NH Republicans v. NH Democrats – ‘Simplified.’

How to pick pockets- A guide to Governing as a NH DemocratA lot of people avoid politics because it seems so complex.  And there are plenty of people who make it that way on purpose to keep those very same people from getting involved.  If you are not involved you are more likely to buy into the nonsense or not pay much attention.   But I’m here today to make it as simple as I can.  It’s Friday.  Things should be simple on Friday.

So here we go.

New Hampshire Democrats want to raise your taxes.  (Just look at 2007-2010 if you doubt me.)  They are convinced that the government needs the money more than you do and with Democrats the government always comes first.  So the first thing they do is spend it, then find ways to tax it out of you.

Most New Hampshire Republicans would disagree.  While there are some things government could do, can do, and maybe even should do, none of them take priority over you and your family, or your job or your business.   And that is on the good days.  In this economy we really don’t need to add to the cost of unnecessary government which is why the Republicans cut spending and the deficit, and cut unnecessary taxes and still balanced the budget, rather than taking money from you to do it.   They wanted you to keep more of your own money, especially in these trying fiscal times.

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Which Utopian Democrat Dream-Scam Is Failing Faster?

Facepalm - Which Progressive Utopia will fail firstWhich Utopian dystopian Democrat dream-Scam is failing faster?

In Cah-Lee-Four-Knee-Ah the Workers paradise is collapsing at an ever increasing rate as the anchor of unsustainable public union contracts and pensions drag otherwise average, every-day, incompetently run, but barely sustainable left wing bureaucrapalities (bureaucratically strangled municipalities run by an endless string of administrators and political descendents of the Democrat bloodline) into bankruptcy.

In Obamaville, the chronically unemployed can look up from the gutters of Hopey-changey Way to watch the lights dim on an unending string of Solar Panel/Green Energy company failures as the DoE’s wasted-billions to prop up the Renewable Energy Utopia ding-bats like Jeanne Shaheen have oversight on, produce nothing but failure and rising debt service payments.

The missing link between these two is happily not missing.  And you cant blame George Bush.  These failures are both of products of Progressives, mostly Democrats, attempting to micromanage labor, its type, direction, output, and value.

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GrokTV Special Interviews – CNHT in review – The “Micros” edition!

Man, am I stacked up on video – apologies for not getting this up earlier from the CNHT Annual Picnic.  While Grokster Steve manned our setup and watched over the live stream and the recording cameras, I snuck out a few times to get a few “micro-interviews”.  So, here they are:    Kevin Smith (Candidate, … Read more

Evil Tea Party Manipulates NH House To Produce First Balanced State Budget Since 2006

Hey.  If we (the TEA party/Right wing activists, etc)  are going to get blamed (by left wing radical Democrats) for making the New Hampshire House and Senate write and pass legislation (that reduces spending, taxes, regulation, and increases liberty and freedom), then we damn well deserve credit for this.

NH Republians balance budget to within +0.8%It’s the end of the two-year fiscal cycle and revenues came in +0.8%.  That means we took in revenue just a little bit more than we spent. And for the first time since (cough cough) 2006–the last year for which Republicans were responsible for revenue estimates–we are not in a fiscal crisis.  No late night, last minute, emergencies.  No layoffs.  No mid-budget hiring or wage freezes, no sudden need to borrow more money, no special, late night meetings to pass unpopular taxes that never had a hearing, or draconian plots to sell as yet defined public lands while cramming pension costs down on towns becasue revenue estimates were not even close.  No forcing department heads to look for savings in the middle of the budget cycle. No abrupt, heavy handed, executive orders to bring spending in line with revenue.   No delaying the pain or kicking the can down the road for someone else to deal with.

These were all features of the four year budgetary disaster known as Democrat majority control.  And thanks to the TEA party–if Ray Buckley and his Tax and Spend Democrat Party are to be believed–we no longer have that problem.

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“Harry Reid” Is now Defined as a Sexual Position

First, thanks to Duane Lester (Fellow RightOnline Blogger) for the heads up on this priceless piece of pop culture. Someone has made an entry to the Urban Dictionary defining the term “Harry Reid.” The Urban Dictionary lists ‘Harry Reid’ as : A sexual position where you climb on top and then do absolutely nothing. Named … Read more

Outsourcer in Chief

Hey, Obama Started it.  Let’s finish it for Him. Democrat Nancy Pelosi may have as much as 5 million dollars outsourced to offshore investments.  And there are other Obama insiders coming under scrutiny.  My guess is that we’ll find enough skeletons to knock this latest distraction off the table like all the previous ones, in … Read more

Silly Jackie, pledges are for politicians with backbones…and conviction

Using the oh-so-clever “we need to keep an open mind” excuse, former state senator and current Democrat gubernatorial candidate Jackie Cilley has pledged not to pledge to veto any broad-based taxes in New Hampshire, should she ascend to the post in November. Calling them “simplistic”, Cilley declared earlier this year that “I won’t play pledge … Read more

Democrat NH House Rep Cindy Rosenwald – About That 800 Million Dollar Deficit

We should expect more of this in the coming months.  More of what?  NH House Democrats pretending there never was an 800 million dollar deficit when they were shown the door in droves.  An example of this deficit-narrative popped up on Bedford Patch yesterday.  Nashua Democrat House Rep Cindy Rosenwald (Fiance Committee) penned an op/ed entitled ‘The 800 Million Budget Deficit Myth.

Rosenwald’s entire premise turns on the fact that the State has to balance it’s budget so how could there be a deficit?  But then she tries to explain it and things go horribly wrong.

[so] how did the Republicans turn the reality of the Democratic surplus into the myth of the Democratic deficit? Well, the answer lies in the additional federal stimulus money that flowed into New Hampshire for two and a half years through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  This extra money, $802 million in total, helped maintain essential safety net programs for vulnerable residents hit hard by the recession. The federal money was one-time assistance. The Democratic majority knew all along it would not continue, and that budget cuts would have to be made during the following biennium so that there would not be a deficit.

Wait a minute?  You said the 800 million dollar deficit was a myth.  Then you admit that democrats needed $802 million in one time money the state did not have to pay for their spending.  Then you say the Democrat majority knew that budget cuts would have to be made during the following biennium so that there would not be a deficit.  Not be a deficit. Not be a deficit?

So…..If Democrats knew there was going to be an 800 million dollar deficit how can the 800 million dollar deficit be a myth?

And if Democrats knew we would have to cut (because of the 802 million in one time money), to make sure there would be no deficit, why did Democrats freak out when Republicans cut that spending so there wouldn’t be a deficit just like you claim Democrats wanted?

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When the comments are as good as the contents

Classics Professor Victor Davis Hanson

It is a pleasure to read essays by classics professor Victor Davis Hanson at any time, but especially when he’s explicating the Big Picture, as he does in his seminal political essay, Tuning Out a President. However, what’s surprising in his case is the fervor, insight, and sheer volume of commentary that often follows such pieces There are often hundreds of responses, many proving to be extremely insightful. Here’s one in response to Hanson’s essay noted above, from someone writing under the handle “BarocheDique“:

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Bill Whittle on Obamacare: “One For The Team”

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”  —Thomas Jefferson Bill Whittle give us his perspective on the recent Supreme Court decision on Obamacare. In the wake of the decision, it serves us well to listen to a true American Patriot Like Bill…enjoy. H/T billwhittle.net

Americans For Prosperity NH- 2011-2012 Legislative Score Card [Updated-Added A+’s]

[Updated and Bumped- I added the Republican House Rep A+ grades on the jump.  Grok Updates by county etc coming soon.]

AFP-NH has released its 2011-2012 Legislative scorecard for New Hampshire.  In my review of the score card results there is not much that will surprise anyone who makes it a habit of paying attention to what happens in Concord.   But not everyone lurks in the Political sausage factory so lets take a quick review.

NH House Score Card…

Every Democrat in the New Hampshire House received an ‘F’ except for Domingo Baldwin in Stafford County and John Gilmas in Hillsborough;  They both got a C.

Joining these two Democrats on the Republican side with a grade of “C” …

Randall Brownrigg (Hills-27), Patricia Dowling (Rock-05), Richard Drisko (Hills-05), Laura Gandia (Hills-27), David Knox (Carroll-04), Michael McCarthy (Hills-21), Herbert Richardson (Coos-02), Tony Soltani (Merr-08), Frankilin Sterling (Cheshire-07), and Steve Vallincourt (Hills-15).

NH House Republicans receiving a ‘D’ Include

Michael Buxton (Hills-24), Tim Copeland (Rock-13), Russell Day (Hills-07). Mark Proulx (Hills-15), David Robbins (Hills-26), Jeffery Shackett (Grafton-08), and James Waddell (Rock-15)

And the NH House Republicans who got an ‘F’ like the majority of Democrats…

Peter Bolster (Belknap-05), Julie Brown (Strafford-01), Susan Emerson (Cheshire-07), Carolyn Gargasz (Hills-05), Tim Hogan (Hills-23), Karen Hutchinson (Rock-03), Kevin Janvrin (Rock-14), David Kidder (Merr-01), Priscilla lockwood (Merr-06), Irene Messier (Hills-17), Alida Millham (Belknap-05), William Panek (Strafford-03), Amy & Lawrence Perkins (Rock-14), Marshall & Matt Quandt (Rock-13), and William Remick (Coos-02)

So who got an A or an A+?

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GrokTV Event – CNHT in review – The “Specials” edition!

Well, more than just the “top” positions in the State (e.g., NH Governor, NH Senate,  NH House) are being sought here in  New Hampshire – and a few of those candidates did show up at the CNHT Annual Picnic.  In order of appearance:

  

Frank Szabo (Sheriff, Hillsboro)                                     Michael Tierney (NH Exec. Council, District 2)

More after the jump.  Previous Posts:

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