GOP Rep on GOP Nominee: "This Guy is Poison"

There's something in the air this week (4.00 / 4)

And it ain't good.

Dems are turning on Obama right here, while GOP continues to turning on itself and everyone else.  

Murdoch is going down a few rungs ( good ) but there doesn't seem to be any time for celebration. (bad) Why isn't Fox under more fire???

Michelled Bachman and Pawlenty put the pressure to Boehner and it worked already. Boom, negotiations change direction overnight.

How many trainwrecks can you watch at the same time?

Meanwhile everywhere I go I talk to people who are either struggling themselves or are effected by the latest downturn in the economy. Al my friends in business are really feeling it.

Thank God for the blues.

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by: Chaz Proulx @ Sun Jul 10, 2011 at 15:00:30 PM UTC

Glad someone expanded (0.00 / 0)

on what I mentioned in another thread. It speaks volumes on the weirdness that is the current milieu. Wacky stuff going on, for sure.

They. Don't. Care.
We do.
Rinse, repeat.

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by: GreyMike @ Sun Jul 10, 2011 at 20:29:02 PM UTC

It's desperation. The old order is crumbling (3.00 / 1)

because the people are no longer willing to sustain it. Owning property has been revealed as a sop.  True, Main Street continues to feel stressed, especially those who bought condos for $230,000 that are now not selling for $80,000.
Lots of things have to be re-thought.  The end of a federal pension program didn't seem so bad when "investments" were ballooning. Now talk of ending Social Security is revealed as standing on the edge of a precipice and the question is how to keep from slipping. Whose hand can be trusted to pull us back?

Barack Obama, I suspect, likes to gamble with other people's peace of mind.

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by: hannah @ Mon Jul 11, 2011 at 10:10:27 AM UTC

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Grey Mike--It's Bad Mojo (4.00 / 1)

I agree

"Sometimes I feel Like Going Down"

John Lennon

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by: Chaz Proulx @ Sun Jul 10, 2011 at 22:28:08 PM UTC

Fred Leonard (4.00 / 5)

forever distinguished as a GOP state representative who was banned twice (in less than 2 weeks) from Blue Hampshire.  

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by: susanthe @ Mon Jul 11, 2011 at 10:46:52 AM UTC

Which was just a sideshow (4.00 / 6)

to his abysmal attendance record in Concord and his performance setting the County budget.  He fully admitted that he had no idea that cutting the budget would result in cutting programs.  Well, his favorite programs.  He wanted a "do-over."  Foster's told him to quit his crying.

There's not much credibility outside outside his insulated bubble.

In the immediate aftermath of Since the start of the financial crisis, the Fed/Treasury lent, spent, or guaranteed $28 $29 trillion to save the banking system.

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by: StraffordDem @ Mon Jul 11, 2011 at 11:01:01 AM UTC

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Oh--that Fred Leonard (0.00 / 0)

Can't keep up. I'm going to work on a ladder in the hot sun.

Sounds easier than caring for NH these days.

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by: Chaz Proulx @ Mon Jul 11, 2011 at 14:01:36 PM UTC

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Inevitable I guess (4.00 / 2)

sue -- Didn't know about Fred Leonard. Do tell more!

The electorate has saddled us with a bunch of misfits. They hate everybody and everything.

You get the government you deserve and boy are the voters going to see that as the budget becomes reality.

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by: Chaz Proulx @ Mon Jul 11, 2011 at 13:59:17 PM UTC

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Mencken: (4.00 / 2)

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

They. Don't. Care.
We do.
Rinse, repeat.

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by: GreyMike @ Mon Jul 11, 2011 at 14:15:24 PM UTC

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This is my favorite Mencken quote. (4.00 / 1)

I use it often!

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.  (John Morley, 1838-1923)

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by: Marjorie Porter @ Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 14:10:46 PM UTC

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Another one that I like (0.00 / 0)

that suits the current environment well (and I am sorry to admit that it's irrespective of party):

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

Planned Parenthood comes to mind, for example.

They. Don't. Care.
We do.
Rinse, repeat.

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by: GreyMike @ Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 16:07:56 PM UTC

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it could be worse (4.00 / 2)

Rep. Leonard could have done even more damage to the state if he showed up more frequently in Concord.  He had the worst attendance record of any Strafford County rep--- worse even than Rep. Hofeman who was in hospital from April through June.  

He ranked 390th out of 398 overall, in terms of rollcall votes on major issues (as defined by the House Republican Alliance): he cast only a few more votes than Jennifer Daler (who wasn't even seated till May 25th.)

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Mon Jul 11, 2011 at 16:05:26 PM UTC

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that's a good point, Tim n/t (0.00 / 0)

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by: susanthe @ Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 00:13:43 AM UTC

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it was the worst of those who didn't have a good excuse (4.00 / 1)

Fred's attendance record was the worst of anyone who didn't have an excuse; O'Brien only voted twice becaue he was the Speaker, Jennifer Daler wasn't seated till late May; Tom Beattie was working in Arkansas almost all session; some others had illnesses and/or illnesses in the family.  Fred is a robust guy in the prime of life who as far as I know had no medical or family issues to deal with, and who works locally.  (He did call in to get a leave for all his absences, but they were always for "important business.")

(Beattie's case could be a scandal, actually: some of his fellow Hillsborough County reps believe that he has in fact moved out of his apartment in Manchester, and no one knows where he is actually living.)

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Wed Jul 13, 2011 at 15:30:52 PM UTC

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We live in (4.00 / 1)

"interesting times."  I feel like I am getting too old for this stuff.  

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Mon Jul 11, 2011 at 11:14:26 AM UTC