“He was for it before he was against it”

The second Republican vying to be the Republican nominee to the seat formerly held by the late Ray Burton is former Belknap County Commissioner Chris Boothby.  Along with Joe Kenney, he was there to present his case to the members present:

Oh yeah, not happening.  While I’ll go into more detail of the “private vs public” bit later, I asked both Mr. Kenney and Mr. Boothby if it was alright to video their stump speeches.  Mr. Kenney said “sure” – he had nothing to hide (I guess being the Marine Corp for 30 odd years and 3 combat tours means that an itty bitty camera doesn’t scare him).   Mr Boothby made the same decision – and then just before it was time to speak, he reversed himself.  His right, to be fair, but I again, I do this “citizen journalism” (they speak and I don’t edit any of it) as lots of potential voters can’t get to the kaffeklatch / home meetings that are conducted during the day when regular working people are, well, working.  The regular media outlets won’t bother – but GraniteGrok does (or tries to; more later).

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With all of the talk of free school lunches, the need to extend unemployment rates, and the absolute need (according to NH Speaker of the House Norelli (D)) to implement Medicaid Expansion NOW, isn’t it worthwhile to see how “poor” NH really is?

That’s right – we are ranked dead last – where dead last is really best!  Given the fact that LBJ’s Great Society’s “War on Poverty” is now 60 years running at a cost of $15 Trillion and the poverty rate flatlined, the phrase “the poor ye will have with you always”, we now know to be true (an eternal truism, much to the dismay of Progressives who can’t learn from history).

Going to the source, Louisiana is the worst with an official poverty rate of 21.3%.  NH is the nation’s leader 7.5% poverty rate (and coincidentally, one of the best unemployment rates too). 

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Our good neighbors the self-proclaimed “satanists” are up to some mischief in Oklahoma. They want a statue of their depiction of satan next to a Christian display.

This tantrum is a way to identify friendly judges, get some attention, and try and set aside those feelings of insecurity and impotence the devil worshipers have nagging at them now that they are adults and have to deal with people other than the weak parents they were used to dominating from two years old until now.

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We all know that President Obama hates rich people (“I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money“) and he sees “income inequality” as something to be done in additional to use as a political campaigning club.  Instead of trying to lift up the poor, he’s all about redistribution in a retributionist fashion – take from the rich and middle class and give it to the poor.  Well, he could take from these folks – looks like they’ve done VERY well and ought to be ripe for the plucking answering the call to “give a little more”.  From Big Government:

• UnitedHealth Executive Vice President Anthony Welters raised over $500,000 for Obama in 2012. Wall Streeters expect UnitedHealth stock to rocket 40% over the next two years. UnitedHealth “also won big contracts to help implement the [Obamacare] rollout.”
• Obamacare winner Qualcomm has a subsidiary called Qualcomm Life that Schweizer says is “specifically designed to profit off Obamacare exchanges.” Qualcomm former Chairman Irwin Jacobs raised over $500,000 for Obama’s campaign in 2012.
• HBJ Investments chief Jay Snyder bundled over $500,000 for Obama’s campaign. HBJ invests in healthcare medical companies and pharmaceuticals and is “positioned to cash in on Obamacare.”

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No one would ever mistake General “Blood N Guts” George Patton (“L’audace, toujours l’audace”) with an Establishment Republican.  Why?  Maha Rushie nails it:

What they ought to do, the Republicans ought to just say, “Let’s just extend ’em for the rest of the year and put it off the table.” That’s the Republicans’ usual plan. Just agree with the Democrats and then get it off the table and then Republicans will say, “We’ll come back and we’ll nail ’em on the debt limit, or we’ll nail ’em on the debt ceiling, or we’ll nail ’em on the budget.” So if they were to stay in character, the Republicans would say, “In an attempt to steal the compassion issue –” In fact, I’m gonna suggest this right now.

Attention inside-the-Beltway Republicans. The way to deal with this is to tell the Democrats not three months, you want to extend these emergency benefits to the end of the year and get it off the table. Take the issue away from the Democrats so you can’t be hurt by it during the campaign. And I guarantee you if there are any inside-the-Beltway Republicans who just heard this, they’ll think it’s brilliant and they might actually propose it. “My God, if we got Limbaugh on our side on this what’s to stop us?” Well, it’s what they’ve been doing with every issue, agree with it, get it off the table so it doesn’t hurt us. That’s why they’re doing with amnesty, let’s just get rid of it. The issue’s killing us.

Seems right – the “get it off the table” Republicans.  So, too scared to stand up against the Democrat Political Club du jour?  Just take it off the table by going along with it.  How many times have we seen this just the last two years in DC?  It’s always “give in now to shut down the voices, and we’ll run away to runaway another day”.

Here in NH?  From today’s Laconia Daily Sun:

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Cringed is what I did when I saw this on WMUR 9 this evening – especially when the kid’s head was SLAMMED into the concrete / cinder block wall.  And the Seabrook, NH cops just laughed and smirked.  Even looking directly into the camera, just smiling away.  I guess they believed that the rumored “brotherhood omerta” was in play – they’d be covered:

Mike Bergeron was the guy in the video.  Drunk? High?  Sleep walking?  I dunno but he didn’t look like he was all there.  But then again, it doesn’t matter.  What these three of the thin blue line did was wrong.  Once in custody, they are responsible for his well-being.  Slamming his head against the wall does not heighten that well-being. From the YouTube description:  

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Snow and cold are a sign of global warming.   Income is a sign that you don’t pay enough taxes–unless you are a Democrat or in entertainment.  Opposition is a sign that you are a racist, a misognyst hater unless you oppose self-responsibility, affordable government, and low taxes (Republicans, or the TEA Party).   The Affordable Care Act costs more and is less accessible–meaning less care (leaving us with nothing but the act.)   And demanding an extension for unemployment benefits…is a sign of your amazing economic recovery.

Democrats are looking to extend unemployment benefits, again. Why?

Because when Democrats run things, and run them for as long as they have, good paying American jobs are like Bigfoot.  People talk about it.  They want to believe in it. And a few people actually claim to have seen one.  But most everyone else thinks it is a hoax.

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Back in 2008 NH Democrat Jeanne Shaheen scared people with promises that Global Warming was real and that it would put an end to New Hampshire Winters–and our touristy-like winter wonderland of commerce.  It was settled science.  I heard that, didn’t you hear that?

A few years later, after 15 years of flat or declining average global temperatures, the same people who advised Shaheen on that ‘fact’ are insisting that Global Warming now makes it cold, and predicts increased snowfall.   That must be the new “settled science?”

I guess the settled science isn’t that settled yet.  Can we call that a Global Warming Theory induced Gore-tex?  It’s like a vortex but then it’s not, but if you close your eyes and wish real hard….

However unsettling the settled science may be none of this matters until you attack a sitting Democrat US Senator by comparing what she claimed with reality.

That’s the cue for the progressive flying monkeys to attack.

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Still thinking about expanding Medicaid In New Hampshire?  Or maybe you are just indifferent.  Well you can’t afford to be.

The bait expires and the annual stipend is not guaranteed.  In fact, given the Federal debt and deficit situation, any expectation that the Feds will not cut funding to Medicaid and other programs as debt and deficit management become critical are simply fanciful.

Paying only 10% of the expansion costs after the expansion bait-money is gone will already extract millions from the state economy.   But that will pale in comparison to the state’s assault on town and city budgets when it goes looking for money to feed this beast after the feds bail on us.

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Fraud supporting Nashua Democrat Cindy Rosenwald has submitted the Medicaid expansion amendment to avoid having to holding public hearings or any actual legislative discussion about a multi-billion dollar entitlement expansion in New Hampshire.

Nashua Rep Cindy Rosenwald.  You remember her?  She’s the Democrat who let the cat out of the bag regarding that $802 million dollar hole the Democrats left in the budget with one time money.  After months of every Democrat denying it, she tells us the truth.

The Democratic majority knew all along it (the 802 Million dollar hole) would not continue, and that budget cuts would have to be made during the following biennium so that there would not be a deficit.

Rosenwald and the NH Dems went nuts when Republicans did exactly what Rosenwald claims Democrats knew they would have to do.

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Warming creates warming. Warming creates cooling. NH Democrat Timmy Horrigan informed us (in comments)  that Global Warming Theory predicts more snow (which will come as a surprise to Senator Jeanne Shaheen). And now we’ve got this newly imagined polar vortex thing to explain the cold temperatures that none of those computer models from all those well-funded activists experts, ever predicted.

And another big unexpected side-effect of global warming? Plenty of living space for those polar bears. We’ve got more ice on the poles (both of them, in summer no less) than we can shake an endangered species at. (Any day now we’ll start hearing about how too much habitat will be devastating to the Polar bear Population.  Mark my words, it’s coming.)

And of course, it hasn’t warmed in 16 years, ancient times compared to Climate scientist Jeanne Shaheen’s catastrophic predictions for New Hampshire circa 2008.

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Yet another sad story on the results of Obamacare on families.  Somewhere in here, I did a post where a single mom (grown daughter) had to buy a new policy as Obama & Sebelius decided that the healthcare policy that the Mom had was “junk”.  No, this Mom was not judged capable of picking a plan that was suitable and affordable for her – Progressives are convinced that none of us can choose wisely.  She wanted to continue to be self-responsible and self-supporting and in doing so, continue that self-esteem that “I can be independent, pay my own way, and be self-reliant”.  Obama & Sebelius’s policies decided otherwise – their “socialist Potemkin marketplace” immediately clapped her into the Government jail of Medicaid – one way in and no way out.  They took away her self-esteem by telling her that they know that she can no longer support herself and gave her only their option – Government healthcare.

Now, another story.  I’ve been writing for years about the school systems / teachers / Govt believing that your kids really do belong to them: feed them 3 squares a day in school (even when schools are closed), clothe them, provide daycare for them in school, provide healthcare clinics for them in school, and take them out of school for abortions if they feel one is needed.   Now on the flip side, the Obama Administration has jiggered the rules so that parents that want to take care of their kids and provide for their kids healthcare wise, can’t.  So these parents must “give up” their kids to the government (reformatted, emphasis mine):

…Zack is married with children and self-employed. That used to be a rough row to hoe for insurance purposes. Now it’s an impossible one.  In the past, Zack had somehow managed to insure his family under Washington’s stringent insurance requirement regime, which had chased away many insurers and bid up premiums. It was expensive to cover his family but he worked hard and they found a way.  Obamacare presented them with special difficulties. Zack thought he was going to have to pay several hundred dollars more a month for roughly the same level of coverage for him and his wife, before you even factored in the kids. They didn’t have the money for it.

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