Just like the hue and cry, the sturm und drang that Republicans in both chambers that promised, over and over, that Obamacare would be repealed just as soon as they controlled the US House and Senate.  You surely must remember that back in 2010 and 2012, right?  Number one rally cry, number one campaign promise, number one fund raiser line (methinks in hindsight, only the last one was pertinent).  Now, what does “Maybe soon to be Senate Majority Leader” McConnell say about that repeal?

On Obamacare, McConnell stated “obviously, he’s [Obama’s] not going to sign a full repeal, but there are pieces of it that are extremely unpopular with the American public that the senate ought to have a chance to vote on, repealing the medical device tax, trying to restore the 40-hour workweek, voting on whether or not we should continue the individual mandate, which people hate, detest and despise.”

So, what’s this new shiny object?  From Brietbart TV:

MCCONNELL: WE’LL USE PURSE POWER TO ‘RESTRAIN’ EXECUTIVE AMNESTY

Does ANYONE that has had even a trifle more than an inkling of what has gone on the last few years really believe that?

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Jeanne Shaheen is taking heat for her Scott Brown border crossing quip in their last debate.  But not (IMHO) for the right reasons.

Shaheen quipped “we sort of let this guy [her Republican opponent Scott Brown] sneak over the southern border. You’ve probably noticed that we’ve been debating border security a little bit in this campaign.  Clearly we didn’t do enough to secure the southern border of New Hampshire,” on Monday.

1) Shaheen crossed the same border, from just as far south (farther technically) , she just did it before Brown.  (I wonder if she is prepared to claim native status or that she is 1/32nd Josiah Bartlett or something…)

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Let’s revisit this from my last post, shall we?

“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”            – President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09

Remember what Obama said when you go to the polls on Tuesday: “I am not on the ballot this fall.  Michelle’s pretty happy about that.  But make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot.  Every single one of them.”

Elections have consequences and so do the people who are voted into office.  Tuesday, we get to decide all over again.  Steve Hayes at the Weekly Standard (I love listening to him on the roundtables on FNC’s Special Report – smart, insightful guy) makes it clear this election is all about an Obama activist Govt and how it has not worked.  I’ve reformatted and bullet listed his points for emphasis:

• Not only is this election not about nothing, it is being fought over exactly the kinds of things that ought to determine our elections.
• It’s about the size and scope of government.
• It’s about the rule of law.
• It’s about the security of the citizenry.
• It’s about competence.
• It’s about integrity.
• It’s about honor.
• It’s about a government that makes promises to those who have defended the country and then fails those veterans, again and again and again.

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For Immediate Release:
Media Contact: Bill Turenne | bturenne@cv4a.org | 703.638.3927

CVA Ad Corrects the Record:

Sen. Shaheen was AWOL on VA Reform
Six-Figure Statewide Buy Exposes Senator’s False Claims of Key Support

Arlington, Va. – Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) today launched a new ad, “AWOL,” to hold Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and her allies accountable for falsely claiming she played a key role in crafting and passing legislation to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Contrary to her campaign’s misleading claims, Sen. Shaheen was not a leader in the push for VA reform legislation and in fact had to be shamed in to co-sponsoring the VA Management Accountability Act, which was eventually a key component of the recent VA reform bill.

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“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”            – President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09

$10K for cutting grass?  Or is this a case of having too much money to put into the Govt feeding trough? Sure – with all of the land that the Feds own (especially out West – why doesn’t it sell it to the States and to individuals so as to pay down, in part, our humungous debt?) I can see that – taking care of what you own.  But this?  Seriously?  Emphasis mine, reformatted:

Watching Grass Grow – $10,000

The Department of Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is spending $10,000 on the project being conducted in the Guana-Tolomato-Matanzas preserve by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP).  The money will “cover the cost to monitor grasses, restore two acres as a demonstration and publish a guide on best practices for cultivating the cordgrass, known formally as Spartina alternifora”.

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You might not have thought it possible but Ann Kuster (one of the strongest supporters of Obama in Congress) was even MORE combative, and rude in the final debate than she was in the previous one.   This is an interesting tack from someone who has otherwise been invisible to New Hampshire’s equivalent of Joe and Jane 6-pack voter–and almost everyone else who is not a registered Democrat.

Perhaps Kuster is banking on very few people actually watching a debate?

Or perhaps she believes people will respond better if they understand that she thinks she just knows better than they do?

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 ICECAP

Trouble Ahead…Administration has Its Head in the Sand

By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM
Hudson Litchfield News

In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle that his cap-and-trade proposal to control greenhouse gas emissions would mean higher energy prices for Americans.

“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,” Obama said.

As president, Obama never got his cap-and-trade proposal through Congress. Instead, Obama has been using the Environmental Protection Agency to achieve his energy policy goals. And this winter, New Englanders will bear the brunt of Obama’s skyrocketing electricity rates.

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