Let’s see, My Government says what my insurance policy has to have – including substance abuse (I’m a teetotaler), pediatric care (my kids are grown and I’m not going to have any more), and maternity care (ditto).  Other stuff as well that I would never purchase if I  had my own way.

How am I in control of my healthcare?

I am limited by My Government as to who I can buy from.

How am I in control of my healthcare?

It is their version of a “poker tell”?

I’ve often noticed, and written, that Progressives (re: incremental Socialists), like all totalitarians before them, can never ever use words with the same meanings that the rest of us understand in common use.  How often has the Clintonian political meme “It depends on what the meaning of the words ‘is’ is.”  Always shading the word usage to make us think one thing while actually meaning another – linguistic Houdinis having folks think “over there” when the action is “over here“.

Like Sebelius in her testimony in front of Congress today: 

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That would be “Martha Fuller-Clark of Martha’s Motel – hits somebody with a car and….what happens? Police response is seemingly….mere deference?” – a riff off the news that the NH State Senator “blacked out” and mowed down a walker.  Turns out it was a 67 year old Mom wearing a reflective vest while legally walking on the sidewalk with her daughter.  My main beef was “doesn’t matter who the Who was, why did the police do nothing“? In today’s SeacoastOnline, an update (emphasis mine, reformatted):

PORTSMOUTH — State Sen. Martha Fuller Clark hasn’t gotten behind the wheel of a car since driving into a pedestrian Friday night and doesn’t plan to do so until she’s medically cleared, said her lawyer, Wilfred “Jack” Sanders.  Fuller Clark, D-Portsmouth, gave police two different explanations for two crashes she was involved in during the past two months, police said on Monday.

The 71-year-old Portsmouth resident told police she “blacked out” before driving over a curb Friday night and hitting Carla Dow, of Maine, who was walking on a sidewalk, said Capt. Frank Warchol. On Sept. 8, Fuller-Clark told police she drove onto a Route 33 median strip and knocked over a street sign because the area was “not well lit,” Warchol said.

“Not well lit,” – were those “intent”ionally vote stealing OFA operatives living with her also “not well lit” to the point of her not seeing what they were doing as well?  Why WOULDN’T the police go for this dodge?  Certainly, the NH Attorney General’s office seems to be a few lite bulbs short, too, to not see the VoterFraud (and certainly since some of their own officemates were doing the same thing!). 

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I’d bet money that the AG’ office discovers nothing in their investigation.  That the reason they discover nothing is because this was a stunt perpetrated by New Hampshire Democrats, right before an election, to put bad press into the Nashua paper about the Republican opponent.

While a spokesman for the attorney general provided few details, New Hampshire Democrats said they filed the complaint Monday after witnessing what they believe was distribution of an “illegal campaign flier” benefitting Republican candidate Peter Silva.

It’s a great smear tactic executed by the smear masters themselves.  Speaking of which…

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Using back of the envelope calculations, comparing the turnout in November 2012 to the results from Tuesday’s Ward 8 NH House race, it is is difficult to suggest anything other than this.  Ward 8 is currently owned by Democrats and that’s the end of the story.

Silva would have had to turn out 50% of those who voted for Republican NH House candidates in November 2012 to beat the 36% of Democrat votes from November 2012 that Latha Mangipudi managed yesterday.

I’m not sure but I don’t think anyone has ever attracted 50% of general election during a special election so that’s a hill too high to climb.   That doesn’t mean that you give them the seat.  Silva managed 30%, which is actually impressive, but 30% of 500 fewer voters is nowhere near enough to overcome the demographic advantage Democrats currently enjoy in Nashua Ward 8 and let’s be honest–with a few exceptions they do a better job of getting the voters they have to ballot box on election day.

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Jr Hoell
LSR 14-2065.1:

A RESOLUTION urging Congress to investigate the Benghazi incident.

Whereas, every American citizen serving in the defense of his or her country has the right and the expectation to not be left behind on foreign or domestic soil; and

Whereas, the Secretary of State was sent 5 dispatches from Embassy Tripoli dated March 28, 2012, July 9, 2012, Aug 2, 2012, Aug 20, 2012, and Sept 11, 2012, all requesting more security agents or complaining about the integrity of the local security people; and

Whereas, there were over 125 Marines stationed in Sigonella, Italy, part of the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force 12, who were tasked with training African militaries fighting Africa-based terror groups, which were never called in to help; and

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