Sylvia Larsen – Granite Grok

New Hampshire Democrat Women! How Do You Think Live Birth Abortions Should Be Performed?

No point in beating around the bush. Kermit Gosnell has put live birth abortion front and center and so should we. It is a thoroughly documented fact that this is something that a number of prominent Democrat women in New Hampshire support. Democrat leaders in the state and the Democrat party support it. So we should explore this support to learn more about it.

It is reported that Gosnell, who performed many live birth abortions, would take the crying newborns and snip their spines to kill them. But that is not necessarily the way every abortion doctor kills newborn babies, so we should pose the question to those in the New Hampshire Democrat party who not only support the practice but enrich their political careers because of it.

To the Democrat women in New Hampshire that support this practice…do you believe that Gosnell’s method–severing the infants spine at the neck– is the best way to kill a baby or do you prefer another?

If you prefer some other method of killing them, what is it? We know you support it. So speak up.

Sober Talk From New Hampshire Democrats on Assault Weapons?

by Steve MacDonald

The Union Leader has an editorial out this morning that quotes some members of New Hampshire Democrat leadership as tip-toeing around the current wave of rhetoric and discussion on what to do about guns. Instead, they are asking what are probably important questions about mental health services but I suspect that their interest here is … Read more

Terrie Norelli and Sylvia Larsen: Jealous!?

by Steve MacDonald

Late in the 2007 session, when Democrats controlled the the entire New Hampshire State Government for the first time in 95 years, then House Speaker Terri “Billion Dollar Deficit’ Norelli and Senate President Sylvia Larsen, figured the beginning of a recession was a great time to add a $72,000.00 bathroom remodel on to the backs … Read more

Slippery Slope…?

by Steve MacDonald

Sylvia Larsen is making a slippery slope argument against the New Hampshire Senate’s passage of a bill that would make causing the death of an unborn child murder. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Sylvia Larsen, D-Concord, joined other Democrats in criticizing Forsythe’s bill. “I think it establishes a bad precedent. It establishes a non-scientific basis for … Read more

Sylvia Larsen – Zipper head

by Steve MacDonald

I suppose you’ll want some context for that headline. Back in December (12/9/2011) I explained why New Hampshire should continue lowering tobacco taxes. I suggested we adopt some kind of schedule by which we would sunset tobacco taxes over the next decade based of the long term decline in sales. Why, after all, would you risk the states ability to invest in anything, including the left’s rhetorical “neediest residents in their most desperate hours (or something),” using an unreliable source of revenue in decline?

OK, what I actually said was

“Only a progressive zipper-head would rely on more revenue from something they want to get rid of. Increasing the tax on a declining market will only accelerate the unreliability of the revenue stream. That creates the opportunity for bigger budget holes that must then be filled on the fly.”

As if by magic, Sylvia Larsen, Democrat super-minoirty leader of the New Hampshire State Senate, in the face of declining unit sales, as fewer people smoke, after a decades long trend indicating that tobacco purchases will likely continue to decrease in the future, thinks we should increase our reliance on cigarette taxes in New Hampshire.

Zipper head. (doofus, goofball, goober, dunderhead, maroon, doh!) see note#2 below

NH House School Musical

by Steve MacDonald

Last year, at budget time, liberals, democrats, a few RINO’s, and even some chickens were asking where the cuts were. No not cold cuts but budget cuts. The libs had just added another 10% to the state budget and they wanted to know where, how and what part of that could we possibly cut.

Let’s reminisce on the stupidity of that for a moment. They took the budget they had ballooned by 12%-13%, added another 10% to it, but had no idea where they could cut it under the growing umbrella of job losses in an economic downturn?

"Show us the cuts!" So we did. They ignored them.

Buckley, Sullivan, Larsen, Norelli, Eaton, Smith and all the rest of our left wing fiscal castaways who promoted or legislated more spending were still stranded on a Desert Island of their own making from who’s only possible escape was a broad based tax. And to prove it they lined up another few dozen smaller fees and taxes on the beach like coconuts to spell out the words "Show us the cuts.” Then they then ignored the cuts we showed them, acted like they didn’t exist, and instead added an exclamation point called the JUA money grab and the tent tax, then lit it all on fire with a small business tax.

They were very briefly, quite happy with themselves. But as it turns out, while people can be convinced to vote for democrats when they are mad at republicans, they still don’t like taxes and irresponsible spending, and had forgotten that you can’t have one without the other. (See hypnotic gas spewed by Obamunism for some idea of how that happened) They also forgot that liberals have a hearing defect known as left wing pattern deafness that not only prevents them from listening to constituent objections it worsens as their majority grows. But midnight robberies and an LLC tax in a state where some 95% of business is small business is just like passing a broad based tax and killing job growth all at the same time and none of the usual democrat meme’s could be made to fit into their growing budget hole.