Steve MacDonald

The accusations against Hilltop Public solutions go something like this.  They set themselves up in a state, and along with third party and non-profit groups–many of which they create and direct–funnel tens of thousands of dollars from other Democrat groups into specific support for candidate campaigns, well…here’s an example.

Montana – (The) Bullock campaign – as well as Montana Democratic Party, Montana Conservation Voters, Planned Parenthood of Montana and the Montana AFL-CIO and its Build Montana political action committee – all retained the services and employees of Hilltop Public Solutions, or its affiliates or other vendors.

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This week our guests are Greg Moore from Americans For Prosperity-NH, Alexandria Lainez (The N. FL University student who just won a critical gun rights case in Florida), and Dr. Betsy McCaughey–Constitutional Scholar, Patient Advocate, and expert on Obama-Care.

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Nothing is free.  In the debate to expand Medicaid in NH-which is nothing more than a race to claim $2.4 Billion in Federal bribes in exchange for trapping New Hampshire in the sticky ObamaCare web of lies, more than a few people who should know better are trying to convince you that the Federal money is, well, free.

Anyone with any sense at all knows this is not true.  Money does not appear by magic.  It comes from someones pocket.  Not even the money the Treasury prints by the truckload is “free” because that just dilutes the value of the dollars you have by making them worth less.  There is no free money.

So the Medicaid bribe is not free.

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Former “long time anti-gunner” and current Detroit Police Chief James Craig, is saying things that will not be well received by the professional left.

“Coming from California (Craig was on the Los Angeles police force for 28 years), where it takes an act of Congress to get a concealed weapon permit, I got to Maine, where they give out lots of CCWs (carrying concealed weapon permits), and I had a stack of CCW permits I was denying; that was my orientation.

“I changed my orientation real quick. Maine is one of the safest places in America. Clearly, suspects knew that good Americans were armed.”

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A likely topic tomorrow, when we have Dr. Betsy McCaughey on GrokTALK! is the unraveling of the next big lie of ObamaCare.

From the New York Post

Like so many other parts of ObamaCare, the reality flies in the face of promises. In this case, it was the one where the president assured us that “you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making.”

Section 1311(h)(1)(B) of the health law gives the secretary of Health and Human Services blanket authority to dictate how doctors treat patients. Not just patients in government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, but patients with private plans they pay for themselves. On Dec. 2, 2013, we learned from the Federal Register that the rules are now being written. Starting in 2015, insurance companies will be barred from doing business with doctors who fail to comply. The rules will be offered in the name of ensuring “health-care quality,” which of course could mean anything.

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Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the woman who shares an anti-TEA Party agenda with more than a few Republicans, was supposed to attend a book signing at St. Anselm College today, but Global warming has chosen to dump a foot of snow on Southern and Central New Hampshire today.

The event has been cancelled, as has the protest scheduled to coincide with the book signing.

The book is titled ‘For the next Generation,’ a notion that any honest Democrat could elucidate on a cocktail napkin.

” You owe us $17 Trillion in Debt and $128 Trillion for unfunded entitlements.  You’re Welcome.”

Schultz and the progressive who actually wrote the book (but does not get to sign it) need 300 plus pages for her nostrum.

If you are wondering what you will be missing by not reading the book, here’s part of a review by Larry Thornberry at the American Spectator.

Leftists wishing a complete treatment of progressive chants, tics, talking points, sacraments, secret handshakes, and calamitous policies can find them in For the Next Generation, a tedious and repetitious 300-page walk through the entire catalogue of leftist delusions. Every failed idea since Rousseau is here lovingly lifted up as part of the path to an American paradise.

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We are being sold the idea that we need to expand Medicaid in NH.  Why?

New Hampshire is historically a very well off state, with the lowest poverty rate in the nation.  We rank in the top five every year for healthiest state while ranking 36th for public health funding.    (Knocks on wooden heads…) That says that public health funding (consistently)  has nothing to do with actual outcomes.

Our poverty rate is well below the national average, recently dropping from 8.8 to as low as 5.6% and currently somewhere in between because of the Democrat’s stagnating economy.  That’s 5-8% of the population in New Hampshire–and that is a determination based on measures  established by people trying to expand the program, so take that with a grain of salt if you like.

So without  going further you’d be right to ask why a well-to-do state, with low poverty, low unemployment, and high health outcomes with low public health funding, would even need to embrace the ugly entanglements of Obama-Care in exchange for a $2.4 Billion dollar bribe.

The answer is “we don’t.”

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In late December the Nashua Telegraph and Kevin Landrigan reported on the dual residency of once and no longer candidate for New Hampshire Governor, Chuck Rolecek.  The ‘investigation’ pointed out residency rules in South Carolina required to take advantage of certain property tax benefits in that state.   Drivers licenses, that sort of thing.  it was quirte detailed, at least as parroted by the Union Leader.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if the Telegraph (or any media in NH) applied the same diligence used in the Rolecek investigation (regarding matters of residency and voter registration) to the dozens of operatives, students, OFA flacks (see also Democrat voters) who helicoptered in to vote for Democrats in NH in 2012 (or previous years)–many voting from the homes of prominent Democrats, State Party officials, Nashua Candidates for the NH House, or state employees at the AG’s office–and then left?

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Medicaid Fraud is a problem.  Expanding Medicaid in NH poses the risk and likely increase in fraud and the invertible burden of its costs, which will ultimately be borne by NH Taxpayers no matter how either party spins it.

The ability of the bureaucracy to curtail fraud is limited, or it would never have become a problem in the first place, and as the program expands and contorts compliance becomes an expensive problem.  That is to say, expensive to comply, and expensive to track down, identify, and prosecute fraud effectively.

Seeing as the NH AG’s office is not known for its diligence in the pursuit of fraud, except for one-off timely sound bites meant to give the appearance of enforcement,  is it anything other than a matter of convenience that the New Hampshire Attorney General has just released an indictment against a New Hampshire Dentist accused of Medicaid Fraud?

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This years top 20, like last years, is based entirely on comments.  So it is  not so much the top 20 best posts for content, reporting, or style  just the ones that inspired the most debate.

This years number one comment-getting post is number one because the subject of the post was so ‘inspired’ by their having been reported on, that they unloaded so many comments on the post I lost count.

But before we get to that, here are the 19 that could not be #1 this year but tried.

So here we go, starting with number 20.

#20 Rush Limbaugh Mentions Me On The Air.

This goes into the “Wow that’s kind of cool category.”  Today Rush Limbaugh mentioned me by name.  I didn’t hear it but Skip called me from the road, and he was pretty darn excited for me.

#19 Stupid women

Ms. (Wendy) Davis and hundreds of thousands of hundreds of thousands of other women can freely exercise, without Big Government getting in their undergarmets, the choice to be more careful while having sex in order to prevent becoming pregnant in the first place.

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New Hampshire Democrat David Campbell sped over a family of ducks with his BMW, crushing a number of them.  Before we cater to his litany of excuses consider this.

When proposing an 83% increase in the state gas tax last year he insisted that we needed the money for roads and bridges but later confided that this gas tax would provide a bounty of revenue for ‘other purposes. ‘

Conclusion: Scare people with spin about crumbling infrastructure to pick their pockets.

The spread sheet of estimated revenue from the increase double counted the previous increase in future years adding a million dollars in estimated revenue that did not exist.

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