I get to listen to about 15 minutes of Girard at Large on my way to work and this morning in the seven-o’clock hour the subject of Governor Maggie Hassan’s illegal edict came up.  I guess she is above the law.

The Duchess of Exeter has declared correspondence between herself and her Ministers (at her discretion) off-limits to public scrutiny.  It’s need to know and we don’t need to know.

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Well, this showed up in the UL yesterday – it looks like the Repubs in the NH House will put a dagger into Jeb’s favorite program made possible with other peoples’ money (correction: dastardly politicians call it “Free money” in hopes you ARE as stupid they think you are – TANSTAFFL and they know it).  Full post after the jump (reformatted, emphasis mine here):

Medicaid expansion could end in 2016

CONCORD — A House committee voted along party lines Sunday to allow the state’s Medicaid expansion to expire on Dec. 31, 2016. a move a spokesman for Gov. Maggie Hassan called “misguided.”  Hassan had called for the expansion to be extended as part of her proposed fiscal year 2016-2017 budget.  During a Sunday budget review session, members of the House Finance Committee, Division III, voted 6-3 to remove an item from the budget that would have extended Medicaid expansion in the state into 2017 and beyond. Six Republicans voted to end the program, while three Democrats voted to extend it.

“Expanded Medicaid is a huge disincentive for people to work,” said Rep. Dan McGuire, R-Epsom, who voted to let the expansion sunset at the end of 2016. “There wasn’t a lot of debate on it. Traditional Medicaid is designed to benefit people who are deserving of charity due to conditions beyond their control. Expanded Medicaid benefits people who are undeserving of charity. These are people who don’t have any reason for not working.”

I agree with both the observation and the vote – and, IMHO, NH State Senator Jeb Bradley

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Weasel Zippers, quoting the NY Post has pointed a finger at the source of Hillary’s recent troubles, which I almost sort of predicted back on March 6th.

Exit question: The lefty media is (uncharacteristically) all over this so who organized the coup and herded the media cats, and which Democratic presidential hopeful gains the most by it?

The answer to the first part is the actual President of the United States, Valerie Jarrett (and given that Bill Clinton was the first black [cheating, lying] President, might this make Jarrett the first woman President?)

Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett leaked to the press details of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail address during her time as secretary of state, sources tell me.

Left wing ‘Unity’ on the bridge of the progressive Mother Ship…

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A NH Legislator has come up with a brilliant idea to raise money for the government.

How about this for a new law?

Tax every hotel room in a municipality that adopts this proposed legislation, only occupied ones that is. That new tax to be recorded and sent to the municipality.

The “hotel room” in this new legislation would be defined as in RSA 78-A:3, III.

Under this statute hotels are described in this fashion:

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Today the New Hampshire GOP held a grassroots training event featuring Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a potential 2016 Presidential candidate. In case you don’t yet know Walker, he’s the Governor from Wisconsin who fought against egregious union behavior that was ripping off the taxpayers. Unions literally threatened businesses; some Democrat Legislators fled the state and they tried to siege the capitol building.

Of course, if you know the story, you know Walker not only handily beat a recall election but he won re-election as well. Unions gave the country a good glimpse of their outrageous bullying behavior during that time. Oh and the cherry on top? Walker signed a right-to-work bill in Wisconsin last week.

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From the UL reporting on the NH State Democrats trying to mandate state level minimum wage levels:

Sen. Donna Soucy, D-Manchester, argued the bill would increase purchasing power for lower-paid workers in New Hampshire and allow some people to forgo public assistance. Citing Walmart’s decision to increase its hourly wage for employees, she said it is good for businesses, not just workers.  “It’s the right thing to do,” she said.

Scratching head – isn’t it the Democrats that are always touting how many people are on the public dole being helped by the State.  At every turn, their hearts’ desire is to expand the service both in what it does for “the oppressed by society” and how many more people are declared to be “oppressed by society”.  Yet, here she is, actually using the rubric that people would be able to get off said dole?

Or is she wanting to get the State out from underneath the cost?  That would certainly be the “right thing to do” – especially if you want to put more govt muscle onto businesses with the end goal that businesses would merely be agents of the State. Constrain them enough and that’s what we’ll get.

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I’ve not much cottoned to the idea of “First Irish” or “First Swede” or “First Woman” or “First Black” or “First <stick the tired descriptor here>” no matter what area of life it is.  Your ethnicity, your sex, your religion, your skin color….meaningless.  It’s what’s inside and the results that count.  Prof Sowell has the right of it – voting for someone just because it would be Politically Correct is stupid.

The fact that Obama is half-black is not the reason we are against him – it’s his political stances and his overwhelming urge to change America to be in the Progressive mold.  The idea that he should be treated as special simply because of his skin tone, that any criticism of him is racist from the get go is simply the argument of those that really have no argument at all.

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