During the NH anti-gun bills debates, a gentleman by the name of Ian Underwood gave his testimony  to the NH Legislature on what he saw as a large problem in the legislators’ behavior in ignoring their oaths of fidelity to the NH Constitution:

The first is that a bill like this undermines respect for the very rule of law itself. After all, if the legislature isn’t going to respect the limits placed on it by the NH Constitution, then why should individuals respect the limits placed on them by that legislature — whether regarding guns, or schools, or traffic laws, or anything else?  

If we’re going to disregard the big rules, why pay any attention to the smaller ones?

The meme is spreading, especially with Obama’s ongoing examples contra the Constitution (“I will act alone”). I have seen and heard it many times now – mostly from those that DO believe that The Rule of Law (once absolute measure of “social justice” as ALL Americans were subject to the same Laws and in the same ways) is a founding Pillar of this Republic that now are frightened.  They are scared that it is being pushed out of the way so as “to make Progress” (as defined by the Left); Progressivism demands that The Rule of Law be ignored, that The Rule of Law must give way to the “pragmatism of the moment” (or crisis, as it might be) – principles be damned.  They know that once ignored,

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GIGO Gecko, a new commenter, decided to challenge my post on rising electricity prices (now at an all time average high) which I peg, in no small part, to the EPA’s new regulations on CO2 emissions that carry out Obama’s promise in closing coal fired electrical generating plants – or cause the to go into bankruptcy.  So much so, several States are banding together in suing the EPA to put a halt do it.  The operational questions are these:

Does, OR SHOULD, a solitary regulatory agency be able to kill off an entire industry?  Should the Administrative State have this power – or is this a usurpation of the responsibilities of Congress?

Which, as we know, decided to NOT take action to this Cap N Trade kill-a-like as it could not agree on the issue.  Which should NEVER been seen, as Obama and other Progressives would have us believe, as a signal to the Executive Branch to do it on its own. – that is not how our political system works.  But GIGO Gecko is aghast that I think that is exactly what is happening, so Lizardly Obama Apologist, this is for you:

“I have never asked for handouts from the people around me or from the government.  I want to pay my own way. I want to work.  I want to feel pride in my work.”

Here, we see a coal miner seeing his government 

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Certainly as this trucker goes through a Border Patrol checkpoint, one can hear the dishearted question and answer:

Sadly, they both may be right.  Ask yourself – what advantage does the ordinary middle-class American have over an illegal alien?  What part of American Citizenship is valuable anymore than just being here?  Used to be that:

• I get to live in the #1 country in the Developed World – but so do they (welcomed in by Obama and watching this illegal kids invasion, an army of taxpayer workers to make their “transition” to living here easier)
• They need to show papers showing citizen  (and now I can be challenged at a border checkpoint, even being a Citizen that should be able to travel anywhere without “papers”)

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You know, the one where Lois Lerner, first at the Federal Elections Committee and then while in the IRS, decided that her Federal Govt positions should be used to target people who simply disagreed with her politically (anyone not a Progressive believing in Bigger Govt was her sworn enemy), knowing that it is all but nigh impossible for the little guy to stand up against the most feared agency in the Federal Government.

She helped weaponize the Govt against at least 40% of the electorate that consider themselves to be conservative.  Then, if that was not enough, tried to bring the Dept. of Justice in to criminally prosecute those same Conservatives.  It doesn’t help her cause (or the Dems trying to defend her by any means possible).

But try they did – and did not work out all that well, given that the Chair of the Special Committee showed his true prosecutorial skills  and just toyed with a law professor they had brought in (video after the jump – I guarantee you, it is not 6 minutes wasted ):

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that determined that the IRS can only issue tax credit subsidies to Obamacare plan holders IF they purchased their Obamacare plans from an Exchange that was created by a State and NOT the Federal Government.  Here, the Progressive academician from MIT, Jonathan Gruber takes a question and confirms what the language in the Obamacare Law states – totally opposite of the regulation that the IRS tried to apply (that EVERYONE was to get a tax credit if they met the criteria):

Oh, OOPSIES!  The White House (and Prof. Gruber) are trying to walk that back, a verbal typo (a “speak-o”?).  Problem is, there is another instance of him saying the exact same meme (audio only) – the driving idea was to force States to put up their own Exchanges by leveraging (and creating) anger in those citizens whose States did not do their own Exchange (e.g., using the Community Organizing technique of getting people mad at others:  “WHY ARE YOU PREVENTING ME FROM GETTING OTHER PEOPLES’ MONEY?!?!?!?!?”): 

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A bureaucracy that openly plots to overcome Congress's oversight is not a partisan issue, it is an honest-to-God threat to the Republic.

— (((≠))) (@ThomasHCrown) July 9, 2014

We have seen the IRS stall Congress over the targeting of TEA Party groups to silence / harass them before the 2012 Presidential election – specifically the emails of Lois Lerner.  We have seen that the EPA has done the same thing (“we lost the emails”….we had disk crashes”) .  DOJ has done the same over Fast and Furious (and now, Operation Choke Point).  We see the same recalcitrance now with ICE over the invasion of illegal alien kids – no one knows exactly how many, lower level govt and communities are not told when they are just bussed or flown in (many diseased, and many are not “kids” but mid to late-teens, and if the pics are to be believed, gang members).  It goes on and on.

Here, we see signs that the IRS coverup is starting to unravel:

These words are appropriate: 

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…Putin has made Obama’s words to Mitt Romney during the debate “the 80s called and they want their policies back” look stupid, hollow, mocking, trite, and callow.

Schnadenfreude.  And for those of you who are trying to forget those “triumphalism words” (gee, wasn’t that the term you Dems used against Romney??), here’s a little reminder:

(cartoon H/T: Liberal Logic 101, video H/T: Instapundit)

Oh, and there is this from Time Magazine….80s anyone? 

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One of the things that Michelle McManus was adamant about was that she wanted an event where all of the candidates at her home were those that her town could actually vote for.  Here are the candidates that are running to be the next folks running to be the NH State Reps from Bow and Dunbarton:

• NH State Rep JR Hoell (seeking re-election)
• John Martin (first time candidate)
• Bill Kuch (first time candidate)

            JR Hoell                                                                          John Martin

Bill Kuch

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Given that the event was for and organized by Jane Cormier in her run to unseat the Republican Establishment’s choice in the primary for NH State Senate, Dave Boutin (who most unRepublican like voted FOR an increase in the gas tax and voted FOR enlarging NH State Government ever by voting for Medicaid Expansion).  Here she makes it quite clear that values matter, that Principles matter – not the Party.  Jane believes that our State is headed in the wrong direction and that by actually implementing the conservative and Liberty & Freedom agenda, it can be turned around:

Also speaking at the event was former US Senator Bob Smith (who is running against both Scott Brown and Jim Ruben in the 2014 Senatorial Primary).  He, too, believes that Conservative values as espoused in the Constitutions (US & NH) and the NH GOP Platform need to be implemented – that decades of ignoring them have brought our country to the peril that now faces it.  Plain speaking, willing to take questions from anyone and answering them directly (favorable or unfavorably), he certainly is the person that NH should be looking at:

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