“D” is for Drive – er, but not to the local Pawn shop

My response to Pat Wood’s Letter in the Laconia Daily Sun today (P 9):

To the Editor,

Mr. Wood in his Letter (10/28, p9) rightly points out that the voters took the keys away from the Republicans in 2006 for behaving like Democrats and increased the size of Government and its spending (contrary to Republican philosophy) and gave them to actual Democrats. Properly taken to woodshed and chastised by the distributed uprising of people supporting and sympathizing with the ideals of TEA Party / back to Constitutionally limited government movement, Republicans seem to be "getting it" (those not, have been "primaried out").

However, the "D" Pat defines is Drive to national bankruptcy (to the tune of almost $3 Trillion in annual deficits in two years) – not exactly a promising "progressing forward", is it? President Obama has said that he won’t give the keys back, that Republicans must "ride in the back" even when they retake the majority in Washington. 

Moral to the Progressive Democrats: taking the keys away was the right thing at the time;  Obama thinking it was alright to walk them over to the Pawn shop  is not. 

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Urgent Message For Pro-Choice Voters

These words, URGENT MESSAGE FOR PRO CHOICE VOTERS, appear on the front of a letter from ‘New Hampshire for John Lynch 10.’  The letter, (scanned image available on the jump) is addressed to my wife, who is a registered Republican by the way.  It is both a declaration and an attack.

It declares the Lynch commitment to choice.

I am proudly pro choice.  As Governor, I have stood firmly in support of protecting the rights of women to make their own private medical decisions.  I repealed an unconstitutional law that put the reproductive health and safety of women at risk.

Interesting. Would those be 13 year old "women?"

It continues…

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Separation Of State…from Church.

Let me be clear.  My towns middle school does not do all that bad a job covering the US constitution.  I can say this mostly because they actually cover it for a few weeks, during an exploration of American history and the founding of the nation.   But being either a victim of or party to the kinds of support materials embedded into the public education system, I still manage to find a few ringers that make me shake my head and smile.

Not too long ago I regaled you on these pages with the tale of just such a ringer on the Middle Schools ‘citizenship quiz,’ where it asked the question, where does free speech come from?  The correct answer is of course, ‘our creator,’ who provided us with a set of unalienable rights that exist even in the vacuum of the necessary evil of government.  But that’s not the answer they were looking for.  They expect you to write ‘The 1st amendment.’ This is of course incorrect.  It assumes people could not speak freely prior 1791 when the bill of rights was ratified which is why I  am forever reminding my children that the US Constitution does not give rights, it protects them.

Which brings me to this newly discovered Gem. Yesterday I came across a series of poorly worded essay questions—my second sons homework–the worst of which was this; What part of Article VI of the US constitution supports the idea of separation of church and state? Explain. (Go ahead and roll your eyes or make a grunting noise, or whatever it is you do when confronted with such nonsense.)

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Lynch Lied….On Parental Notification

Governor Lynch’s final statement on the matter was that he could find no circumstance in which parents should be involved. That every instance of pregnancy, regardless of age, was one of “those cases” where parental notification “is not possible.”

Karol Kills Kjobs

Shea-Porter is clinging to the idea that the health care bill she deemed passed will create jobs.  But like most progressive undertakings it will destroy two to three times as many jobs as are forced into existence by the distant, egg head, committee appointees in DC.  Net loss, ship sinks, economy drowns.

With that in mind Ben Domenech at RedState has this.   It suggests the path to job loss created by the bills provisions, you know the ones we can fix later.  Of course the taxes created to supposedly pay for the bill, are the ones destroying the jobs.  That’s the liberal-progressive equivalent to free market process of creative destruction; it’s just called destruction.

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Government Unions Must Go

Let the discussion begin: When it comes to union money in politics, as other government unions like the NEA, AFT, UFT, SEIU, AFGE, NAGE, IAFF, and others pour money into the political process, the actual figures are staggering. Several years ago, the National Institute for Labor Relations Research estimated that unions spent $925 million on the … Read more

Jayne Spaulding-Say Hello To My Woodshed

RINO!Jayne Spaulding is a RINO.  The voters in her district grew weary of her brand of left leaning republican governance and used the primary ballot box to excuse her from participating in the 2010 general election, deciding instead on other choices made available to them.

Jayne, like several other RINO’s in New Hampshire who have been the victims of "fringe elements" (aka-voters) have suddenly lost faith in the secret ballot now that it has become a capricious scold; tossing her to the curb like a two-dollar whore.  How dare the electorate that once embraced Jayne Spaulding refuse to show up to ensure her tenure in the New Hampshire House.  Clearly this is a mistake, the doing of some sinister cabal of right wing special interests and conservative extremists.  They can’t possibly have decided to take the state in a different direction from that of moderate Jayne Spaulding?

(No word yet from Jayne on the possibility of also claiming that foreign campaign dollars polluted the district to marshall her undoing.  But give her time.  She’s got all the other left wing excuses working.)

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Bottom Line: We’re headed over a cliff. One party is all for it. The other? Eh….

"When government spends on the scale Washington’s got used to, that’s not a spending issue, it’s a moral one. There’s nothing virtuous about ‘caring’ ‘compassionate’ ‘progressives’ being caring and compassionate and progressive with money yet to be earned by generations yet to be born….. Increasing dependency, disincentivizing self-reliance, absolving the citizenry from responsibility for their … Read more

Hodespocrisy – Birds Of A Feather

Fifteen democrat Senators have written a letter to the FEC seeking to act on the possibility that multinationals are using their foreign dollars to affect US elections.  Ten of the fifteen have PAC’s that have donated to Paul ‘foreign money hypocrite’ Hodes.  All but one of the fifteen has taken money in 2010 from foreign multi-nationals including Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a co-signer and co-hypocrite who took at least 41,850.00 potentially foreign dollars in 2010 herself before signing the letter.

But that’s a hypocrite for a different election.  We’re here to remind you what a hypocrite Paul Hodes is.

A review of US Senators by CNBC identifies 86 who have received money from companies that fit the left wing narrative on those meddling foreign contributors, at least 27 of whom have PACS or committees that have shared money with Paul Hodes.  That’s on top of money he’s received directly from organizations or companies with a foreign presence.

And on the jump (or the CNBC link above) you can see all the foreign money the letter signers have roped in, just in 2010.

So I guess they’ll be giving it all back then?

 

 

 

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DC Puppet?

A vote for John Lynch is a vote for Obamacare. John Lynch has not demonstrated any interest in protecting the state of New Hampshire from federal meddling of any kind.  He takes their money, strings attached, to hide his bad budgeting and big spending.  He’s accepted federal education money even though it was written with … Read more

Obama Appleseed

Unions are basically socialist constructs, huge businesses whose product is workers dues dollars.  They cannot Feel The Power of The Dark Sidesurvive without them so they need to manipulate the business/worker environment to maximize their income earning potential.

The biggest union scam ever conceived was the public sector union.  Taxpayer funded employees pay dues which are then used to influence elections at every level in favor of a political class that will then build union power by growing government, and adding more dues paying union employees whose additional funds will then keep the pro-union politicians in power.

Want to know why democrats care about public school class sizes?  More teachers, more dues, more democrats.  It has nothing to do with learning.  Now project that thinking across the entire "grow government" universe and you have a massive scheme to swell the bureaucracy at your expense that should be illegal but is not.  But with Obama serving as their Johnny Appleseed, using your money–provided by the democrat congress–he’s been creating and saving dues paying public union jobs (and democrat campaign coffers) all over the nation.

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Public Service Is About Trust

I’d just assume have a root canal without pain killer as suffer through an editorial by Carol Shea-Porter, but sometimes you have to take one for the team. So I have immersed myself in the last rights editorial of the soon to be former congresswoman from New Hampshire’s first district, which is ironically titled, ‘Public Service is about trust.’

Trust?

Before I proceed let me offer up a comment on Carol’s notion of trust.  In traditional progressive fashion the meaning of trust has had to have been tortured before admitting under duress and threat of death to its friends and family members, that Carol’s application of it’s meaning holds any relevance at all to the historical application.  In fact Carol’s willingness to even use the word in this context, nay–any context at all–in reference to what she refers to as her public service, is a public disservice to the word, the language, the people of the first district, and serves to cement the likelihood that she is the disconnected, ruling class political shill we suspect her to be, if not also clinically insane.

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Karl Rove…Takes It To The Hole

Karl Rove, I know what’s up with the basketball references, lays out the hypocrisy over hidden donors and special interests.  I’m not a huge fan of Rove but the guy knows what he’s talking about here. As for the "taking it to the Hole" references, it’s all about scoring points right?  These are important points. … Read more

Money Not So Well Spent

Dr. Edward Larkin gave a pair of women at the Milford Market Basket More for their Dollar last November when he approached them in the Supermarket parking lot with his “franks and beans” exposed. It turned out to be an unadvertised special, but one that New Hampshire taxpayers continue to pay for. The UNH professor, placed on leave after the incident, is still on the University payroll, collecting $87,375 per year while we wait for the bureaucracy to remember how it is exactly that you fire a State university professor doing nothing on the taxpayer dole.

Liberalism’s Intolerance…

Filed under Hypocrisy

For all of the vaunted "tolerance" demanded by the Left, if nothing else, the curtain has been yanked aside and the smoke has been drawn out of the room by NPR’s firing of Juan Williams for speaking what millions feel inside.  As a frequent flier for decades, after 9/11 you BET that I looked at every person coming onto the plane – unless you are a sheeple and will accept any multiculti stream of pap thrown at you, I can tell you that *I* was scanned by everyone else as well.  Why?

Families at home – "Let’s roll!".  When confronted by a threat, most Americans will weigh the odds and then respond. From those on the Left (or those that of the CAIR persuasion), I point out Jesse Jackson’s and Obama’s own words – it is human nature to evaluate threats.

But I digress – Political Correctness will be the death of this nation.  The organized march to control, not only speech, but actual thoughts, are the end game.  For simply expressing a personal fear, Juan was cashiered.  Further, there are those on the Left, are demanding another scalp – how tolerant!

(H/T: John)

The Right?  Well, there the head of NRP, Vivian Schiller, who said that Juan’s outburst should be between him and his psychiatrist – how Stalinist of her?  I’d make an exception there. 

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Another speaks up for Bill O’Brien

Again, Bill O’Brien has been endorsed by GraniteGrok for Speaker of the NH House; it seems that another powerful voice in the Liberty and Freedom movement is speaking up for him – and for the right reason (emphasis mine).  Heck, he made the Extremist 16, didn’t he?

Bill O’Brien for Speaker

I have served three previous terms in the House, from 2002 through 2008. Each provided its own education from an organizational standpoint. During the first, we had enormous Republican majorities in both Chambers and a conservative Governor. During the second, we had smaller Republican majorities and a Democrat Governor. During the third, there were large Democrat majorities and a Democrat Governor.

The most frustrating of these terms? Surprisingly, to me it was the first, under the Speakership of Gene Chandler, because despite having a golden opportunity to solidify and extend New Hampshire’s unique standing as a haven of free enterprise and personal liberty in New England, we were unable to pass even basic Republican Party Platform priorities. The reason? Leadership that allowed itself to be co-opted by process, more interested in meeting arbitrarily set deadlines for Getting Things Done than in the content of what was done; more interested in indulging in feuds with Senate Leadership and the Governor than in supporting solid Republican initiatives. Having high expectations and watching them die through the indifference, confusion and negligence of your own leaders is sometimes worse than having had no expectations to begin with.

Legislating is not a parlor game. Despite what people from the outside will tell you about the virtues of bipartisanship,…

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Who has got the money?

I just heard on Meet the Press (yeah, but nothing else was on) that in toto, we will have spent about $3.2 billion this year on elections.  That is a staggering amount of money.  Certainly the TEA Party related amounts, given in normally small donations, have been the big surprise this year.  Given the "final nail in Conservativism coffin" that the Left crowed about (even as the same was said for the Left during Bush), this two year old movement has been the surprise of recent political history.

With the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court that allowed corporations to "speak" for their own self-interests, coupled with enthusiasm gap, the Progressives are wailing – who is giving the money???  They forget one thing – they’ve owned the Presidency, the House, and the Senate for the last two years – if they REALLY wanted to put the stopper back in the bottle, they could.

Simple fact: they don’t want to.  Of course they don’t!  They won’t tell you and they will hide behind the veil of disclosure for two mere reasons:

  • they wish to appear to be "for the little guy" in this area – even as they deconstruct, for example here in NH, the Right To Know law (elsewhere, known as FOIA, Freedom of Information Act).
  • they aren’t getting the same amount of money, the same way, this cycle

And it is those last two words, this cycle, that makes the difference.  The Dems know…

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Teen Birth Rates Drop…..But why?

According to an article by Carol Robidoux in the Saturday morning, Union Leader, fewer New Hampshire teenagers have babies than their counterparts in other states.  The article discusses some reasons but never mentions the number of teen pregnancies that do not result in live births.

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