Nice to see how easy it is for the Republicans mentioned above to backslap themselves in advancing the Democrat agenda item in moving socialized medicine forward. Limited Government? Less intrusive Govt? Free Markets? Ah….nope.Just once again proving to the base that the NH GOP is really the Bipartisan Fusion Party (aka, the Jr. Lackeys of the Welfare State).

Soon we can add to that NH State Rep title and call you the “NH Income Tax Daddy”.  But that’s all right, there are plenty of Republican Leaders acting as your handmaidens in this birthing.  Let me just mention the Republican starring roles in this celebration of more taxes (as NH taxpayers are also Federal taxpayers – thanks for adding to our already hunched over shoulders from the burden you in the Political Class throw onto us) (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Gov. Hassan signs Medicaid expansion extension bill

NH Senate OK’s Medicaid expansion

CONCORD — About 50,000 low-income adults will be able to continue their health care coverage for two more years after Gov. Maggie Hassan signed House Bill 1696 into law Tuesday. “We did it,” said the bill’s prime sponsor, Rep. Joseph Lachance, R-Manchester, as he threw his arms in the air and the 100 or so people attending the bill-signing ceremony broke out in applause.

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Bernie Sanders, a socialist, is ready to apologize for America’s history of slavery.

Isn’t it about time.

Slavery hangs on the minds of many left-wing candidates and progressives in general. I think it is some type of diversion from their inability to make socialism work.

Recently, the president of Harvard has come out in favor of apologizing for slavery – but not socialism.

Liberals love to label “slavery non-apologists” as racists – a label one can be pasted with for the most minor of infractions. Here is a great article about how whitey should apologize for slavery, by an author who writes for the NY Times.

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Dr. Norman Page, quoting the IPCC, reveals that they have no confidence in their own climate models. And if you can handle some actual science, I suggest you read the whole article.

Section IPCC AR4 WG1 8.6 deals with forcings, feedbacks and climate sensitivity. It recognizes the short comings of the models. The conclusions are in section 8.6.4 which concludes:

“Moreover it is not yet clear which tests are critical for constraining the future projections, consequently a set of model metrics that might be used to narrow the range of plausible climate change feedbacks and climate sensitivity has yet to be developed”

The IPCC admitted in 2007 that the computer models they rely on (and by extension all the “science”and policy based on them), are crap.

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THE HYPOCRISY OF PAYPAL’S ‘MISSION AND CULTURE:’ The online payments company cancels plans to expand in North Carolina while maintaining offices in some of the most anti-gay countries in the world.

It is because the LGBT mafia see Christianity as its greatest enemy here in the United States and as easy marks as many won’t fight back at all.  But in those countries that actively kill their LGBT populations?  Like many on the Left, they won’t stand up to the Muslims because they know they’d get hurt (at best) – they hide under the rubric of “cultural norms”. (H/T: Instapundit).

From the post, this sums it up:

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Your drunk Uncle Sam, he likes to play the solar ponies, but he couldn’t pick a winner if your life depended on it. But why should he care? It’s not his money.

The Economist

On March 29th SunEdison, an American firm that calls itself the world’s largest renewable-energy development company, was described in a public filing as facing a “substantial risk” of bankruptcy.

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I guess Mr. Chase doesn’t believe in local control in education. Which also means that with local control, it means local responsibility for funding the decisions that come from local control if a town decides it wants full time kindergarten.

That was my comment left at Tom Chase’s LtE in the Concord Monitor (after the jump; hey, if yer gonna debate Libs, ya gotta go where they flock) on berating Republicans for not financing full time kindergarten. He seems angry that some Republicans whose districts already have full time kindergarten voted down HB1563 – I have no clue why because OBVIOUSLY their towns decided they should shoulder their own expenses, why should they pick up the tab for someone?

And what is the morality behind increasingly having some pay more and more for the many?  When does it stop – what is the limiting factor?  At least the Republicans SAY that they favor local control – so I’d chalk it up to being in step with what the Rs believe: local means local.

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Ayup – and no surprise, either.  Here, let me give you a hint:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senator John Cornyn, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Lamar Alexander, Senator John Barrasso, Senator Roy Blunt, Senator John Boozman, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Senator Bill Cassidy….

And yes, the list on that amicus brief is in alphabetical order.  Amicus brief, you say, Skip? Ayup.  What is it on?  Oh, let’s just say it was something that our now Junior Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) once campaigned really, really, really hard on.  It was like she lived and breathed it when I saw her on the stump.  Now?  Not so much, I guess:

Forty-three U.S. senators presented a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court today arguing that President Barack Obama is seeking to “implement his policy preferences” in dealing with certain classes of illegal aliens “by the extra-constitutional assertion of a unilateral executive power. With millions of illegal aliens not permitted to remain in this country, work in this country, or receive government benefits pursuant to federal law, the Executive decided to provide such privileges to them anyway through administrative fiat,” says the brief.

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And as I have been writing about, NH Rebellion is right in the middle of it. With the march of Democracy Spring now headed to DC, what’s the status?

…Democracy Spring, which is currently in the midst of a 10-day protest march from Philadelphia to DC, with plans for a major escalation in DC on April 11. On that date, the group says it is plotting “one of the largest civil disobedience actions in a generation.” As of this writing, 3,404 activists specifically pledged online to participate in the main civil disobedience event and risk arrest on on April 11 in D.C.

And is this the “anvil” as now there seems to be a second wave: Democracy Awakening.  Promising more of the same now is a second wave (the “Hammer“):

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