One of the richest companies on the planet (Google) along with well heeled left-wing opportunists posing as an energy concern, wanted to build a bad idea but couldn’t get anyone else to help pay for it.  So they ask Democrats in the department of energy for money–post Solyndra etc., Democrats in California–always willing to make rate payers pay through the nose for their “religion,” and the next thing you know they’ve got a risky, under-performing solar plant shrine that is a threat to man, and nature.

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For as long as I’ve been part of the TEA Party movement (“Fiscal Frugality, Govt staying within Constitutional bounds, Free Markets” are the 3 TEA Party principles.  Period), it has undergone demonization by the Democrats at full roar.  THIS election cycle, we saw the Establishment Republicans (Mitch McConnell: “We will crush them!”) join them.  Thus, one WOULD have expected smiles all around between the Dems “Big Government” and the Establishment “Slightly lesser Big Govt” Rs – “Mission Accomplished”!

Uh-huh!  Sorry to explode that bubble, dudes and dudettes: More TEA Party folks in Congress, not less

11 to Watch: Meet the New Crop of Tea Party Conservatives in Congress

The incoming wave of Republicans who will shake up Washington’s political landscape includes some tea party candidates who promise to promote an agenda based on conservative principles such as limited government, traditional American values and a strong national defense. For those who’d like to get to know these fresh faces, The Daily Signal created a roundup of the newest tea party favorites in the House and Senate.

Read them and weep – the TEA Party is not dead as you can’t kill ideas.  As Glen Reynolds keeps saying: “ If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine”.  In the Senate, they listed:

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Judicial watch was in NH on Election Day and they pretty much saw what the State does to ensure Democrats win elections in an otherwise Red State .

The “loophole” of letting anyone, well not just anyone, but thousands, cast an irretrievable vote without any form of ID doesn’t really pass the smell test – unless you need fraud to win.

Here is the loophole:

The SoS [NH Secretary of State  -Skip] and NH AG don’t investigate or prosecute voter fraud and any document that might help a citizen prove voter fraud is either non-public (secret) or altered, or claimed to be a mistake by the powers that be.

And NH has activist judges who invent new categories of voters like this:

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The last couple of election cycles we’ve heard nothing but blathering about how much money there is in campaigning – billions! It is a lot of money but in our media driven culture, it is costly.  But I also remember that in our country’s infancy, the price paid by those anonymous pamphleteers were paying a high price to get their message out as well – yet they paid it.  Those papers were a force multiplier – it allowed them to get their viewpoint out faster and more efficiently compared to hauling around a soapbox from corner to corner.  It was the essence of free speech – but there was a cost.  Just like today.

Jim Rubens, who ran for US Senate from NH this past election cycle, stopped by Steve’s post “Democrat Priorities are Not America’s Priorities”  that spoke about campaign finance left a comment (here, in part):

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And that seemingly has been the under-reported story of this election with all of the emphasis on the US Senate flipping to the GOP (and to a lesser degree, an additional 12 seats in the US House).  However, starting with the 2010 TEA Party election (face it, it was the TEA Party that dragged the GOP over the line in stopping the Progressive domination of both chambers in Congress and Obama), the Republicans started marching through the States – voters preferred their policies over the Progressive Democrats.  While here in NH there was a loss of the NH House (big time) and the NH Exec. Council, that was reversed this week.

But the magnitude of how much of the country the Democrats have lost is well shown by this graphic:

Two thirds of all of the chambers (upper and lower regardless of what they are called in each state) are now Republican controlled.  And voters put them there (regardless of what the Dems say otherwise) – the will of the People.  This means that the legislation coming from them should be more inline with traditional American values than not – but certainly not the socialistic Progressive ones (that of foreign origin and CERTAINLY not concerning American values).  And even with those crying out that the TEA Party movement has died, well, it still is working to bring the GOP NOT further to the right but back down to its roots.  This is not the mark of a “regional party” as Democrats & pundits alike have scornfully blathered.

“Combined with unexpected victories in gubernatorial races in Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts, the Republicans are poised to control a higher percentage of state governments than at any point in the past 25 years.

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