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US House kills TARP

I’d be interested to hear the rhetoric from Political consultant and former congressman Paul Hodes who claimed he was against TARP but voted to spend paid back TARP funds on other left-wing stimuli.

Union Thuggery -Coming Soon To A State House near You.

I was just thinking back to all the loose talk from the left about ending the gun ban in the New Hampshire State House. How they imagined someone just unloading over testimony supporting same sex marriage–to use one example–kids getting cut down in the cross-fire. And how they fell over themselves trying to scare parents into keeping their children from ever visiting the place because it was now just too dangerous.

The Triumph of the Political/Government/Ruling classes

This from Townhall.com, by Ben Shapiro: What happens when more of us work for the government — or receive paychecks from the government without work — than those of us who work in the private sector? We’re soon going to find out….The coming economic storm will be cataclysmic in its effects. Governments may topple. The …

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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.

Washington, DC: INSANITY REIGNS!

What are we going to have to do to stop these insane cretins who are running and ruining our country? These idiots are actually in charge! U.S. sets $223B deficit record…for ONE MONTH!

Sebelius Admits to Obamacare Double tap

Fans of the movie Zombieland might understand the post title right away. In the movie the lead protagonist, “Columbus” has a set of rules he always follows which he believes are the only reason he is still alive after the world is turned into Zombieland by a mutant strain of Mad Cow disease that turns almost everyone into crazed, flesh eating zombies.

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

I announced that if you took the total Merrimack School budget and divided it by the total student enrollment that it cost more than the sending your kid to UNH. This appears to have riled some people up. In fact someone sent me an 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.

#2 Semi-Occasional Quote: Democrats brought us to this….

From Red Meat Conservative via RedState.com:  As we prepare for battle over budget and entitlement reform, we must remember who originally orchestrated our fiscal ruin. We must ‘pin the tail on the donkey’. Let’s punish the plunderers, not the new generation of taxpayers. To be sure, Republicans must share the blame: They have been complicit—and …

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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 constitutional obligation when they refused to write the budget they wanted.