Can I PLEASE put this under “even a stopped clock is right twice a day”?  Here’s the news at which, I have to admit, I just grimaced:

Senate President Peter Bragdon, R-Milford, on Tuesday accepted the $180,000-a-year job of running the Local Government Center, the controversial nonprofit that manages health and other insurance plans for cities and school districts across the state.

Bragdon, 50, signed a one-year contract and starts Wednesday as executive director, replacing George Bald, the former state development commissioner who took over at the LGC for the past six months.

…Bragdon said he will remain as Senate leader and intends to seek re-election as senator in 2014. He plans to remain a member of the Milford School Board for a term that runs another 18 months.

As for conflicts of interest, Bragdon said he would abstain from taking part on any legislation related to municipal and school insurance risk pools at the Statehouse and any insurance contracts when the LGC would be a bidder before the town’s school board

Right – the revolving door which has been used WAY too much lately – just another example of one hand of The Ruling Class greasing another hand – of the same Class.  I certainly can’t remember anything like this before (not that I’ve been watching this closely for all that long).  But really – this is just plain ugly.

So now we have the Super-Duper Sterling Political Optics of an NH GOP Chair who didn’t pay her Federal Taxes and now the highest ranking Republican in the State (Ayotte being Federal) getting paid by both sides (yes, $100 still counts as getting paid – taxes do get pulled from it) of the lobby scene – head of those that have to listen to the lobbyists, and then the head honcho that tells lobbyists

“Go sic’em“

Paint those optics black.  And yes, I can’t believe that I actually agree with

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I needed a laugh.  Here’s five of them for you from Dennis Miller’s Twitter Feed (Oprah, Obama, The Clinton’s, The Economy, and College Graduates)

https://twitter.com/DennisDMZ/statuses/368039528495198208

Here’s a few more from Mr. Miller…

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The Arborist just touched on it, I’m going to beat it with a bat.  (A Democrat approved methodology, let us not forget.)

Martha Fuller Clark’s memory is not terribly reliable.  So we probably can’t ask her to explain why a Lawyer from Arkansas (Bauxite AR to be exact) used her address to vote using a New Hampshire Absentee ballot, listing her Portsmouth Voter-Moter Motel home as his place of residence.

That’s right fair citizens of New Hampshire–those of you who are actual citizens of New Hampshire, not only do we have to contend with voter laws that allow this kind of crap…

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Sometimes I just have a lot to add to something that someone has written and the following is something that I do believe to be true from MY Conservative / libertarian leanings stand point.  Pretty much, I do believe this segment from a RedState post by plumely summarizes the outlooks of Conservatives vs Statist Progressive Democrats – and I say that with the added real life actions of what kinds of legislations and regulations are generally passed:

This belief translates into how I view we should be governed, and I think it is in line with what our Founding Fathers had in mind as well.

• Because people are inherently good they need to be rewarded for their goodness.
• that reward comes in the form of freedom– all of those rights afforded to us in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
• The Government’s only role should be to protect us from theft and murder. In order to do that, it must be restricted, so that we are free to obtain the means to protect ourselves.

Is this view perfect? No, and I believe others could articulate it better. But it is the best way I know how to make the principles that the Founding Fathers put forth my own. Now with that said, here is what Liberals believe:

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Looking like some of the folks we have been writing about concerning them being “drive by Voters” have figured out that they’ve figuratively been “Voter Scalped” – and have turned in their resignation papers.  Does this mean that they are dropping out of the political wars?  From SeacoastOnline: (reformatted, emphasis mine)

Three Obama campaigners drop Fuller Clark address

PORTSMOUTH — Three Obama for America campaign workers, who registered to vote using Sen. Martha Fuller Clark’s address, have been removed from the city’s voter list at their request, according to the City Clerk’s office.  The three are Bryan Gregory Griffith, Andrea Marie Riccio and Ellen Rose Whelan-Wuest. According to the clerk’s office, all recently wrote letters to the city asking to be removed from the voter checklist and the letters were referred to the city’s Board of Registers. The board met Tuesday and removed them from the voter checklist, the clerk’s office reported. Fuller Clark’s spokesman, Keith McCrea, said on Tuesday that the senator had no comment.Fuller Clark previously explained that Griffith worked for the Obama campaign and stayed at her home from last June or July, through December. Riccio, she said, was her 2008 campaign manager before moving to Washington, D.C. in 2009, and that she hadn’t lived or voted in New Hampshire since then. Fuller Clark said Whelan-Wuest worked for the Obama campaign in 2008.

But they STILL were on the voter checklist AFTER the state wide purge?  HOW was Andrea Marie Riccio still on the checklist?  Who asked that she NOT be removed?

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The recent request by three of Martha Fuller Clark’s motel patrons to be removed from the voter checklist poses more questions than answers.

Fuller Clark previously explained that Griffith worked for the Obama campaign and stayed at her home from last June or July, through December. Riccio, she said, was her 2008 campaign manager before moving to Washington, D.C. in 2009, and that she hadn’t lived or voted in New Hampshire since then. Fuller Clark said Whelan-Wuest worked for the Obama campaign in 2008.

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Also registered to vote using Fuller Clark’s address is Ryan Fitzpatrick Flynn who, said Fuller Clark, worked for the Obama campaign and stayed at her home from last June or July, through December. Flynn remains on the voter checklist, according to the clerk’s office.

We have a voter list purge every ten years or so.  If Riccio and Whelan-Wuest left in 2008, how or why, years later, were they not removed?  What, how, or why did Fuller-Clark manage to keep them registered from her home when they–according to her–had been gone for years?

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Executive order?  Oh, so you want us to help you rearrange your deck chairs on your own personal amnesty Titanic?

“I believe that this president will be tempted, if nothing happens in Congress, he will be tempted to issue an executive order like he did for the DREAM Act kids a year ago, where he basically legalizes 11 million people by the sign of a pen. Now, we won’t get an E-Verify, we won’t get any border security. But he’ll legalize them,”

– US Senator Marco Rubio (FL-A)

A – Appeaser.  So, once again, you want us to vote for the least bad of two – or is this reverse psychology to make us think that simply giving amnesty to 11 – 20 million illegal aliens is going to make it better, simply because of an R next to his name?  Look, I’ve been listening to this crap of “the other guy or guy’s plan is worse” for decades when the initial premise is absolutely wrong from the get-go.  As he has demoted himself to be Reid’s messenger boy, there’s a reason why he’s on the down speed elevator in the latest polling here in NH.  Like trap door floor quick.

The TEA Party in Florida sent him to the Senate to oppose Obama and the Democrat policies – and in this, he is seen as being complicit.  Sorry, but saying that we won’t get this and we won’t get that – Yo, Senator Marcos, given his current track record (and that of his underlings) of simply just ignoring ANY part of a law that’s been passed (e.g., like the IRS saying they’ll give tax credits through the Obamacare Exchanges run by the Feds EVEN AS THE LAW SAYS IT CAN’T.

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Over and over again, in a constant cacophony Progressive pessimism on the ability of ordinary citizens to run their own lives.  We serfs are to trust Government because, well, they are the Smart People.  We even tell you when to vote:

Oh wait!

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As Twitchy points out (read the tweets and the comments they are all good), Media Mattress is trying to spin up business for Matt Damon’s  Elysium by selling it as a movie that  “forces the right to confront the world their ideology creates.”

Sony should slap that on a poster and see how many tickets it sells.

If you haven’t heard, “Elysium” features Damon trying to escape a future earth that looks a lot like Detroit for an orbiting paradise called Elysium, where rich Hollywood types live in luxury like they do here on earth.

Liberals really are incredibly ignorant, is naive a better word, how about in denial?

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