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Congress Never Met a Dollar they Did not Want to Waste

August 9, 2020
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The U.S. House is unveiling its new “minibus” spending package. It is a bill “to keep the federal government funded in the short-term”. This is the second such bill this year for that purpose. Doesn’t it kind of make you want to actually have a budget?

Progressive Taxes By Nancy

April 2, 2020

Speaker Pelosi says she would like to see another coronavirus stimulus bill. Drum roll please… she wants to include provisions handing millions of dollars to the super-wealthy. Are you enthused yet?

Democrats Campaign for Sununu ahead of State of the State

February 13, 2020 Steve MacDonald

First off, let me remind Governor Sununu to use the word ‘beclown’ in his State of the State. Pet mission. Secondly, thank you to the Democrats for continuing to campaign for Sununu by reminding the electorate all he did to protect the New Hampshire Advantage and the Live Free or Die State. Ahead of today’s … Read more

Everything Gets Political When You Ask Politicians for a Bailout – Plus Pandering Dan Feltes

October 20, 2019October 20, 2019 Skip

The biomass “subsidy by govt induced higher electrical rates” issue just won’t go away. The Union Leader has yet another piece lamenting that companies aren’t getting corporate welfare. Landowners are angry that the government won’t help their profits or politics for a new protected class (“unemployed biomass workers”).

NH State Senator Jeb Bradley: Boo hoo. Live by the lie, die by the lie.

September 22, 2019September 22, 2019 Skip

Karma (reformatted, emphasis mine): [Bradley] Burned by Sierra Club: “Some supporters of the wood-burning power plants are very upset at the New Hampshire Sierra Club.”

I’m From the Government…I’m Here to Help

September 1, 2019September 1, 2019

The issue I’m From the Government…I’m Here to Help. A constituent asked Rep. Cynthia Axne of Iowa: Why can’t citizens receive the same health insurance as Congress? The Rep. responded saying she was not satisfied with her Obamacare plan. While in congress she receives her healthcare through Obamacare. Here’s the exchange: “There’s a lot of talk … Read more