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It looks like Senator Robert ‘Bob’ Menendez is fundraising for New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen. Well, there’s a wise decision. Robert has been implicated in a number of suspect behaviors for a sitting US Senator, not the least of which was accusations of sex with underage Dominican prostitutes.
What are the Shaheen optics on that, “well, as long as they had free contraception and access to taxpayer funded abortions without interference from a parent or guardian it’s no big deal.”(?)
Ovide Lamontagne was on WMUR’s Close Up this past Sunday (and yes, I DVR it and yes, I forgot that I had transcribed this, so putting it up now. Josh McElveen, trying to wheedle out of Ovide whether or not he’s going to run for a specific office this time around. Here, he tries to … Read more
“”To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.“”
Guess how our Senior Senator from NH, Jeanne Shaheen voted?
The UN just passed their Small Arms Treaty that may well run into our Constitution – specifically the Second Amendment (here, here). It also is a snare’s nest that may well be able to trump the US’s ability to set and sign trade treaties with other countries. Like Obamacare when it passed, we may well not know all of the ramifications of this treaty that seems to tilt towards despots than legit democracies. And being the hated US, coupled with the fact that we are only one of three countries that have gun ownership rights in their Constitutions, makes us the target. In response, Senator Inhofe sponsored Amendment 139 (the above text) to the current budget bill now going through the Senate – it passed 53-46. ‘Grok friend Warner Todd Huston reports:
Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) offered Amendment 139 that was passed with a 53 to 46 vote. His Amendment contained language to affirm that foreign treaties would not trump the U.S. Constitution. “Mr. President,” Inhofe said on the floor of the Senate, “I want to make sure that everyone understands what the United Nations trade treaty is. The trade treaty is a treaty that cedes our authority to have trade agreements with our allies in terms of trading arms.”
Yesterday, the US Senate voted on an amendment to “uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty“. While this issue could come up for another vote during the session, this action essentially rejected the UN Gun Ban Treaty – officially called the “Arms Trade Treaty” (ATT) – which was … Read more
..so it must be time to make fun of Jeanne ‘Global Warming’ Shaheen. (Or just Greene Shaheen if you prefer.)
When Mrs. Greene Jeanne ran for the Senate in 2008 she made a point of making some dire predictions about the ill effects of Global Warming–if left unattended. (Back in 2008 they were still calling it that even though there hadn’t been any warming in a while.) One of the dire consequences–none of which came true by the way, was an impact on New Hampshire’s Maple Syrup production. So every year we visit the topic.
A new Event just sprang up on Facebook called ‘Occupy Senator Shaheen’s Office.’ They’d like you to spend some “quality time there tomorrow and…
Demand an end to indefinite detention without charge and extrajudicial assassination of American Citizens under the NDAA.
Obama’s lawyers have laid out who he can kill. “[T]he confidential Justice Department “white paper” introduces a more expansive definition of self-defense or imminent attack than described by Brennan or Holder in their public speeches. It refers, for example, to what it calls a “broader concept of imminence” than actual intelligence about any ongoing plot against the U.S. homeland.
Health-insurance premiums have been rising—and consumers will experience another series of price shocks later this year when some see their premiums skyrocket thanks to the Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare.
We’ve already seen a lot of premium hikes – mine as gone up 20% this year. And now, it’s going to get worse? Glad to see that the Supreme Court decided this was a TAX, aren’t you? Certainly, the cost of Obamacare is making me sick (yeah, I couldn’t resist) – you? Especially if you pay for your own plan (you rich guy, you!)?
The reason: The congressional Democrats who crafted the legislation ignored virtually every actuarial principle governing rational insurance pricing. Premiums will soon reflect that disregard—indeed, premiums are already reflecting it.
I have seldom seen a worse pairing of words (congressional and rational) in a single sentence. But hey, these are the dopes that can’t even pass a budget (any kind of a Federal budget, much less a rational Federal budget (yeah, I’m shaking my head at that one too)).
Captains Quarters on the incipient Gun Control activities by the White House and the “set up” in Congress (emphasis mine):
They want to turn hunters against the NRA and modern sporting rifles. Fat chance. That didn’t work out so well for David Petzal or Jerry Tsai. Their plans to divide and conquer the NRA will meet with disastrous results. Every minute spent on such a tactic is wasted, and thus we have to hope that they expend a lot of energy on it.
But the later part of the strategy, i.e., politics, is far more fearsome and they have proven very adept at that approach. Gun Owners of America (h/t Mike Vanderboegh) gives us an inside baseball look at the current tactics.
Hypocrisy from the left is always on my radar and let me tell you–my radar is always beeping. Take this for example. Just imagine if former Senator John Sununu (or any man anywhere) had said this…
Keep the New Hampshire Delegation in men’s hands.
I can smell the tar boiling from here. So who has the feathers?
But it is perfectly acceptable for Daily Kos to lead it’s fawning article about New Hampshire’s female delegation with this.
NH-Sen: Keep The NH Delegation In Women’s Hands, Help Jeanne Shaheen (D) Win Re-Election In 2014
We should re-elect Senator Shaheen because she is a woman?
Back in September PSNH announced that it would need to rasie rates to deal with about 67 million dollars a year in costs associated with RGGI (and other state energy mandates)- a tax (RGGI) that Maggie Hassan was proud of, if you’ve forgotten. (Grokster Tom also has a nice treatment of those same stories here.)
At the time of that announcement the estimated annual hike on rate payers was about $50.00 per year, more for commercial users obviously. But the rate increase just approved by the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will cost you a good deal more than that. Make that a great deal more!
Tragedy always attracts a parade of progressive mountebanks, anxious to peddle their faulty wares as cures for what ails us, and US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D- Utopia) is no different. In response to the heinous criminal acts perpetrated in Newtown, Connecticut she observed that…
“We need a comprehensive approach that includes improving access to mental health services, better enforcement of our current laws, and we need to get deadly assault weapons off our streets.”
Whatever you do, do not ask Senator Shaheen to describe an ‘Assault weapon’ because I am reasonably certain her talking points palm card did not include that.
So much for Democrats wanting to protect your privacy – I guess, like all of the anti-war protesters when Bush was President, the privacy advocates have all gone silent in support of The Won. It just goes to show that for almost all Progressives, it’s all for show – if they truly believed in what they have told us, they’d be marching on DC. Much time and energy has been spent on the Individual Mandate and the IPAB (aka “the death panels”). Well, here’s a part that I didn’t know – or realize:
The IRS will also determine who is eligible for taxpayer-financed subsidies to purchase health care on the exchanges that will be set up in every state. Anytime anyone’s situation changes — a raise, a new job, a move to another state — that person will be required to report it to the IRS for the purpose of recalculating their eligibility.
Got that?? Generally when you have a serious change in life, and you have to report that event to…Mom. Or Dad. Or some other loved one or friends.
So, what have the Democrats wrought here? That’s right – just ONE MORE STEP in having Government be your family (like it or not). So, how’s that gonna feel – literally having a brand new Big Brother (again, brought to you by Democrats as not one Republican voted for this Liberty crushing, 2700 page fiasco. Why is it beginning to feel like it should be called not Obamacare but ObamaBigBrother or ObamaJail ? How’s it feel to now know that the IRS is now an intimate member of your family? Now that you’ve gone “all growed up”, Democrats like President Obama and Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and (at the time of Obamacare passage) Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) and Hodes(D-NH) decided that you STILL needed a set of parents – and they thought it just a dandy idea that it be the folks that “touch” you every April 15th (there has to be a Democrat joke in there somewhere…)
Democrats and their Abortion advocates keep saying they are the party of science, and that Republicans will ban abortion (stay with me, they are related). First, Republicans do not believe in the kind of monarchical government where that is even possible, and just for the record (again), even if Roe v. Wade was overturned, all 50 states abortion laws would remain in tact and in force until such time as each state and its citizens wanted them changed.
So yeah, Democrats are just making stuff up to scare people. You know what else they’ve been scaring people with – Science and Stem cells.
S.3307 (2010) is the legislation that empowered the Feds to regulate local school lunches. It is the regulation that is driving up the cost of school lunches by law because the law demands parity of price regardless of cost. It is the law that limits the number of calories and other nutritional elements to a national standard, regardless of a student’s size or activity level. It is the law that limits menu choices to those defined by the central government, choices kids are rejecting in large numbers, resulting in food being wasted. (Food that costs more because of the law.)
Kids are hungry. High School Athletes are under-nourished. They don’t like or want the food being forced on them. Black markets are forming to fill the need. And food is being wasted.
Let’s face it, Hungry kids do not make good students. This law is a turd sandwich.
So who among the New Hampshire Delegation voted for this crappy central planning nightmare? How about all of them.
I like to pick on Senator Jeanne Shaheen because she is a left-wing hack, particularly when it comes to Global War-ming. Today’s installment takes us back to her 2008 Senate race during which she claimed, and I quote…(long since scrubbed from her Senate campaign site…)
REVERSE GLOBAL WARMING
Reversing global warming is an economic, environmental and health imperative for New Hampshire. If we don’t act to reverse global warming, New Hampshire’s snow season is projected to shrink by almost 50 percent by mid-century, severely impacting our skiing and snowmobile industries. Increasing temperatures also will negatively impact fall foliage tourism, the hunting and fishing industries, and maple sugar production
Since Greene Shaheen spoke these prognostications, we have had years with record snowfalls, years with record maple syrup production, and as this year comes to a close–one that has already been called one of the hottest years in US history–the NH Tourism industry has some frightening news for us.
Steve just posted about the “Death Panel” deciding that women don’t need as many mammograms as folks have had in the past (and forget PSAs for prostate cancer protection for men). These expert wondertwits have decided, most likely, that the cost to Government is not worth it (you won’t mind, will you?). The Left is all about the Imaginary War on Women by Republicans – let’s all remember that it was ONLY Regressive Democrats that voted and passed this pile of crap called Obamacare! And now they are responsible for the new phrase “Just say NO! to mammograms!”
But wait! – they are turning to that wonder phrase of infomercials everywhere: “But WAIT! There’s MORE!” (or NO, there is “no more”). From Instapundit, we see that just having Govt control what Govt spends on healthcare is NOT ENOUGH! NOW, these control freaks are talking about making illegal for YOU to spend more of your OWN money to keep yourself healthy :
While we’re on the topic of denouncing things, not long ago, Bill Clinton, impeached perjurer and accused serial rapist and sex offender, came to New Hampshire to endorse Maggie Cilley for Governor. Maggie Hassan, the actual object of the endorsement, stood on stage next to the accused rapist, as have almost every New Hampshire Democrat … Read more
…might want to update their web site. The elected candidates page lists their US Senators as Jeanne Shaheen and Judd Gregg. That’s a bit out of date, unless you just want to wait until we kick Shaheen out of office and you can change them both at the same time. Just trying to be helpful.
I am willing to bet that almost every New Hampshire Democrat supports the national agenda on taxing corporations and “the rich.” To paraphrase Kyle Reese from the original Terminator movie, in regard to Democrats raising taxes… “That’s what they do. That’s all they do.”
The real problem is, of course, spending, which Democrats deny. “It’s not about spending,” they say, “we need the rich to pay ‘Their fair share®.'” But all you have to do to prove they are wrong (again) is to look at what would happen if Democrats actually got those taxes they say we have to have on corporations and the wealthy.
Don’t ask why but I got this story from of all places, Think Progress…
State law requires a licensed pharmacist to dispense prescriptions, but it contains an exemption for family-planning clinics if they operate under contract with the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services.
In April, Right to Life filed a complaint with the Board of Pharmacy claiming that exemption no longer applies.
The presumption is that when the NH Executive council terminated State funding the relationship with NH-DES ended, thereby…um…aborting the exemption.