Cleaning Queen Nancy’s House

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Steve Mac Donald

Your voice in Washington has been stolen from you, but is democracy officially dead?

When you voted for a congressman, no matter who it was, you got a person whose job it is, to ensure that they could cast votes on matters of national importance in your name.  But what happens if they don’t get to vote or support the deliberate effort to prevents votes altogether?  Well that’s what we have had for the past two years. 

 

Despite an approval rating of 9% the Speaker of the House continues the practice of refusing to allow debate or floor votes on any Bill that contradicts her personal policy preferences.  (Even legislation from democrats). That’s not democracy, that’s tyranny. 

 

So no matter what you may believe, you no longer have a voice in the House of Representatives.  And democrats Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter, who have been goose-stepping dutifully behind Chancellor Pelosi, not only embrace this approach to representative democracy, but overwhelmingly endorse policies that will place even more government power at her feet. 

 

We need to send a message to Queen Nancy that as Speaker of the House, her job is to add a measure of control to the legislative whirlwind, not to pontificate her policy desires by dictatorial fiat.  Since she has made it clear that she won’t allow any legislation she opposes to get a fair vote on the floor her vote is now the only vote.  One Speaker one vote.  And just in case you forgot, unless you live in her congressional district you can’t directly vote her out of office.

 

But the people of New Hampshire have two opportunities to attack this abuse of parliamentary power; replace Hodes and Shea-Porter.  Only by electing reps who will challenge Pelosi’s supreme authority can the voice of the people of New Hampshire be heard.  Only then can the people of the nation demand more balance, and a free expression of ideas.  Pelosi is killing democracy.  It’s time to put Queen Nancy’s House in order.

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Shaheen helps us Refine the term “Alternative” energy

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Steve Mac Donald

Jeanne Shaheen latest gripe is that Oil refineries are only running at 85% efficiency, and this is more proof that the Oil companies are milking  “The Middle Class™” for profits.  It’s a sad tale Jeanne, but did you know it’s the government’s fault?

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Lock-Step or Goose Step?

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Steve Mac Donald

Shaheen’s lawyers are after the Free Enterprise Alliance, the political arm of Associated Building and Contractors’ for a radio spot they are airing that attacks Jeanne’s energy policy, something near and dear to my heart.  The rub it seems is the implication, in the ad, that Ms. Shaheen’s policy does not include any drilling. 

On August first Jeanne did use the words “increasing domestic production of oil,” but then only in reference to unloading the Strategic Oil Reserves.  I suppose that qualifies as increasing the amount of oil available from a domestic source but it’s not actually “drilling.”  But to be fair, Jeanne has implied, “goose-stepping” in line with the do-nothing democrats we already have in congress, that we should make oil companies use all existing leases, no matter whats on them, and that this will be doing something. 

This is a con game that I have already deconstructed here, (and here) so I won’t do it again now, but there is no reason to believe she means it.  Any meaningful Increase in domestic oil with long lasting production implications (say 50-100 years) contradicts absolutelyeverything else we know about her energy plans.  A woman who puts this in writing…

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Military absentee ballots still in a quagmire

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Steve Mac Donald

It seems to me that people whose primary job it is to protect our right to vote ought to be afforded the same privilege.  But the Democrat majority in congress has proven again that their rhetoric about supporting the troops in not just empty rhetoric, it is barren.  A measure to improve how military absentee voting is handled was gunned down by almost ever democrat in the House.  The measure would have simplified the current absentee ballot process for millions of service personnel and their spouses based here and abroad, but the current process  fails to account for even half of the eligible votes, and by some estimates significantly less than that.  With members of the military overwhelmingly voting Republican it’s hard to ignore the benefits to democrats if millions of absentee ballots can’t or don’t get counted.

 

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Dems “No drilling, even at $10/gallon” (!?!)

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Steve Mac Donald

Take this for what it’s worth, but it is worth watching.

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Jeanne Shaheen on the economy

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Steve Mac Donald

Jeanne Shaheen on the economy (from jeanneshaheen.org)

It’s time our economy worked for middle class families again. For the past seven years, wages have remained stagnant while the price of everything else – from a gallon of gas to a gallon of milk – has gone through the roof.

Liar!  It’s only been 2 years not 7.

Prior to 2006 we had historically low 4.5% unemployment, the Dow was at 14,000, and gas was $2.00/gallon.   Wage growth was slow but steady (and actually above average in New Hampshire) behind 24 consecutive quarters of  GDP growth, and there was a very real upward mobility from both the lower and middle classes to the middle and upper classes.  So what happened? 

 

Democrats took control of congress. Since 2006, gas has doubled in price, unemployment is at 5.6%, and the Dow is down 2000 points.  None of this has been good for the Middle Class.  All of it came on the Democrats watch, and because congress sets all fiscal and spending policy it’s clear who must be held responsible.  so I’m thinking the one thing New Hampshire families  do not need is another democrat in congress. 

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Lynch Math

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Steve Mac Donald

Picked up from the Coalition of New Hampshire Tax Payers,  Republican State Legislator Chris Nevins, in a guest post, takes issue with how some New Hampshire law makers are the running the numbers on the State Budget.

Compare what we paid in General Fund taxes during the last biennial budget (2006-07) of $2.714 billion to the current budget of 2008-09 of $3.189 billion. If you again do the math (new math or the old math) you can see that the “pound of flesh” the majority party extracted from us is indeed 17.5 percent.

17.5% would make a really nice raise; too bad it’s more like a pay cut for New Hampshire Residents.   Read it all here at CNHT.org and decide for yourself.

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Did I say that out loud?

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Steve Mac Donald

Free thinking liberals, who speak too freely without thinking, often give us insight into what they really have planned for us.  That can happen when you spend most of your time pretending one thing when you are really planning something most Americans might not actually vote for.  Obama does it all the time.  But here we have video of Maxine Waters, Democrat extraordinaire, from the Peoples Republic of Leftmerica, setting some oil executives, and the record, straight.

I’m torn between loving how she stutters through this self discovery, or the look on the face of the woman behind her placing her hand over her mouth to hide either a smile, or her embarrassment for Maxine.

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Shea-Porter on the Economy

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Steve Mac Donald

Every policy has a starting point and this beginning is the “perceived” state of affairs that we are to believe is less desirable than the policies stated objective.   But if the starting point makes inaccurate assumptions or posits conclusions that are untenable, the policy is less than worthless.  Carol Shea-Porter’s policy page is littered with misconceptions, so I will try to deconstruct them over the coming days and weeks.

 

From Sheaporter.org

THE ECONOMY  Some people in America are thriving. George Bush and the Republican leaders have consistently voted for the very wealthy, the top 1%, and against the rest of us. The loss of this vital tax money (an estimated 48% of the deficit is caused by the Bush tax cuts), coupled with an incredibly expensive war, have left the middle class struggling with the burdens of taxes, high gas prices, medical costs, soaring housing prices, and reductions in services

 

My Response

If we ignore the populist pandering–which much of this is–and boil this down to the particulars, Carol basically says that the top 1% benefit from tax cuts to the detriment of the other 99%, that this is limiting the governments ability to accumulate tax revenue (which is increasing the deficit) and coupled with an “expensive war” is hurting the middle class by making things more expensive.  My Point by point on the jump.

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Quick note on Senator Stevens

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Steve Mac Donald

He is a pork barrel scum-bag.  He stands for nothing that real conservatives beleive in, and he and everyone like him (Democrat or Republican) should be run out of Washington and flogged by their constituents. 

Republicans-and real conservatives, lose nothing if they stand up for their principles and call him out for the lying, pork hound, sack that he is.  Just toss him under the bus and move on.

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