Kevin Landrigan Serves a Whopper, No Bacon

This should be in a LTE. Especially the part (4.00 / 1)

about the 67 cents on the dollar. That will go over really well here in tax-phobic NH. ;)

The fact that NH is the only state in the continental US without a full-service VA hospital will definitely frost a bunch of folks, too. There are a lot of proud (and rightly so) veterans in this state. Why don't they deserve the same benefits as their brothers/sisters in other states?

Letter to the editor, man.  

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by: mamamarti @ Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 07:14:38 AM CDT

Given Gregg's role on the Appropriations Committee (0.00 / 0)

as either chair or ranking minority member, he SHOULD be bringing home the bacon and he's not.  That is the story.  He could do it, but he's not.

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by: Stark Blue @ Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 11:18:30 AM CDT

He can live with that (0.00 / 0)

but how can he let it go everywhere else, then come home and look NH in the eye.

www.KusterforCongress.com  

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 11:26:03 AM CDT

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Gregg's work on the budget and his failure to "bring home the bacon" is shameful. (0.00 / 0)

During his reign as Budget Committee Chairman, we racked up an incredible, unprecedented debt, and he couldn't so much as lift a finger for a full-service VA hospital, for passenger rail to our state's central Nashua-Manchester-Concord corridor...

In great part because of Judd Gregg, US National Debt is now equal to approximately one fifth of global annual productivity (h/t Chris Matthews).  I can think of nobody in government, save the President, who is less fiscally responsible than Judd Gregg.

Hodes for Senate 2010!

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 12:12:07 PM CDT

Gregg's "priorities" (4.00 / 1)

Gregg's "prioritie"s are not about helping New Hampshire, its people, or its businesses. Everything Gregg does is about partisanship and his political theology. His ideas about "balancing the budget" is about balancing it on the backs of the individual taxpayer, working folks, seniors and the poor.
It's amazing the respect he has garnered as a political figure here basically fibbing to folks about what the real cause of our nation's budget problems are.
When I worked for a local radio station, I went to a Greater Concord Chamber event and recorded his talk. This was in 2005. It was all about how entitlements for seniors and the poor were going to bankrupt the nation. He had all kinds of impressive charts and graphs. Of course, he limited all his data to only entitlements. He didn't mention a thing about defense spending or unneeded wars or foreign aid or anything else. Nope. Just seniors and poor folks. It's all their fault.
Afterwards, I asked him one question: "Why didn't you say one word about corporate welfare, giveaways and subsidies? Public Citizen says there is more then $300 billion annually. If you took that $300 billion a year and put it into your charts, the nation would be in the black, not in the red."
He looked at me and said, "Well, I don't support raising taxes."
I was surprised and countered, "It isn't raising taxes to end giveaways and subsidies. Those are freebies. What are you talking about?"
He looked at me, dumbfounded, surprised that I would counter his response, and said, "Public Citizen is a liberal organization" and then walked away.
I guess I shouldn't have been so shocked but I was. I walke away and under my breath in front of a bunch of other media folks, I said, "What an idiot" and walked away.
The guy is absolutely clueless.
And, that's why I'm still a bit mad at Jeanne Shaheen. There were three qualified people considering a run at John Sununu this year - a small city mayor, a former astronaut, and the daughter and wife of Congressmen. Any of them could have run a good race against him and probably would have won. Shaheen, instead of muscling them out, could have made plans to take out Gregg. She could have done us all a favor and instead, she took the easy way out. I hate that shit so much!

Politizine.com

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by: Tony Schinella @ Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 19:11:33 PM CDT

Not keen on bacon. (0.00 / 0)

However, entitlement is the opposite of subservience, as equal is the opposite of elite.  So, it's entirely consistent for Gregg, the elitists, to rail against giving people their due.
Charity is another matter.  The recipients of charity are unquestionably of a lower stratum and affirm the superiority of the elite.

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by: hannah @ Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 19:59:02 PM CDT

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