Republicans as a party, the establishment variety, in particular, are like awkward children of privilege who get upset when their money isn’t enough to make them popular. They stamp their feet and whine, even threatening. How dare you do this, you’ll rue the day that. It’s all very annoying. But more than a few Republicans fall for it, much like large swaths of people believe the tripe that creeps out of the mouths of liberals.

For the left, the threat of preference is banishment from the collective. If you don’t get in line, you don’t belong. You’ll be outcast, marked, scorned, and probably ‘burned’ at the media stake.  It’s all very medieval.

Republican insiders play the same games, but their favorite cudgel is named unity.

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There’s a big shindig coming up at the Tuscan Kitchen in Salem this Monday.

Being RINO country, it’s no surprise that “Papa Smurf” Sununu is holding a Scott Brown event in Salem, with NH Senator Chuck “Live Free with Medicaid”  Morse.

It’s looking like the kick-off for the “Charge of the RINO Brigade” (or “RINOs Gone Wild @#!“) in a place where Brown, with his own kind, feels very, very safe…unlike debates, where actual, real, non-pretend New Hampshire Conservatives are likely to gather (see the “Scott Free” MBA Debate in Merrimack on June 18th here).

Fun Fact: In January, 2012, Senator Scot Brown (R-MA) was the ONLY Republican to join Democrats in voting for President Obama’s Debt Limit hike.

The email for this event says…

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According to Senate District 8 Republican candidate Jerry Little’s FEC filings, the majority of his support appears to be from his fellow bankers outside of the Senate district.  While it’s not really surprising since Little was a banking industry lobbyist for years, it shows how little support Little has from the grassroots inside of the district.  You know, those regular every day people who want someone to represent them.  Since Odell ceased representing them with his vote for Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion (just to name one horrible vote), it’s interesting that Odell is backing yet another candidate who never represented the people and actually lobbied against the people and for the banks.

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“Carpetbagging—presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality; A politician who seeks public office in a locality where he has no real connections.” —Dictionary

Carpet Baggers. This is a term now frequently connected to discourse about Walter Havenstein and Former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown. Havenstein, touted as a successful businessman, was scrutinized over his residency issues, while Brown was far more obvious as the former bay State Senator who took the late Ted Kennedy’s seat in a special election, then lost to Elizabeth Warren.

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Much has been made on the Conservative side of things of this latest NBC poll on Obama and his horrible public image.  Even the Left has said “Ciao, baby” (Chuck Todd said that his Presidency is over).  After all, when the public no longer has confidence in a second term President, isn’t that the start of the “lame duck” stage?

The percentage of Americans approving of President Barack Obama’s handling of foreign policy issues has dropped to the lowest level of his presidency as he faces multiple overseas challenges, including in Iraq, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.  Additionally, the public is evenly split on whether Obama is a competent manager of the federal bureaucracy. And a majority of respondents – 54 percent – believe the term-limited president is no longer able to lead the country.

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We keep hearing that the inflation rate is low – between 1 & 2% since, well, for years.  Fine and dandy.  But you know, every time I go to the gas pump or to the local grocery store we habituate, well, we know that the “published” rate lies.  Of COURSE it lies – the government took out certain consumer purchases a long time ago.

You see, being the grey-haired guy I am, I remember the Jimmy Carter Presidency.  I became an adult, out on my own, and quickly learned all about the misery index (in which was buried the inflation rate).  So government, in order to make it self look better, took out “the volitiles” of the rate under the guise of “this is really what is important – and moved food and energy out of that equation.  You know, the stuff that almost every day tells we little people how poorly the economy is actually being “run” by our betters in Government (who do so with laws and regulations).

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On Wednesday, Governor Hassan touted a new program in New Hampshire that will collect personal information on certain prescription drug users and store it in a state-controlled database.  The “Prescription Drug Monitoring Program” will be put into place in an attempt to control the behavior of the small percentage of Granite Staters who are drug addicts.  Meanwhile, the personal and private healthcare data of law-abiding citizens will also be captured in this database. If you take certain drugs, Hassan thinks you may be a junky.

In yet another huge government overreach, which may actually violate HIPPAA laws, the Governor is pushing her failed left wing belief that she can somehow control the behavior of people.  Make no mistake; she isn’t the only one who pushed this.  It was apparently led by Republican Jeb Bradley a few years ago, passed in the Senate in 2012 and is now being put into action:

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Sadly, we see in this Obama Administration (but starting before it, I’m sore afraid) another instance of public servants now believing that they are above “their” law and have become Rulers when their illicit behavior affects those of us who are just law abiding – a double standard. From Betsy’s Page:

This gives the scandal new and legitimate legs, for a couple of reasons. First, despite having demanded these records from the IRS for over a year, the agency waited until now (and in a Friday afternoon document dump, no less) to inform Congress of the supposed loss of emails. That makes it look very suspicious, and put together with Lerner’s refusal to testify, even more so.

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