#nhpolitics #Amnesty #ObamaAmnesty #EO #Grok Obama has just declared our Southern border now extends to the tip of South America.

— GraniteGrok (@GraniteGrok) November 21, 2014

Yeah, ain’t this the height of irony.  Obama calls out “Free Entry” (and free access to our welfare system) to those coming in through our Southern border and Mexico (who supplies the majority of its citizens as our illegal aliens) had decided to use a Free Market alternative to slow down immigrants through its borders – ABC 10 news (reformatted, emphasis mine):

SAN DIEGO – If you are a United States citizen and cross the border frequently you may have to pay a fee to go into Mexico.  The National Immigration Institute in Mexico (INAMI) has started a pilot program in which foreigners that enter Mexican territory for more than seven days or they will be involved in paid work, they will have to pay 306 pesos, or about 28 US dollars.

“We are doing what should be done,” said Rudolfo Figueroa, representative of INAMI in Baja California. “Foreigners who enter Mexico have the obligation to register; if they will be in national territory for more than seven days, they have to pay the right of non-residents.”

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And you wonder why Congress might be dysfunctional?  “Do the Right Thing” – that was ingrained in me when I was a Sr Consultant at DEC working with our customers, their customers, and all the internal departments within DEC.  Is that the problem with our Federal Government – that their definition of “Do the Right Thing” is dysfunctional?  This from Betsy’s Page caught my eye that started on a run by Senator Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) absence at committee (emphasis mine):

Defenders will say that legislators typically miss committee hearings. Perhaps that is evidence that Congress is doing too much missable stuff. I do an activity with my students when we cover the Congress unit and give them an excerpt that David Price, a Democratic representative from our area of North Carolina wrote. He includes a schedule from a typical day in his life as a congressman. The students soon notice that he has overlapping meetings all day long. He meets with constituents and interest groups, pops in at several committee meetings and then goes to several fundraisers in the evening. He’s busy from early in the morning until late in the evening. Then I ask the class what he does not have on his schedule. Someone will finally notice that there is no time on his daily schedule for him to read bills, do research, or have a briefing on a policy. If this is what they’re doing all day long, how do they have time to understand the policies they’re voting on? They have to just vote the way their party leadership or interest groups or aides advise them to.

And then she asks the most important question:

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I’m a municipal guy when it comes to political activism. Give me towns and schools any day over the two-faced, back-stabbing goings on wrong in any legislature.

I like it up front and in your face. Everybody knows who everybody else is. That is what Town Meeting is all about.

That is not to say we don’t have our local Jonathan Gruber, the ObamaCare MIT genius.

You know the type, absolutely absorbed in some adopted issue of the day.

A “Local Gruber” is the type of guy who knows everything about everything, except what it feels like to get a punch in the mouth from a respectable person who has had enough.

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Ray Buckley, New Hampshire’s own outlet for the lies of Jonathan Gruber, has a problem.  He and his party have supported Obama’s endless stream of flip-flops and lies.

They have run cover for the most scandal-ridden presidency in the modern era, perhaps ever.  They smeared opponents as Democrats doubled the national debt.  And they fought hard for Obama-Care, despite all the failed promises, a scheme the TEA Party saw though long before elitist Healthcare architect Jonathan Gruber’s own words proved those TEA party folks right.

It was all a lie.  A scam.  A scheme.  A fraud.  We were deliberately deceived and Democrats like Ray Buckley made sure the lie stuck.  He worked hard to make it seem true.  Supported the hate against those speaking the truth, the entire Democrat party did.

Well guess what.  It was all lies, and Ray Gruber-Buckley is lying for Democrats again.

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Barring any Doug Scamman type hijinks in two weeks (Organization Day for the NH House when the full House votes on the Speakership), Bill O’Brien will be this session’s Speaker (having won the majority Republican nomination race).  As with the rest of the Groksters, I congratulate Bill!

NOW it is Happy Feet dance time and for one short night, I can gloat that this election has turned out well enough – not just here in NH but for more Conservatism across the nation.  Here in NH, the Progressives (the “All Hail Power To The State” kneelers) have had the Senate, Executive Council,  and the House torn from them; under the rubric of “screw DC, save NH” this has worked out ok so far (and leaving the only major office held by the Dems, Guv, neutered to a large degree).  To be sure, not as Conservative as we are here at the ‘Grok, but it works and in addition on a country-wide basis, you have a lot of Ray Buckley whine-alikes wailing about those nasty extremists….

…who the voters decided, this time, that their new BFFs were those “extremists”.  Thus, actually making the Dems the ugly extremists (having taken almost complete power away right now).  Operative phrase: right now.  NH is getting a history of

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The Senate just voted on the Keystone XL pipeline (aka, “Mary’s Hail Mary to save Mary Landrieu’s Senate Seat” – from the dude who WROTE the Hail Mary that is about to take her seat and contrary to her vote total (“I’ve got the 60 votes!”), it went down to defeat 59-41.  Her leadership (that would be Dingy Harry Reid and Dick Durbin) also voted against her – after allowing this to come up for a vote.  Nice, just nice.

But I am confused – I thought that to be a REAL woman, especially on the Democrat side, woman have to stick together, support each other?  That already makes Carol Shea-Porter a turncoat to wymens’ issues everywhere like Steve pointed out – does that mean she voted like a man?  But that’s not the only thing Steve brought up:

All of the Above, across the aisle, “New Hampshire First” Senator Jeanne Shaheen will have an opportunity to vote on this bill Tuesday.

Can guess what her DNC Narrative Homunculus will tell her to do?

For ALL of her talk of reaching across the aisle,

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Right out of the liberal playbook there appears the tired old news collaboration we have seen in this small state so often.

State Representative Bill O’Brien, a Republican thorn in the side of tax and spenders from both parties for a decade or more, has been elected Speaker of the House once again.

And within minutes the pre-written “news” about this event is as to be expected.

Here we go:

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As Mr. Obama, Democrat leadership, and the state and national party apparatus and apparatchiks, scramble to distance themselves from any ties to the revelations by Jonathan Gruber about how Obama Care was forced down America’s throat (Americans are stupid, we need to lie to them, etc), stop and consider.

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