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Defining Blue Dog Democrats
Once you have written over 1000 of these things, you forget some of the finer points you’ve made. Oh, I don’t mean on positions or policy. I’m a conservative. I base that stuff on a set of fixed standards. Say it 100 different ways but it is still based on the same core values. No, I’m referring to past rhetorical flourishes that strike me as amusing when I come across them. Case in point.
Anyone Know Where Governor Lynch Was Last Weekend?
I’m wondering where New Hampshire’s governor was between the 3rd and 6th of March 2011? Was he somewhere in New Hampshire, or off on other business? Maybe dropping off a Hallmark card of thanks? The donors from Political Outgiving ponied up about 10% of the Lynch campaign haul for 2010. Sometimes an email or a phone call just isn’t enough.
Is This The Hope And Change You Were Looking For?
So is this the hope and change you were waiting for?
Paul Hodes – Lobbyist?
The Concord Monitor is reporting that Paul Hodes has started a business consultancy. This will have him back and forth to Washington DC for the purpose of connecting northern New England to Washington DC; a lateral move from his role as congressman when he was trying to sign New Hampshire away to Washington DC.
GrokTalk! Saturday March 5th, 2011
Kirk McNeil, the new director of “Common Sense for New Hampshire,” will be our guest to talk about HB 442, the Medical Marijuana Bill; and Jordan Ulery the prime sponsor of CACR 6 (2011) which would require that a 2/3 vote is required to pass legislation imposing new or increased taxes or license fees..
Reuters Headline: What The?
Reuters is referring to DOMA, the defense of marriage act, which is not an anti-gay marriage law. It does not prevent a state from passing a same sex marriage law. It is a federal law that allows states to define marriage for themselves and does not require them to recognize any form of marriage which the majority of that states residents may object to.
Ask Jeanne Shaheen – About Diminshed Snowfall
Newt Gingrich – Car Bomber
Chris Matthews being himself–and sorry in advance. No one should really have to have breakfast and then see Chris Matthews demonstrate civility, but this is just too funny.
At about 50 seconds Matthews, who can’t help himself, announces that Newt ‘looks like a car bomber.’
Some clarification ensues but why bother. That’s probably the media sound bite of the day. Unless you want to listen to Michael Moore explain why Rich people’s money belongs to eveyone. (That’s on the jump.)
The Real Reason For Raising The Drop Out Age To 18?
I can tell you from long discussions about the various pathways to “graduation” that the goal is more geared toward getting kids through school on paper to make the numbers look good. Any reasonable path to that end is considered a win, but by any traditional standard it is anything but a public school success story.
The Cost of Defining “Adequate” In Merrimack NH
A funny thing happened on the way to the ‘off-hand comment’ on the Merrimack TEA facebook page. I was accused of not using "real and accurate data" and that my "rhetoric was not doing anyone any good."
Nothing surprising there I suppose but to stay on point–what was it I said that earned me such a response?
I announced that if you took the total Merrimack School budget and divided it by the total student enrollment that it cost more than sending your kid to UNH. This appears to have riled some people up. In fact someone sent me a nice itemized list of the "costs" of sending your kid to UNH for a year just to prove I was wrong, and to justify how Merrimack’s cost per child wasn’t as much.
Smoking Weed With Dignity
Chuck Weed is back again to take another shot at the death with dignity bill. This year it is called HB531 and according to this morning’s paper it is about to die without much dignity. I think we can call that smoking Weed. (Sorry medical marijuana advocates, this is not a story about pot.)
Two Congressmen And A Free Throw
The US House just finished it’s work on HR1, cleaning up after democrats who in 2010 abrogated yet another obligation when they found themselves incapable of writing the budget they really wanted right before an election.
The liberal-progressives wanted more spending but that was not politically advantageous. And since the single driving-force behind all Democrat decisions is politics the budget got relegated to the back of the bus, where the electorate’s short attention spans were meant to forget that democrats were never fiscally conscious representatives–they just tried to play them on the campaign trail.
But avoiding the high profile budget battle was more evidence that they had something to hide. The Democrat House majority was appropriately sedated and placed under observation, while the Senate saw minor adjustments but no change in leadership. So the process of changing our spending ways would still have to go through a Democrat controlled Senate and across the desk of a President who thinks the words "spending cuts" are just a rhetorical flourish used to provide cover for more spending.
Obama’s budget is proof enough of that.
But Obama only proposes a budget. The House is in charge of spending. So the new Republican congress went to the back seat of the Hopey-changey bus and picked up the budget obligations abandoned by the 111th congress. This wwas a free shot at changing the fiscal direction of the country before writing their own first official budget, which was not due until later in 2011. It was a gimme, a free throw, but one that had to survive the democrat Senate and the Spender in Chief.
So how did it turn out?
The Economic Power Of New Hampshire
I’m a strong supporter of Vermont’s sovereign right to hold the line on taxes, and for them to try because of New Hampshire–well, it doesn’t get much better than that. It is as if we are projecting economic power throughout the region.
GrokTalk! Saturday February 26th, 2011
Live Streaming local and National News with opinion you could only get from GraniteGrok.
It’s GrokTalk!
This Saturday from 9-11AM…
Ed Naile, the chairman of the Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers (CNHT), and Steve Mac Donald Grokster and vice-chair of the NHRVC help co-host as we cover a range of New Hampshire bills and issues.
John Kalb will also be our guest filling us in on the status of Right To Work and Right to Work Legislation heading to the State Senate.
and Andrew Manuse, NH House Representative from Rockingham District 5
Learn More About Our Guests after the jump