast after the feds bail on us.

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Fraud supporting Nashua Democrat Cindy Rosenwald has submitted the Medicaid expansion amendment to avoid having to holding public hearings or any actual legislative discussion about a multi-billion dollar entitlement expansion in New Hampshire.

Nashua Rep Cindy Rosenwald.  You remember her?  She’s the Democrat who let the cat out of the bag regarding that $802 million dollar hole the Democrats left in the budget with one time money.  After months of every Democrat denying it, she tells us the truth.

The Democratic majority knew all along it (the 802 Million dollar hole) would not continue, and that budget cuts would have to be made during the following biennium so that there would not be a deficit.

Rosenwald and the NH Dems went nuts when Republicans did exactly what Rosenwald claims Democrats knew they would have to do.

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Warming creates warming. Warming creates cooling. NH Democrat Timmy Horrigan informed us (in comments)  that Global Warming Theory predicts more snow (which will come as a surprise to Senator Jeanne Shaheen). And now we’ve got this newly imagined polar vortex thing to explain the cold temperatures that none of those computer models from all those well-funded activists experts, ever predicted.

And another big unexpected side-effect of global warming? Plenty of living space for those polar bears. We’ve got more ice on the poles (both of them, in summer no less) than we can shake an endangered species at. (Any day now we’ll start hearing about how too much habitat will be devastating to the Polar bear Population.  Mark my words, it’s coming.)

And of course, it hasn’t warmed in 16 years, ancient times compared to Climate scientist Jeanne Shaheen’s catastrophic predictions for New Hampshire circa 2008.

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When Democrats say they are ‘Pro-Choice’ what they mean is defending a woman’s “right” to have an abortion.  That’s the choice.

They have no interest in funding abstinence programs, so sex seems inevitable.  Sex, no matter how much taxpayer funded contraception you provide, will always result in more unwanted or accidental pregnancies than not having sex.   And while these “mothers” could consider the adoption option this is not seriously considered as a choice when the word choice is exercised by Democrats.  That leaves abortion or motherhood but is motherhood really a choice?

I concede that I have a pre-conceived notion about the Democrats Orwellian redefinition of the word ‘choice.’  I am also willing to entertain the idea that my “notion” might be ill conceived.  All New Hampshire Democrats would need do is to prove  that a woman’s right to choose to have her baby is worthy of the same legal protection as the so-called right to abortion that they demand.

As it turns out, the 2014 New Hampshire legislative session will give them a chance to prove me wrong.

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