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Republicans Harm New Hampshire's Economy (Again)

by: Dean Barker

Fri Oct 07, 2011 at 18:40:26 PM EDT


Remember last summer when President Obama offered a $4,000,000,000,000 deficit cut - twice - and the party of Frank Guinta, Charlie Bass and Kelly Ayotte rejected him - twice - obstructing, delaying, and finally bringing Congress unnecessarily to the brink of a government shutdown? Remember how it earned us a downgrade from S&P?

Here's what else it earned New Hampshire:

Jayne O'Connor, president of White Mountains Attractions, a marketing association for the White Mountains region, said a 15 percent drop in tour bus business started as early as July, during the Congressional standoff over increasing the nation's borrowing limit and the possibility the government would run out of money.

Many people who board the usual 3,000 buses on fall foliage tours through the White Mountains are retired and on fixed incomes. They make their plans in advance, O'Connor said.

"When they could not decide in Washington what to do, those people were not confident that their (Social Security) checks were going to be coming in the mail and were not confident enough to make their travel plans," she said. "We really noticed that, and I heard from least one of the tour operators in the state who said, `My phone has just stopped ringing.'"

As a reminder, the following is from recently departed, veteran Republican Hill staffer:
A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress's generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.
Congress currently enjoys a record low 14% approval rating.

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Ask Frank (0.00 / 0)
How this helps our tourism industry.

His latest weekly bulletin is out. Bragging about helping NH "job creators"

Had it up to here with this guy.


my latest missive (4.00 / 1)
from Charlie Bass  says:
And as one of the biggest tourism weekends for our state begins, I hope many of you are able to get out and enjoy some of New Hampshire's beautiful foliage this season, which is just about to peak in the North Country right now.

Charlie Bass who voted against FEMA $$ to help the north country pay for fixing the roads and bridges damaged by Hurricane Irene.  


People who don't know how or why things happen believe in magic-- (0.00 / 0)
miracles. All Frankie can do is hope. Part of the antagonism towards Obama is based on his having "stolen" that talisman from them.

[ Parent ]
These two (4.00 / 2)
and Kelly Ayotte are parasites.  They need to be replaced with representatives who will answer to the people, not K-Street and the Koch Brothers.


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