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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I know I’ve put this kind of thing up before but I just can’t stop thinking that we are seeing yet another slow motion crash / cave in with the Republicans.  Yes, McConnell and Ayotte have said no deal, but this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this two-bit rodeo show and it always ends the same way.  The Hill reports (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Sen. Kelly Ayotte will meet with Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland next week.  

The New Hampshire Republican plans to meet with Garland on April 13, according to her office, even though she thinks the Supreme Court seat should remain vacant until next year.   “I will meet with the president’s nominee out of courtesy and respect, and I also plan to explain my view that the people should have a voice in this important nomination through their votes in November,” Ayotte said in a statement.  She told reporters in New Hampshire during the Senate’s two-week recess that her office had set up a meeting with Garland, though she wasn’t sure when it would be.

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I try to make the rounds of the NH newspapers; this morning at the Concord Monitor I came across a Letter to the Editor from someone who definitely doesn’t understand his civics (emphasis mine):

Letter: Cheated by Ayotte, GOP

Sen. Ayotte was recently quoted as saying she believes “the American people deserve to have a voice in the direction of the court.” That was code for her position that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is right to not even consider President Obama’s nomination of Judge Garland for a seat on the Supreme Court until a new president is elected.

That’s all fine and dandy, but what about my vote? One of the reasons I voted for Barack Obama in 2012, and not Mitt Romney, is I wanted Obama, not Romney, to nominate the candidates to fill any Supreme Court vacancies that occurred during the following four years. I feel cheated by Sen. Ayotte and her Republican colleagues.

Perhaps the executive branch should stop using tax dollars to fund the current expenses of the U.S. Senate, on the assumption that the Senate elected in November will be more responsive to its constituents.

JOHN V. KJELLMAN

Well of course, I couldn’t let that stand:

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Continued from Part 1

That wafts up the next pungent rhetorical fog flatulated from the dishonest Left to inflate their spurious “The court ruled that corporations are people” blimp so they can float it high as some looming ominous evil casting a shroud of doom over all we hold dear.  This is of course silly.  To pretend otherwise, betrays either dishonesty or ignorance.

Corporate Personhood otherwise contorted into the “Corporations aren’t people!!!” freakout.

Now without really thinking about it, if someone asked, “Are corporations people?” Many brows would furrow accompanying an answer like, “No, absolutely not.” Or “Well, I’m not sure.” Or “Maybe”. If one of the latter two is your answer and the person asking fits the hysteric I described at the beginning, step back before uttering the answer  or duck.

Let’s put this plainly and clearly. What the progressives are high-chair pounding about in their reworded phrase is Corporate Personhood.  Corporate Personhood has been around since the 1800’s and is a part of Corporate Law. And before suspecting sinister machinations by corporations and scheming barons consider that without Corporate Personhood a corporation cannot be sued, cannot be taxed, cannot enter into contracts, cannot own property etc. Because if it is not a person, what legal entity is it? Professor Richard Schragger of University of Virginia School of Law:

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Back in 2007 Britain ruled Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth unfit for viewing by students in British Schools. Long story short, its claims were rubbish (and still are). Political brain washing with partisan political views. The movie could not be shown without preface; a list of clarifications regarding some of its wild and unscientific claims.

Nine years later, the McCarthyites in the American Climate Inquisition could bring you up on criminal racketeering charges for daring to contradict them.

So here they are.

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BUMPED: in doing some research (after all, we pretty much talk about all things political so with close to 25,000 posts, the ‘Grok has become its own research center), I came across this where NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn was boosting Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion.  First published on 11/18/2013, it shows that, 3 years later, how well the Bipartisan Fusion Party / Jr. Lackeys of the Welfare State had “the fix” in even back then.

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Shot: NH Senate President, Republican Chuck Morse – in implementing Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion: this will protect NH Taxpayers

Chaser: NH Rep Dale Sprague (D-Somersworth) – in arguing that NH ought to have a choo-choo train to Boston: The House also ignored the fact that the $4 million project development phase can be completed without impacting New Hampshire taxpayers.

And of course, we all know both of these two are lying and the proof is simple –

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What is it about Citizens United and Corporate Personhood that crumples, bunches, and tucks deep the underwear of so many progressives? Why the foot stomping screaming spasms? It’s difficult to get a solid understanding of what exactly vexes them so because very often merely uttering the inquiry unleashes a torrential response of vacuous slogans wrapped in anger.  “Corporations aren’t people!!!”, “The rich are buying the government!!!”, “Too much money in campaigns!!!”, “It’s ruining our Democracy!!!”. None of that is helpful. So I thought I’d look into Citizens United and try to figure it all out.

Now I understand the state of the person in which I notice this behavior isn’t conducive to reading or edification—it’s more conducive to a dyspepsia fueled aneurysm. But one would think if a person finds something so discomfiting they’d learn more about it before completely flipping out. Sadly, I don’t believe most progressives know much about either Citizens United or Corporate Personhood, at least the ones who sound off about it with snide drive-bys and sneering eye-rolling. I am sure, however, there are progressives who do know the truth about Citizens United and Corporate Personhood, but the distortion is too luscious a propaganda tool to waste. Those are the progressive rousers who prefer firing up a cauldron of civilizational discontent and ladling out dishonesty to the indoctrinated and others who thirst to justify their resentments.

Citizens United

But here’s the deal.

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Yup, another Sunday, another CloseUP and this week, Josh McElven had US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (or better described as the Federal Government’s Ambassador to New Hampshire) and perhaps Candidate-To-Be Rich Ashooh for US Congress in CD-1 (he formally announces tomorrow).  She said a couple of things that caught my ear so I figured, per normal, to add my thoughts.

That said, you can see that I started to manually do the transcription (the lower case) but today I saw that WMUR provided one.  Well, they SAY that do but I found that it SUCKS.  You can tell because I left theirs in UPPER CASE and I filled in with lower case.  Ya’d think a multi-million if they were going to do transcripts, WOULD DO TRANSCRIPTS!

But, you have me.  At times.  McElven asked her about the opiate addiction problem / heroin crises here in NH and the Feds now getting involved:

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In the second third of CloseUP, Rich Ashooh did his pre-announcement announcement for US Congress in CD-1 and challenging Frank Guinta, the incumbent.  We covered Rich back in 2010 when he ran the first time and I guess the interactions I had with him were favorable – I started calling him “Gentleman Rich” as he was always the perfect gentleman.  It will be interesting to see how this goes – and I wonder if his entrance into the race had anything to do with Dan Innis’s rather quick exit from it.

Anyways, he got the same question about the opiate problem here in NH that Jeanne Shaheen did.  But first McElven asked him about the current political climate – and I thought his answer a bit curious:

Sidenote: again, UPPER CASE is WMUR’s transcript with the lower case my fill-ins and corrections

ON BOTH SIDES, Democrat and Republican let’s not forget, THERE, there, — THERE’s THESE RIFTS GOING ON and that sort of thing. I think the goal for the Republicans is to try to FIND THE MESSAGE buried in a lot of the, quite frankly, bombast that we’re seeing on the news shows.

Really, a “messaging” problem? Er, no. Sure, yes, when you listen to Donald

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