“Do I have the best credentials? Probably not. ’Cause, you know, whatever. But I do have strong ties to this state.” —Scott Brown

I have listened to Howie’s Carr’s show in excess of 20 years and I’ve even called in a couple times. Howie is an icon and has an excellent show. He has a great take on Bay State Politics. Granite State Politics? Not so much.

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Obama’s just saying what Democrats think…just days before an election–which means the last thing they want voters to know is what they actually think.  So Obama’s SRD – Scripted Rhetorical Device, just exploded under his parties already broken down 2014 campaign bus demanding every one of them answer the question: what do Democrats have against stay at home moms, and why don’t you want them to make that choice.

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And sometimes someone, usually mom, leaves the workplace to stay at home with the kids, which then leaves her earning a lower wage for the rest of her life as a result. That’s not a choice we want Americans to make.

So to Obama and Democrats a woman’s only value is measured by what she earns by exchanging her “labor” for cash?

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And yes, there are those in the welfare class that DO believe your money (MY money!) should be given to them to the point of being a Right – the de facto fulfillment of FDR’s intent with his Second Bill of Rights.  I know that, as I have said before, I had bunches of them standing around in my daycare lobby kvetching about it.  It was always about how to getting onto more government programs – and living better.

Meanwhile, as money is taking from the working class, we are told “it is the price we pay for living in a society” – and living worse.

I’ve had to use the safety net a couple of times during my career, especially during the time of IT technology disruptions when newer replaced older technologies.  I NEVER felt “it is due me”; I never felt “hey, I supported all those other people – now they MUST support me”.  Rather, it was “how the heck do I get a REAL check instead of this govt check”?

I felt that I wasn’t pulling my own weight.

But Liberals? 

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“…but blankets them with so much regulation that they are no longer really independent operators..”

I’ve been saying this for a while: Dodd-Frank is the financial service industry version of Obamacare.  Well before  Scott Brown made a big deal about his vote against Obamacare (a good thing) in starting his run for US Senate from here in NH  but has tried to poo-poo his vote for Dodd-Frank. Certainly an unexplainable vote for him (“our system was in meltdown” said in a half-hearted way to me is NO explanation at all).  In effect, Dodd-Frank will as severely handcuff and nationalize control of our financial system by political hacks just like those same hacks have done to our healthcare system.  Thus, when I read this, my reaction was “well, boys, welcome to Club Obvious, late as you are” (reformatted, emphasis mine):

How ‘Dodd-Frank’ is becoming the new ‘Obamacare’

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If you don’t know what the Dodd-Frank Act is, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)told an audience last weekend, “it’s Obamacare for banks.” Ryan, outgoing chairman of the House Budget Committee, was echoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who’s been using that expression since at least April (and he used it again Wednesday night). Expect to hear the expression more, particularly once a new, probably-Republican-led Senate takes over on Capitol Hill in January.

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That is the ENTIRE linchpin – to unhook the morality of their lifestyle from the Bible based morality that presents (to them) a huge barrier.  Houston Mayor Anise Parker does not want that juxtaposition to happen after the utter stupidity of believing that she could steamroll Houston’s Christian clergy over their resistance to her “Bathroom Bill” ordinance – allowing any gender into any bathroom based on “feelings” of the moment as to who they think they are.  Subpeonas were issued for five of the Pastors sermons, texts, postings; anything that mentioned LGBT, her, homosexuality, or the ordinance.  It was an act of intimidation.  Well, after the national brouhaha she caused by obviously putting that LGBT “rights” and her political authority over First Amendment Freedom of Expression, she backed down and recalled those subpoenas.  Curious, though, was her raison d’etre:

“That was the most persuasive argument, because to me it was, ‘What is the goal of the subpoenas?’ The goal of the subpoenas is to defend against a lawsuit, and not to provoke a public debate,” Parker said. “I don’t want to have a national debate about freedom of religion when my whole purpose is to defend a strong and wonderful and appropriate city ordinance against local attack, and by taking this step today we remove that discussion about freedom of religion.”

I think she realizes that for her to “win”, she must crimp the enumerated Right to worship, a Right of conscious (a TRUE Right as opposed to a mere ordinance) of those of faith.  While there are a lot of “mainstream” church denominations that have gone to a social gospel basis

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Yeah, James Pindell certainly made himself the story of the US Senate debate – and it went national – when he decided he knew NH’s geography better than Brown (e.g., Sullivan County).  But really, when the most Leftward leaning cable networks, MSNBC, goes after you with one of the most Leftward leaning “journalists”,  National Public Radio’s Cokie Roberts, there’s a BIG Problem:

Roberts said on MSNBC—after Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarboroughroundly criticized the moderators—that “this is why people hate the press.”

Well, then!  I could go and snark out “look in a mirror much, Roberts?” and go on and on that there’s a whole bunch of examples on which to rest that charge but that wouldn’t cover it much – poll after poll says that the average Joe has little regard at ALL for the media.  But this next bit – OUCH!

“Having that little guy just sort of ask that same little question over and over again like that and he was just trying to be so smart, and I think he [Scott Brown] handled very it well,” Roberts said. “He didn’t go the Christie route and say ‘enough with Sullivan County.’ He said ‘no, with all due respect,’ and he didn’t get flustered by it. That was the point—the point was to fluster him and show him as a carpetbagger. I think that is the biggest strike against him [Brown]. But it ended up being a much bigger strike against the member of my trade.”

Gee, lots of words that could be summarized by one 4 letter word:

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Is it the Party Elite and apparatchik that are the “life of the Party” or is it the actual candidates, their supporters, and the voters that are the most important?

I found this rather interesting from NHPR: New Players Shake Up The Campaign Ground Game In N.H. It goes into Big Data Democratization that is going on as a continuation of the Disruptive Technology that the Internet has become – no longer is data the monopoly domain of the two big Parties.  Anyone that is clever, technically oriented, and attract like minded political folks can be their own folks.  Decentralization, like a lot of other areas of our lives, has been making inroads into the political process.  And down near the end is this (reformatted, emphasis mine):

…“These groups have an interest in New Hampshire because of our unique role in the presidential primary,” said Karen Hicks, a Democratic strategist who helped pioneer the modern-era of data-driven voter contact when she directed Howard Dean’s New Hampshire primary campaign in 2004.  She says the outside groups can be most effective in motivating slices of the electorate that really matter in mid-term elections, and in crowded presidential primaries.

“Because if Americans for Prosperity or any of these other groups can help even at a marginal level being influential with three, four, five percent of the vote that makes a big difference when nobody’s walking out of here with more than 22 percent or something like that,” she said.

Years ago, my GraniteGrok co-founder said that there would come a time when the smaller outside-the-Parties groups would 

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Laughing at assault victims, calling women whores, mocking the paraplegic and putting his own kids on food stamps while they live in squalor, that’s Progressive.  And it’s all in a few weeks work of the Progressive Hate Machine.

Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Progressive Hate Machine in Review.

We all know them. We’ve seen them, heard them,  and yes, smelled them. They’re the repulsive breed of humans known as Progressives/Liberals/Leftists/Democrats– for the Review, I’ll simply refer to them all as Progressives except where noted.  And they’re very hateful.  Sure they like to project that label on others, but as I will demonstrate, they simply do that to deflect from their real agenda.

Let’s start off the Review with this delightful fellow, Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida.  You may remember one of his more charming quips when he said, “If you get sick, America, the Republicans’ health care plan is this: Die quickly.”  How charitable.  Well, he doesn’t only dispense his animus towards Republicans.  It’s true.  Whether verbally or behaviorally, this guy will try to punish you if you get in his way.  Check out what he’s doing to his own children.

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