Look for the Union Label…

Union Label?Hodes and Shea-Shea Porter sure know how to impress the unions.  PACs account for at least half of Hodes campaign cash and a full 1/3 of that is from unions.

Shea-Porter is also a sponge for union money soaking in over 99K so far.  But her most significant contrinutors are single-issue PAC’s who support womens issues. (I wonder what those might be?)

These numbers have not been updated since the end of March.  It will be interesting to see how much more they take in from the unions as a reward for trying to pass card-check.

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A different kind of Miss New Hampshire.

The latest USS New Hampshire is one of the Navy’s new Virgina classsubmarines.  Check it out.  It was christened yesterday by Cheryl McGuinness of Portsmouth NH,  whose husband Thomas was a co-pilot of American airlines flight 11 when it was hijacked on September 11th and flown into the World Trade Center.

PCU New Hampshire (SSN-778), a Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submaine, is slated to be the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the state of New Hampshire. The name was awarded to the submarine after a letter-writing campaign by the third-graders from Garrison Elementary School in Dover, NH to their Congressmembers, the state Governor, and the Secretary of the Navy.

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Green Jeanne Therapy

Energy HypeJeanne Shaheen has quite a list of policy objectives on the Energy policy page of her web site.  It’s a virtual who’s-who of left wing thinking, the crux of which–after you filter out all the fluff–seems to be that if we take money away from people and companies that earn it in the free market, and give it to the government, the government will fix everything.  Oh, and nowhere does it say we should drill for oil.  No I was not surprised.

My favorite sentence so far is under the heading “END THE TAX BREAKS FOR THE BIG OIL AND GAS COMPANIES”

Every year, congress gives away approximately $13 Billion (in tax breaks) to the oil and gas industry.

 

So Jeanne Shaheen the tax machine seems to be telling us that because the Federal government has not taken someone else’s money from them, simply because they have the opportunity to do so, that this is equivalent to “giving it away.”    Giving it away to who Jeanne, the people who earned it?  

Were you giving away my property tax money all those years before introducing that statewide property tax in New Hampshire?  Wasn’t that my money Governor?  Didn’t I work for it? 

People who think this way are theives, and people who think this way(usually without thinking) are elitests.

So which are you?

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Clueless Carol and Mean Jeanne Shaheen acting oily

Oil WellThe meeting must have gone well because every Dem in NH that’s running for office is reading off the same set of index cards. 

Shea-Porter (D-?) is claiming that Oil companies are sitting on excess production to drive high prices and need to use all their leases on public land or else; Drill it or lose it! Turns out this is, as usual, not even an original idea from clueless Carol.  Word has it Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill) is sponsering the bill to (more or less) socialize the American oil industry if they don’t start using every single lease they hold for mineral rights (in this case oil) on public land.  House Dems are lining up to co-sponser, some of them–to quote Pilgrim over on RedState–who are ripe for the picking.

All aboard!!!

Add to this recent remarks from Senatorial candidate Jeanne Shaheen the Tax and Spend Machine™ that were reported today in this editorial from the Union Leader 

..if elected to the U.S. Senate she will “crack down on oil company price gouging.” Her campaign suggests that oil companies and refineries are restricting supply to raise profits.

All on the same page I see, and already contradicting what you said last week…

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Lynch’s new Dem Opponent wants more taxes. (?)

I want your TaxesI like to see citizens getting involved in the process, but only a Democrat would run against another Democrat on a platform of more taxes. 

From the Union Leader

What drove Kathryn Forry, 67, a retired school teacher and education program coordinator from Jaffrey, to run for governor in a primary against ultra-popular two-term incumbent John Lynch?

Taxes.

She’s clearly a one-issues candidate, and unfortunately for her it’s the wrong issue.  She wants broad based taxes for New Hampshire to offset the current system, which she claims is unfair.  Well, I’ll admit that taxation is unfair.  As to whether the current system of business and property taxes vs. Income and additional sales taxes is more unfair, I’ll have to disagree.  We’ve had the existing system for a long time, and until recently it’s worked to our advantage…

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News from the NH / NE Blogosphere

Here are some quick shots of interest from around the New Hampshire and New England.   

Hot from Granite Grok 

Jeanne Shaheen Doesn’t answer some questions Here.

Judd Gregg goes native and Co-sponsers the government take over of Health Insurance.  A must read.

NH Insider

Manchester Republicans field full slate

NH GOP files candidates in all 24 districts

NH02 Candidate Jeniffer Horn says Drill it. 

 

Politiker NH

Shaheen talks economy at the food bank.

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Rep Shea-Porter plays make-believe…

…about how she is helping out the middle class.

A full color mailer graced my mailbox yesterday–pictured here–with the traditional extended family around the dinner table.  Without getting too wrapped up in the contradictions between Democrat policies which Rep Shea-Porter supports, and how they are more likely to destroy the traditional family regardless of class, let us instead focus on what she is promoting as her legislative “accomplishments.”

Tax cuts for the middle class; An increase in the minimum wage; Help with home heating bills; The Middle Class Assistance act; and expanding SCHIP.

 

This all just sounds so dreamy, but while I’m firmly placed in the middle of the middle class–making me, I guess about as middle class as you can get–my concerns revolve more around the fact that none of the things she’s hawking are either all that good for the middle class, or are things she had any impact on whatsoever.   Let me tell you why I wouldn’t be bragging about it on the Jump

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Take the train–you’re already paying for it.

Paul Hodes NH-02 and Carol Shea-Porter NH-01, voted in favor of spoon feeding another 14 billion in tax dollars into the Amtrak system with H.R. 6003.   Amtrak has been the recipient of much Federal largess over the course of its existence, and clearly has no incentive to make the system profitable as long as the Feds keep financing it with our tax dollars.  

Freight rail, in contrast receives almost no federal money, and manages to make a profit.   But it relies on service and good management to stay in business. 

Maybe we need to ask Reps Hodes and Shea-Porter why some rail companies can run their businesses without a 14 billion dollar handout, and some can’t.  And  what incentives 14 billion dollars buys to take Amtrak off the federal dole.

Email Paul Hodes

Email Carol Shea-Porter

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Lynch buys in to Cap and Trade and NH gets to pay

Gov. John LynchGovernor Lynch, in signing a bill that adds New Hampshire to the Regional Greenhouse gas initiative, has just saddled us with a cap and trade emissions scheme not all that different from the one the EU has used for several years.  So what you ask?  Well, Cap and trade makes energy more expensive.  It also enriches large entrenched providers, while crippling competition by placing smaller energy companies against a fiscal brick wall, and putting an economic bullet in their heads.  All in the name of reducing CO2–which it has yet to do anywhere it has been tried, and for the purpose of reducing global warming–in a decade in which the global mean atmospheric temperatures have not been rising despite massive increases in Global CO2. 

Can’t balance a state budget….let’s try cap and trade! 

 Take a look at just how bad this idea is…

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New Hampshire’s Pelosi-Twins vs. change I can believe in.

There is an approximately 97.5% chance that when asked about Oil and Gas prices, the Pelosi twins will give you the stock Democrat talking points response.  This is Obama on CNBC courtesy of NRO, parroting the party line which both Hodes and Shea-Porter rely on as a feeding tube.

… The fact that this is such a shock to American pocketbooks is not a good thing. But if we take some steps right now to help people make the adjustment, first of all by putting more money in their pockets, but also by encouraging the market to adapt to these new circumstances more rapidly, particularly U.S. automakers.

What I find shocking is that there are trillions of barrels worth of oil shale, 1.45 billion barrels per day sitting up in Alaska, and billions more just waiting off the coast, and the best Democrats can do is tell us they will try to put some money in our pockets (Whose money from where?) and encourage auto companies to spend billions to adapt so we can pay that much more for cars so they can pander to the green lobby.

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