As I reported from the First Annual Strong New Hampshire Conference, I was not expecting the reaction that the crowd had when Howie Carr asked them what they thought of Kelly Ayotte’s behavior lately.  Go here if you have forgotten.  One of our loyal readers sent this Letter to Ayotte’ s office and gave us permission to post (emphasis mine):

Senator Ayotte:

One of the primary reasons I voted to send you to Washington was to promote fiscal responsibility. Unfortunately, you have failed me on this.

The way I was taught the Constitution, spending originates in the House. Budgets are spending. When was the last time the Senate even had a vote on a budget? Budgets are one of your duties; the House has duly passed a budget every year, yet I have not heard you trying to force Senator Reid to bring one up for a vote.

Not passing a budget that has been negotiated has allowed the Republican caucus to play into the hands of the Democrats, one manufactured crisis to another. The Continuing Resolutions, fake crisis. The only reason they are being used is that the Senate has not even tried to vote and reconcile with the budgets passed by the House.

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Courtesy of Ann Marie Banfield – Facebook.

Congratulations to the residents of MANCHESTER. Tonight the School Board voted to DEVELOP MANCHESTER ACADEMIC STANDARDS!!!!

We saw real leadership tonight when Mayor Ted Gatsas said he wanted the BEST standards for the students in Manchester.

The board listened to the concerns in the community and decided to take a different direction. The Chair Sarah Ambrogi took her time and listened to parental concerns and looked at information that was presented during all of the board meetings that led up to tonight’s decision.

Manchester and Alton are leading the way in NH to set higher and better expectations for their students.

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Everyone loves a good show but the decision of New Hampshire’s Kangaroo Court medicaid Expansion Commission, tasked with determining if the state should take the Federal bait and make Medicaid bigger, was always a foregone conclusion.

State Rep. Cindy Rosenwald, D-Nashua, credited the nine-person panel with staying focused on the task at hand.

“Even though we haven’t always agreed on specifics, we all share a strong commitment to New Hampshire,” Rosenwald said.

A strong commitment to turning New Hampshire into New Massachusetts.  So did Cindy vote by herself or did she have Janice Rottenberg or Paolo Cozzi vote as well?

It’s always nice to know that people of integrity are standing up for what they believe in at your expense.  The Medicaid expansion is something Democrats want because it comes with a promise of Federal money to implement and the promise of higher taxes when the Federal support abates or collapses.  Federal oversight will mirror their own bureaucratic designs without the electoral complication.  They get more government without the nasty side-effect of having to claim responsibility when it fails to deliver.  They are just appointed observers of our gradual demise.

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‘To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.’

– Winston Churchill, Lord of the Admiralty, Prime Minister of Great Britain

(H/T: Protect the Second Amendment – Resistance New Hampshire)

UPDATE and BUMPED:  I followed the link to NHPR that Steve provided where Ayotte said this:

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There  few words that can describe the sheer madness in that he actually believes that somebody will actually believe this (without violating Rule #1):

McConnell lamented that the agreement would not seriously address ObamaCare, but vowed to keep fighting against the law.

“This is far less than many of us had hoped for, frankly, but it is far better than what some had sought,” he said.

Far Better?  Oh My God – calling nothing “far better”?  You got nothing for passing a Continuing Resolution that does little to advance a Conservative agenda, you got nothing for giving yet ANOTHER blank check to put US further into debt, and a throwaway that Obamacare income verifcation would actually be enforced (Obama must have gone though a box of tissues for all the tears shed laughing his tochkes off).  WHAT WAS “BETTER”?  This was your only chance.

There are very few words that I can use that can adequately express my disgust at these two RINOS (“Republican” Peter King and Aaron Schock) (and shredding Rule #1 altogether):  

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Not a theology with which I am familiar.  I’m talking about Steve’s post on the vandalization of the NH GOP HQ in Concord.  While I chuckled when I read Steve’s interpretation of what the anti-GOP jerks did (“We Will Just Destroy…Healthcare for Everyone.”), here are sycophants of the Democrat Party who fellow sojourners BOOED any attempt to put a mention of God back into their Party Platform trying to use Jesus as a political club.  Yes, those folks; the Leftists that are always most likely to scream (like toddlers) “Separation of Church and State”!!!

WWJD – What Would Jesus Do?  Once again, let’s remember that Jesus came to call individuals to salvation  (and not Obama’s apostate view that it is a Collective effort) by individually repenting of their sins and then to individually and voluntarily receive the free gift of God’s salvation.  The WWJD movement, when it first started, was intended to be a personal remembrance – what should I do in my walk of salvation to more emulate Him in a given situation.  Now, given that almost everything becomes political after some amount of time, it is being used here as a threat, not a call to be still and be open.  It is being used as a slur, an epithet, as a “how DARE you not be willing to act collectively – how DARE you fight us”! 

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There is a ton of stuff going on that’s bad – and more and more keeps piling on (the “dense pack” theory of overwhelming your opposition).  Here’s yet another one – From Breitbart:

President Obama wants fast track power so he can conclude the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an expansive system of global governance that would deal a mortal blow to American sovereignty and our Constitution.

Fast track overrides the Constitution once — the Trans-Pacific Partnership overrides it forever.

TPP is billed a free trade agreement, but it is actually protectionism for Wall Street bailout banks, insurance and drug companies profiting off Obamacare, and the corporatists pushing open borders and amnesty under the rubric of “immigration reform.” The cronies with “access” in Washington are writing the deal while the rest of us are shut out.

TPP would subject the U.S. to the jurisdiction of foreign tribunals under the authority of the World Bank and United Nations. These unelected, unaccountable panels would constitute a judicial authority higher than the U.S. Supreme Court. They would have the power to overrule federal court rulings and order payment of U.S. tax dollars to enforce the special privileges granted to foreign firms that would be exempt from EPA and other regulations that strangle American firms.

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Our Constitution is under assault like never before – Progressives see it, along with traditional families, the value of self-reliance, and God, as the last impediments to transforming America into their version of Dystopia Utopia.  Congressman Tom McClintock (R-CA) has the following observations on the current Continuing Resolution to keep the Government open (as the Democrat controlled Senate has failed to pass a “regular order” budget since 2009 under Harry Reid’s Majorityship) as well as the debt ceiling crisis:

“Given the ruthless and vindictive way the shutdown has been handled, I now believe that this president would willfully act to destroy the full faith and credit of the United States unless the Congress acquiesces to all of his demands, at least as long as he sees political advantage in doing so,” McClintock said in a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives. “If the Republicans acquiesce, immediate crisis will quickly vanish, credit markets will calm and public life will return to other matters. But a fundamental element of our Constitution will have been destroyed. The power of the purse will have shifted from the representatives of the people to the executive. The executive bureaucracies will be freed to churn out ever more outlandish regulations with no effective congressional review or check through the purse. 

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When you can’t find time to write, you share.

Ed Lasky has a piece at American Thinker that points out what should seem obvious.   Obama Inc. is either completely out of touch or being malicious in its insistence that what happens as a result of their policies never really happened.

We have heard President Obama say that ObamaCare would not add a dime to the deficit, people would be able to keep their doctors, premiums would not rise — and in many cases would be cheaper than a cell phone bill — all demonstrably false ; the rollout of ObamaCare is not going great with some minor “glitches” due to the high demand, it is a train wreck and the demand, such as it is, has been pathetic .

Does he read newspapers or watch the news?

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Who is keeping the government “shutdown™” again?

1. Roll Call 478 on H.J. Res. 59 (September 20, 2013)

Earlier in September, House Republicans voted to fund the government at current spending levels while strengthening our economy and protecting millions of American families by defunding ObamaCare.

Senate Democrats killed the bill, and President Obama threatened to veto it.

 

2. Roll Call 497/498 on H.J. Res 59 (September 28, 2013)

With hours left until the government ran out of funding, House Republicans voted to keep the government open at current spending levels while protecting our economy by delayingthe glitch-filled ObamaCare for one year and repealing the tax on medical devices like pacemakers and children’s hearing aides.

Senate Democrats killed the bill, and President Obama threatened to veto it, causing the government shutdown.

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Once again, running behind!  This Sunday’s Meet The Press had this gaffe (accidentally telling the truth) said by Senator Dick Durban (Progressive -Il):

“…for goodness sake, we have a tax code that takes out $1.3 Trillion out of the economy, out of the Treasury I should say, each year and in that we can’t find some savings? Closing some loopholes, quote “raising revenue”?  Of Course we can!”

He did say “out of the economy” at the first stab and then quickly “recovered” to the more “I am Government and I should have first pickings!” that a typical Big Government Statist would have.  He was actually right – the tax code allows those that actually earn it to keep that $1.3 Trillion for themselves – and why not?  But in typical Progressive outlook, every dollar that we get to keep is seen as a dollar that is “robbed” from Government – else why would they continue to yammer that “this loophole” or “that loophole” has to be fixed.

Loophole nothing –

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