No one can credit George Bush with being a great job creator, but things had stabilized before the banking crisis (created by Democrats).  He also didn’t add over 7 trillion to the debt in just five years while driving 12 million people out of the Job market, never to return.  (Recovery summer started with the 2009 Stimulus and the participation rate never recovered.)  This means that any evil heaped on Bush should be doubly so for Obama and the Democrats. (crickets)

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I’m wondering why some of our veteran Senate Republicans are jumping on the easy track to fixing the so-called Medicaid expansion “problem”.

Republicans are supposed to lean toward market based, economic oriented solutions and away from entitlement-based fixes, which ultimately our grandchildren, not us, nor the aging Republican Senators (who feel the need to “do something“), will pay for.  And it should go without saying that this entitlement solution would come from an already-bloated, debt ridden, ever-encroaching Federal Government that cannot be trusted.

I wonder why they aren’t focusing on improving the New Hampshire jobs climate, helping the very people targeted by this expansion to attain and afford sufficient healthcare on their own, rather than counter-intuitively taking it from a Federal program that requires a built-in “exit strategy”.  After all, Democrats aren’t focusing on the economy, whatsoever, so this would be a chance for Republicans to seriously differentiate themselves.

I then started to look for some low-hanging business and economic fruit to pick.  While doing so, I discovered a few things that really surprised me.

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Every day there are more people, and more reasons made public for not expanding Medicaid in New Hampshire–what I have dubbed ‘BradleyCare!  But this may be the single most important reason of all.

I better preface this first.

Do you recall the left’s reaction to the O’Brien Budget?  Do you remember how Democrats responded when the Republican Executive Council didn’t want to fund Planned Parenthood?  They freaked out.  They freaked out for weeks.  They freak out over the slightest sliver of light if it threatens their agenda.

Why are they not freaking out over BradleyCare! and it’s “guarantee” to sunset the program?

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The Manchester paper has done its best to campaign for the old guard in Bedford, on its front page, with an article by Susan Clark.

The headline is: Free Staters make mark in Bedford.

And then it goes on to selectively isolate the two Free State members who are running for local office as though they are not really taxpaying residents of Bedford .

The Bedford Bullies must be scared to death they could lose power.

Funny, I don’t ever remember a headline in the Manchester paper that screamed: Tax And Spenders Make Mark On Bedford .

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Most days I will try to sift through the Grok Twitter feed for things to retweet.  Yesterday I retweeted plenty but this one in particular caught the attention of New Hampshire’s own @nhdogmom.  Follow me as we see how a Kool Aid drinking leftist gets mad when you ask them to explain their own words.  C’mon, it’s fun.

Here is the retweet that I sent out into the world, regarding a sex and bondage video made by Planned Parenthood.

RT @saltsgreg: NH Senator Peggy Gilmour and PPNNE mutually support videos about BDSM — GraniteGrok: http://t.co/qty9c2u67L #nhpolitics

— Steve Mac Donald (@TheRealNHSteve) March 3, 2014

…and here is @nhdogmom, not at all concerned about a BDSM sex video for kids; this is PPNE not Catholic priests–so it’s all good.  She just wants to make sure we know that Democrats support staying out of people’s bedrooms and private parts, the implication being that Republicans do not.  War on Women, yadda-yadda-yadda. But her claim regarding Democrats is so far-fetched, so wrongheaded, such an outright untruth that…well, let’s follow the tweets, shall we.

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Never a town to avoid scandal, Atkinson is at it again.

They are holding a “candidates night” for the “public” to get to know the people running for office.

One such guy is the thug and former Atkinson part time police chief, Phil Consentino. He is a small time bully who has always abused his office and that landed him in the position of NOT being police chief after a sexual harassment settlement last year.

He is back running for selectman.

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No one excels at fear mongering like the left and Arizona’s SB 1062.  It was never anti-gay and its veto was not a victory for gay rights (it was a victory for ignorance).   And the same ignorance and fear-mongering that lead to the outcry over nothing will probably suffice to keep most of those who were misled from ever knowing the truth.  We are here to help. Well, Rich Lowry is here to help.

Rich Lowry at NRO

The bill was roughly 998 pages shorter than much of legislation that passes in Washington. Clocking in at barely two pages, it was easy to scan for disparaging references to homosexuality, for veiled references to homosexuality, for any references to homosexuality at all.

They weren’t there. A headline from The Week declared, “There is nothing Christian about Arizona’s anti-gay bill.” It would be more accurate to say that there was nothing anti-gay about Arizona’s anti-gay bill.

The legislation consisted of minor clarifications of the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which has been on the books for 15 years and is modeled on the federal act that passed with big bipartisan majorities in the 1990s and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.

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UNH College Republicans call on self-proclaimed “Radical RINO” NH College Republican Federation Chairman Jake Wagner to resign for violating Federation Constitution regarding college enrollment.

Caveat – I’ve met Jake Wagner (there on the left with Obama’s David Axelrod on right).  Now, he didn’t come up to me and proclaim himself to be a “Radical RINO” (but it is in his Twitter feed) but he certainly came across as one of those “I’m a Republican Republican because I’m a Republican” the couple of times I’ve tried to “debate” issues important to the Republican base.  He certainly doesn’t like Conservatives that quote both the Platform and the NH Constitution (or the US one either) as a basis of what can be done or what should be done politically.  His face would screw up like a prune, his arms flap like one of those “air guys” you’d see flapping in front of a car dealer, and he just couldn’t seem to stop “SIGHing” as I was speaking – but  couldn’t seem to refute what I or others would pose to him.  Just pieces of paper “for show” is the what I got from him.

Figures.  Looks like he’s decided to disobey the rules under which he was elected – his previous actions seem to give this that came over the transom a bit more ring of truth – looks like I’ll be following up on this myself.

Note: if it is wrong, Jake is certainly able to put up a guest post here or even come on GrokTALK! to discuss – he has been invited!

In fact, he has not responded to the email listed on the NH GOP E-Board page.  So, let’s look at this a bit, shall we? 

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The nasty politics of Bedford, NH are well known to anyone ever involved in that municipality.  So as can be expected, the editorial hit squad gets started on Aaron Day who is running for Bedford School Board.

Someone named Sally Thomas is on the hunt with a few impressions as opposed to facts while using the Bedford Journal as an outlet.

Here is Sally’s S.T.E. (smear to the editor):

I question Bedford School Board candidate Aaron Day’s integrity Thursday, February 27, 2014 To the Editor: I watched the School Board debate on BCTV on the night of Feb. 20. I question Aaron Day’s integrity. He claimed to have been able to “place out” of 1.5 years of Duke University due to his AP classes in high school and implied he graduated in 2.5 years.

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If you search “Medicaid” in that search bar in the top right corner of the page, you will find a wealth of information (exposition, links, and so one) as to why we should not expand Medicaid in New Hampshire.  (Just two days ago we had a great discussion with Jenn Coffey about it on GrokTALK!)

If that is not enough reason, how about this?  Michael and James Sununu, yes those Sununu’s, have penned an excellent summation of the current situation; why we should not be expanding Medicaid in NH, and why Republicans of all people, in the State Senate in particular, should not be leading on expansion.  Here’s a snippet.

Supporters of expansion say we have to reduce the uninsured population. They argue the cost of the uninsured is too high and by insuring them through the government (albeit through taxpayer support for private insurance premiums) we will lower the overall cost of health care. Except available evidence shows us it doesn’t work. Maine expanded Medicaid coverage in 2002 for the same reason, but it was a huge failure. Before expansion, 12 percent of their population was uninsured. After Medicaid expansion? Still, 12 percent uninsured. Markets adjust when government gets more involved, so while Medicaid rolls expanded, private insurance rolls fell, costing taxpayers and businesses more money.

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