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State Representative Robert Mead, of Hillsborough 4 recently had a letter to the editor published in The Cabinet.
Like our country, New Hampshire is under siege and in a fight for its very survival. We are the last New England state that respects its citizens' right to choose whether to wear a seat belt or a helmet, and the last one to resist a sales or income tax.
We have always believed that low taxes were the result of low spending; low spending promoted small government; and small government guaranteed our personal freedoms.
We have all heard over and over how the government doesn't create jobs from our NH Republicans. Well, the NH Business Review has an article about the current crop of candidates and what sort of jobs they have had before their current endeavors to be employed by we the people.
Our senior senator showed the people of New Hampshire how much he cares about our current economic distress yesterday by his vote on the President's jobs bill. This is a modest, bi-partisan bill that works through the private sector to encourage job creation. It eliminates the employer's share of the social security tax in the first year for any new jobs created as well as providing a $1000 per job tax credit. It also allows companies to accelerate capital depreciation expense, and helps states finance infrastructure work to promote construction jobs.
Not exactly earth shattering, but every little bit helps when we are in the worst recession in our lives.
The US Senate killed an amendment to the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act today that would have helped thousands of NH residents keep their homes by letting them seek court relief from crushing mortgage burdens. The amendment gave bankruptcy judges the power to reduce the size of a mortgage to help people who are in danger of being foreclosed on. It was an important part of the effort to restore our housing market and indirectly stabilize the economy.
The amendment was fiercely opposed by the banking industry, who said it was nothing more than a bailout to the poor and middle class. This is the same banking industry that pushed hard for a bailout for themselves a few months back. Go figure.
One of the most compelling arguments made by the opponents of "marriage equality" is that the institution of marriage has one paramount purpose: husband and wife bearing children, and thereby enriching society and prolonging mankind.
Perhaps these opponents are so focused on the Threat of Gay Marriage that they have missed the other challenges to traditional child-bearing marriage. I speak primarily of the threat of... old people.
Both parties I will speak of died recently (and I'm pretty confident they would both be happy to be used in this diary, or I wouldn't). They became infamous in 2001 when they got married.
It wasn't a good old fashioned shotgun wedding - and the shame of our nation is, it probably couldn't have been! Pleshette was 63, Poston was even older!
They were no longer equipped to fulfill their marital obligations to society. (Strom Thurmond is a special case in so many ways.) Of course the leftist press gushed over their story.
Outlaw this sort of "marriage" before it cheapens our own vows!
Senators, I know you take your responsibility seriously. When you stop to consider that your own parents may no longer be fertile, it would be natural to shy away from voiding their marriage.
But that's the price of preserving marriage, Senators! Put the Poston-Pleshette Annulment bill in the hopper!
(The deficit only matters when the money leaving the gov't doesn't go to the rich. - promoted by Dean Barker)
We've all seen Judd Gregg on TV recently doing his best teary-eyed Glen Beck imitation, wringing his hands about the size of the future deficit. We've all heard his shtick about how he is VERY concerned what this will do to our country, VERY concerned about inflation, VERY concerned the deficits are not sustainable.
"In times of crisis, Americans have always been able to bridge our divides and solve our problems but apparently Barack Obama's running mate sees it as an opportunity for unfiltered partisanship and political opportunism. John McCain suspended his campaign and is working with the nation's leaders to address this serious economic crisis and believes that it is more important to put his country before his political campaign."
Wow - color me impressed. I guess Senator Straight Talk really is his own man. Straight from the NYT, McCain talks about the difficulties of waging the peace:
"If we find ourselves involved in a conflict in which American casualties mount, in which there is no end in sight, in which we take sides in a foreign civil war, in which American fighting men and women have great difficulty distinguishing between friend and foe, then I suggest that American support for military involvement would rapidly evaporate."
So when Barack Obama simply notes the indisputable fact that Reagan changed the trajectory of American political life, he is mercilessly attacked for something he didnt do-- say he liked anything about the changes Reagan instituted.
But have any of the Democrats expressed admiration for Prince Ronald? Well , accordingly to a diary on dailykos, http://www.hillaryclinton.com/... Clinton for one. On her web site, a endorsement trumpeted by the Clinton campaign says:
But no president can do it alone. She must break recent tradition, cast cronyism aside and fill her cabinet with the best people, not only the best Democrats, but the best Republicans as well.. We're confident she will do that. Her list of favorite presidents - Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, both Roosevelts, Truman, George H.W. Bush and Reagan - demonstrates how she thinks.
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/...
So my question is: will all the posters here who assailed Obama for something he didnt say care to comment on someone who did say it?
The Mukasey debate is underway and there is a pretty full chamber.
Ken Salazar of Colorado speaks eloquently about our history and the clarity we should have that waterboarding is torture.
Lindsey Graham says he will support Mukasey but this is an important and overdue debate.
Bernie Sanders says that it is not too much to ask that our Attorney General recognize what we all know: this is torture.
But it is all theater.
There has been a simple majority since Schumer announced for Mukasey (the only plausible GOP opponents, McCain and Graham, having already endorsed him).
Then earlier today the Senate voted unanimously for a 5-hour limit on debate, and therefore no extended debate, or 'filibuster,' that would force Mukasey to get 60 votes for cloture.
Unanimously.
Who didn't speak to stop this? Who didn't call a colleague while on the road and get that single objection?
[First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate 2008 Guru: Following the Races.]
Does it seem like there's a new Republican scandal in the news every single week? Well, that may be because there is.
That seems like an awful lot of corruption, scandal, hypocrisy, impropriety, and jail-worthy crime, huh? A lot of corruption. One might say an entire Culture of Corruption.
