That is the question asked at Townhall on yet again, Senate Majority Mitch McConnell puts morality behind a government shut down in priorities of DC.  Or to put it another way – is this yet another battle that the Republican elite, that much of the base cares deeply about, will runaway from?

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell strongly implied yesterday that he wouldn’t push to defund Planned Parenthood in the September appropriations negotiations. McConnell seemed to express fears that such a fight could backfire on public perception of Republicans, particularly if it led to the threat of a government shutdown:

“We’ve been down this path before,” McConnell said. “This is a tactic that has been tried going back to the ’90s and it always has the same ending — that the focus is on the government shutdown and not on the underlying issue that is being protested.  We are not doing government shutdowns and we are not threatening to default on the national debt.”

Yes, we have been down this road before.  What was the effective result of the very partial government shutdown?  Well, blowhards in punitryland

Read more

This is HIGHLY disturbing – and very much illustrates that Obama’s words of “a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world“. What does it say about being a proud citizen of the United States when HE can’t hold his own to his fellow Dems in Congress and has to bring in our historical enemies to “vouch” for him.  Anyone else see this as absolute insanity as well as proving him to be not just a Post-Constitutionalist but a Post-American as well? Reformatted, emphasis mine:

Nothing says the Iran nuclear deal is great for America like sending Chinese and Russian lobbyists to convince Democrats to vote for it.

Some of Washington’s less reliable partners are worried too: Top diplomats from Russia and China joined a rare meeting of world powers’ envoys on Capitol Hill this week with roughly 30 Senate Democrats to tamp down concerns over the nuclear agreement.

When ELSE have you ever heard of this?  Trust me, the Chinese and Russians do NOT have America’s best interests in mind.

Read more

Training Seminar

For all persons interested in becoming a part of the
603 Alliance Team

Tuesday, August 11
5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
at the
New Hampshire Institute for Politics
100 St. Anselm Drive
Manchester NH

Pizza and beverages provided

Read more

This came in over the transom a bit ago and I forgot to post it up:

Commitments Kept New Hampshire Launches Grassroots Organization
Bringing Cutting-Edge Tactics and Technology to New Hampshire’s US Senate Race

Really – a “Grassroots” type of organization?  When I see or hear that, I think just ordinary Joes and Janes that just decide, a la De Tocqueville, that something has to be done and grabs a bunch of other voluntary folks like them in an ad hoc fashion to make it happen.

Umm, when you read WHO is behind this, are we seeing yet another bending of the common language so as to tip its definition upside down.

Read more

There is no War on Women – at least here in the US (look to the Muslim countries to see how .  But politicians on the Left side of the aisle, especially as one grows more and more Socialist, they are much more apt to distort the language – it is what they do to hide their true intent.  After all, who ever thought that she’d she’d try to “nationalize” the hospitals in the State (re: MaggiCare) by “other words”?

But here is what she said in a campaign email fundraiser, trying to raise money off her loss in the NH Executive Council on the defunding Planned Parenthood. A snippet (emphasis mine):

Read more

On the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb…it’s as a good a time as any to revisit, “Thank God for the Atom Bomb.”

Here’s a link to a PDF if you prefer (or here), but it is reformatted in it entirety on the Grok for your serious and measured consideration. 

Bio c/o WSJ.

Thank God for the Atom Bomb – 1981 essay by the late Paul Fussell, the cultural critic and war memoirist. In 1945 Fussell was a 21-year-old second lieutenant in the U.S. Army who had fought his way through Europe only to learn that he would soon be shipped to the Pacific to take part in Operation Downfall, the invasion of the Japanese home islands scheduled to begin in November 1945.

Then the atom bomb intervened. Japan would not surrender after Hiroshima, but it did after Nagasaki.

Read more

Well, my post about Houston Mayor Annise Parker and the razing of two churches caught someone’s eyeballs (which was here: Is lesbian Houston Mayor Annise Parker going after Christianity – again?).  Who’da thunk it – that a small state blog here in NH would attract the attention of a left-of-center political heavy weight from Houston (a city whose size is > NH)?   But it did:

The text is below:

Read more

Remember Pennsylvania’s Democrat Attorney General, Kathleen Kane? She abandoned a slam-dunk bribery sting that netted local Democrats, because they were Democrats silly. (also here)

Well!?

HotAir!

First she blamed racism because the five videotaped Democrats were black. Then she blamed a “Good Ol’ Boys club” out to get her because she is a woman. Then she threatened to sue the Philly newspaper that published the story.

What happened next is what brings us to today.

Read more