HODE$

Is Paul Hodes an addict feigning recovery when it comes to big money from big places?  No.  He’s just pretending because it’s an election year.  But he’s happy to pay lip service to the faerie tale that Republicans are the party of big bankers, big business, and big money.  First up, this lovely graphic from … Read more

More Out Of State Money To NH Democrats

Nothing says “out of state money” like EMILY’s List (EL) a single issue ideological PAC interested in only one thing—women who will support all abortion, all the time, on your dime.  And could you have guessed that EMILY’s List loves New Hampshire democrats?  Would you be more surprised at the qualifications these liberal women must … Read more

Does Palin Still Owe McCain?

I have to wonder if Mrs. Palin Still feels an obligation to John McCain, and if it’s going to be a problem for her conservative supporters in the future.  NRO’s "The Corner" grabbed a message of Sarah’s facebook page in which she endorses Carly Fiorina for the California Republican Primary to challenge Senator Barbara Boxer.  Carly has … Read more

Results of Governmental Dependency

What’s happening in the increasingly violent protests in Greece is interesting. As near as I can make out, it seems that the rioters are rioting against "reality," i.e. the fact that the Greek government no longer has money to give them, and can no longer support them (the obvious solution of course is to get … Read more

The Peoples Republic of Hodesistan

  In the People’s Republic of Hodesistan (PRH) unemployment always hovers around 9-10%.  That’s the new normal.  And it has to be.  No matter how many bail outs and prop ups and incentives Mr. Hodes conceives to redistribute your earnings, there is never enough of other peoples money.  As the tax dollar pool from which his … Read more

“Chinese Curse”

“May you live in interesting times.” That’s the old curse. And wow, are we doing just that. These aren’t just interesting times, they’re downright fascinating…and verging on grotesque.

I follow political and cultural trends. These days odd patterns are emerging…heading off the charts, in fact.

For instance, on April 21, 2010 Las Vegas casino zillionaire Steve Wynn sent the political class into a tizzy. He said something baaaad. “It’s just talk,” said a University of Nevada professor. “Symbolically it would…send a really bad message about Las Vegas.” The congresswoman from Las Vegas, a Democrat, called it “A devastating blow to southern Nevada and our economy.” The mayor of Las Vegas said he hopes Wynn “isn’t serious.” Nevada governor Jim Gibbons intends to “reach out” to Wynn, and Senator Harry Reid, the Senate majority liar—errr…leader—said “I’m not going to get into a dispute with Mr. Wynn…but I will say that taxes are at an all-time low.” (LOL! See? Grotesque!)

What exactly did this guy Wynn say? Not much, really. Just that he’s thinking about moving his corporate headquarters from Las Vegas to a more capitalist location, with more economic freedom and dynamism. That is, to Macau, a special administrative zone in China, where he just opened a $600 million expansion of one of his existing casinos.

As Wynn said in a Bloomberg News interview, “The governmental policies in the United States of America are a damper, a wet blanket….They retard investment; they retard job formation; they retard the creation of a better life for the citizens in spite of the rhetoric of the president.” Well gee, Steve, why don’t you tell us what you really think. He did: “The economic outlook in the United States, the policies of this administration, which do not favor job formation, do not encourage investment at all.”

So instead of “Viva Las Vegas,” it may be “Zai jian, Las Vegas” (Goodbye Las Vegas in Chinese)

But that’s not the bad part. The truly weird is that…the UNV professor can’t figure it out; the mayor of Las Vegas can’t figure it out; a member of Congress can’t figure it out; the governor of Nevada can’t figure it out; and the majority leader of the United States Senate can’t figure it out. Only Steve Wynn and everyone else in the…

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Get This Man A Space

Two weeks later and Rep. Peter Schmidt (D-Strafford 4) still has to park in the No Parking Zone when other spaces are available.  Yes, this is a follow up to my earlier post–Peter " No Parking" Schmidt.  Apparently Peter is a real stand up guy.  Veteran.  Works hard.  Always shows up in Concord.  I appreciate … Read more

Give It Back

From this morning’s Union Leader; the Legislature is looking at an insurance premium tax change.  Apparently someone was granted decreases in exchange for a promise of creating more jobs.  Jobs were not created to their satisfaction so the elected officials see no reason to continue to support the reduced taxation.   Neal Kurk (R-Weare) was quoted … Read more

From Day One

"Let me be clear” may be giving way to “From Day one.”  “From Day One” is the new backstop in the absence of physical evidence.  "From day one," the Obama administration was working behind the scenes on a response to the BP oil rig explosion.  You’re damn right they were.

Day one began with the same meeting they have every time something happens; how can we blame Bush or Republicans, and if not them who?  No "national" response is possible until that narrative has been worked out, and a plan is in place to turn whatever it is into some political advantage, unless it fits an existing grievance narrative already in place like "racist!"   The Narrative seeps out, the media and the administration regurgitate it, add spin and stir. 

And if you look over the short list of possibilities, Fort Hood, The Panty Bomber, Bonus announcements, Voter intimidation case involving Black Panthers, Tea Party protesters, Illegal immigrants rioting, things said by republicans, things said by democrats, scandals involving democrats, body counts, comments about clean black men, the difference in response time and the actions taken—or not–reveal their actual priorities.  It’s not jobs or growth or cleaning up corruption or clean energy.  It’s all politics, power and payback, all the time.

AIG bonuses—the ink isn’t even dry and the entire left side of the congress along with the White house is barfing class warfare rhetoric from every media orifice they can find about how they need to reign in big "whatever," new legislation already in hand.  An al Qaida trained terrorist tries to blow up a plane and is thwarted by passengers….need a week before we can even comment.

Of course we know why they need more time.  We’ve seen what happens when they are forced to comment on something before the ritual three day minimum.  They put their collectivist feet in their collective mouths.  They really have no clue what they are doing, especially when someone else craps on America before they can and they have no narrative in place.

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When Life Begins

This is horrifying. The UK Teleraph reports on a 22 week old abortion survivor left on a table to die that was found alive a day later.  The child survived for two days outside the womb on its own. I’d be interested in the opinion of liberal abortion supporters (and small ‘r’ social liberals in … Read more

George Soros Loves New Hampshire

George Soros likes to move his money around like he’s playing chess, mostly by supporting organizations or foundations who then support others and at some point that money finds it’s way into issue advocacy or campaign war chests.  Direct contributions are not exactly common for George.  But for some reason he’s quite taken with New Hampshire … Read more

The Liberals Creative-Destruction of Faith

In all secular-humanist or socialist Marxist regimes, it is necessary to first utilize pre-existing institutions to advance the agenda and then, systematically destroy them so that they cannot then be used in the same manner to overthrow the central government.

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Gay Lobby Money From Out Of State?

Jon Stryker, (here and here for starters) is a Michigan billionaire who has been credited with helping the liberals (they call them democrats over there too) take over the Michigan House.  That’s right Michigan.  Can’t find no job, taxes through the roof, people can’t move out of the state fast enough Michigan. The train wreck of the rust … Read more

Washington’s New Financial’s Fig Leaf

A well functioning financial system is essential to the lives of customers, investors and businesses alike. We have just seen the dangers of a system that is broken and dysfunctional. A key part of that system is the regulatory framework which is supposed to oversee the smooth functioning of the financial markets. Clearly that has … Read more

No Gambling

In the smoldering ruin of SB 489–this years gambling bill, even after a massive campaign by Millennium gaming and its big-money FixItNow NH campaign quarter-backed by their Public relations goo-roo Richard Killion, (whom I suspect is this guy), we get comments like this, from this morning’s Union Leader.

“What’s clear is that today’s vote runs contrary to the will of the people, who, overwhelmingly support expanded gaming and see it as the only acceptable new revenue option,” he said. “The people do not want higher taxes.”

The people do not want higher taxes.  But nothing else he says makes any sense unless he means the will of "the minority of" people who overwhelmingly support expanded gaming, and see it as the only acceptable option."  Isn’t language fun?

Richard really should have been around New England long enough to know that the one thing you can count on in New Hampshire is for voters to contact their state reps and let them know how they feel about an issue.  So from square one this statement is at the very least disingenuous.  Before we even get to square two we know that that is exactly what the people did, and the product of that opinion (how the House voted) is clearly represented in the roll call.  Consider the following.

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Your Renewable Future?

PSNH, New Hampshire’s largest supplier of electricitiy, is looking to adjust rates to compensate for lost revenue.  They lost the revenue because of decreased usage.  Usage has decreased because of the economy, but that presents us with a real world truth.  The implications of the liberal environmental movement do not match the facts. Enviro-weenies want you to reduce … Read more

Have We Got Hodes By The Sach(s)

Now that the government has conveniently brought charges against Goldman Sachs–just in time for the fiscal reform debate (cough-cough)–is Paul Hodes willing to take one for the team to add some much needed legitimacy to this theater of the absurd? Hodes takes a lot of money from the insurance/investment industrial complex (here, and here ) … Read more

Can You Name This NH Rep?

    In the world as it really is, there are people in positions of power–even power as divided as the New Hampshire State Legislature–who feel entitled to special treatment.  These ‘perks’ come in all forms.  The one pictured above is the ability or ‘right’ to park in a no parking zone without fear of … Read more

Hodes = Wrong

A little less than a year ago, Paul Hodes voted to kill funding for abstinence education in the 2010 Budget.  (I wrote about it here.) He hailed it as a necessary cost cutting measure even though 75% of all HHS money for teen sex programs already went to promoting condom and contraception use.  By his … Read more

NOM de Guerre

If Ray is really all that worried about out of state money [Lynch-Lied Ads from the national organization for Marriage (NOM)] he can start with his own candidates.  Carol Shea-Porter gets a huge chunk of her cash from congressional PACs, national unions, and special interests like Emily’s List, whose only “interest” in her is her … Read more

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