An alternative title: REPUBLICAN Belanger adopts the Progressive view of that everyone must be punished for the sin of one (or a few).  It IS the Progressive modus operandi- we must INSTRUCT the people to behave correctly to achieve our Progressive “Heaven on Earth” (which is, pretty much, the Socialist one). After all, it wasn’t enough to have passed a law last session that requires hands free operation, forcing people to either buy a Bluetooth headset – or a new car with hands free capability.

And now having bought such with your hard earned money, NH State Rep. Belanger is going to waste your money by not allowing you to use those shiny new things.  His bill, HB103 is:

HOUSE BILL 103

AN ACT limiting the capabilities of wireless communication devices in motor vehicles.

SPONSORS: Rep. J. Belanger, Hills 27

COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy

ANALYSIS

This bill requires the email and texting capabilities of a wireless communication device to be disabled if the device is moving more than 5 miles per hour. The restriction shall not take effect unless 2 New England states adopt similar legislation

For the almost non-existent driving sin of texting / emailing while driving, everyone else in the car must be punished as well (yeah, there is no “not driver” exception in this).  Let’s 

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…that the estimate that one-quarter to one-third are hanging on by a thread is a conservative one…

Once again, I bring up my little vignette:

Me: there are Republicans out there they are no longer voting nor donating to the Party.  They’ve quit.

She: Well, why ARE they doing that??  Don’t they realize that this will allow Democrats to be elected?

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She: They HAVE to care – Democrats will win if they just stay home.  Don’t they realize that?

Me: You’re not listening to me, and haven’t been for a while.  You have made them not care.  Why SHOULD they care when Republicans do things at cross-purposes to what they say they stand for?  Why should they support candidates that, in the end, don’t support their beliefs?  When they don’t see their beliefs being advanced?…

I have watched Democrat pollster Pat Caddell more then a few times over the last few years.  Yes, a Democrat but an HONEST one, so if he’s seeing this in his polling, it is confirmation of what I’ve been hearing from too many Republican promises made and then reneged on (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Fox News contributor and Democratic pollster Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that up to one-third of Republicans are ready to call it quits as members of the GOP.

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Remember that awful, horrible, just awful YouTube Video?  The one that for two weeks was the focus of the Obama Administrations explanation for the ‘spontaneous’ attack on the US Embassy in Benghazi?  The one they lied about for weeks?  Yeah, that one.

WMUR News 9 has just posted a story from CNN on the Terrorist attack on Paris Weekly Charlie Hebdo and the papers history of controversy that includes this paragraph:

In September 2012, as France was closing embassies in about 20 countries amid the global furor over the anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims,” the magazine published an issue featuring a cartoon that appeared to depict a naked Mohammed, along with a cover that appeared to depict Mohammed being pushed in a wheelchair by an Orthodox Jew.

Twenty-eight months later and CNN is laying fresh blame on the video?

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Republican Rep Al Baldasaro has a bad hip, and speaks at the well often, so he always requests an aisle seat on the House Floor so he can get to the podium to speak with less discomfort to himself or to others;  Democrat elected House Speaker Shawn Jasper assigned him a seat in the middle of a row.

A representative out of Northwood (not a huge fan of Jasper would be my guess) who has been on Criminal Justice for four years requested that committee assignment again.  When the rep asked Democrat elected Speaker Jasper why he was not back on that committee, Jasper’s only response was, “You know why.”

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Recounted to me this weekend by the Eldest’s girlfriend (“the EG”) who has two children.  She’s been working on getting a degree in special education and a couple of other things on the side – she really does want to better herself.  Being a vet, she is unhappy that she has to be needy on the Feds – she wants to be independent and self-reliant.  She’s grateful for the assistance but REALLY want to provide for herself and her two little ones.

So she’s been working hard, being diligent, and yes, it’s hard juggling the kiddos, studying, and doing all the normal things in life including managing (juggling) grants and loans for school.  She had to go in and see her social worker, who answered that question in the image “Do Federal Social Programs Work?”

I think this response by her social worker says it all:

“Forget school – drop out and then you don’t have to struggle so hard.  Just stay on TANF – you’ll get more money, actually“

The EG was RIPPED. 

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Frank Guinta has a BIG decision to make this week – his vote for US House Speaker.  Yes, once again, politics turns to Speaker elections – Concord, Washington, same deal (sorta?  mostly?) .  Whose agenda will the next Speaker put forward – the majority Republican (which grew more conservative this election) or the Democrat one (re: all those waifish pleas for “compromise” now that the Dems (here in Concord and in DC) really find themselves in the legislative minorities).  Grokster Mike covered the US House Speaker election here:

Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) spoke to Tucker Carlson on Fox & Friends about the need for someone to step up and run against Speaker Boehner in this new Congress. He echoed what many House Members are saying that there needs to be new leadership, not just the status quo and he is happy to accept the challenge.

Over at Powerline, John Hinderaker has more on Gohmert (who I happen to have a favorable response to as well):

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Yup, the Left always complains about the amounts of money spent in political campaigns and that we HAVE to move to public financing of such, well, because MONEY! This is something that I abhor – why should MY tax monies be given to move forward an agenda that is antithetical to me (or visa versa, as the case may be)?  There is NO free speech in that, nor choice either.  Instead, like all things handed to the Govt, it will become all-about-the-politics because MONEY!  And influence, and power.  After the IRS targeting Conservative / TEA Party group scandal (that sought to limit free speech only on one side of the divide), WHY would I Trust my government to act differently now that it has become politically weaponized?

But for the record, here’s the money takes:

As you can see, the top two donors ponied up over $100 million and are on the Left.  My response? 

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