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3. The chart above shows the Department of Energy’s estimates of CO2 emissions per capita from 1973 to 2040. Total energy-related carbon emissions are expected to fall to a 20-year low this year, and on a per-capita basis will be the lowest since at least 1973 when the Department of Energy’s data begins. From the … Read more
And the last installment of the Rye Republican Panel Discussions on the voting results of November 6th:
Contagious Volunteerism A family of Organizations?
The grassroots within the Right of the Political aisle formed the TEA Party – Taxed Enough Already. As being pointed out this morning on the talking head shows, if we go over the Fiscal Cliff, there are more than a few states, combined with Fed taxes that will take effect, will have residents that will … Read more
From the NY Times: (H/T: Instapundit)
The Rye Republicans held their second set of discussions concerning the Nov 6th vote and invited to be on that panel addressing a packed room of Rye area Republicans were the following and the topics they were asked to cover: Jack Thorsen (Portmouth City Coucilor andNH GOP area vice-chair) – The 11/6/12 General Election – … Read more
As stated in the last post, four panelists spoke as Diane Bitter, Rye Republican Chair moderated. Again, the panelists: Jack Thorsen (Portmouth City Coucilor andNH GOP area vice-chair) – The 11/6/12 General Election – results of the voting process and how the counting is handled NH State Rep. Regina Birdsell – Voting Laws, who is … Read more
I have chopped up the videos of the Question and Answer period into different posts (as there were a number of topics on which there were questions). Please note that sometimes the video title “might” not be quite accurate in that often, as these things go, the discussion of the original question quickly morphs to other tangents. But hey, it’s better that way when you are the panelist / audience member than the video editor!):
Use of Obama DB Low Info Voters / Same Day Registrations
The other videos and previous videos from the day after the jump:
Continuing on with the Q & A session from yesterday’s Panel Discussion:
“Grok, help us! Frustration with NH GOP
Remember, there is a reason why the Left is redefining the language that Government no longer “spends” but “invests”. They hate the idea that investments in the private sector can do far better than Government spending, so they (as in many other areas) try to equate the two so as to totally blur any difference … Read more
(H/T: loyal reader)
Now that the the NH Democrat Party controls the Governor’s office and a big majority in the NH House? Supporting data after the jump
For all of the sturm und drang of the last session about cutting into the bone and “shafting the vulnerable”, all we see is reducing spending to that before the Democrats (when they controlled the NH House and NH Senate) injected spending that was unsustainble. What is not sustainable. Fortunately, former Bill O’Brien saw the political snare of having to raise a broadbased tax to keep that artificially heightened spending high and took the responsible road of “living within one’s means”.
Blue = Obama voters Red = Romney voters The higher the line, the more voters in that particular county (H/T: American Thinker)
I am still waiting for NH Journal (as far as I know, still co-owned by political operatives Patrick Hynes of Hynes Communications and Shawn Millerick of Millerick Financial) to post a retraction to their story that a number of grassroot activists met to “choose” someone to run against the Establishment candidate, Jennifer Horn. Every person named in that story has told Millerick that there was no meeting to which they were “not invited.” To date, the only notation that Millerick has put on his post has been verbiage intimating there was a meeting but that the “invitees” were not invited (re: how else would you take his phrasing of “UPDATE: Surprise! Diane Bitter tells NH Journal she was not invited to the meeting.” ?).
Well, the bigger problem for him is that the Establishment was talking about having such a meeting – I was forwarded an email thread speaking to that point. Here are two of them (emphasis mine):
NH GOP Chair terms:
It is obvious that the threatened shutoff of donations from Washington during Jack Kimball’s term is easily seen; it also seems that NH based PACs also went along with a self-imposed drought. But it is also clear that from NH individuals, Jack Kimball did better than Wayne MacDonald (and just a little bit less in PAC and “other” contributions) yet Jack is the one that gets the political shaft – what hasn’t MacDonald received the same opproprium?.
In fact, looking at the “off-years”, it seems to be apparent that Jack Kimball did better than John Sununu?
It seems that US House Speaker John Boehner is being sorely tempted? His words about semi-caving into Obama’s demands on new taxes, new spending, and new debt ceiling limits show us that he’s already got his eye on the prize: How well will the new NH Republican legislators resist the same temptation, especially under … Read more
One of my favorite movies is “Red Dawn”, a movie from the 1980 starring the late Patrick Swyze (er, a fairly young one) had a plot of what a group of High School kids would do when the US was invaded and their parents killed. Sure, a bit hokey, but it showed a love of family and friends, and certainly a love of country. The “redo” is now out – I do need to go see it. Anyways, a blog I go to once in a while, The Daily Brief, combined that with what a lot of Conservatives and traditionalists are thinking about the country’s political situation (emphasis mine):
And besides … as it turns out, maybe the dedicated socialists didn’t have to militarily invade at all. They’re already here, and plenty of them, ready to set aside the Constitution, to govern by decree and by thousands and thousands of dictates and rules touching upon everything from what kind of light bulbs we may buy, to what kind of healthcare we might have, what we pack in the kid’s school lunch and a thousand other matters large and small. And all of it decreed by the best and brightest for the very, very best of reasons and our own good, of course. Just call them the new Ruling Class. Some are political, some are academics or in business, or even entertainment – but all wish to cement their place at the apex of authority as quasi-aristocrats.