Jaspercrats in the NH House are taking another stab at making transparency more difficult. (From my In-Box)

Today the House rules committee is meeting to discuss the rules for the  house for next year.  It is my understanding that House leadership (both R&Ds) are pushing to move the number of “seconds” needed for a roll call to 20 (up from 10). If you recall, they tried this 2 years ago.  This will limit accountability and transparency of government.

They want 20 people to stand up and second the motion before the votes of your representatives must be recorded. When they tried to do this two years ago I had this to say.

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Hillary and Democrats keep losing. Again, and again, and again.

Donald Trump, [won the Wisconsin recount] by 131 more votes than he originally claimed in last month’s general election. The certified recount confirms that Trump is the first Republican presidential nominee to win Wisconsin since 1984.

It was an expensive loss. The hijacking of Wisconsin cost the Green Party $3.5 Million all so Trump could make winning greater, again; 

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The Democrats Fake News Russia-hack narrative takes another broadside.

On Sunday, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, said he has met the person who gave the DNC emails and it was not the Russians.

“I know who leaked them,” Murray told The Guardian. “I’ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it’s an insider. It’s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things.

A DNC insider leaked the emails, which means it wasn’t Russia but if it will make anyone feel better they were probably still a socialist.

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RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

You know, I REALLY like this idea, given that Hillary Clinton is a YUGE Saul Alinsky disciple – right up there with Obama and the SEIU.  She called half the nation “deplorables and irredeemables”.  This idea will be a big poke in Hillary’s eye (and tangentially, Obama as well) (emphasis mine):

Petition at White House website to name next major U.S. Navy ship ‘USS Deplorables’

…So what was the new petition? It was a two-fer. It is a demand that the next major U.S. Navy Ship be named “USS The Deplorables.” It is meant to be in-your-face both to the outgoing president and to the Democratic candidate who coined the phrase “basket of deplorables” — a move that may have contributed to her loss in November.

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In this morning’s Manchester Union Leader the front page has a report on how Granite State businesses looking at expansions would like to grow in New Hampshire but are forced to look outside the state because our energy costs are prohibitive.

“If we don’t have an assurance of reliability and a drastic reduction in our energy costs, a lot of us will be packing our bags and going,” John Olson, Whelen [Engineering’s] executive vice president said at a New Hampshire energy symposium at the Radisson Hotel.

Sig Sauer and others agree. High electricity rates not only demand they look elsewhere for expansions, but they could also scare away or drive out manufacturing altogether. This is a problem that (believe it or not) one Republican State Senator does not think the State Legislature should address.

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As I noted (again), the Left sees all of us not with them as deplorable and irredeemable – and are upset that we won’t give our votes to them, the “rightful governors”.  While those were Hillary’s approved words (probably focused grouped a few times and completely vetted by several layers of her campaign staff because that’s how it is done).

Jonathan Chait is an uber-Leftist blogger.  That’s fine but once again, we see the new sense of openness of how they really view us.  They are telling us EXACTLY what they think of us:

The right, wrote Chait, was wrong to argue that the Tea Party was all about “timeless principles of conservative movement thought” such as “advocacy of balanced budgets [and] adherence to a strict constructionist version of the Constitution,” while the left understood that the movement was “an expression of ethno-nationalist rage centered around a black president and the belief that his coalition stood for redistribution from older, white America to its younger, more diverse supporters.”

It is BECAUSE they lack the empathy they tell us we should have, BECAUSE they lack the tolerance that they tell us we should have, BECAUSE they lack the willingness to listen that they tell us we should have, BECAUSE they implement the Otherness that they accuse us of…

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Emphasis mine:

The tedious everything-is-racism plank has passed its sell-by date as well. Throw it out.

The civil rights movement eliminated all legal impediments to success decades ago. Untold billions have been spent to fight “poverty.” And what has changed in the inner cities? That’s because none of these BandAids can cover the wound of fatherlessness. Or make up for one terrible life decision after another.

So what the grievance peddlers are left with is a wholesale attack on “whiteness” itself. This might work with a few intimidated college students and guilty liberals, but it is not going to be a winning strategy for the vast majority of white people who will say:

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As many have already said, this will be the subject of many panels, articles, and books going forward over the next few years.  Here’s one of the Democrat elites – a former First Lady, US Senator, Secretary of State.  Fully loaded with a $1.2 Billion war chest, she lost to someone who spent half that amount.  Here is one take on why – an inability to either read the electorate and what motivated them to vote for Trump, or giving off an air of “I’m taking you for granted OVER other groups” – or both. Diane Hessan believes she knows why; I took it to be that Democrats browbeat a large swath of the electorate in believing that they HAD to continue to support Democrat identity groups financially even over their own families and when THEIR times get hard (after all, it’s for the COMMON good and not necessarily your’s – WHAT, are you a RACIST / HOMOPHOBE / MISOGYNIST / XENOPHOBE???  Silence, or we’ll [figuratively] kill you!).  Emphasis from Newsbusters:

Over the summer, I found and interviewed over 300 undecided voters, and 250 of them agreed to stay in touch, to send me weekly diary entries about their emotions, what they were thinking about both Clinton and Trump, and how they were leaning when it came to their vote. I had no responsibility to change their views; instead, I synthesized the data that I was collecting, and reported in to the campaign. I also added the insights that I had and made regular suggestions about how the campaign might better articulate its positions and modify its strategies.

… George’s story was one I ultimately heard over and over: He had lived in that part of Pennsylvania (Wilkes-Barre) his entire life, had worked hard, raised a family, paid his debts, sacrificed to get his kids through Wilkes University, and tried to do the right thing for others. “The government never helped me, but I was OK with that,” he said. “I made mistakes, had some scary moments, and my wife worked also at the local library to help out. I paid my bills, including my doctor bills.

“Now I see my tax dollars going to handouts for others who don’t want to work as hard as I did, and I can’t afford my health care.  Everyone is being taken care of but me. I feel left out, and it makes me feel that I want my country back.”

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In 2015 US Life Expectancy declined for the first time since 1993. I say we blame ObamaCare. And why not? We’re this to happen under a Republican administration (and keep in mind the last time was also under a Democrat), they and their policies would be the leading cause.

We also have the “benefit” of having been under the heel of a signature Democrat health-care program whose arguments in favor included America’s ‘dismal’ life expectancy compared to the more civilized western nations. A scheme that has failed miserably on nearly every front to which we may now add this.

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