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As the Democrats ramp up for the Presidential primary, we hear progressively louder demands for open borders, socialized health care, and increasingly absurd standards of political correctness. Our current US Senators claim to be centrists but have consistently voted in support of a radical agenda. New Hampshire can do better. This Tuesday, Bill O’Brien is … Read more
A stronger voice who will put people before Washington. WHAT: for a RALLY and major announcement. Where: AMERICAN LEGION, Sweeney Post 251 Maple St in Manchester, NH Help send a message that we need a stronger voice who will put people before Washington. And spread the word: … Read more
This caught my eye this morning where a piece talking about possible GOP contenders to US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (reformatted, emphasis mine): Soon there will be two U.S. Senate GOP rivals to Shaheen The first Republican challenger to U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., will make it official on Monday but he won’t be alone for … Read more
I’m going to give Democrat Senator Hirono the benefit of the doubt. For today’s exercise, at least initially, we will gift her (deserved or not) a presumption that she’s one of those people. The ones who are so smart that simple concepts are often difficult to grasp.
Andy Martin is a feature of New Hampshire politics. He’s always running for something (and against something). He never wins, unless by winning you mean trying to destroy other Republicans. This time he has his eye on the Senate Seat held by Democrat Jeanne Shaheen.
Democrats have been wasting time for the last two years in the Senate. Instead of helping transition the government to a new President they’ve been doing everything they can to prevent that. The Senate Republicans have said enough.
The Green New Deal is Dead. The US Senate voted against the bill 0-57. Not one Democrat would support the legislation but three voted against it and forty-three Democrats, including Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, opted to vote present. Mitch McConnell didn’t let them off the hook.
Until recently (as in, this morning) Governor Sununu has met every question about challenging Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen with the same answer. No. No interest. He likes being governor. Managing. But something changed.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is featuring herself as the only woman on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the Trump era. I found this news cluttering up my inbox this morning. In it, she is promoting a Politico story about how she Fills a Void in Trump’s Foreign Policy. Well, it’s true. She’s the only woman on the committee defending infanticide.
WMUR is reporting that former New Hampshire House Speaker Bill O’Brien is considering a run for the US Senate. Democrat Jeanne Shaheen is up for re-election in 2020 and O’Brien says he’s been asked to think about challenging the sitting Senator.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced that the US Senate is going to vote on the Green New Deal. Give everybody an opportunity to go on record. When that vote happens is unclear. But the upper chamber will take the temperature of elected Senators to see where everyone stands. On the green new deal. … Read more
What can we say about Sen. Jeanne Shaheen that has not already been said? Quite a bit. And we’ll have more opportunity to say it. The 72-year old two-term Democrat is so addicted to the money and power in Washington that she can’t find a way to retire. She is running for a third term in 2020.
Next to repealing Obamacare, immigration has been a hot topic amongst the conservative base. Trump knew it and campaigned heavily on it: The Wall. Forget whether you like the idea (I do) or not, it was a campaign promise. It was for a lot of other Congresscritters as well but even with owning all three … Read more
The endless 24/7 news feed leading up to November 6, 2018, has only one person less visible than Paul Ryan and that is Democrat Senate leader Chuck Schumer of New York, the guy to whom our NH Senators answer. Maybe it is because his hardest supporters are suddenly rejecting him. In this case enough to … Read more
With many a Democrat Senator on the hook and in a tough fight to keep their play-dates in Washington come 2019, Mitch McConnell has decided that the check is due on all the obstruction they engaged in over the past two years. He’s using their burning desire to get home and campaign to get the backlog of Mr. … Read more
I watch the Sunday shows (now that I have DVR capability back) so you don’t have to. I’ll tell you, Chris Christie (former NJ Governor and former Prez wannabe), was absolutely beside himself (no small order, that) and full of glee after the words of Politico’s Rachel Baid’s description of what would happen if the Democrats DO take over the House (as their dreams of taking over the Senate seemingly have set sail). First, her words:
His gleeful response with advice to the GOP:
The old technique is called “Pairing”:
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski announced that although she opposes Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, she will be listed as ‘present’ in the final vote tomorrow so that Montana Senator Steve Daines can stay at his daughter’s wedding. The announcement comes hours after [Republican Senator] Daines revealed he was willing to jet to Washington after walking his daughter down the aisle, in order to confirm Kavanaugh if needed. Thanks to Murkowski – a crucial Republican swing vote – he will no longer have to following her ‘agonizing and close call’ decision.
‘I will be a no today and a no tomorrow,’ she said during a press conference on the Senate floor on Friday evening. ‘I will, in the final tally, be asked to be recorded as present and I do this because a friend, a colleague of ours is in Montana this evening and … he’s going to be walking his daughter down the aisle and he won’t be present to vote. I have extended this as a courtesy to my friend. It will not change the outcome of the vote,’ she added.
Susan Collins does not often get any ‘ink’ on these pages for making a cogent case in the defense of much of anything she does in Washington but this is an exception. No, it is not simply because she is voting the way we would prefer on Judge Kavanaugh. It is that she has stepped … Read more
Two fortunate things came together – I found the charging cord to my Zoom Q4 camera (literally handsized) and found out that it makes a great camera with which to yank off clips from the TV (DVR’d of course) and that US Senator Jeff Flake decided to show up at St Anselm’s Institute of Politics this past Monday Night. Of course, WMUR just HAD (in their drift leftward) had to cover this “Conservative” who, they touted, derailed the confirmation of Brett Kavanuagh to the Supreme Court (even if just for a little mite of time). Of course, Flake is all pleased with himself and he made that quite clear to all. For not much at all, IMHO; let the fisking begin:
Oh, that picture and “who is that in that red circle?”. Note to Jeff Flake:
The Law of Unintended Consequences with Obama’s (yes, he’s still a thing) “I won”? US Senate Democrats (along with loose coordination with their allies in the MSM and Progressive organizations) have overplayed their hand with the absolutely disgusting tactics they have used against Judge Kavanaugh and other Conservatives (e.g., made up allegations that can’t be … Read more