Reason why?  Scott Brown brought has it upon himself (we merely talk about it):

• Scott Brown keeps emphasizing that he looks forward to working with Democrats again
• He voted for Romneycare (Obamacare before the steroids hit) as a “good thing”

Oh year, the news:

UnitedHealthcare to cut doctors for Mass. seniors.

“National insurance giant UnitedHealthcare plans to cut up to 700 Massachusetts doctors from its physician network for seniors enrolled in its private Medicare plan as a way to control costs, according to company officials.

For elderly patients enrolled in the plan, the cuts mean they will have to find a new doctor or eventually switch to a new health plan that covers their current doctor.”

And of COURSE, we hear the faux outrage from Democrats who can’t stand the idea that the private sector providers are merely following the Law

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Yes, this has stretched out a bit too long – I seem to get distracted but given this is vacation time, time to get caught up on some of the “lingering” stuff.  I’ve commented already on several of the speeches that were given at the NH GOP Annual meeting and this is the last one (simply because it was the last one given that day).  It is the Chair report.  I took the time to transcribe it all (after the jump with the video) and I have some serious concerns in what she had to say.

Sure, it was a time for “rah-rah” speeches and no doubt, her’s was one of those “call to arms” types.  The problem is, I’m not so sure that all the folks she aimed this to are all that willing to just drink from her cup.  Yes, the “Republican Republicans for the sake of the Party” (“RRFTSOTP”), those that believe solely that only important letter is “R” (and that makes all things just dandy) probably ate it up with thought of animus towards folks like us that actually look at the words and the thoughts driving them from behind.  They’ll accept whatever, gorging at the buffet while we’re looking at “er, did this spend too long a time not in the fridge”?

Remember, she made three specific promises during her campaign to be the Chair (mimicking her rival as she was a step behind in my mind) – she would:

1. Unite the Party
2. Fill the coffers
3. Redo the technology to better what the Dems had

With those PRIMARY items in mind, I went through her speech to see how close she came to reality or how close she was to merely “rah-rah”.

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The arrogance and  smallness of The One is becoming more and more apparent to more and more people. Personally, I’ve always believed that the current occupant of the White House is a small man–a mountebank big on talk and not much else. A cocktail of narcissism and swirling solipsism is the stuff that courses through the veins of the Big Eared one, and it was on display yesterday during the D-Day Anniversary Event—great timing. He was spotted chewing gum throughout the ceremony, revolting many who noticed (class, class, class… Man! He’s got class).

But this type of thing probably doesn’t come as a surprise to many of the Britons. This isn’t the first time they had to avert their eyes and take an interest elsewhere in hopes of avoiding a gut cringing moment as the American President embarrasses himself and is completely unaware of it. Remember this is the administration that removed the bust of Churchill from the White House upon taking office. And gave it back to the British and then got confused and lied about it. At last report, still resides in the U.K. Ambassador’s residence.

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Senator Shaheen spoke today at the New Hampshire Progressive Summit in Henniker.  Interesting that she still refuses to hold town halls with actual constituents but finds time in her schedule to speak to a room filled with left wing loons who want to turn the ‘Live Free or Die’ state into a Nanny State.  All you have to do is read the descriptions for some of their workshops to see what type of event it is:

Mini-Workshop: “Not One More – What We All Can Do to Stem the Tide of Gun Violence” – This workshop is being run by the failed Mom’s Demand Action head Janet Groat of New Hampshire.  Of course, the Granite State doesn’t have a gun violence problem but then again, the astroturfing group of paid Moms pimped by Mayor Bloomberg aren’t really about ending gun violence; they are about gun control of law-abiding citizens.

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The self regard this man has is enough to make Narcissus blush (just an idea, but maybe someone should show him the reflecting pool on the mall, that may occupy him for the remainder of his term).

In defense of The One’s latest blunder of trading 5 barbarian, terrorist generals for a potential deserter the “I, Me, My, Mine” obsessed one exposed his true belief and said (h/t Hot Air emphasis mine):

I make no apologies for it. It was a unanimous decision among my principals in my government, and a view that was shared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This is something I would do again and will continue to do whenever I have an opportunity.

Interesting choice of words, “my government”. I didn’t think it was his, but hey, I’ll play along.

It is “His” government that is failing the veterans, resulting in many of their deaths due to the VA incompetence.

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Seriously,  this Political Correctness on campuses is just getting well past “Stuck on Stupid”.  Does anyone study any serious subjects anymore?  Or is this stuff just the end result of the intersection of the Self-Esteem Trophy movement in our educational system with the Cultural Marxist (aka, Political Correctness) – just a huge puddle of precious snowflakes that are too fragile for normal life?  This from The College Fix (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Stanford University’s Inter-Sorority Council hosted a public forum last week in response to protests against a Cinco de Mayo-themed fundraiser at Pi Beta Phi and a number of other Greek life events.  “As a rule of thumb, if an item or tradition is stripped of its original intent or cultural significance, it’s probably cultural appropriation,” said the moderator in opening the discussion.  He added cultural appropriation is the stealing of intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission – and it’s made worse when “the source is a minority group that has historically been oppressed.”

Like the title asks – WHO would you ask for permission?  Is there some council or Star Chamber group that every ethnicity has stashed away somewhere so that you could knock on the door, rush in, hushly ask “hey, this ok?” and then go out and party?  Well of COURSE not, you dumbo!  Just the fact that you have to ask in the Progressive controlled cultural world now means that you’re one of the moronic insensitive unenlightened unwashed.

Cultural Appropriation.  Sigh.  One thing is sure, the Political Correctness crowd has no sense of: 

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