Dear MoveOn member,
There’s no sugar-coating it: Obamacare is in serious political trouble. And progressives need to step up and start fighting to save it right now.
Obviously, the law itself is still really good. But it’s clear to everyone that rollout has been badly botched—and now Republicans smell blood in the water. They think this is their chance to undo the whole thing. Worse yet, some Democrats in Congress are starting to waver too.1
John Boehner – ‘I Told You So’
Then minority leader John Boehner speaks before the House the night of ObamaCare in that chamber; whatever you think of him now, or wheter or not he has since stepped on his own toes (and I think he has)…when it comes to the ACA and what happened after Democrats rammed it though, he had it … Read more
Merrimack County Republican Committee – My ‘discussion’ Part 4: “The Philosophies”
Reminder: “So, I help to elect Democrats, eh?” (thank you, Mark Sanborn). To recap:
WHY IS THE GOP / NH GOP IN TROUBLE?
Let’s get to the Nitty Gritty of this “discussion”: There is a tremendous split in the Republican Party – and especially in the NH GOP. And for three extremely binary reason – each this or that and never the twain they’ll meet.
1. Don’t Talk About it
2. Two Types of Republicans
So I rolled into those ‘two” philosophies:
3. Two sets of Political Philosophy (or Three – the clueless)
Why? The core problem. We’re about to go deep here.
What are the philosophies of each of those two groups?
There are two countervaling philosophies at play here, at the voting level and at the basic philosophy level and with neither, there is no coming together – they are orthagonal in nature and there is no “uniting” at all:
To the first, voting level – a split in attitude of High vs Low (like churches):
GrokTALK! 11-9-13 Segment Two with Lenette Peterson
In segment Two we continue the conversation with NH House Republican Lenette Peterson. Lenette tells us about three bills she has sponsored this session; one on prohibiting federl gun laws which ban certain firerms or limit magazine size; a bill relative to vulnerable users of NH highways, like pedestrians who might suddenyl find themselves bounced … Read more
With NH State Govt selling $700 million license plate, less and less of us can pay for it
SSB1-FN: As Grokster Susan pointed out, a most VERY SPECIAL license plate to match that of Jeanne Shaheen’s SB711. SSB1-FN – the Medicaid Expansion here in NH that will use another $700 million in Federal Dollars that the Federal Government doesn’t have (at $17 Trillion in the hole). Nice to see that NH Politicians of … Read more
“Asking”? The Government is really “asking”?
Kirsten Powers on Special Report (a Liberal) tonite was talking about Obamacare – the theme was that the Obama Administration was not and has not be honest with the American people as to why the new Obamacare healthcare insurance plans are WAY more expensive. She took issue that HER plan was considered to be “substandard” by Obama even as it had every feature that an Obama “better plan” had to have
There is no explanation for the doubling of my premiums other than the fact that it is subsidizing other people. They need to be honest about it that that’s the reason why they don’t want to change it because they are basically taking the people who are responsible enough to get healthcare insurance in the individual market and asking them to subsidize other people. So they are taking young healthy people and asking them to subsidize other people.
“Asking them to subsidize other people“. Again, I go back to the meme that Liberals and Progressives MUST change the language, MUST redefine fundamental meanings, to have any chance at all of winning their arguments or persuade LIVs of something else other than “generalized” impressions. “Asking” – sounds awfully polite, doesn’t it? Sounds like it is someone that is hoping you will say yes to their request, right? Helping other people – the RIGHT thing to do, yes?
WRONG!
America: Still Defines Freedom
In many surprising ways, America resembles the great, ancient Persian Empire. Like the Persians, who rarely regret the past, Americans always believe “the best days are ahead.” Like the ancient Persian Empire once was, the United States is now the greatest country in the world. Like the ancient Persians who were the first world managers … Read more
New Hampshire’s Very Own Moonbat
“Wow! You’re brighter than Las Vegas at Christmas time!” —Daffy Duck
On October 6, our esteemed Grok Chief Skip informed the Grok audience of one Moonbat from Hampton Falls who had submitted LSR’s seeking to ban assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines, require registration for each firearm a person owns or possesses and requiring background checks for firearm sales.
On October 10, my pal and fellow Grok writer Steve MacDonald also informed the Grok Audience of more moonbattery from Rep. David Pierce and the Mass-plant Druid of Hampton Falls, E. Elaine Andrews-Ahern seeking to require background checks for firearms sales and transfers.
A quick survey of public statements made by the Druid quickly resolves the, “why” behind the bills: She is a leftist nutter. A true-believing Kool-Aid drinker who is working to advocate an “everybody-gets-a-trophy, mediocre leftist utopian world, sans guns. Normally, I like to begin my entries with a pithy quote at the top. In the case of E. Elaine Andrews-Ahern, the pinnacle of pithy is hence, Daffy Duck.
Zoning: The New Anti-Gun Context
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. —Louis D. Brandeis
So Where is NH Senator Jeanne Shaheen on The Federal Effort To Overturn State Laws on Abortion?
I like to ask people who support abortion (under any or all of the euphemisms they employ) how it feels to be a womb survivor?
“Must be nice to breathe air so you can drag it across your vocal cords to justify denying that right to others.”
That is what this all comes down to. They only survived the womb because someone else didn’t kill them (or were not permitted to kill them) and then make excuses for why they were entitled to do it. They didn’t or couldn’t kill you.
Choice, rights, reproductive freedoms, are all fancy terms no different than the acts of tyrant’s who observe that someone’s continued presence represents a measure of current or future inconvenience that must be removed. “Everything they would ever be” is denied them by an arbitrary act based solely on the will of someone with the means and opportunity.
Newtown Post Sandy Hook – Pistol Permit’s up 110%
While Democrats and their anti-self defense cabal used the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary to advance their own ridiculous and destructive political agenda, actual people in Newtown Connecticut grasped reality by the gonads. The police cannot nor have they any obligation to protect anyone, and there will always be nut jobs who find a way … Read more
The American Health Care Reform Act of 2013
The US House has produced a replacement for ObamaCare. It is called ‘The American Health Care Reform Act of 2013.”
Here is a link to the PDF. it is HR3121
It is a paltry 181 pages and a quick skim shows a repeal of the existing scheme, changes to tax credits, beefing up of HSA’s, malpractice reform, no federal funding for abortion, keeps protections for people with existing conditions…and that’s a very rough appraisal lacking in detail. Sorry.
We should try to crowd source this and figure out what is in it before anyone tries to pass it regardless.
No, this stands no chance in the current obstructionist Democrat Senate.
No, Obama would ever sign it, so a veto proof majority would be required and is very unlikely but….this is more serious than just voting against something, and much like the need to wait to prosecute the crimes of the Obama Administration until after he can no longer pardon them, this or any improved version would need to be in the pipeline for fast action should we manage to elect a president and complaint congress more interested in what works for us than for the lefts control-freak political agenda.
Here’s a link to the RSC page on the bill. You can see the ‘ObamaCare Fallout video on the jump and a screen grab of the pocket card below as well
The New Road to Serfdom
“It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to the destruction of democracy and which meanwhile can benefit only a minority of the masses who support it. Yet it is this support from the Left of the tendencies toward monopoly which … Read more
So taking Medicaid money from the Feds (who don’t have it in the first place) is a GREAT demonstration of Republicanism?
“Cloward – Piven: Obamacare is not about given healthcare coverage to the poor, or even assuming just Control over 1/6th of the US economy. It is THE tool to collapse the entire system. Not just healthcare. Everything”
Or one of appeasement (er, under the guise of “taking it off the table” aka “they can’t club us with it anymore”) in which the Democrats get what they wanted anyways.Again, from DiStaso:
State Senate President Chuck Morse and Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley briefed that committee on their alternative plan to Medicaid expansion ahead of the opening of the special legislative session. Most on the committee supported it, but a few didn’t, we’re told.
$2.4 Billion from a Federal government that is in arrears of $17 Trillion, and the Republican Party Wise Men and (joined by Wise Woman, Nancy Stiles) think that by simply not spending it like the Democrats would (in traditional Medicaid fashion) but purchasing “private insurance” from the Monopoly Insurance carrier in NH, Anthem (thanks to both Jeanne Shaheen and Obamacare) makes it all OK. It doesn’t and because of their concentrating on merely State level politics, they are failing to see the Big Picture.
How does this fit the Major Republican Pillars of Limited Government, lower taxes, and adherence to Constitutional values (both US and NH)? For the life of me, I can’t figure it out at ALL (although Democrats continually abuse “the General Welfare” phrase in the US and in the NH, each town and city is to provide welfare services). Suffice it to say that concerning the Establishment Republicans and the phrase “Jr. Partners of the Democrats in expanding the Welfare State”, the conservative base is thinking just that in terms of of that old joke about a lawyer before a judge:
A Letter From A Reader To The NH- AG About Deceptive Sales Tactics and NH Law
Dear Attorney General:
I have filed (Nov. 4th) a serious complaint concerning fraudulent advertising practices for the sale of health insurance of which bait and switch, pricing more expensive/compared to the stated promise of savings on the same services, promises of a contract not fulfilled as advertised, and a demeaning of the competition- all to sell the contracts which were deceitfully misrepresented to myself and, it appears as of now, another 22,000 NH citizens. For instance Barry Obama and a number of other individuals within his influence who sold these plans publicly conducted a fraud based on the guidelines of the CPA stated on your web page which- says even if the contract is legal:
Rosetta Stone Announces New Translation Program for ‘Obamanese’
Learn to translate OBAMANESE! “For example,”… “when you piece together all of President Obama’s statements on the NSA’s domestic spying program, from ‘I didn’t know the extent of it,’ to ‘I had been informed there was a program in place,’ to ‘it was conveyed to me that the previous administration had started this program,’ to … Read more
An “Assault Weapons Ban In the Granite State
“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” —Voltaire
Last week, as I was reading Londonderry Patch, I came across Marc Fortier’s October 29 entry entitled, “Assault Weapons Ban, Higher Speed Limits and Gambling“. Fortin writes, “New Hampshire lawmakers will debate these and other controversial issues in the upcoming legislative session.” Fortier also informs, “Friday was the deadline for members of the New Hampshire Senate to submit Legislative Service Requests for 2014.” I give a big hat tip to Marc Fortier because none of the mainstream newspapers have really talked about what is in store for Legislative Service Requests.
They cost $700 million dollars, though…
There’s a new license plate being contemplated to commemorate the special legislative session…..
Hey! It’s 8:09:10 on 11-12-13
You probably missed it, but there it is (was). 8:09:10 on 11-12-13 As you were.
Sorry, NH GOP Committeeman Steve Duprey, but TEA Partiers are NEITHER Flat Earthers or Anarchists
This is not rocket science – he has been a successful biz dude and have been playing in politics far longer than I. But even with that, he cannot be given a pass for this faux pas. Unless of course, it wasn’t and he only wished to have it perceived like the Democrats use those words (which sends quite a message in and of itself). Again, from DiStaso:
FLAT EARTH SOCIETY? Republican National Committeeman Steve Duprey acknowledged referring to the “far right fringe of the Tea Party” as “flat earth believers” at a state party executive committee meeting last Monday night, Nov. 4.
Well, at least he’s being a sight more honest in what he believes than what Obama keeps saying about what he says…but still wrong.
Duprey told us, “I’m not against the Tea Party. It is a movement grounded in fiscal conservatism, which I support. But it does contain some who don’t believe in any government and who think anarchy should rule, and they are on the far, far fringe.”
Glad to see that the NH GOP RNC Committeeman decided to adopt the exact same the language of the Democrats with as much skill and as much actual knowledge of the TEA Party as when the NHDP called a Progressive Republican, Charlie Bass, a TEA Partier. Not even Libertarians are anarchists – while they believe in probably even less money than I do…