Democrats are a minority of political and cultural opinion but they control education, media, and entertainment so they sound big.  They are loud as well, angry bullies to anyone who dare oppose them, so most people just keep their heads down which is what they want.  The less you want to know the better it is for them.  Case in point.

Voter ID.  Democrats want you to think it is bad, mean, evil, intimidating, even though all the actual facts prove otherwise.  Well, I guess people in New Hampshire are smarter than your average narrative spewing Democrat.  In a recent survey only Democrats do not think ID should be requred to vpte but only by 50-42.  Everyone else overwhelmingly wants voter I.D., including independents 76-14. (Graph on the jump)

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

And in this case, that would be the Freedom of Speech and the Freedom of Expression of Religion.  Those of us that were against homosexual marriage were told that we were bigots, homophobes, Neanderthals with our knuckles always needing dirt cleaned from them, and that famous “times have changed”.  Well, times have changed and many of us were prescient – we saw this coming.  The Left has hated the Right for we have slowed or stopped their “progress” towards Cultural Marxism and their Neo-Feudalism version of Heaven on Earth.  Included in that has been hatred of religious values still in force – absolute value to which many of us, as uber-Progressive Obama said, cling.  Absolute values alone, knowing what is correct and right and what is wrong and sinful, has done much to keep the ideal of self-government / self-resposibility (at the individual level ) alive and the restraint on their march.

But the main aim of Progressivism has always been to be on the Throne but they realized that the only way to do that was to undermine the importance of religion, replace the absolute value system with relative moralism (to which they could manipulate any way they want) and by lessening what used to be a shared value, go after their main objective – the denigration of the US Constitution.

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And the continued push for acceptance and assimilation of the Progressive value that is a 180: eternal victimhood.  From George Will comes the example (in talking about Detroit, emphasis mine):

Steven Rattner, who administered the bailout of part of the Detroit-based portion of America’s automobile industry, says, “Apart from voting in elections, the 700,000 remaining residents of the Motor City are no more responsible for Detroit’s problems than were the victims of Hurricane Sandy for theirs.” Congress, he says, should bail out Detroit because “America is just as much about aiding those less fortunate as it is about personal responsibility.”

There you have today’s liberalism: Human agency, hence responsibility, is denied. Apart from the pesky matter of “voting in elections” — apart from decades of voting to empower incompetents, scoundrels and criminals, and to mandate unionized rapacity — no one is responsible for anything. Popular sovereignty is a chimera because impersonal forces akin to hurricanes are sovereign.

And let’s add these bon mots from the President in saying that his poor relatives keep his kids “grounded”:

“Malia and Sasha have cousins who know what it’s like to struggle and know what it’s like to have to scrape by. They know that those kids are just as worthy as they are, they just haven’t had as much luck.”

Right – Obama’s family’s lofty position is simply due to dumb freaking luck.

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Yeah, I’m on pretty much on a lot of the Republican email list of import.  No, not all, but I seemingly end up on lots of them.  Including the NRCC – the National Republican Congressional Committee (tasked with protecting incumbents electorally and those new R candidates who have earned their stamp of approval)  which is pretty much in attack-dog mode against Carol Shea-Porter and Annie Kuster.  To be honest, if this is to be red meat stuff, it ought to at least pass the grill test (hmm, smells ok).  Methinks, however, if this kind of dribble is supposed to “activating the base”, well, I think they need a new chef:

On Medicare’s 48^th Anniversary, Carol Shea-Porter Continues to Oppose Plans to Save It

Shea-Porter opposed a balanced budget which would have preserved Medicare for future generations

WASHINGTON – Forty-eight years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law. How is Rep. Carol Shea-Porter celebrating this historic anniversary? By continually opposing plans that would balance the budget and preserve and protect Medicare for future generations.

And it goes on.  So with Immigration, Obamacare, the upcoming Continuing Resolution, failure of foreign policy, the hollowing out of our military, and more importantly, the state of our economy, this is what they choose to harp about?   So, I wrote a return “love message”:

Carol SIEU-Porter is certainly a problem.  However, another (and much greater) problem is that the Republican Leadership down there in DC are seemingly in great need of the GraniteGrok Republican Repair Kit:

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An abstraction from the Wall Street Journal (via Junk Science):

• Wind and solar make up 3.5% of America’s electrical generation
• Denmark gets 30% of its electrical generation from wind
• Germany gets 12% of its electrical generation from wind and solar

• Germany has used used $250 Billion to deploy to 12%

By 2020:

• Denmark wishes to push that percentage to 50%
• Germany wished to push their percentage to 35%

Result NOW?

• Germany and Denmark pay 300% MORE than the average American Citizen

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NH?  Not so shabby for all of the squabbling we hear from Democrats this legislation session – NH in 2009 was 18th best (Full rankings after the jump).

My Thoughts?  If NH Bridges were in as bad repair as the Democrats say they are, if they were such the high priority they screamed they were, the Dems would have stopped using them as a political club, completely take the funds from other places in the budget, and fixed the damn things NOW.

So, did they?  ‘Course not – it was (and will continue to be) simply something to extract more money from more citizens to grow more Government that more enhances their sense of self-esteem and self-worth (and yeah, some Repubs in there too).

(H/T: Reason Foundation via Heritage via Loyal Reader Steven)

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While doing some research on another OFA ‘voter’ in New Hampshire, one Katrian Lipniski (see also Katrina Lipinski de Orlov), I came across a picture in her twit pic ‘album’ of OFA activist Jess Steever holding a super-sized New Hampshire ‘Jess Steevers’ drivers license in front of the state house in Concord.  Note to Katrina–nice vagina pictures (sarcasm)–looks like that would be painful–hope that’s not yours; and I can’t tell you how very happy I am to hear that you are now “better friends with “Mike Hunt…”  meaning your…vagina, (They used the ‘c’ word), so much so that you would share pictures on twitter.  That’s not objectification though, right?

Anyway, as fate would have it, the same day I discovered the Steever Kodak Moment, someone delivered to my in-box an editorial from the Manchester paper that quotes Governor Maggie Hassan.

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John DiStaso highlighted Republican Neal Kurk this week, whose daughter travels back and forth from Hawaii but votes in New Hampshire.  There seems to be some effort on DiStaso’s part to suggest that this is inappropriate.  It might be, except for one thing.  When asked to do so Neal Kurk’s daughter can present her current New Hampshire driver’s license.

So Kendra Kurk Anderson does keep and maintain a New Hampshire Driver’s License, with a New Hampshire address, and that’s all we ever really asked any college student or campaign worker to do before they claimed domicile to vote here.   It’s actually  easier than filling out a background check to buy a rifle at a New Hampshire gun show.

Meanwhile, John DiStaso, the investigative reporter that he is, after reporting this, never manages to follow this through to it’s logical conclusion.

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