Kelly Ayotte: More John Calhoun than Daniel Webster?

"perhaps indicating the importance" (0.00 / 0)

The reporter is kinda snarky, huh?

Bad marks for Ayotte. The Groker wanted to see her do "The Itse," but she slogged through a dodge. They won't say a peep.

Whack-a-mole, anyone?

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 21:17:03 PM CDT

actulaly she did the right thing (0.00 / 0)

Dan Itse's resolution hasn't even been introduced yet & Ayotte is no longer part of the state government.  She did the right thing by politely changing the subject. The resolution doesn't directly impact her work (and of course she also wants to get Dan Itse's vote.  Her election might even come down to that one vote.)

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 09:49:36 AM CDT

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Itse's bill was introduced in the session just ended (0.00 / 0)

It was HRC6, possibly the oddest piece of legislation introduced last session by Rep. Itse.

Here are is sample from this masterpiece of fake-18th century legalisms. Incredibly, this is all one long (and extremely tedious) sentence!

That a committee of conference and correspondence be appointed, which shall have as its charge to communicate the preceding resolutions to the Legislatures of the several States; to assure them that this State continues in the same esteem of their friendship and union which it has manifested from that moment at which a common danger first suggested a common union: that it considers union, for specified national purposes, and particularly to those specified in their federal compact, to be friendly to the peace, happiness and prosperity of all the States: that faithful to that compact, according to the plain intent and meaning in which it was understood and acceded to by the several parties, it is sincerely anxious for its preservation: that it does also believe, that to take from the States all the powers of self-government and transfer them to a general and consolidated government, without regard to the special delegations and reservations solemnly agreed to in that compact, is not for the peace, happiness or prosperity of these States; and that therefore this State is determined, as it doubts not its co-States are, to submit to undelegated, and consequently unlimited powers in no man, or body of men on earth: that in cases of an abuse of the delegated powers, the members of the General Government, being chosen by the people, a change by the people would be the constitutional remedy; but, where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy: that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact, (casus non foederis), to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits: that without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them: that nevertheless, this State, from motives of regard and respect for its co-States, has wished to communicate with them on the subject: that with them alone it is proper to communicate, they alone being parties to the compact, and solely authorized to judge in the last resort of the powers exercised under it, Congress being not a party, but merely the creature of the compact, and subject as to its assumptions of power to the final judgment of those by whom, and for whose use itself and its powers were all created and modified: that if the acts before specified should stand, these conclusions would flow from them: that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism -- free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power: that our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go.

This begs a couple a of questions- Who wrote this? Can he or she be cured? Remarkably, 150 legislators voted for this ridiculous bit of doggerel. You voted against it; probably the sheer assinity of the whole business has mercifully blocked it from your consciousness.

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by: Michael Marsh @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 12:23:58 PM CDT

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i seme to recall... (0.00 / 0)

I seem to recall that Dan has some new bills coming up next session.

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 12:41:01 PM CDT

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That was the one (0.00 / 0)

where a packed gallery, including 21 pistol packers according to the capitol State Police, booed the legislature for what seemed like 5 minutes while Itse tried to get them to stop.

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by: robert @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 16:11:29 PM CDT

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I'm not sure it's the right thing when you try to be all things to all people. (4.00 / 3)

In Laconia, she also said that she "wasnt ready" to go all the way to support privatization of social security.

In both instances, she know that the positions she is being asked to embrace are either absurd or dangerous, yet doesn't want to lose a single vote by taking a stand against nuttery. I dont think she will be able to keep this avoidance tactic up if Ovide Lamontagne does run-- he will make her define herself. I have conservative GOP friends who are already grumbling that she wont take definitive positions.

It would be nice if someone in the media asked her if she was open to privatization or secession. Let's see where the boundaries are.

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

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by: Paul Twomey @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 16:28:58 PM CDT

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This must be some new meaning of "the right thing" (4.00 / 1)

with which I am unfamiliar.

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by: elwood @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 21:24:55 PM CDT

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Skip Murphy is one of the founders/editors/writers for GraniteGrok (0.00 / 0)

They have been slamming Ayotte every chance they get.

As the Flotsam & Jetsam column from the NH Business Review says: "That's quite an alliance of right-wing and left-wing bloggers going after Kelly Ayotte." http://www.nhbr.com/apps/pbcs....

F&J is a must read IMHO - it is posted every other week. Check out tomorrow's issue @ www.nhbr.com  

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by: Putney Swope @ Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 21:48:35 PM CDT

We part ways (0.00 / 0)

And we were doing so well.... I read F&J, but with a very large grain of salt. F&J tends to veer off into speculation and conjecture, and they don't always fact check. I would rank it behind the political columns published in the daily papers.

But back to the topic. Ms. Ayotte is not a good candidate.  It is alwyas interesting to see how someone who looks good on paper can really fall flat.



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 18:37:36 PM CDT

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Sigh! (4.00 / 1)

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by: Putney Swope @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 18:41:38 PM CDT

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We'll always have health care n/t (0.00 / 0)

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 18:57:09 PM CDT

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she did jump in over her head (0.00 / 0)

I don't she's a bad candidate per se: she jumped into water which was over her head.  She would have been a pretty good State Senate candidate (although of course there are two excellent Democratic incumbents in Nashua.)  She could almost certainly have won one of Nashua's many State Rep seats (and, assuming she ran as a Republican, she could have filled a leadership vacuum in the Republican caucus.)  Even the CD-2 seat would have been a better fit for her than the Senate seat.

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 18:55:43 PM CDT

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Ayotte Arm in Arm (0.00 / 0)

With Jack Kimball

No'm Sayn?

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by: BurtCohen @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 10:15:43 AM CDT

Maybe Ayotte wants us to have "a proper federalism debate..." (0.00 / 0)

Yesterday possible Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty urged his fellow Republican governors to work toward greater sovereignty of the states.  On a conference call with Republican governors, Pawlenty referenced the tenth amendment and said the country hadn't had "a proper federalism debate since Ronald Reagan raised the issue in the 1980s."  Given Kelly Ayotte's vague comments to the Belknap County Republicans, one has to wonder if she agrees with Pawlenty?  

"If the Republicans will stop lying about the Democrats, the Democrats will stop telling the truth about the Republicans" -- Adlai Stevenson  

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by: VABBY @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 15:10:31 PM CDT

You took my next blog post (0.00 / 0)

right out of my mouth :-)

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by: Dean Barker @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 17:24:33 PM CDT

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