One of the smartest things Senator Judd Gregg probably ever did was to not take the job as Obama’s Commerce secretary. But the seat warmer who succeeded the original seat warmer Obama settled on for Commerce is having some issues. The Joe Biden’s driver variety of problem; he was just arrested for Felony hit and run.
(Honestly, who in the Obama Administration couldn’t be arrested for multiple hit and runs on the US economy? Seriously.)
John Bryson has found himself on the wrong end of three hit and runs in the same day. There is speculation of health issues, and if true we hope the Secretary finds himself well, but drugs or alcohol have not been ruled out. But whether for health or optics, Bryson may need to step aside, meaning Obama would need to suggest a replacement. And I have a suggestion.
Interesting – in 2009: So, the bottom 50% earn over a Trillion, pays $19.5 Billion in income tax The top 400 earners (just 400), earn $81 Billion, pays $16.1 Billion in income tax. Effective rate for 400: 19.8% Effective rate for bottom 50%: 2% So, who is paying their Fair Share? ****** Interesting – from … Read more
And given that the news is out that President Obama was a dues paying member of the New Party out of Chicago (juuuuusssstttt to the right of being communists – and certainly in the mold of European Socialists), I think that the title “Socialist” stands. But the race-baiters on the Left can’t seem to … Read more
Jeb Bush is out there shilling for compromise. “Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad — they would have a hard time if you define the Republican party — and I don’t — as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for … Read more
In Tasmania the legal production of poppies is a major industry. According to the BBC they provide about 50% of the worlds legal opium “for morphine and other painkillers.” Some of the local Wallaby population has taken to digesting the plant and then wandering through the fields high. This wandering is producing “crop circles.” Those worn down designs and mazes visible from the sky, believed by some to be the work of other-worldly beings, but not is Tasmania–It’s the Wallabies.
(Rumor has it they are not all exactly indigenous so this would still technically make them ‘aliens’ crop circles.)
Several thoughts come to mind if this were happening in America.
Unbelievable – do the Establishment Republicans feel THAT secure that Hess can openly insult NH Seth Cohn on TV – and all those that ascribe to many of the same stances? I am sorely wishing to violate my own standards to use a four letter Yiddish word that ends in “z” – but I shan’t (cute way not to violate my “adult themes, kid friendly rule; maybe I should have Seth explain it to him).
One of the big problems within the NH GOP is this divide: why be a Republican when you won’t speak, act, or vote like one? Given that the TEA Party / 9-12ers / Libertarian part of the Party gave new spirit in the last election and a new attitude, why are you going to take them publicly to task? Do you REALLY think that you can “muscle” votes out of these folks just on your whim? Are you nuts? Or do you have so little sense of the movement that you have forgotten that the TEA Party started out hating the Republicans first because they thought you all knew better than what you showed?
Dennis Lamare is challenging Congressman Charlie Bass in a Republican Primary for Congressional District 2 in New Hampshire. Here are is remarks at the Hillsborough County Republican Committee Flag Day Picnic.
Chris Crawford of the NH Conservative Future PAC was on hand at the Hillsborough County Republican Committee Flag Day Picnic. Here’s what he had to say.
Heh! My role for this merry group of political adventurists was to be “the secondary tracker” (yeah, a meta-meta moment) for our group. Dana Loesch of Brietbart is an outgoing spitfire as a blogger and a talk radio host and Jim Hoft of GatewayPundit are nationally known bloggers (and Jim being a big 6’4″ blonde … Read more
Well, of COURSE I bought the book as well. Why not? Now, some might say “Hey, you’re funding the enemy!” Yeah, a few shekels will make it into Van Jones’s wallet. But I also read Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals for TWO specific reasons:
Sun-Tze: know your enemy
I almost got Alinsky’d before I knew what it was (Hey, Zandra Rice-Hawkins -> #FAIL)
I have no intention of allowing myself to get “Jones’d” in the future; as my high school Principal said over and over and over (again) over the loudspeaker for the morning greeting: forewarned is forearmed (and in politics, that last word has multiple definitions). He’s a major player in this engagement between philosophies – and make NO mistake, we have been in a philosophical war here in the US for quite some time. His is an ideology, shared by much of the White House denizens and President Obam. It is one that is an outlook that is more communism than individualistic, more Marx than Founding Fathers. In fact, I think it could be safe to say, as was discussed a lot at the Future of Journalism Summit dinners, workshops, and informal gatherings, that this struggle we are in IS a Cold Civil War. Just was with the war with Communism (which, being between nation-states, did have a few “hot” proxy wars – more on this later.
In the mean time, here’s video of me getting the book signed:
When I put up the video of Dana Loesch and Jim Hoft, I totally forgot about a real important point until I went back to GatewayPundit to check on something (emphasis mine):
It seems like it was just yesterday that I broke the news here on Gateway Pundit that Van Jones signed 9-11 Truther documents blaming Bush for 9-11. This revelation forced Obama’s Green Czar to resign from his position in the Obama White House two days later. They talked about Van’s departure on FOX News at the time.
So it was a real pleasure to finally meet commie Van Jones.
As you have seen the last couple of days, I’ve been out of town the last couple of days – so I missed this announcement from a blogger that was one of the first to send us some link love:
I can’t believe it’s been ten years since Weekend Pundit was started by my dear brother. The third post to this blog was mine and I’ve been doing it ever since. There have been thousands of posts though a goodly number disappeared into the Big Bit Bucket when our second host, Blogmosis, went up in smoke, leaving us to fall back on Blogger and later on to our own site. Despite the loss, I still have all of my original posts here at The Manse on the Official Weekend Pundit Main Computer as well as on a number of backup disks stashed away in secure locations.
Today was the Hillsborough County Republican Committee Flag Day Picnic. The event, held at the Alpine Grove in Hollis, was a tremendous success, with a long list of speakers. I’m not going to break them all out into individual posts but I will post several. For those looking for the entire event it will be … Read more
It went out to all the Republican State House members. It is about the defeat of CACR-12, the school funding constitutional amendment. It shows, in part, why O’Brien is so good at his job. He may be the best, most principled Speaker the New Hampshire State House of Representatives has had in the past 100 years or more. Read on….
Speaker of the State House Bill O'Brien
From: O’Brien, William
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 4:56 PM
To: Republican House Members
Subject: CACR 12 and House Republicans
Dear Republican colleagues,
Last March, House leadership held a press conference in which we announced that we would work with the Governor in an effort to craft a compromise education funding amendment. We said then, and still believe, that having the Governor’s support would be critical to achieving 2/3rd of the popular vote in November. That said, we also pointed out that if we were going to compromise with the Governor on passing an amendment, it would be critical that the Governor…
OK, OK, I know – from the postings thus far, it may seem that I went down for one event but spent my time over at the other: NetRoots Nation. Non, mon freres! Frankly, given the drubbing that the Democrats, theLeft, the Unions, and the rest of the associated fellow travelers, that yearly collection of collectivists was a dim bulb affair. Not so much that I am CALLING them dim bulbs (heh!) but that the overall “vibe” of the place (Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, RI) was not exactly joyous and effervescent. Sure, smiles could be seen (like when friends see friends after a space of time). But dismal is a good word. Downer is a better word.
Denial, in what happened and WHY, is probably the best descriptor of the overall mood (where as, Delight could be used for the attendees of the Franklin Center / Heritage Foundation event – but more on that actual set of activities later).
Back to adjectives: Dense. Yeah, outside the RI Convention Center, across the street, was the most dejected bunch of dingleberries I’d seen in a long time; how the Occupy Wall Street movement has fallen. Frankly, there is little difference from these folks and the typical Skid Row inhabitants. And in their rally, it showed.
We had just finished with another activity (heh! In a later post!) when all of a sudden, we heard a lot of yelling, so the group of us quickly went to the front atrium. Problem: by the time that we arrived, security had already removed them. However, one of Jim Hoft’s (The Gateway Pundit) folks caught the “mic check” session of the OWS folks pleading with the rest of the NetRoots to come and join them in a march (“hey, we’re the 99% – and so are you! You are us, and us is you” supplication):
Well, by that time, I got there, spun up the camera, and taped for a while (after the jump). Two observations:
OWS has turned out to be nothing than the “storm troopers of the moment” for the Left. Like Cindy Sheehan who protested President Bush, especially at his ranch in Texas), once their purpose was done, so was the Left with them. Sadly, it seems like the OWS folks haven’t figured out that they’ve become mostly tools that have been left by the side of the sidewalk as the only folks that heeded the call of OWS Providence were folks like me with a camera. I should have gone and spent my time elsewhere.
The last scene’s commentary seems appropriate for the entire movement.
On 6-6-12 I provided an update on the state of tobacco tax revenue in New Hampshire. Buried in that post were some observations about how hypocritical and dishonest Democrats in the Granite state are about tobacco and their obsession with taxing it. A hypocrisy they themselves may not even grasp. So I wanted to excerpt that portion separately with a few minor edits. Here it is.
Democrats complained publicly and often about lower tobacco revenue after the tax was first lowered. But isn’t that the point of the tax? To lower consumption and therefore revenue? To end a practice many in government, and more so in the nanny wing, argue adds to the long term cost borne by the public? Is that not the goal? To make smoking history?
And we know that raising the tax reduces consumption, and lowers traffic into New Hampshire to buy tobacco (and anything else) because we’ve seen it happen. So less tobacco revenue always had to be the goal for Democrats if they are being even remotely honest about it. This means that at some point New Hampshire was going to have to look someplace else for that revenue–or were NH Democrats planning on increasing the tax per pack on the last smoker to $30 million (or whatever it is) to make up for everyone else who had quit at their urging?
