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The Nashua taxpayers should think that our Board of Aldermen are looking out for the taxpayers’ however they are not. I had to send an email to remind them that it is their duty to look out for the Nashua taxpayers.
Yes, I’m back, finally, with another edition of Skip’s Sauntering Snippets – and it has been a while, hasn’t it? But yes, I’m tired of it all and I’ll tell you all here: Too many polls, too many robo-calls to vote this way or that way, too many push polls, too many snail mail mailers … Read more
Breitbart has a rather amusing tweet about how BAD things are for Biden right now:
I wanted to share a quick note about all the filing announcements for public office. This is the week for them, and we get more than a few, and we need to do things differently this time around.
The Democratic presidential candidates just keep selling new government programs. Sure it is lying season on the campaign trail. But at some point, somebody has to ask: How are you going to pay for that?
Recently I was discussing the latest Trump-related hysteria with a friend, who was upset about what he perceived to be a progressive double standard. Basically, he was arguing that in cases where Trump is just doing the same thing that Obama was doing, then Obama’s supporters ought to be willing to admit that they’re either both right, or both wrong. He thinks they’re not being consistent.
But I think they are being consistent, albeit in an unexpected way.
David Brooks is “the conservative columnist” for the New York Time (“NYT”); the adjective “Conservative” would never be used as a modifier to his name here in NH – and am most assuredly positive that my sentiment would be replicated with many others in other states. But even as he opines as a New Yorker, he is Beltway Republican through and through. In this column, he talks about how reporting on Prez campaigns has changed: used to hobnobbing with the candidates themselves, he now studies the people (you know, the ones that actually vote and to whom elections are not just an intellectual curiousity) that show up to the events to hear the candidates. Given that the “Johnny on the spot” report was from South Carolina, he also spent a fair amount of time critiquing the candidate.
But this is emblematic of what is wrong with the Republican Establishment:
I was also struck, as in New Hampshire and Iowa, by the mood of this year’s rallies. Republican audiences this year want a restoration. America once had strong values, they believe, but we have gone astray. We’ve got to go back and rediscover what we had. Heads nod enthusiastically every time a candidate touches this theme.
I agree with the sentiment, but it makes for an incredibly backward-looking campaign. I sometimes wonder if the Republican Party has become the receding roar of white America as it pines for a way of life that will never return.
Oh, so right he is – that “icky stuff”, the stuff that speaks of the heart,Values, is just so retro! Er, no, he’s dead nuts on wrong.