The New Media Militia

There’s no point in denying it.  If you are a republican for Lynch, you might as well just call yourself the ‘Republicans Against Parental Rights.’  It’s a hallmark of the Lynch legacy and one which cannot be properly corrected for as long as he sits in the Governor’s chair.  By supporting him you are stating unequivocally that parents do not have the right to know if their underage daughter has gotten pregnant and seeks or has an abortion.

Now an abortion, that’s just a simple procedure where something that could grow up to be the next Ray Buckley is exterminated in the womb.  Aside from the risk of physical damage, infections, and other medical complications, (like death) there are short and long term emotional considerations which you, “The Republicans against Parental Rights,” feel more comfortable leaving in the hands of bureaucrats and abortion doctors.  (I’m still looking for the survey data on the likelihood that the average underage teenage girl, when confronted with sever emotional distress–which is like, every like, day–will call an abortionist just to chat.)

Need to take a different school bus?  Need a note.

How about an aspirin?  Phone call home.

M-Rated video game?  Can’t buy it by themselves.

R-Rated movie?  No admission without an adult.

Abortion?  Don’t forget to grab a complimentary copy of Tiger Beat magazine on your way out the office door.  Just make sure the Doctors address isn’t still on it.  The Republicans Against Parental Rights wouldn’t want you to get busted. 

And if it matters, parental rights are just another of those things Lynch said he’d defend right up until he caved to the liberal legislature.  Caved, just like the Republicans for Lynch.

http://granitegrok.com/blog/2010/09/republicans_against_parental_rights.html

Repealing “don’t ask” has support in the Senate.  There are more than enough RINO’s to advance the measure.  Placing it in a defense funding bill–given that it is related to military policy–is not even far fetched.  But Reid then stuffs the unpopular DREAM act in there as well, a measure that creates amnesty for illegal immigrants, when the majority of America is against amnesty and a majority of Republicans are against the DREAM act.

He then refuses to let them submit amendments?

This forces the republicans to balk at the measure, either on parliamentary grounds or because it includes DREAM, guaranteeing that the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t tell is doomed.  The press picks up on the more widely accepted social issue, sells it as a republican blockade, and regurgitates it without seriously addressing the larger problem.

Reid didn’t fail at all.  This is exactly what he wanted.  And the press is carrying his water, just as he knew they would, weeks before an election where democrats appear doomed to be relegated to the minority.

And according to Yahoo! News at least, there are no plans to bring this back up anytime soon.  So Reid wasn’t looking for repeal, he was looking to dominate a news cycle, and toying with one his grievance classes for affect.

http://granitegrok.com/blog/2010/09/reid_wasnt_looking_to_repeal.html

I’m not sure why there is still any debate about who is responsible for the housing bubble and the ensuing crisis–which includes the recession that followed and the stagnation we are in now.  The Democrats new bill of rights, going all the way back to FDR, includes the right to own a home.  Since that time the left has implemented, funded, defended, and advanced the policies necessary to make owning a home both a right and a reality regardless of cost or consequence.

While we can certainly blame some republicans for going along with it or lacking the spine to stop it, it is the Democrats who insisted that the federal programs were not in danger of harming the economy; even after the crash they quickly poured out billions to bail out troubled mortgages as they resurrected these programs with hundreds of billions more. 

And when it came time to regulate financial institutions, the largest holders of mortgages–Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–were left completely out of the democrats banking regulation bill

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The democrats are completely to blame for this, used it as cover to regulate banks further to secure the government monopoly, and are re-inflating the housing bubble based on an ill conceived socialist platitude.

The right to property is not fruit borne from someone else’s labors yet the right to a home has been on the left’s second Bill of Rights since FDR.  So there should be no doubt who was at work, and who is to blame.  Liberals have wanted this for decades, and when they finally thought they had it, the wheels came off the bus.  It should be instructive that even that has not stopped them.

http://granitegrok.com/blog/2010/09/housing_bubble_comes_home_to_roost.html

Paul Hodes is trying desperately to change his image to that of a fiscal hawk and independent voice, but Paul has some monumental hurdles to get that line past the party base and into the general populace.  First, if he want’s anyone without Kool aid stained lips to buy into the fiscal song and dance he’ll need to reconcile some problems.

Problem: You can’t run for congress complaining about an irresponsible 400 billion dollar deficit (you helped create) and then replace it with a multi-trillion dollar generational one you helped create.  Current claims at future fiscal fidelity fit into the same category as “but baby she meant nothing to me.”  Anyone who is not an idiot will doubt your veracity, and rightly so.

Problem: The new calls for an end to earmarks and calls for congressional pay cuts look hollow when you do them after all of your appropriations have been requested and the kind of people who donate to your campaign are earmark masters who also haul in loads of lobbyist cash; who then donate it to you so you can tell us how ethical and fiscally prudent you are.

Problem:  “Independent voice,” based on the evidence at hand, tells us that given 100 opportunities to speak independently Paul Hodes will miss three votes, vote against his party twice (most likely on naming bridges or post offices) and will then vote with Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama the other 95 times.  This begs the question, “independent from what?”  Reality?  

I guess New Hampshire is nestled up against San Francisco bay or perhaps the Connecticut river is actually the Potomac and that’s not Vermont but Virginia across the river.

http://granitegrok.com/blog/2010/09/new_hampshire_on_the_potomac.html