Ah yes, that VAUNTED Democrat value called “Civility”!  Jeanne Shaheen called for it here:

…During an informal bipartisan get-together we hosted earlier this week for our women colleagues in the Senate, there was unanimous agreement that members of both parties need to put politics aside and act in the best interests of our country….Washington could take a lesson from our state’s long, proud tradition of bipartisanship and compromise.

And here – an award given to Jeanne Shaheen for “Civility”:

“…This year we’re going to honor a moment in time when 20 women in the Senate at very difficult and challenging moment in American politics, a time when incivility was reigning, got together and said enough and set a wonderful example for us and particularly for young people,” says Allegheny College President Jim Mullen…The 20 women in the Senate aren’t less partisan than their colleagues; they simply shy away from personal attacks and make a point of being civil in their dealings.

Civility?  Then how do you explain that Jeanne Shaheen would call Scott Brown “obscene” for just getting in the race?  Far be it for me to defend Brown, but I can call Shaheen two faced for this campaign email sent out minutes after he announced he was starting an exploratory campaign given the above:

Subject:     obscene

Date:     Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:12:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:     Kari Thurman <info@jeanneshaheen.org>
Reply-To:     info@jeanneshaheen.org
To:     <me>

Dear Skip,

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That would be Blazing Saddles (1974), one of the funniest movies of all times (and due to its Political Incorrectness, could never be made today).  And what US Senator Chuckie Schumer said to Republicans was effectively what Cleavon Little did as Sheriff Bart; when threatened to be killed by others, Bart took his own pistol and threatened to kill himself to get out of the situation of being threatened to be killed (bad grammer, but it works).  Schumer (emphasis mine):

It’s crystal clear where the issue of immigration reform is headed, and Republicans have only two choices to make. They can either help pass comprehensive reform which will greatly reduce the flow of illegal immigrants, grow our economy by bringing in needed workers in high tech and agriculture areas, and provide a hard-earned path to eventual citizenship for the 11 million in the shadows, or they can sit idly by and watch the President greatly curtail deportations while 11 million continue to live in limbo here in America. The choice is clear; a reform bill has the support of liberals, moderates, and conservatives and all we need is the courage of the Republican leadership to make the right and obvious choice. -cs

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“The CDC has issued a report detailing its findings in attempting to trace the increasing difficulty in treating gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease (STD) that can cause severe discomfort, serious medical problems (such as sterility) for both genders and in very rare cases, death.

Gonorrhea is a bacterial disease that has been around for thousands of years, if not longer, plaguing human populations. In more recent times, it’s had to evolve to survive as humans learned to treat it using penicillin and other antibacterial agents. Over the past thirty years in particular, gonorrhea has evolved to the point that there are very few treatments left (ceftriaxone along with either azithromycin or doxycycline) and now, it looks like its poised to get the best of those as well, which will mean those who contract the disease in the very near future will find that doctors have no way to cure them.”

The creation of The Pill made the libertine sexual revolution possible – the lack of a pill may bring that to a screeching halt. We saw what happened to our culture when

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Paywalls.  I’d love to be able to link to a lot more articles but those dang paywalls.  I understand news is not produced for free and in our capitalist system, they should charge what the market can bear.  The problem is that TMEW has already let me know what she is willing to let me bear in running this joint and therefore there’s no way I can afford to pay for all of the subscriptions I’d really need.

Sidenote: No, not the financial cost – the relationship cost.  And after almost 33 years of marriage, it’s now priceless.

Anyways, I went to access the Union Leader for something and my nose hit the paywall message:

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One of the key architects of the law, Ezekiel Emanuel, has been starting to dish the inside scoop on how ObamaCare was put together, because he has a book to flog. Usually, this sort of thing is supposed to happen only years after the law takes effect, but that might be “never,” given the administration’s habit of deferring the law’s key provisions year after year. So the insiders’ books are going to come out first, and they’re going to start saying some unexpectedly honest things about the law’s purpose.

Emanuel gives us one big answer to our question. What was the point of ObamaCare, if not to insure the uninsured? To destroy the insurance companies….

Well, it’s not like we haven’t already figured this out already.  Progressives hate capitalism and hate profit making so Obamacare is really at least a three-fer for them:

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Steve had it first so I figured that this might help the meme out:

(H/T: Powerline)

After all, how much more bossy can you get as she showed an absolute total lack of respect for small business owners that knew that HillaryCare would put them out of business:

‘I can’t be responsible for every under-capitalized small business in America’!

Translation: get out of MY WAY – I can’t be bothered with the likes of you!

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If you want to keep people off Medicaid, or food stamps, or welfare, you need to improve their employment prospects.   This works best with little or no public money or political interference.   Business flourishes in the sun, so the shadow of the bureaucracy must be as small as possible.

We also know that the more choices people have the better their odds of finding work, and if they lack skills more choices provide on the job training opportunities which also cost taxpayers nothing.

And fostering a labor marketplace that has more jobs than applicants increases starting wages across the board as businesses use wages, benefits, flexible hours, even day-care support and free training to attract employees.

This is all common sense and anyone who is even remotely serious about creating jobs, or helping American families, or lifting people out of subsistence or the dependency culture knows it.

Expanding the fossil fuel energy sector will create massive wage and economic growth, but not here in New Hampshire.  Instead, we have a different opportunity at our disposal–and it is staring us right in the face.

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Right after 28 clueless Senate Democrats held a pajama Party (Up4Climate) on the floor of the US Senate to lobby a California Billionaire for campaign donations, Gallop released its March 2014 polling on what Americans think are the most important problems facing the US.

“Climate” didn’t even make the new list. (Update: Extreme Shaheen is 100% Out of Touch with ordinary Americans.)  And…

A Quinnipiac University poll in January ranked, in order, the three issues voters cared about the most: the economy, the federal budget deficit, and health care.

Oh, and that other distraction the Democrats have been obsessing over, income equality (aka- Minimum wage hysterics), that came in at the bottom, again with only 2%.  So you know what that means?

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This weeks G-File is pretty awesome.  You really should go to National Review and sign up for it.  Until then, here is this weeks pilfered remarks, which represent less than 20% of the whole.

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Consider the fact that Obamacare is now simply untethered from law or policy. This week the administration announced that you can get a hardship waiver from Obamacare if your hardship is . . .wait for it . . . Obamacare. This is like getting out of doing push-ups during basic training if you can prove that doing push-ups would be difficult for you, defeating the point of doing push-ups in the first place. The White House is quite simply making it all up as they go along. You can’t really point to a thing that is Obamacare because doing so would be like pointing at the blob in a lava lamp and saying “that looks like Michael Caine eating a badger.” Maybe it looks like that right now. Give it a second.
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Sure, the defenders will admit, more people have lost their insurance than gained insurance because of Obamacare. Yes, yes, the website is the screen-doored submarine of websites. Sure, the president is simply disregarding countless laws and regulations he and his supporters once considered so sacred only racists, psychopaths, and Koch brothers could oppose. But good God, “DON’T YOU WANT PEOPLE TO HAVE INSURANCE, YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD!?!?!”

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Since I’m already nicking swaths of text from National Review (with links and credits and encouragement to sign up for newsletters and such),  I can’t leave Mark Steyn out.  This is from ‘The Lois Lerner Defense‘ (May 2013) in which he points out some contradictions worth visiting or revisiting…

Let us also overlook the excellent treatment received from the IRS by members of the president’s family. Although acting commissioner Steven Miller apologized for the “horrible customer service” conservative taxpayers had gotten, a gentleman by the name of Malik Obama received impeccable, express service when he took the precaution of mailing in his non-profit application from N’giya, Kenya, rather than notoriously slower mail processing centers such as Phoenix and Dallas. Malik, the brother of President Obama, runs the Barack H. Obama Foundation, named for the president’s father. On May 30, 2011, they applied for tax-exempt status, and had their approval signed less than a month later by Lois Lerner herself, and conveniently backdated by Lois to cover the two-and-a-half years the enterprising Malik had already been raking in “tax-deductible” donations from Americans.

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