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Barack Obama, Ben Ghazi, And Warren Women Walk Into a Bar….2.0

September 26, 2018November 7, 2012 Steve MacDonald

It occurs to me that the Obama Administration has a huge problem ahead of it. With Republicans retaining the US House, the various investigations will proceed unhindered. New ones will begin. And the idea of asking uncomfortable questions about the scope of Executive power should be brought to the fore. The US House has significant … Read more

Breaking News: Senator Ayotte Will NOT Support the LOST Treaty

September 26, 2018July 16, 2012 Steve MacDonald

(Thanks to everyone who took the time to call or write Senator Ayotte. Her office was in contact with us more than once, and happily, today–to tell us she wont vote for the Law of the Sea Treaty. That means you folks helped us kill it yet again.) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 16, 2012 MEDIA … Read more

Contact Senator Ayotte NOW!

September 26, 2018July 10, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Twenty Republican Senators are prepared to vote with Democrats in passing the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). LOST would be what happens to our offshore mineral rights if this thing passes. Please contact Senator Ayotte now to express your objection to her voting to approve this treaty. 20 Republicans set to uphold controversial UN … Read more

Ask Jeanne Shaheen – Where’s The Oversight?

September 26, 2018May 30, 2012 Steve MacDonald

According to this video (from Obama Isn’t Working.com) Mr. Obama has blown through $16 billion ($16,000,000,000.00) on public equity green energy gambles that have cost jobs and lost our money, much of it to Big Obama donors, and cronies.

So here’s a question? New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen cut her teeth in her first Senate race by raging about taxpayer hand outs to big oil. These “Handout’s,” as it turns out, were actually incentives that reduced how much of those Oil companies legal profits would be taxed. Less taxes on the oil companies money, not handing them billions of our money. Most people don’t know the difference, they just see the spin.

So how does that compare to Mr. Obama and his Department of Energy giving direct grants and loans (of our money), totaling tens of billions, to companies that are all going bankrupt or out of business? (No Spin.) Does it make a difference that Senator Shaheen is a huge supporter of Green energy boondoggles, sits on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, as well as three Energy Subcommittees on Energy, Public Lands and Forests, and Water and Power, who would presumably have some interest in how that money is being wasted?

Where is the legislative oversight Senator Shaheen? We are out 16 Billion (so far), and I can’t recall hearing a peep out of you about that.

Video on the Jump.

The Tea Party is Dead My….A**! – Indiana’s Richard Mourdock Wins in What Looks Like a Landslide

September 26, 2018May 9, 2012 Steve MacDonald

With 55% of the vote in Richard Mourdock, the Republican primary challenger to too-long time Senator Dick Lugar, has 60% of the vote. By all accounts Mourdock is heading for a landslide primary victory and has already been declared the victor according to NBC news. Lugar, for his part, is already throwing his support behind … Read more

Maryland – A US Senate Race to Watch

September 26, 2018April 26, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Maryland manages to suffer from its proximity to the bureaucratic beast that is Washington DC (and the Bos-Wash blue belt of the Atlantic coast), and as such is a place where Democrats just expect to get elected. But Republican Dan Bongino is making an impression in his quest to challenge Maryland incumbent Senator Ben Cardin. … Read more

(US Senate) Democrats Still Running From The Budget

September 26, 2018April 22, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Hot Air: Only three Democrats bothered to show up at all, out of a dozen assigned to it. Republicans showed up, prepared to cast votes to finally bring the ignominious streak of 1,085 days (as of yesterday) without a budget resolution to an end. Sadly, Democrats — who control the committee, the chamber, and the … Read more

So, our two NH based US Senators had the chance to vote on getting rid of earmarks; how’d they do?

September 26, 2018February 5, 2012 Skip

Yeah, pretty much as expected: when voting on an amendment that would have banned earmarks (and hopefully, the corruption and self-serving pandering that often comes from it), we had a disparity in voting from our two US Senators. As far as I am concerned, earmarks are nothing but giveaways to the politically connected. Beseech a … Read more

Laying Some Pipe

September 26, 2018August 15, 2011 Steve MacDonald

The Democrat controlled Senate had the opportunity to create jobs, generate growth, add some tax revenue, and did I say create jobs? But Harry Reid couldn’t bring himself to get the Keystone XL Pipeline project approved before the recess.

The Invertebrate Jeanne Shaheen?

September 26, 2018December 14, 2010 Steve MacDonald

So did Jeanne Shaheen vote for cloture on the Reid’s Frankenstein tax compromise and will she vote to pass it? I ask because it includes Billions for a one year extension of ethanol subsidies that Senator Shaheen just insisted we could not afford.

What’s Greene Shaheen Up To?

September 26, 2018December 2, 2010 Steve MacDonald

Senator Shaheen has signed onto a letter to Senate Majority leader Reid and Minority leader McConnell, suggesting that the corn based ethanol mandates, and all the tariffs and protections associated with it, not be extended. Your initial reaction might be surprise, but this is not in and of itself surprising. Shaheen is on the record being against them since at least 2008 when she ran for the US Senate but not because she is against ethanol. Her problem is the kind of ethanol, and so we can assume her co-signers have similar issues.

On the surface they are claiming to be against the law (the mandate) that props up ethanol on three fronts and also gives 31 billion dollars to the oil companies to offset the cost of forcing them to add ethanol to fossil based motor fuels. I’m against corporate welfare so I can’t object to repeal even with ulterior motives, but this starts off as a calculated, backhanded poke in the eye, not just to the stupidity of the subsidy regime that liberals normally love, but to big oil. And we should expect oil to get screwed. We should simply accept that even with repeal of the ethanol mandate, we could still see the government use other means of legislative or bureaucratic force to keep ethanol in the fuel supply and pass those costs off to the oil companies. If they can screw oil and get what they really want along the way, that’s a dream come true to Progressives. But what do these signers really want?

As usual, nothing in Washington is quite what it seems.

DREAM a Little DREAM

September 26, 2018December 1, 2010 Steve MacDonald

Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air shares with us Senator Jeff Sessions revelation that despite the events of early November, Mr. Reid has submitted his badly written DREAM act aka-amnesty bill, on four seperate occassions in recent months. Ed brings the point home so well I’ll not even try to do better. (As if I even could)

Food For Thought

September 26, 2018December 1, 2010 Steve MacDonald

Over here, you’ll find Senator Shaheen crowing about how great the new food safety bill is, and how she, Senator Jeanne Shaheen, helped pass it. (It’s crap like all the other dem bills but that’s not why she’s an ass.)
She is an ass because (and if it makes you feel better Judd Gregg is an ass for being both a co-sponsor and a yeah vote) there are provisions in this Senate bill (S510) that….raise taxes.

One More for Reid

September 26, 2018December 1, 2010 Steve MacDonald

Nevada must be ….so proud. The Lame Duck agenda is rigged…says Democrat Senator.

Nothing Fair About It

September 26, 2018November 21, 2010 Steve MacDonald

Every now and people who appear rational find themselves repeating nonsense, usually in the Nashua Telegraph which is one of New Hampshire leading sources for editorial nonsense. This time around it’s a guest commentary from Robert Collinsworth, who has an internet footprint large enough to identify him as an otherwise sensible guy. So why has he taken to the editorial pages to sell the left wing meme that there is a gender/wage gap?

I only bring it up because his reasoning is right out of the liberal weenie play book. Women only make 0.78/$1.00 compared to men. He then asks why Republicans in the US senate are blocking the liberal legislation being sold as a fix, as if we can and should trust this unexplored talking point.

Rather than try explore any one persons motivations or sanity, we should probably just look deeper into the issue, and a Bill that looks like it creates more problems than it solves. (Links and resources on the jump.)

Like most liberal shibboleths Paycheck Fairness is based on incomplete analysis to pander to a bloc of voters the democrats have identified as worthy of their endless grievance mongering. To repeat their talking points is, as far as I can tell, not worthy of Mr. Collinsworth or anyone else.

This is not an issue that can be evaluated strictly on the price paid for an hour of labor averaged across the full spectrum of work and wages. To do so ignores every other factor in life, the free market, and the real danger that the legislative solution being proposed creates.

Not Even A Passable Fraud

September 26, 2018October 12, 2010 Steve MacDonald

Matt has a nice post up at Red Hampshire revealing the disconnect between reality and the fantasy of Paul Hodes. He provides us with a mid-debate tweet from the Hodes campaign…

…and then offers us the evidence that Hodes is lying about it by posting the AFT press release refuting Hodes.

This is all fine for what it is worth. But what interests me more is that this tweet contradicts his own campaign focus and reveals the fundamental flaws of a liberal democrat like Paul Hodes. These are not the words of any fiscal conservative I know.

Ovide at American Thinker

September 26, 2018October 5, 2010 Steve MacDonald

At this critical time, we must subordinate our personal self-interest to that of the greater good, which is to restore the power of people over government, to break the stranglehold of the special interests and the entitlement class over Congress, and to devolve power from Washington back to the states and the people. The unprincipled, self-serving actions of Murkowski and Crist threaten these important goals, and they must be rejected by Republican leaders and activists everywhere.