The Tea Party, now a well-known but poorly understood American populist movement, has attracted so much attention because it truly rose from the grassroots passions of Americans who love their country.

To clearly understand the grassroots nature of the Tea Party, it’s important to note that the movement has never been controlled by any one central authority―besides, perhaps, the rule of law and the constitution. This decidedly libertarian-conservative political movement has really grown up around a loose network of patriots united around a core set of issues. And around those issues, groups of people act with distinct autonomy based on the will of their members.

Despite this decentralization―or perhaps because of it―the movement has managed to focus the American political conversation on concerns and objectives of lasting importance to the American Republic: overspending, debt, and crony capitalism on the one hand, and government accountability, sound money and national sovereignty, on the other. But more than that, the Tea Party has sought to restore those timeless principles that were once cherished by all Americans: limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, free enterprise and equal protection under the law chief among them.

As a populist movement, it is only by remaining decentralized that the Tea Party will continue to unite the passions of Americans and reject the allure of power and influence. Already, it has successfully rebuffed attempts by the Washington and Republican establishments to co-opt the movement for their own purposes. National groups like FreedomWorks, the Tea Party Express, and Tea Party Nation have had limited success tapping the local Tea Party fervor because average Tea Partiers are wary of national groups that compromise principles for power.

This strength, however, is also proving to be its greatest weakness. Without a strong central authority or spokesman, it has been difficult for the Tea Party to maintain the purity of its core principles or to stay on track with its original grassroots agenda. Nowhere is this more evident than in its support of federal candidates.

In 2010, not long after the outset of the movement, the Tea Party successfully coalesced around several candidates for Congress, many of whom now serve in government as reliable limited government reformers. However, as the current session continues and the next election approaches, the Tea Party is having trouble both in articulating the same clear mission with which it began and in identifying that mission in the agendas of the current political candidates. Some candidates now claim association with the movement, but their record shows a clear disparity with the Tea Party. In this way, the decentralized nature of the movement has not been conducive to a critical defense of its brand.

But defense of the brand is critical, and Tea Party patriots must demand that politicians prove themselves worthy of the Tea Party label. That does not mean the candidate can just have a shallow commitment to Tea Party principles, but they must have the political courage to make deep and lasting reforms.

For example, the generic “cut government spending” principle is certainly a Tea Party concept, but by which standards will a candidate cut the size of government? Will he or she simply reduce the percentage of the increase in spending by trimming a few line items here or there, or will he or she reduce the size of the budget by eliminating redundant, unnecessary or unconstitutional programs and departments, and more importantly, will that budget be balanced without new debt?

Likewise, will a candidate eliminate only those deals with lobbyists and corporate entities that the incumbent has cultivated, or will he or she actually eliminate all cronyism in government and restore the free enterprise system where the market―and not government bureaucrats―picks the winners and losers? Does the candidate have a history of promoting free market capitalism or does he or she have a record of making deals for political gain?

Additionally, if a candidate is promoting a “limited government” approach, does he or she truly understand the federalist system that puts political power in the hands of the people―by putting people in control of their own lives and reserving most of the governing to the states―or will the candidate continue to look for federal one-size-fits-all solutions, or worse, global solutions to the problems facing everyday people? How will the restrictions on federal power in the Constitution weigh his or her decisions, and does his or her record support the campaign rhetoric?

There is still a strong core of Tea Party patriots who are committed to the ideas that defined the Tea Party at its inception, but these people must remain proactive to protect the Tea Party brand. They must demand that politicians not merely speak about Tea Party issues, but demonstrate a passionate dedication to the ideals of limited government within the federalist system defined by the Constitution. And they must educate new Tea Party patriots on the movement’s core principles; communicate and coordinate with all the local groups identifying with the label; and clearly articulate the original Tea Party agenda to the media and the general public so candidates cannot attach themselves to the label when they clearly should not.

Without an active defense of the movement, there is a strong chance that the movement will slowly disintegrate. For without a strong brand and conviction to principle, populist movements cannot remain passionately united for the common cause―and in these times when America needs the Tea Party more than ever, this would be a tragedy.
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Carolyn McKinney is a graduate of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition to being a mother of four and small business owner, she is the Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, an organization dedicated to conservative principles and the cause of liberty.

Concord, N.H. — With news that 7,600 Granite Staters will lose their Medicare benefits as a result of ObamaCare, it’s no surprise that U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen is dodging voters across the state. Contrary to every other member of the federal delegation, Shaheen has failed to host an in-person town hall.

“Voters deserve the chance to see and hear directly from their elected officials, and in our state they expect it,” said New Hampshire Republican State Committee Chairman Wayne MacDonald. “Now that seniors are beginning to see the cuts Shaheen made to Medicare, Granite Staters should have a chance to question her for helping this reckless plan become law.”

In this weekend’s New Hampshire Union Leader, the paper’s editorial page included this:

“Rule No. 1 when thinking about health insurance: never take Jeanne Shaheen’s advice. Last month 7,600 Granite Staters who use Medicare Advantage were informed that their coverage is being discontinued. They are understandably upset.” (Editorial, New Hampshire Union Leader, 12/4/2011)

On top of an already-struggling economy and massive government debt which recently topped $15 trillion, this latest news is sure to add to President Barack Obama’s troubles. Even Democrats as recently as a couple weeks ago suggested that N.H. Democrats have their work cut out for them ahead of the 2012 election season.

“Billy Shaheen, a longtime Democratic operative in New Hampshire and the husband of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, said Republicans’ huge gains in the state during the 2010 midterm elections served as a wake-up call for the state’s Democrats.” (WMUR, 11/22/2011)

Judging by Senator Shaheen’s lacking town hall schedule, it seems like she either didn’t catch this message or simply thinks she can get away with it when she’s not on the ballot. U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte has hosted a town hall meeting in every county, while Reps. Charlie Bass and Frank Guinta continue to hold these forums regularly all across their districts.

“It seems like Senator Shaheen believes she only needs to host town hall meetings when she’s up for election,” Chairman MacDonald added. “Not only is her record of more government, higher taxes and Medicare cuts a disaster for our state, but now she’s standing alone as the only member of the delegation refusing to hold town halls.”
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The NHTPC notes that she did not hold any in 2010 either, even when her constituents demanded it, whereupon she dissed them in a scathing press release that misrepresented what went on in her office in an attempt to make it sound like we were not her constituents.

Related: How Shaheen Destroyed Insurance Markets in NH in 1994

What Really Happened in Hampstead and Shaheen’s Cowardly Misleading Press Release (which debunks her statements at the end of the first article)

As one “deadline” after another in the Debt crisis goes by, I am reminded of another “deadline” faced by the patriots of Boston in December of 1773. Unless they took action by the 16th, the Tea would be landed and the Tax on it would become law.

Some 5,000 to 7,000 of them… the population of Boston was only 18,000… crowded into Old South Meeting House on that cold, rainy morning determined to prevent landing of the Tea, “whatever the consequences”. In this latest attempt at “Taxation without Representation” their relations with the British parliament had reached a tipping point. By midnight they would either make history, or, be history, risking all, one might say, to “get the gov’t off their backs”

Next day John Adams, well aware of the key role which his older cousin Samuel had played behind the scenes, wrote this in his diary. “There is a Dignity, a Majesty, a Sublimity in this last Effort of the Patriots that I greatly admire…This Destruction of the Tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid, & inflexible, and it must have so important Consequences and so lasting, that I cannot but consider it as an Epocha in History…”

Meanwhile, the “rebellious stripes”, America’s first flag, flew atop the Liberty Tree, awaiting the next turn of events in the rebellion which became a Revolution.
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John Hansel is the founder of the Liberty Elm Tree Society, a member of the NHTPC. The date December 16 is significant also because the first modern day tea party was held on December 16, 2007 when we tossed tea in the harbors all over the United States. The tea party movement is soon to celebrate its 4th year.

The “Occupy Wall Street” protest reeks of hypocrisy! On one hand you’ve got “peaceful protesters” (check out the police logs and fire department logs and you’ll see how peaceful this has been) going after the ‘one percent establishment’ – (certain members of it, that is, – such as the Koch brothers) while on the other hand they are ignoring the most evil one of all – George Soros. How hypocritical!

Soros has funded and orchestrated this ‘protest’ from the get-go! The U.S. protests are occurring at the same time as the protests in Europe, the Middle East and Greece. This is no coincidence. Sometime, research (Google it) OTPOR and see how this is all being planned. This is a world-wide socialist movement being funded by some of the richest people on earth – plutocrats, one-percenters that the Wall Street protesters are ignoring in their little anti-establishment rant.

In April of this year, Soros was at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, NH – the site of the International Monetary Conference of 1944. He organized an event some called the “Second Bretton Woods Conference.” The topics of this event included – “creating a one-world currency.” This is NO conspiracy!! It is right out there in the open and, it is only fools who cannot see it. The plutocrats want one-world government (with a Fabian Socialist model) and one-world economic order. Their Federal Reserve System orchestrated/created the Great Depression of the 1930’s. It’s creating the economic climate right now for another world economic calamity. And, the ‘useful idiots’ protesting (some are blatantly socialist) are aiding and abetting in this endeavor!

Liberty Tree Flag - America's First Flag

One morning in the fall of 1765 the “Son’s of Liberty” in Boston met at the Liberty Tree on the corner of Orange and Essex and unfurled a huge flag… 13 feet long by 7 feet wide… having nine vertical red and white stripes… the “rebellious stripes” they called them… to honor the nine colonies which had joined in protest of the Stamp Act.

Influential patriots like Sam Adams and John Hancock were part of this group of early protesters of British rule. They met often beneath the sheltering branches of this great American Elm, known throughout the colonies as the “Liberty Tree”.

It was at one such meeting in 1773 that they planned the Tea Party, an act of rebellion which soon became a revolution. Overhead flew the “Liberty Tree Flag” . When the British troops evacuated Boston they cut down the “Liberty Tree’ but the “rebellious stripes” survived to this day. They are on display by the Bostonian Society at the Old State House, 206 Washington St. in Boston, Mass.

The “Liberty Tree Society’ was formed to celebrate this historic moment in our history. We have created a flag pin to commemorate America’s first flag under which the Tea Party was “born”. We hope Tea Party members every where will wear this pin proudly as a symbol of their common heritage.

To get yours please go to www.libertytreesociety.org
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The Liberty Tree Society is the newest group to join the NH Tea Party Coalition.

1) The tea party obtains permits and goes home at night; doesn’t leave a place filthy

2) The tea party is not funded by Rockefeller, Carnegie or Soros foundations, or anyone else

3) No one ever got arrested at a tea party; the tea party doesn’t fake arrests either

4) No one ever defecated on police car or American flag, or damaged property at a tea party

5) No one ever charged a police officer or his horse at at tea party

6) No one was ever RAPED at at tea party

7) No one ever shouted the N-word at a tea party

8) No one ever shouted anti-semitic epithets at a tea party

9) No one was ever robbed at a tea party by other tea partiers

10) The American Nazi Party and the Communist Party USA do NOT support the tea party

So in short, when the OWS people tell you this ain’t your tea party, we agree; because tea partiers don’t rape, rob, destroy, get arrested, fake arrests, toss metal fences at horses or defecate on things when they rally.

Occupy’s Sugar Daddy…

Other groups and people came along in 2009, many of them GOP PACs or consultants, and hijacked the movement’s name, claiming to be founders or national leaders, much to the chagrin of the people in the real grassroots movement.

A few months ago, we saw Amy Kremer of Sal Russo’s Tea Party Express Bus (a GOP PAC) tell the public that the tea parties, all of them, would accept Mitt Romney as the nominee. Last month, TPE came to NH and featured Romney. NHTPC and it’s supporting groups have NO affiliation with TPE.

Now we have Judson Phillips, someone who was not even around in 2007, claiming that his group Tea Party Nation, will endorse Newt Gingrich.

Let it be known that the ‘real’ tea party Koch-free grassroots movement would never consider endorsing, let alone some modern-day Orwellian like the Newt.

Groups like TPE, TPP, and TPN are just not legit grassroots and the media should not be looking at them as ‘leaders’ because frankly, we do not.

American parents currently confronted with IB PYP takeover of their public elementary schools are questioning the value of this very expensive, schoolwide “programme”, as well they should. Take a look at these three You Tube videos “celebrating” the PYP.

In the first, two little boys sitting by themselves at a coffee table in front of a disgusting mess which is supposed to be their dinner supposedly ask, “Where do vegetables come from?” Why they would ask that when there is nothing that appears to be a vegetable mixed in with the slop is beyond us, but let’s assume they do. Where is Mom? Where is Dad? Don’t they have a garden? Have they never visited a farm? Who prepared the food for them? They have a Mac laptop for goodness sake …. but they probably don’t know how to spell v-e-g-e-t-a-b-l-e so they can’t find the answer to their question there. So, these two little boys set off on their own sans any adult supervision and wander into a filthy restaurant kitchen, grocery store and off to a farm to learn the answer to their question. Note the emphasis on the importance of water (Agenda 21) and the primitive farming tools displayed. This is how IB uses constructivism – eliminate any and all family values and influence, waste precious time and encourage children to put themselves in potentially dangerous situations.

In the second video, the children sing of “a flame burning in the night, beckoning the fight for birth, for death, for life ….. one earth, one sky, one sea”. Does that make sense to you? How does beckoning the fight for death create harmony and peace? This is a disgusting abuse of little children and TAIB would love to find someone who could actually interpret all of the other non-English words in that indoctrination chant to know what they mean.

In the third video, we learn what a collaborative PYP classroom should like like. God help the child with ADD! What a mess! Just looking around that room with the hundreds of post-it notes and IB “commands” to take action and perform service made this adult feel anxious and confused. This room is absolute chaos! The video tells us we should “hear an excited hum”, yet do you see a smile on a single child in this classroom?

This junk “youth service” program must be kicked out of American public schools pronto! Wake up parents!

Take ACTION and kick this UN indoctrination to the curb!

In the first video, the children go on a wild goosechase just to learn where vegetables come from…

How can Americans not find this use of their tax dollars DISGUSTING???

Parroting this abject nonsense that the Tea Party is responsible for the downgrade has to be most ignorant thing we’ve heard to date. The Tea Party movement only started in 2007 but those who control our government have been employing policies that head us toward bankruptcy for years.

No matter to them that the tea party neither had a hand in, nor approved of, the Boehner legislation.

Since when is calling for fiscal sanity – insanity? Are we that dumb to believe that we can keep spending beyond our means? For the first time in history, future generations of Americans will have a poorer standard of living than what we have currently. It’s happening under our watch. And, those with the courage to say enough is enough are made out to be crazies. Shades of the USSR – when the truth was told, people were made out to be crazy!

In answer to the charge that S&P’s downgrade has no credibility, it might be conceded that this is true in some ways, but why? Let’s analyze further…

The country is spending money beyond its ability to pay it back. The federal government’s insatiable spending appetite leads it to keep issuing bonds. In fact, for every dollar it spends, it has to borrow 40 cents, mostly from China. It sells bonds to China. But, China doesn’t like the low rates of interest we pay. So, in return, we sweeten the pot with trade and load up entire industries on ships and send them to China at the expense of U.S. jobs – fueling the recession. And, we keep spending because the special interests (billionaire’s club) want to fight their wars, using imperialism and hegemony to usurp the economic resources of the world (for their new world order and one world government). And, the debt threatens obligations to the American people (such as Social Security). So, establishment elites like Alan Greenspan (the creep who brought us stock derivatives which almost destroyed Wall Street two years ago) call for the printing of more money – more money equals dollar devaluation which kills those on fixed incomes! And, the only group that has the guts to stand up and say, “enough is enough, let’s get out fiscal house in order and stop the spending” – the Tea Party- is vilified in the media and its supporters made out to be crazy.

The truth is a bit convoluted but not hard to find if you bear with me. See if you can follow it. Could it be true that the S&P is merely part of the establishment looking to overspend and put America into a receivership? (The goal of George Soros…)

Those who are willing to defend Obama and his elitist manipulators are now questioning the credibility of S&P because it casts a bad light on this administration. Standard & Poor, the bond-rating firm whose job it is is to warn investors of lousy bond issues, has just downgraded America’s bond rating in reaction to the PERCEPTION that the tea party somehow got a great deal out of this legislation and was therefore the cause of the stock market tanking. The truth? The tea party did not approve of the deal because it does not cut spending enough and still allows more debt. Some Reps voted for it because they say it’s a ’start’. (Our delegation in NH did, except for Ayotte who saw through this, but the others are having a tough time explaining it to their constituents) But the tea party was not happy with that decision.

We can only conclude that the S&P is part of the establishment, complicit in the perception that they are doing good for the country while in fact covering up for those who would bankrupt it.

The recent action by S&P feeds off the public’s misperception that the Tea Party got its way and that this it what caused the subsequent downgrade and therefore, the Tea Party is now responsible for this debt crisis.

This begs the question: Where was the S&P during the Fannie/Freddie debacle? Why do Fannie and Freddie still have AAA+ ratings? Is this to protect Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and Maxine Waters from their insistence that those institutions were financially sound even though they were lending money to people they KNEW could never pay it back?

So when you accuse the S&P of no credibility, you might be right. It still does not add up to the Tea Party’s fault in the downgrade. The S&P does what it wants to do, apparently didn’t care about Fannie and Freddie. Could it be that the S&P is part of the moneyed elite’s plan…?

So, when you question the credibility of the S&P you are not far from the truth… but keep digging… it’s a world of smoke and mirrors we live in, but somehow that truth will prevail.

The accusation that the Tea Party was responsible for the downgrade is the most ludicrous spin ever to come from the White House’s minions in the Center for American Progress, a group that writes Obama’s legislation. Note that this group is funded by none other than his main supporter and king of astroturf George Soros, wealthy elitist and criminal who just picked up a cool Billion on the stock market’s crash.

Our economic policies were designed to create an integrated global economy – at the expense of the American people – national suicide, destroying the middle class. It’s by design that our economy is collapsing – to lower the standard of living of Americans to the global average. All attempts to restart the economy won’t be successful until we reverse course on the socialist redistribution of wealth designed into international trade agreements.

America must be devalued and that will continue to be done by the global redistributionists and elites… while those culprits continue using the media to blame the very people who are trying to stop it.

As one of our tea partiers put it so aptly:

“I have been pounding the drum of our devaluing dollar for months — here is some news. As of November 8,2010 gold was $1407.00 per ounce this morning August 8th gold is up to $1707.00 per ounce.

Be careful as well as prayerful what to do with your personal finance. Go with your “gut” feeling not what you hear by the talking heads. They were the ones saying the world would collapse without the bad deal our government just put in place.”

When you have Maureen Dowd, the NYT, Capitol Hill Blue, talking heads on TV, internet bloggers claiming to be ‘news’ sources, Maggie Carlson, and even Vice President Joe Biden in the White House describing ordinary Americans as ‘terrorists, the resulting attacks of such inflammatory rhetoric are to be expected.

Inciting violence toward mainstream, middle-class Americans while banning the use of the word ‘terrorist’ when referring to Jihadists; could this signal a troubling trend of future government attacks against the citizenry?

As Jonah Goldberg said; [I]magine if this was Dick Cheney calling the Progressive Caucus (or whatever they’re called) a “bunch of terrorists” on the day Giffords returned to the Congress. Would the mainstream media notice or care? Would Meet the Press debate whether this raises “troubling questions” about the White House’s sensitivity? Would Andrea Mitchell find some way to blame Sarah Palin for Dick Cheney’s viciousness? Would Keith Olbermann explode like a mouse subjected to the Ramone’s music in Rock and Roll High School? Something inside me hidden away shouts, “Hell yes they would!”

Behold more Violent Rhetoric here,

The media aided in the building up of the lie about the debt ceiling. They have been quiet on their support for another deal that would, as obvious to most with any education in basic mathematics, push us further over the economic cliff. The old guard on both sides of the aisle have their fingerprints all over those issues that put our nation in a position of economic collapse: Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac, AIG, GMC, GMAC Bank (now Ally Bank), Hud, Social Security, Medicare, Stimulus, Tarp, NAFTA, GATT, illegal immigration, undeclared wars, unaudited Federal Reserve, Chrysler, supporting unions for votes at the cost of the private sector, Obamacare, inflation, etc. These are just a few items that have had huge effects on driving our economy over the cliff, but it is not nearly all of the problem.

U.S. unfunded liability per taxpayer on 11/18/10 was $1,008,580.00 and as of 8/2/2011 it is $1,027,491.00 per taxpayer, an increase of $19,000.00 in just under 9 months. It is climbing at a rate of more than $2,000.00 per taxpayer per month. Thats $4,000.00 per married couple per month if both are taxpayers. Don’t worry, be happy, you Tea Party extremists.

The lies are already in motion to discount the reason for the economic problems we face Tell me why it costs about $41.00 to buy a U.S. Silver Dollar? Inflation is why, along with the devaluation of our dollar. The government is covering up for the last bit of the looting of our Treasury. That is why they are passing legislation such as what they passed this week. All of this is happening while our President serves his friends $100.00 per pound steak, spends tens of millions of dollars to send his wife on trips to play, and asks his friends to pay $35,000 to attend his birthday party.

Let’s not let Congress off the hook either. Those Senators and Congressmen that have been in office for years are equally guilty. Tell me how if this is a Tea Party problem (as the media and the old guard both republican and democrat accuse) what has Congress (both parties) been doing all these years? This collapse has been in the making for decades and it really didn’t matter which party was in power. The “good cop, bad cop” games that the parties have played with us was bound to expose itself at some point. That point in time is now. Look at your town, the empty storefronts, those you know without jobs, your stocks, your 401k, your wallet, and know that this is not some passing issue that will disappear because you want it to.

I am not sure we can fix this problem, or in reality a problem we are willing to fix as a nation. I am hoping that we can just get our hands out in front of us to break our fall. Washington and the media are lying to us and if we believe them we will fall flat on our faces. These are the ones that are really responsible in many ways for this fall, their continued lying to America is unforgivable. Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid, Pelosi and Boehner — who do you really believe has done his or her job for America in the last 10 years?

Our freshmen were sent to DC to stand up to these people and lead, not to follow. The issues we are facing as a nation are immediate and with the direction our government is still headed we may not survive as a nation if we don’t find our spines and stand up for what we know in our hearts and minds is right for America.

Governor Lynch, in a fit of impotence and self contradiction, confused his role as the states chief executive today, as reported in a Union Leader column by Tom Fahey. In regard to the passage into law of New Hampshire HB 601 and SB 148, Governor Lynch remarked on one hand that…

He allowed the bill (HB 601) to become law, he said, “because I did not want New Hampshire to default into federal oversight.”

and then claimed that…

…SB 148 has no practical effect on New Hampshire residents because there is no way to enforce it.

“The assessments for not obtaining health insurance will not be administered through the state but through the Internal Revenue Service. Legislators and the public should understand that this legislation would have no impact on the capacity of the state of New Hampshire to block the individual health insurance mandate or the federal assessments for not obtaining insurance,” he said.

HB 601 (in short-hand) prohibits accepting pump-priming federal dollars for Obama Care–which must be returned to lower the federal deficit) and gives the NH legislature oversight of all state agencies on the matter before any part of it can be implemented. SB 148 simply states that we will not enforce any purchase mandate fine or imprisonment related to the Health Care law.

As a matter of semantics Lynch is not wrong to suggest that if the IRS barges in and arrests us for failing to comply that no state agency is interposed to prevent that. But that is exactly the point of SB 148. It deems to interpose the law enforcing branch of the New Hampshire government–the executive and his Attorney General–between (in this case) the IRS and the people on the matter of the Patient affordable care act. SB 148 draws a line over which our chief executive is meant to stand in defense of his state and it’s people. The same line, by the way, that he draws (at least rhetorically) with regard to HB601.

So according to Lynch, while he does not want to default to federal oversight, the IRS can just reach over the Governors office and snatch whomever they please. What exactly is his job again? It is not to keep getting re-elected. But I think that is what this is about and I’ve got some thoughts on that. (of course I do.)

With HB601 Mr. Lynch claims that he does not want the state to default into federal oversight, a problem that never (Never, ever) troubled him when he had a democrat majority legislature. Education money, stimulus money, “insert name of federal money here” money, it was all accepted with open arms, with all the strings and oversight that came with it. He couldn’t accept it fast enough. But now we are meant to applaud his so-called discovery of a few vertebrae (in the shadow of a likely veto override) when in this instance all he has to do is refuse to cash one check.

SB148 would actually require him to ask his AG to intercede in the interests of state sovereignty to legally protect and defend his constituents from what amounts to the exact same thing; a default to federal oversight. But in this case, where he is the only legal roadblock to implementation (of a plan he actually supports) we are told the bill empowering him to be that roadblock means nothing, that it can’t be done.

So why refuse to veto this bill and make that case? Why just let SB 148 become law?

Governor Lynch has established that he can and will refuse to do his job. Having never signed the bill that sends the federal money back relieves him of any responsibility; his excuse for avoiding a veto is the likelihood of an override by the Republican Super majority. Obamacare is destructive to the lefts political aspirations, because most people don’t like it, so starting a veto fight would keep it in the public eye; this would be bad for the state democrat party and its candidates heading into 2012.

Since Lynch is only willing to defend us from default oversights that are politically convenient there is nothing to stop the federal government from forcing us to pay for the entire ObamaCare exchange mandate ourselves when the time comes; a mandate this Democrat Governor supports. Remember, the Republicans made him return the money.

Lynch sits on his hands, says the feds say we have to pay, which starts a public mess about spending which he and the left can blame on Republicans, even the stupid ones that keep voting for him. A fiscal fight about local dollars is easier to demagog than a federal law the governor claims he can’t prevent.

Is he that smart? I think that between Lynch and the Left wing party leadership this is a reasonable tactical assumption. But there is an easy solution to all these problems.

SB 148 will work just fine if we have a governor willing to enforce it. So we either find a way to make Lynch do his job or replace him with a governor who will.

Problem solved.

Just when you think the air-headed women of THE VIEW couldn’t say anything stupider, Barabara Walters, no paragon of virtue herself, defends Rep Weiner and his lewd photo escapades by comparing it to Sarah Palin’s bus tour.

Hello?

She asserted that if Sarah Palin could continue to reach out to people on a bus tour, then Weiner should be allowed to continue in Congress.

No matter what you think of Palin, we fail to see the comparison made between reaching out to the public with a bus tour to Weiner’s sending of lewd photos to young women who are not your wife. And that fact that Walters suggests that Palin shouldn’t be ‘allowed’ to tour on a bus… well that’s proof that freedom of speech is not even a consideration.

Even more amazing is that Joy Behar defends Palin and points out that there is no sex scandal in her history to compare.

Remember that Congressman who had to quit because he sent a shirtless pic to a potential date he’d met on a dating site?

Is change brewing across this state and nation? As I stand before you today, I can say that it is because of all of you who are making a difference in your cities and towns.

Our movement has only just begun, and it will take many years of hard work and dedication by all of us. The founding fathers sacrificed everything for the cause of freedom. Let us continue to honor their sacrifices by continuing our fight as well.

The UCC peddles left wing advocacy as Christian morality. They are a prominent member of the National Council of Churches (NCC), which used to (inconveniently) be a Communist front group, the Federal Council of Churches; inconvenient because they share a similar “social agenda” with the socialists and communists, and use the same language and tactics to advance very similar statist goals.

So Reverend Gary and his like minded social justice brethren  just want to make socialist-wealth redistribution look pious, and as long as their invocations advocate the manifold of left wing agenda items, progressive talking points, socialist dogma and philosophy, and act on the left-wing ideological agenda as part of their “ministry,” Kathy Sullivan will not have to worry about bleeding out her eyes with rage over some Church meddling in temporal affairs.

And as touching and heartfelt as the Reverend’s editorial may seem, rather than encouraging the people to give of themselves to relieve mankind’s ills, through gifts to institutions far more well equipped, it seems he’d rather the government do it with the power of temporal law and bigger budgets, and if you object–the guns of government. An odd tack for a group that insists on the right to conscientiously object to war.

Hardly much faith in mankind there, and far too much faith in a leviathan government run by the same men and women they seem unwilling to trust to give freely; but not surprising coming from a left leaning Reverend who probably has tax exempt status. I can’t say for certain but raising your taxes probably wont cost him as much as it will cost you. But it’s all in the name of Justice.

Some UCC Issues:

Environmental Justice (Global warming alarmists)
Reproductive Justice (Killing unborn babies)
Worker Justice (Pro Public Union)
Health Care Justice (Wrong on so many levels..)
Conscientious Objection (No, just to war–nothing else)
Faithfully facing dying (Government sanctioned suicide)
Worker Justice (pro-union, pro socialist worker)

Remarks of participants are as follows…

“..When Arthur Laffer and Steve Moore studied state economic growth, they found the two strongest drivers to be Right to Work and a state’s income tax rate.”

Kalb pointed out that while “NH does that last one well, by passing RTW, we could really supercharge the economy.”

– John Kalb, coordinator for NE RTW
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Many Granite Stater’s are hurting. Many are either underemployed, or unemployed.

The good people of New Hampshire are waiting. Please do not keep them waiting long.

– The New Hampshire Tea Party Coalition

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“Thank you all for being here today. My name is Jennifer Horn, I am the founder of We The People, a non-partisan advocacy organization that promotes the founding principles of freedom and limited government.

And if that is not enough incentive for Gov. Lynch to simply do what is right, then we are here today to remind him that while his union donors may be loud and they may be organized, they still only represent under 12% of NH workers and when the next election rolls around, we will be organizing the other 88% to elect a governor who listens to them.”

– Jennifer Horn for We the People Freedom Forum
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“We are here today because right now, a historic opportunity stands before Governor Lynch. With the passage of the Right to Work legislation, Governor Lynch has an opportunity to demonstrate to the citizens of our state, both those with jobs, but especially those unemployed, that he is serious about creating jobs in our great state. The fact of the matter is that in states that are Right to Work already, the number of manufacturing jobs created over the last decade outpaced those in non-right to work states. At the same time, real personal income grew in those states by 24%, while only growing by 8% in New Hampshire during the same period.

Instead however, and quite unfortunate, the Governor has indicated that he would rather side with the special interest union bosses than fight for the individual liberty of the employee and attract new businesses to the state of New Hampshire. By indicating that he will veto this job-creating piece of legislation, the Governor is behaving no better than the National Labor Relations Board which is outrageously trying to block Boeing from building its new plant in South Carolina. Let there be no doubt, so long as John Lynch sits in the corner office, New Hampshire is telling prospective employers that we closed for business. Which is why, if the Governor does veto this bill, we call on the House and Senate to override the Governor’s veto and send a strong message to the Governor and the rest of the country: that New Hampshire is Under New Management.”

– Kevin Smith for Cornerstone-Action, the legislative and issue advocacy arm of Cornerstone Policy Research, a non-partisan, non-profit education and research organization dedicated to the preservation of strong families, limited government and free markets.
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The Upper Valley Tea Party recently released its mission statement which reads in part:

Governor Lynch, sign the bill!

– Joe Frazier for the Upper Valley Tea Party
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Under your lack of leadership our State went from a lucrative business friendly environment that attracted small businesses that created jobs (pause) to one that has become a welfare State with public sector unions forcing memberships on employees and through collective bargaining has left New Hampshire with multibillion dollar debts and unfunded retirement pensions. (pause) Governor Lynch (pause) Please show some leadership (pause)

That you care about the people of New Hampshire and sign RTW HB474 into law!

– Richard Bloom for Concord Capital Area 912
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Many things have been said about today about why the State of New Hampshire needs to pass a right-to-work bill. The heart of the matter is quite simple and it rests on the premise that each person has individual liberties for which he or she alone is responsible.

Live Free or Die!

– Diane Bitter for Seacoast Freedom Network

Here is what NJ State Senator Paul Sarlo said a couple of weeks ago:

“I believe that these greenhouse gas emissions are harmful to our environment and we need to do something to stop them and prevent global warming,” said Sarlo, a former RGGI supporter. “But what has happened…we’re taking ratepayers’ money, small business owners’ money…and we’re not doing anything to protect the environment.”

Any Republican, who is sworn to follow the Party platform of reducing government scope, size, and spending, should seriously reconsider his or her party affiliation if they support the continuation of our RGGI membership. Based on the history of the program, RGGI is all about government control and the redistribution of wealth, NOT the environment.

According to this article, almost 40 NJ legislators, in addition to Senator Sarlo, are (co)sponsoring one bill or another to eject their state from RGGI…

Amazingly, even our own Foster’s Daily Democrat is editorializing that “the Senate should scrap RGGI”

Our NH House passed RGGI repeal….but will Republican Senators be true to the conservative principles most of them campaigned on?

I’m talking about getting out of RGGI, not some watered-down, amended membership compromise – while we have the opportunity.

Let all 19 NH Republican State Senators know if you agree with these sentiments.

Tom Flaherty, Milford

No Labels, the latest of many left wing funded efforts to drag the right into the middle and the middle leftward, is looking for you to help them spread their message. But before you drop your values, abandon your principles, and jump into the center, you might want to know something about their latest pitchman, or should I say woman, Catherine “Kiki” McLean.

Catherine is hailed as a “Founding Leader” of No Labels, a group on a stated quest to fight hyper-partisanship, but she is promoting a middle of which she has never demonstrably been a part.

From the Bi-Partisan Policy Center: (and here)

During the 2008 election season, McLean served as a senior advisor to the Hillary Clinton for President Campaign and frequently appeared as an on-air surrogate for the Obama for America campaign.

She worked strategy for John Kerry in 2004

She was the press secretary for Presidential Candidate Al Gore.

Kiki is a former communications director for the Democrat National Committee, and has been a national Spokesman for the Democrat Party.

She was press secretary and adviser to Tipper Gore during the 1992 general election where she supported Gore’s role..and was on the presidential transition team.

So you would be right to question what this “Leader” considers the common good or the shared goals of a bi-partisan nation, when her bread has always been buttered from the left, by left wing leaders, and the promotion of progressive socialist policy, through hyper partisan politicians, willing to ignore laws and intimidate opponents to keep power.

Catherine “No Labels” McLean also has an extensive donation history, call them bipartisan Hallmark cards of appreciation with pictures of dead presidents on them. And it is only Bipartisan if you mean “both kinds of democrats.” But they are all democrats. “Obscure” democrats like John Kerry, John Dingell, Dick Gephardt, Blanche Lincoln, Robert Menendez, Hillary Clinton, Robert Casey, and Kirsten Gillibrand. In fact, the closest Kiki “No Labels” gets to an independent donation in the left wing firmament is Joe Lieberman when he was a democrat and again while he was still a democrat running as an independent.

So as you consider the notion that Kiki is promoting a new “third way,” away from hyper-partisan politics, just remember the company she keeps, and the candidates and causes she funds, and then ask yourself if her real motivation is to empower some mythological bi-partisan middle, or to continue pushing the center leftward by hiding the labels, or in typical Orwellian fashion, renaming them.