NH State Senator Kathy Sgambati (D-Tilton): “Everybody in the chamber respects personal freedoms and individual rights…[BUT] We’re also trying to ensure that all citizens in the state have the protection they need. It’s unclear to me how you can possibly have all the benefits of coverage without everyone being under the tent.

You will participate in all you do, according the Sgambati.  Progressives are constitutionally unable to leave others alone – they have to “save” everyone.  Thus, this was the headline that caught my eye over at RedState:

The Obama administration wishes to wreck your quiet enjoyment of March Madness.

…but it might surprise you that neither is this really about Obamacare, either. After all, the deadline’s in two weeks; there is really no way that the Obama administration can boost the final sign-up numbers for Obamacare to something approximating the original target goals. So why are they trying? Well, they are trying because this administration has never wanted any of us to have private spaces in our lives, anywhere. Everything must be political; nothing may be free of subtext. If it’s not political, it’s superfluous to their needs. So anywhere that the administration can intrude, they will intrude.

The political is personal, the personal IS political – the Progressive Mantra.  As Cicero said “You may not be interested in politics but be sure, politics IS interested in you.  Progressives take that to the next level; they are the Peeping Toms of politics. 

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MEH

We consider DaTechGuy (Pete Ingemi, a nationally recognized blogger and radio host) as being one of our ‘Grok friends.  If we have set up at an event and he shows up, we ALWAYS make sure he has a seat at our table.  Smart, persistent, and a genuinely nice guy, I’m happy we’ve gotten to know him.  But he can also be brutally honest when it comes to reporting on politics even if it means he could take a hit – or hit his friends.  I saw his tweet:

@NLRC2014 The Elephant in the Room and the Grok outside of it: #tcot #p2 #nhpoli #nhsen #election2014 @granitegrok http://t.co/AM3RAgB5EV

— Peter Ingemi (@DaTechGuyblog) March 16, 2014

and went to read the piece (emphasis mine).

That’s really the issue,  Browns decision to run appears to people in NH as something imposed from on high and that brings up another sore spot in the state that can best be illustrated by what or rather who I didn’t see at NLRC 2014.

Granite Grok.

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On today’s WMUR’s CloseUP, Josh McElveen interviewed both Scott Brown and his wife.  He posed a question to Scott (emphasis mine):

[Bob Smith said]: You’re so liberal that you should be in a primary with Jeanne Shaheen

And the way that Scott Brown answered the question, it seem like a challenge

Scott Brown “That’s Bob being Bob from what I understand.”

 Josh McElveen: “Your conservative credentials will be called into question.”

 Scott Brown: “I’ll put my credentials up against anyone. You know I’m a Republican and I have been since I was 18 years old and I think there is room for everybody. Certainly I welcome a primary and I appreciate everybody’s interest in getting involved in the process. So, no big deal.”

 And I think there will be those that will answer that challenge.  First off, I noticed that Brown

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The Republican party has no interest in receiving advice from me, and not just because we’re not exactly on speaking terms.  As a rule, I don’t speak to ‘The Party” I speak to folks who run as Republicans, activists, and voters, who may or may not be Republicans but have traditionally prefered what Republicans run on.

With that in mind,  it occurs to me that someone should be running a (or any) campaign against the progressive plunderers with the under-used tag line…”Who’s In Your Wallet.”

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Harrell – can’t even rise to the level of bloviating.  NHDP Communications Director Harrell “Jersey Shore” (with the known background of Scott Brown entering the race, Shaheen’s all in on Obamacare, and Shaheen issuing that silly Peoples’ Place challenge even as she’s fundraising out in LA LA Land):

We’re going to be talking about Jeanne Shaheen and her record about working for the people of NH…she always puts them first.

Hey, Harrell – does that mean you’re whacking Zandra Rice-Hawkins’s 3rd party monies? And the Unions? And the Greenies who have been doing your grunt work / TV ads for months? And let’s not forget the Progressive SuperPAC already in state to help shape your battlespace: Ready for Hillary SuperPAC?  Do you really expect that since they went all in for Mike Cryans in the Exec Council race that they won’t help Shaheen out,  too,  in order to buy future “chips” with her and Billy? 

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From Stephen Green: Green is remarking on how Japan’s “buy your way to prosperity binge” has failed miserably and what the real solution is…

Deregulate. Simplify the tax code. Protect the value of your currency. Those three steps are all it takes to achieve prosperity, but as Glenn Reynolds like to say, politicians don’t like them because they provide too few opportunities for graft.

Central planning is the first rule in optimizing graft.  Three and Four trillion-dollar Federal budgets, 8 trillion in new debt (almost as much as from the 230 years that preceded them) with nothing to show for it but twice as much debt.  Nothing to show, unless you are part of the political class, a crony, a lobbyist, or some other barnacle on the rump of DC.

That whole scenario really makes the case for defending state sovereignty and optimizing local control.

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For some reason, this paragraph from Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism made me think of the Medicaid Expansion cabal of NH Republican State Senators…(and all Democrats).

The “Middle Way” sounds moderate and un-radical.  Its appeal is that it sounds unideological and freethinking.  But philosophically the Third Way is not mere difference splitting; it is utopian and authoritarian.  Its utopian aspect becomes manifest in it antagonism to the idea that politics is about trade-offs.  The Third Wayer says that there are no false choices–“I refuse to accept that X should com at the expense of Y.” 

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