Shea-Porter and Hodes on Proper protection?

The Stimu-less bill the NH twain rubber-stamped on Wednesday included a provision that would require all those supposed shovel-ready projects to get their steel from American companies.  That’s right, no foreign steel.

And you thought they cut the 400 million for “protection” out of the bill.

So is this how Obama heals our tarnished image with the global community.  Trade protectionism.   Who said experience doesn’t matter?

Well, the foreign governments got the message.  They are already lining up to give Mr. Obama piece of their mind, suggesting that similar actions against us would have to follow if the provision manages to survive and become law.  (Is this the test Biden warned us about?)

Preliminary estimates by several fortune 500 companies peg the potential job losses from a slew of global trade barriers in the tens of millions as the increased cost of global goods, and the problems in acquiring them strain an already fragile US economy.

So yeah,  Hodes and Shea-Porter voted for a stimu-less bill filled with lefty handouts, and hundreds of billions in non-stimulus spending, but they also  supported trade protectionism on top of it.   This must be part of that helping the middle class mantra, right?

So I am of course assuming that they actually knew what they were voting for.   I mean you don’t actually vote for 800 billion in pointless handouts after whining about fiscal responsibility and accountability, or about the culture of corruption you’re going to help clean up, do you?  You don’t blindly support trade barriers in a global economy that will affect every job sector while you are claiming to create jobs for (your union buddies) do you? Do you? 

Is it possible they never even pulled Pelosi’s sunshine yellow  post-it off the front, the one that said “just vote yes?”  Are their copies filed away in the ‘Victory’ drawer without even one dog-eared page?

No matter how it played out, as the bill meets stiffer opposition in the Senate, the public is learning a lot more about just how bad this bill really is, something our House Reps–the fiscal conscience of congress, seemed unconcerned with in their rush to give Obama a quick victory.

It’s good to know where their priorities lie.  Of course we always knew didn’t we, yet for some reason they got re-elected anyway.  So you know the old saying, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice…

I actually want the Democrats to win this one

I’ve decided, for the good of the country, to support the democrats plan to make oil companies give up their leases on land they are unwilling to drill on

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Democrats are sold part and parcel on this scheme they have concocted to make it look like they actually want to drill.  They don’t want to drill.  They never wanted to drill.  If they wanted to drill they would have drilled years ago.  This is all a bunch of election year pandering.  So I say, give them some rope and let them hang themselves because democrats are to markets and economics (and now geology) what fish are to bicycles.

 

They are going to get these leases back because the current owners know it is not worth the expense to develop them.  The oil is too sparse and too low grade for the massive capital investment required to get at it.  I mean if Exxon –Mobil thinks it’s a waste of money, there is not much hope that any of the other oil companies will see it any different.  No one is going to buy them, and no matter how much oil the lefties claim is there, not one drop of it is coming out of the ground unless it’s from an existing well.  And they can’t do a damn thing about it

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But they might want to try.  So remind me how big government liberals convince people to invest in energy projects with no obvious hope of sustainable profitability?  Why, they give them truckloads of our tax dollars—as many as it takes to cover the loss a private company would have to risk if it went in on the project alone.  That’s right.  In order to make this plan work democrats would have to give “hand-outs” to oil companies.

 

It’s perfect.  They just can’t do it.  The Maxine Waters plan to use the government to take over the oil companies isn’t going to fly.  It’s just another empty-headed promise for a solution which democrats are not even remotely equipped to solve.  They have no solution that will not increase the cost of energy.  Not one.

 

I say let ‘em hang

Cleaning Queen Nancy’s House

Your voice in Washington has been stolen from you, but is democracy officially dead?

When you voted for a congressman, no matter who it was, you got a person whose job it is, to ensure that they could cast votes on matters of national importance in your name.  But what happens if they don’t get to vote or support the deliberate effort to prevents votes altogether?  Well that’s what we have had for the past two years. 

 

Despite an approval rating of 9% the Speaker of the House continues the practice of refusing to allow debate or floor votes on any Bill that contradicts her personal policy preferences.  (Even legislation from democrats). That’s not democracy, that’s tyranny. 

 

So no matter what you may believe, you no longer have a voice in the House of Representatives.  And democrats Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter, who have been goose-stepping dutifully behind Chancellor Pelosi, not only embrace this approach to representative democracy, but overwhelmingly endorse policies that will place even more government power at her feet. 

 

We need to send a message to Queen Nancy that as Speaker of the House, her job is to add a measure of control to the legislative whirlwind, not to pontificate her policy desires by dictatorial fiat.  Since she has made it clear that she won’t allow any legislation she opposes to get a fair vote on the floor her vote is now the only vote.  One Speaker one vote.  And just in case you forgot, unless you live in her congressional district you can’t directly vote her out of office.

 

But the people of New Hampshire have two opportunities to attack this abuse of parliamentary power; replace Hodes and Shea-Porter.  Only by electing reps who will challenge Pelosi’s supreme authority can the voice of the people of New Hampshire be heard.  Only then can the people of the nation demand more balance, and a free expression of ideas.  Pelosi is killing democracy.  It’s time to put Queen Nancy’s House in order.

Hodes teaches us the ‘New Math.’

In the Saturday Union Leader John DiStaso has an article in which NH-02 Rep Paul Hodes pins the “tax cuts for the rich”canard on John McCain, and declares his economic policies as detrimental to the middle class.  You see McCain has this goofy notion that the people who earn the money know best how to invest it in the economy. Hodes has other ideas. (previously discussed here,)

Hodes counter’s McCain with an Obama plan that would put $1,000.00 dollars in the pockets of those making up to $250,000.00 per year while “asking more” of those who with higher incomes.  Hodes completely ignores the fact that Obama’s economic plan will extract around 5 trillion dollars back out of the economy in the process.  And guess where that money will come from? 

That’s right, the middle class.

Oil Drops

New Hampshire’s Democratic Reps, and former NH governor, tell us they have great ideas on how to resolve the high cost of energy, how to help the “struggling” middle class with the costs associated with it.  But they never seriously relate the two with facts because anyone with two brain-cells to rub together knows that democrat policies on energy only hurt the middle class.

So let’s give credit where credit is due.   Democrats take cash from the green lobby, they continue to boycott oil and gas production–which favors that lobby, oil has more than doubled in price under their watch, so they pushed mileage standards that will make cars less safer, and ethanol subsidies which made food more expensive, and their fall back excuse is that drilling won’t help, profits are bad, because republicans get campaign donations from oil companies.

Did I mention that oil was around $80.00 less a barrel when they took over congress in 2006?   

So it’s probablt safe to say that when it comes to energy policy, democrats cling to evil oil profits and the environment.  And they are half right.  Oil profits really are bad in the hands of  the federal government, which makes more than twice as much money from a barrel of oil as US oil companies do.  But what do they do with it?  They make food more expensive too.  That’s helping the middle class…move to a lower class.