Reset indeed. Russia sends tanks into Ukraine.  From The New York Times:

DONETSK, Ukraine — The State Department said Friday that Russia had sent tanks and other heavy weapons to separatists in Ukraine, supporting accusations Thursday by the Ukrainian government.

The failure of this White House is so pungent it’s nauseating.  I cannot recall a more flaccid and impotent leader of any country in history as this bungler.  Sure, there have been well-wishing wimps, Chamberlain comes to mind, but never before has a leader of such a once powerful country been written off as irrelevant as this one.  Terrorists flags fly on buildings American troops built in Iraq, Putin rolls tanks into Ukraine with a yawn, Assad still doing what he has been doing and can barely see Obungler’s red line in his rear view mirror.

This latest thrust comes on the tail of him trading 5 terrorist generals for a potential deserter.  Think that’s unrelated to the geopolitical moves this week?  Dream on.  He came off as a fool—an exceedingly dumb one at that.  The celebratory Rose Garden dance gave many the same gut cringing feeling they get when they watch their upper middle-aged parents doing the disco in front of their friends.  That type of embarrasement.  Good Lord, how much can we take? We still have two years left of this walking buffoon.  What next, children of poor pathetic countries invading our borders without recourse? Oh…wait…nevermind.

Impotence.

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Steve alerted me this morning that Jazz Shaw over at Hot Air had linked us up on the Karen Testerman announcement that she was dropping out of the race for the NH GOP nomination for US Senate here in New Hampshire AND was endorsing former US Senator Bob Smith.  What caught my attention was a graph that Jazz had put up on data before the announcement:

Jazz had this to say:

Testerman was getting roughly 18 percent support – not inconsiderable in a four way race. Obviously she can’t force her supporters to go in any particular direction, but if her endorsement carries any weight with them, a fair number of those primary voters may indeed go over to Bob Smith. For his part, Smith was already nearly within the margins for going head to head against Shaheen – down by roughly six – and any significant bump from former Testerman voters could easily put him in the lead.

Note that Jazz does the comparison against Jeanne Shaheen.  What is more important, I believe, is that Bob Smith is ALREADY within the margin of error with Scott Brown: 3.2%.  I hardly think this bolsters, in ANY form, Scott Brown’s claim that only HE can defeat Jeanne Shaheen. 

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Just like the back row Baptists I’ve known over the years.  Sure, they can rattle off Scripture with the best of them (mostly….ok, some) but come the non-Sunday “life”, one would be hardpressed to tell the difference between them and a run-of-the-mill non-attender.  They may have to mouth the “Letter” but not the “Spirit” or real meanings behind the words.

So, too, Democrats – they may be able to quote the words but fail to implement the “spirit” or philosophy behind it – that Government is not meant to be the “all in all” and provide for all needs and obviate all bad consequences.  Remember, they said it – NH State Rep. Sandra Keans (R, now D):

“I don’t try to justify anything by the Constitution, it’s not my job and I don’t want to do it”.

Why the disconnect? 

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Who wants to bet that you wont find this story displayed prominently on the front pages of the Concord Monitor, Portsmouth Herald, Keene Sentinel, in Laconia, Dover, Conway, or at the Nashua Telegraph?  Obama IRS hides emails on Scandal – Media Hides Scandal (to Protect Democrat President).

But here we have a former senior official from the IRS who deliberately harassed hundreds of conservatives groups. She has taken the 5th Amendment—why? What sort of self-incrimination is she worried about? A look through her emails would have the answer. But those emails are, according to the IRS, unavailable because of a hard disk failure. Do you believe that? Do you believe that that the agency charged with tax gathering for the United States does not have multiple back ups of its business correspondence? Do you? Imagine what the IRS would have to say to a (conservative) business it decided to audit if a response for electronic records was met with, “Gosh darn, we had a hard disk failure, and they’re just plum gone.” Imagine. And why have there not been instant calls for the data recovery folks to get involved? Why? The public, I’d wager, would find all this keenly interesting—if only the people charged with reporting the news would tell them about it.

I think we’ll cover the story about the NH Media not covering the story.

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Check out the story below. It’s pretty interesting and one that I never heard before–and as a history buff, I appreciate that. Then if you’re thirsty and in Merrimack at 1:00 today (31 Columbia Circle Merrimack), consider attending the free opening ceremony.  The only potential downside is that Governor Hassan will be there, but if you can weather her presence come out to support a fledgling brewery.  Please note: I haven’t tried any of there beers—yet– nor do I know any of the people that work there.  I just like beer and like to encourage entrepreneurship—especially from veteran entrepreneurs–and having another brewery in town is a good thing.

From Able Ebenezer Brewing Company:

In the spring of 2013, three former US Army Officers, teamed up with a marketing guru, set out to pursue their entrepreneurial ambitions. Motivated by their combined abilities, inspired by local New Hampshire revolutionary history, and driven by their love of beer, the Able Ebenezer Brewing Company was formed.

Able Ebenezer’s name is branded from the inspirational actions of local New Hampshire citizens who rallied behind Ebenezer Mudgett in 1772 to defy British oppression. History remembers this event as the Pine Tree Riot.

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I guess this is one of those Libertarian leanings I have as a Conservative – if a territory such as Puerto Rico wants to leave, well, have a nice forever (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Puerto Rican Activists Seek Help from The Hague for Reunification with Spain

A group of activists in Puerto Rico unhappy with the current status of the island as a United States commonwealth is demanding a separation from America and reunification with Spain. The group plans to contest the 1898 Treaty of Paris, which handed Puerto Rico to the United States, at the International Court of Justice.  According to Fox News Latino, the group, the Puerto Rico Reunification With Spain organization, is seeking to be annexed into Spain given the ethnic history of the island and its separation from Spain through war. Unlike its neighbors Cuba and the Dominican Republic, which fought wars of independence to assert their sovereignty from Spain and Haiti respectively, Spain lost Puerto Rico in 1898 as part of its loss in the Spanish-American War as declared in the Treaty of Paris. Puerto Rico became an American territory and its residents United States citizens, but the territory never became a state.

The US does not formally recognize the ICJ so I’m not sure that would be all that persuasive (although, given the transnational / post-Constitutional elites in DC, anything is possible with this Administration).  Yes, I know that our Civil War was formally fought over, not slavery, but 

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I listened to WMUR at 6 today as they ran a spot on Maggie’s filing for re-election for NH Governor.  What I heard for being “hypocritical” was her taking credit for implementing Medicaid Expansion and the gas tax.  Absolutely WRONG – she had nothing to do with it.  There is no way she ehould be taking credit for it.  Or any other Democrat either.

Republicans are responsible for them.  Specifically NH State Senator Chuck Morse, NH State Senator Jeb Bradley, NH State Senator Nancy Stiles, and NH State Senator Odell, who did the heavy lifting for this Democrat issue.  And yes, NH State Senator Rausch did the lifting for raising the gas tax.  Both items are contra the NH GOP Platform.  Which is why this email missive is so exasperating.  Consistency, this ain’t:

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We’ve seen this before – but that’s the problem with Progressives – no sense of history and repercussions in trying to repeat it with success.  And it would be funny if it wasn’t so serious.  You know, with Ramadi, Fallujah, Mosul, and Tikrit falling to Al Qaeda style affiliates (hey, they’re ALL jihadi Islamists, Obama!), this is a disaster.  The air base, too,  that the Eldest was deployed to with the Second Marine Air during the Iraq War, Al Asad, is in the process of being lost (and even though he was not a door kicker like his brother in the 101st, he still lost friends there).

We spent a lot of our treasure, both financial and in human terms – and Obama’s mind that all he has to royally decree “It is over” and all would bow to him (at least, those to whom he wasn’t bowing to instead).  And now ISIL has established a caliphate in Syria and Iraq that is larger than any other Islamist organization has ever captured.  Speaking of captured, they are also the richest, having walked through the door of the Iraq Central bank and walked back out with $425 million.

I just keep wondering when it would sink in for him that it takes TWO sides to end a war: 

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