Separation of powers was meant to divide the authority so that a process of checks and balances was created to protect the people from abuses of power. This simple reality makes two things the democrats want you to believe impossible.
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Where You Gonna Run?
Progressive Insanity…(and Charlie Bass’ too)
Jim Luther turned me on to this video this week. Paula Priesse (facebook) is a comedienne who does some political schtik. This video lampoons the Progressive notion that we simply cannot survive and sustain in a world that uses petroleum. Oh, and if Charlie Bass, and his Congressional voting record, had their way we’d be using … Read more
Progressives – trying to replace God (big “G”) with an even bigger “G” Government
From a letter written by Economics (and political philosopher) Professor, Dan Boudreaux (emphasis mine): All income is earned by individuals. It originates as their property and not that of any government or of some collective ‘us.’ Even if this money is deemed necessary to keep Uncle Sam solvent, remember that this government was created to … Read more
Stark Differences
(H/T Moe Lane RedState)
They Are That Stupid
A bunch of Linden LaRouche democrats show up at Tea Party rallies with Obama Hitler signs and the progressive left tries to blame the Tea Party. The left has made it public knowledge that they will themselves show up and pretend to be part of the Tea Party movement with racist and insulting signs or comments to prove that the Tea Party is full of racists. They will be disruptive and destructive. And now a movement has been announced at NetRoots that encourages the left to tell the Tea Party What you really think about them. So they are basically going to be themselves in front of regular Americans who are not very happy with democrats right now.
Brilliant!
Over at RedState, Dan Spencer actually received a forwarded Email with the basic instructions for this latest effort against the Tea Party.
“Set aside your good manners, your tolerance, your measured understanding of policy differences, and your earnest do-gooder ideas for a [sic.] just a moment to join me in telling the Tea Party what you really think of them.”
No offense but what good manners? And tolerance? What tolerance would that be exactly—that you’ve not devolved into actually killing them, because I’ve seen video of people getting beat up by you guys. How is this any less tolerant or less well mannered than anything else you and your fellow travelers have tried to perpetrate in the past eighteen months? Don’t think too hard you’ll hurt yourselves.
Carol SEIU-Porter
Fergus Cullen get’s the Hat Tip for spotting this first and posting it over at Red Hampshire, but he didn’t go the extra mile and get a copy of the actual invitation. Here we have a campaign fundrasing breakfast for Carol "Look for the Union Label" SEIU-Porter; remember to make checks payable to Carol SEIU-Porter for … Read more
The Past As The Present
I picked this up from RedState who got it recently from the Chicago Tribune where it was apparently published back in 1934. We are invited to read the list on the sign in the bottom left hand corner but there are plenty of interesting things to catch the eye. "It worked in Russia." And … Read more
Behind The Curtain
No, we are not surprised to hear that a cabal of media elites (defenders of the ruling class) has been working to co-opt the message and suppress public discourse they do not approve of. From The Daily Caller Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal … Read more
CSP Rewind – Foreign Trade
Carol Shea Porter (CSP) continues to demonstrate her inability to grasp even the most basic concepts of governance. Back in May of 2009 she issued a press release promoting her signing on to a letter suggesting that the Panama Trade Promotion Agreement, (TPA) also called the Panama Free trade agreement (FTA), would in essence cost American Jobs. To Quote the congresswoman…
“”I don’t want to have to vote for unemployment benefits. I want to vote for jobs.””
And to quote from the body of the letter she signed on to…
“”This disconnect between the Panama FTA and the current needs to restore our economy will make any vote on this FTA difficult to justify. Indeed, it appears to be the opposite of the “change” theme Americans voted for in the last two elections.””
Unfortunately for Carol, the real disconnect is between what Big Labor Lobbying groups (her number one campaign donors) have told her change means, and the reality of the Panama TPA’s impact on trade and jobs in the US. But if Carol wants to dip her big toe in the waters of the international trade pool with blinders on, let me be the first to show you how she’s all wet.
Carol…On Helping Small Business
Carol’s good work keeps on rolling in like the smell of low tide on a salty breeze. Maybe you recall that five ream masterpiece of brevity appropriately mislabeled as health care reform? Well it came fully equipped with a manifold of other disasters buried inside, one of which was that anyone with business income will have to issue a 1099 for every entity with whom they spend $600.00 or more in goods and services in a calendar year. And you thought the Health care Castration Bill wasted paper?
This creates several problems for small business the biggest of which is the regulatory burden of having to deal with all that extra paperwork. It will take more time and cost more money just to comply with the rules ‘deemed’ by Section 9006 of Carol-Care. That amounts to millions more dollars in lost productivity on left wing busy work that Carol and her ilk have now released from America’s employment engine and diverted into the ice-rimmed, bottomless, suck-hole of the bureaucracy.
So how does that play against Carol’s rhetoric? Not well.
The House Passed It, Now Look At What’s In It
I hope Rath Young Pignatelli, Shaheen and Gordon, and all the other leftward Lawyerly types are prepared for a shot of mandatory diversity. Those democrat congressmen from New Hampshire they like to donate to—so the government can make more law for lawyers to lawyer over—just passed more than a financial regulations bill when they voted for the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill. They passed mandatory race and gender diversity requirements for everyone who touches anything near the financial industry.
Buried deep inside the forest clearing pages lay provisions mandating that all financial institutions, investment banking firms, mortgage banking firms, asset management firms, brokers, dealers, financial services entities, underwriters, accountants, investment consultants and providers of legal services (for any and all of the above) who have or do business with the federal government or for firms doing business with the federal government on government business, must meet race and gender employment ratios.
ONE! Singular Deception…
The ONE campaign is back in New Hampshire and looking for fresh souls to trap in its twisted web of deception. While liberals are always ripe for a sob story, ONE is always looking for unsuspecting so-called conservatives and Republicans to call friends. And the GOP is easy prey. After years of being framed by the media as cold-hearted war mongers who spend long days smoking cigars and oppressing the world’s poor for the gain of their corporate paymasters, nothing looks better to them than being seen with a group like ONE campaign.
Unless of course you’ve seen the Black Widow waiting at the center of the ONE web.
Harry Reid’s Innocent Victims
They are making hay and BS sandwiches over at Boo-Hoo Hampshire, this time about the latest unemployment benefits stalemate. Dean Barker–the Boo Hoo Guru–had begun by waxing on the CBS news coverage on the latest unemployment extension debate when he decided to lament (or perhaps invent) 30 years of GOP policy crushing the little guy, and how even now they are somehow still pulling the levers to crush them even more. No I’m serious.
But the best part is the “Boo-Hoo” hook.
The innocent victims, Mr. and Ms. Joe Taxpayer, won’t get what they need to stay solvent. And nearly one of ten of them can’t find work. And that’s not counting the vast underemployed.
The innocent victims! Well what about that?
Progressivism for Educators
From the Things we missed File Monday-Tuesday – June 28-29, 2010 HSCC will host its annual spring Teacher Workshop on The Progressive Era & World War I in the Monadnock Region from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. for any educator who wishes to expand their understanding of the Progressive Era and World War … Read more
How to save America: Ramming speed!
Sent to us via Instapundit…. Watch. This. Video:
“Social justice”: Not the moral philosophy on which the Constitution was fashioned
A response to Kip Allen’s Letter to the Editor in the Daily Sun:
To the Editor,
Kip Allen in his Letter to the Editor (Daily Sun, P7) wrote: "Social justice and moral obligation are not just words but ideas that a great nation was upon"
Methinks you forgot about a couple of words – but even after adding them back in, it still would be wrong.
The operative phrases in our country’s founding was NOT "social justice" (a more nebulous term has never been created in the annals of social engineering and political tax raising) – but "equality under the law". Neither was it "moral obligation"; rather, the phrase "the freedom ability to decide for oneself and one’s family unhindered by Government" would be a far better fit.
This country was built on the singular (and still radical today) notions of individual freedom and personal sovereignty. What Kip Allen wishes to place upon us all is an overarching mechanism to force behavior according to the Progressive ideal of "social justice". The problem is when you ask for specific definitions of that term and compare that to those of "individual freedom and choice", one can tell their political acknowledge the role of freedom, and then the word "but" appears as in usage that screams out "but that it should be subservient or limited in the cause of ‘the common good’ in one fashion or another". While I agree we do have responsibilities to others, one has the innate freedom to decide for themselves whether to help or not – a voluntary and free choice of will. However, every time I see his two phrases used together, I also see their implication of "and I will make you adhere to such by force of law". And laws are not voluntary.
I am not so naive that all human behavior is such that we need no laws – unfortunately, there are those that believe that what belongs to others should be taken from them – we call those people "criminals".
Often times, there are also others that delight in forcing behaviors upon others that they would not ordinarily perform – we call those people "bullies".
And then there are people who do both – forcibly take from some to give to others and then also demand that we act in ways that are pleasing to them and not what we would chose ourselves – we call them "Progressive Politicians".
Seth Marshall Discovers Property Taxes
Hat tip out of the gate to fellow NHI front pager Richard Olsen Jr. for this fine bit or wordsmithing on Nashua Rep Seth Marshall’s brief letter to the Nashua Telegraph about a pamphlet on the burden of property taxes. Mr. Marshall (it appears) feels blessed as if the contents of this pamphlet revealed the answer … Read more
George Soros Loves New Hampshire
George Soros likes to move his money around like he’s playing chess, mostly by supporting organizations or foundations who then support others and at some point that money finds it’s way into issue advocacy or campaign war chests. Direct contributions are not exactly common for George. But for some reason he’s quite taken with New Hampshire … Read more
Tim Horrigan Secret Squirrel
Have you seen this man at your NHLA event, Tea Party rally, cook out, seminar or other Republican or pro-liberty gathering? Have you found him lurking in your yahoo group or commenting on your web site or blog? His name it Rep Timothy Horrigan. Mr. Horrigan, a State Rep from Strafford District 07 says… I am one … Read more
Liberal Pride
The New Hampshire Liberal Pride (NHLP) group lead by Ray Buckley and Kathy Sullivan, sometimes referred to by its front name The New Hampshire Democrat Party-an organization funded by prominent left wing donors from all over the country–have not yet taken to burning giant cardboard tea-cups on peoples lawns but that could begin any day now. … Read more