If you try to practice government or politics while shunning "partisanship," you commit yourself to a life of re-inventing the wheel - and every time you invent it, you destroy the plans and start over.
Sorry this [...]
The Monkey Wrench swings in any direction it wishes, apparently.
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Oh well. [...]
Ignore the Villagers altogether:The energized "tea party" movement, which upended this year's political debate with noisy anti-government protests, is preparing to shake up the 2010 elections by channeling money and supporters to conservative [...]
I predict I will likely reach 55 before this country ever [...]
Well, at least Jeanne Shaheen won't be on the ballot in eleven months.
Good luck, All Other Democratic Candidates!
Adding: Or?"All the things you've read in the newspapers...'the public option is gone,'--it's not true," Reid said at an impromptu press conference after' [...]
And if this is in fact the new [...]
According to a just-released Rasmussen poll (I know... Rasmussen, but still), in a three-way ballot test a "Tea Party" candidate would outpoll his Republican opponent by 23% to 18%. A Democrat finishes first with 33% and the [...]
Now that there is talk of using paid [...]
June in turn recognized my name from BH. As fate would have it, June [...]
Mr Sununu, who [...]
I support the President's policy in Afghanistan.
Based on a number of conversations, including a key one [...]
Meanwhile, [...]
The history of warfare is long and ugly. I look at it through art, as in Picasso's "Guernica",' [...]
Hillsborough County
Candia
We've been close to winning District 16 a number of times. Closest with Steve DeStefano's 5' [...]
... on the new non-partisan site, the Live Free or Die Alliance.
(Not at all meant as a knock on LFDA, which I actually think is kind of neat, to the extent that it will mean more [...]
New Hampshire is 13th on the list.
Some of the findings were interesting (h/t BarbinMD):
New research suggests U.S. states with wealthier, better educated and more tolerant residents are also happier on [...]
By SHIRA SCHOENBERG
Monitor staff
December 04, 2009
Does Carol Shea-Porter agree with President Obama's war strategy in Afghanistan?
Within hours of Obama's speech Tuesday night, the congresswoman's fellow Democrats, Sen. Jeanne' [...]
This is an Open Thread.
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I think the Democratic party is only just now relearning who and what it is at the White House level, after [...]
p.s. I'll be at the JJ dinner tonight.
p.p.s Ambinder's record of the POTUS pundit lunch is, imo, the most insightful piece out there regarding the President's thinking on Afghanistan.' [...]
I don't know the politics of Cleveland's City Council, but I don't believe it is a bastion of liberalism.
If Cleveland can do it, why can't New Hampshire?
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A Livestream for the speech can be found right at the White House.
Have at it.
Full RemarksRemarks of President Barack Obama-As Prepared for Delivery
The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
United States Military Academy at West Point
December 1, 2009
Good evening. To [...]
Turns out I'm almost the same age as Ryan White. Remember him?In the early 1980s, AIDS was known as gay-related immune deficiency, because the disease had first been identified among primarily homosexual communities in New' [...]
Today was a real snapshot of the disarray in the GOP side, while at the same time Democrats had reason to feel genuine progress.
First off, the right. Apparently it's not enough for the GOP Washington elites to' [...]
I have been listening to [...]
About thirty seconds of Teh Google pulled this up:Testerman drew sharp criticism for her comments on a New Hampshire Public Radio talk program, comparing gay men and lesbians with "shoplifters and drug addicts." She [...]
...According to the study, New Hampshire families earning less than $25,000 pay 8.3 percent of their income in state and local taxes.
...The top 1 percent of earners, [...]
All the money in the world for [...]
(The tea party people, undoubtedly almost all of whom do not belong to the richest one percent, appear unconcerned with this.)
In New Hampshire, [...]
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Have they not been paying attention? As anyone who has been following this issue [...]
Tuesday, the orchestrated leaks tell us, President Obama will announce' [...]
Those principles include opposing abortion rights, opposing same-sex marriage, opposing the stimulus [...]
A future FOX News regular - you heard it predicted here first.
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If health care reform could sing, it would be this:
I'm starting to lose track of all of these GOP/NRSC/DC grassroots fundraisers:The National Republican Senatorial' [...]
It's a revolutionary free market idea. Robert Heinlein is saying "TANSTAAFL, dammit!" (You can pronounce that anagram of 'There Ain't No Such [...]
This is an Open Thread.
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Step back and think about [...]
Behold the wreckage of the Loeb-Thomson pledge:
The bottom 20% of earners in New Hampshire give 8.3% of their income to the state.The top 1% of earners gives [...]
In one of the more ridiculous holiday-themed statements I've seen, Sen. Judd Gregg equivocated voting to open debate on how to fix the nation's health care crisis with putting pilgrims "on a leaky ship back to Europe.""As we near the celebration of the Pilgrims who crossed'" [...]
If you use Twitter and generally tweet about News, Politics, NH, etc. and would like to be included on our "Hamster List" let me know what your twitter account name [...]
In Czechoslovakia, this caused people to type forbidden books out by hand, then mimeograph them so' [...]
Mike DuHaime, the 2008 campaign manager for former New York [...]
Thanks for the lovely award and the chance to be in the presence of so many hard-working and wonderful Democrats.
It was all a bit overwhelming for this former idiotes!
Adding: please be sure to read Mike C.'s and Laura's comments, who say it far better than [...]
Meanwhile out-of-touch elites like Evan Bayh and Ben Nelson and [...]
Dean diaried about Ambinder's post yesterday.
Scala sees parallels between this GOP Senate primary and the one in 2002.
The Sununu vs. Smith race is especially [...]
"She'd fit in just fine," Boehner said in early October. "I've contributed to her election, and we're urging all of our members to help bring this race" [...]
When asked if she's a Jim DeMint Republican or a Susan Collins Republican (and clearly there's a right answer if you're looking to get elected in New Hampshire), Ayotte won't even answer, which is one suggestion that conservative Republicans are dominating the primary process in New Hampshire.
Bad news [...]
Three years ago, when every member of our federal delegation was a Republican, but shortly after the great blue wave of '06, Mike Caulfield, Laura Clawson, and I opened the doors of Blue Hampshire.
Since then, we've been through one of the longest and most exciting First-in-the-Nation Primaries in [...]
