New Hampshire
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1:03 a.m.
R2K: Obama More Popular Than Either Party in NH
The favorable/unfavorable numbers from the Research 2000 poll last week were interesting: FAV UNFAV NO OPINION 55 38 7 - Barack Obama 38 49 13 ...
Blue Hampshire - Mon 5:04 p.m.
Rep. John Murtha Has Died
TPM is reporting that US Representative John Murtha (D-PA) has died. He was in intensive care because of complications from gall bladder surgery. A long time Congressman, (he was elected in 1974), Murtha was Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. He became an outspoken opponent of the Iraq war, calling for withdrawal back in 2005. ...
Blue Hampshire - Mon 12:49 p.m.
Black Box Voting on election reform, concealed vote counting, and civil rights
SOURCE: OpEdNews February 3, 2010 , BlackBoxVoting's Bev Harris Tackles the Holt Bill, By Joan Brunwasser Bev Harris is an investigative journalist and founder of non-partisan, election watchdog BlackBoxVoting.org . Welcome back to OpEdNews, Bev. The Election Integrity (EI) community is onc...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Mon 10:50 a.m.
Black Box Voting on election reform, concealed vote counting, and civil rights PART II
SOURCE: OpEdNews February 4, 2010 , BlackBoxVoting's Bev Harris Tackles the Holt Bill, Part Two , By Joan Brunwasser Welcome back for the second half of my interview with BlackBoxVoting's Bev Harris. If people in the EI Election Integrity movement have serious reservations about the Holt Bill, Bev...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Mon 10:50 a.m.
Update from the Executive Council
NEWS RELEASE FOR DISTRICT FIVE January 27, 2010 FROM DEBORA B. PIGNATELLI, Executive Councilor January 27, Concord, NH - Listed below are some of the items that were approved at the Governor and Council Meeting on January 27, 2010 that might be of interest to District Five constituents. The next Governor and Council Meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 in the State House, Co...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Mon 8:08 a.m. - 3 clicks 
Open Thread: Palmprompter
Sure, it was ROFL funny to see that Facebook Governor Palin needed a palmprompter to remember her talking points for the Tea People. But for me, it was what was written that was most revealing: budget cuts tax That's pretty much it in a nutshell, isn't it? Don't talk openly about the goal of eliminating things like Social Security - keep the focus on tax cuts instead. This is an Open...
Blue Hampshire - Mon 2:57 a.m.
The Road To 'Global Zero': An Interview With Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan
SOURCE: DailyKos Original Interview The Road To 'Global Zero': An Interview With Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan by Plutonium Page Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 10:00:39 AM PST Last week, a rather extraordinary summit took place in Paris. Over 200 leaders and experts in the field of nuclear arms control and national security gathered to discuss the threat of nuclear proliferation and terrorism, ...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Mon 1:05 a.m.
Lucy and the Football - Now Televised!
Lucy and the Football - 2010 Televised Edition : President Obama said Sunday that he will convene a half-day, bipartisan health care summit at the White House on Feb. 25 to be broadcast on television, so Americans can see Democrats and Republicans try to break the deadlock on health care legislation. You can bring a dirty hippie blogger to the Nat'l Journal, but it still doesn't mean Rahm's gon...
Blue Hampshire - Sun 4:24 p.m.
How "The Pledge" is hurting our towns and ourselves
This is an article I will be sending to our local on-line newspaper The Forum sometime in the next month, so that it appears just prior to the election in March. It was inspired by Dean's posts on the pledge and my friend Chaz, who has been working on this for years. Our towns are so beautiful. They are filled with lovely landscapes, lakes and rivers, healthy forests and fields, h...
Blue Hampshire - Sun 3:06 p.m.
HHS Cuts to Affect Childcare, Medicaid Reimbursement to Hospitals
The Concord Monitor is reporting the cuts that the state Department of Health and Human Services has had to make to close a $43 million budget gap. The reason for this gap? The broken economy has caused more people to seek social services. But the more people need services, the less they can receive. The biggest impact for individuals will likely come from reduced subsidies for child care, as ...
Blue Hampshire - Sun 6:25 a.m. - 2 clicks
The Candidly Partisan Nature of Pledge Politics, in Verse
Rep. Kurk has taken to heart Rep. Ulery's interpretation that the constitution ought to be " lyrical ." He wants to enshrine Pledge Politics into our constitution , explaining his mission in verse: I hope that we shall always ax a bill for sales or income tax. A tax whose broad-based mouth will suck the vigor from New Hampshire's pluck. A tax that kills the jobs we seek but builds the psych...
Blue Hampshire - Sun 5:09 a.m. - 5 clicks
qotd
Comment on the proposed change to make the language in the NH constitution gender neutral: "There is a lyric quality, a literary quality, that expresses the ideals of the founding fathers,'' said Representative Jordan Ulery , a Republican. "The bland gray socialist language just destroys all that.'' I do not think "lyric," "literary," and "socialist" mean what Representative Ulery thinks they mea...
Blue Hampshire - Sat 6:41 p.m.
NH-Sen: Teh Google Must Be Broken
I keep checking my Google Alerts, but something must be wrong. I don't see anything from Kelly Ayotte, Ovide Lamontagne, Bill Binnie, and That Other Self-Funder about whether they support the GOP House plan to privatize Social Security . I find this odd, because: a) the aforementioned Republican senate candidates are always talking about our out-of-control federal deficit, and b) our previous...
Blue Hampshire - Sat 5:29 a.m. - 7 clicks
Opposition for Opposition's Sake?
Dan Pfeiffer, White House Communications Director, wrote on the White House blog that Let's be clear: Sen. Shelby is preventing qualified nominees who will help protect the American people from being confirmed. He’s not alone, though. This is just the latest example of this kind opposition for opposition’s sake that the President talked about earlier this week. Which is accurate, as fa...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Sat 3:19 a.m.
Washington Candidate Kelly Ayotte (R-NRSC, K Street)
Because if you have to write "Washington DC" in the location, it's not really for you: NRSC UPCOMING EVENTS MEMO: ... Tuesday, February 9, 2010 KELLY AYOTTE - Candidate for Senate (NH) Fundraising Reception at 5:30 p.m. Location: Morton's 1050 Connecticut Ave NW Hosted by: Jeff Walter & Clint Robinson Cost: $1000 per PAC/$500 per Individual RSVP: Please RSVP to Jon Grah...
Blue Hampshire - Fri 6:32 p.m. - 3 clicks
Ashooh Watch: The First Fib Edition
Why do some candidates for office insist on treating us like we were born yesterday? Why do they think it is better to either fib or spin than speak candidly? Take, for example, Rich Ashooh saying that Frank Guinta's fundraising failures had nothing to do with Ashooh's decision to run for office? In his announcement interviews, he said he wasn't running because of the perceived wea...
Blue Hampshire - Fri 5:16 p.m.
It's an Election Year
an editorial in today's Conway Daily Sun. Economists are quick to tell us that our economy is showing signs of recovery. This seems to mean that Wall St. is doing well. Main St. doesn't seem to be ready to tap dance just yet. The unemployment rate for New Hampshire was seven percent in January. Those statistics are skewed to be lower than the real numbers of unemployed. They don't count folks ...
Blue Hampshire - Fri 1:23 p.m. - 3 clicks
Open Thread: Just A Few More Weary Days, And Then
This is an Open Thread. Adding : Are Democrats going to figure out that they're actually the ones in charge? Or is it that they don't know how to be in charge? Or that they don't really want to do the work of being in charge? Crying " Victim! " is cute and everything, but that card isn't going to play with voters in November. Incoherent Loud and Angry NO-ism w...
Blue Hampshire - Fri 3:25 a.m.
Because They Want to Represent Me
Leaving aside DiStaso's weekly informercial of All Things Republican for a moment, it might be a good idea for someone else in the state media to ask Judd Gregg and all these GOPer candidates who spend every waking minute crowing about the budget deficit whether they support Paul Ryan's House budget plan to privatize Social Security . Paul Ryan's privatizing cohort in the Senate was none other...
Blue Hampshire - Thu 5:40 p.m. - 3 clicks
Semper IOKIYAR
Judd Gregg, today , on using reconciliation for aspects of the health care bill: If reconciliation is used, it will be a clear signal to Americans that the administration and the Democratic majority are willing to trample the spirit of the Senate in order to pass a highly partisan policy, regardless of the damage it does to the concept of representative government. Judd Gregg, in 2005 , on usin...
Blue Hampshire - Thu 5:40 p.m. - 3 clicks
Move Over, UNH
Blue Hampshire - Thu 5:03 p.m. - 7 clicks
Shea-Porter, NH-02 make Swing State's top 50 vulnerable D seats
Swing State Project ranks Carol Shea-Porter's seat as the 41st most vulnerable for the Democrats in their most recent rankings. The open seat in NH 02 ranks six spots below, at No. 47. Stuart Rothenberg ranks NH 02 as one......
Granite Prof - Thu 8:08 a.m.
Susan Collins Concerned, but misinformed
According to MSNBC.com , Senator Susan Collins of Maine issued a statement to the press, but it hasn't been indexed on her official web site. So, it's unclear how much credit it should receive. The President's Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, obviously thought refuting the ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee important enough to address the Senator's "concerns" point by point. ...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Thu 7:44 a.m.
Youth leaders on sustainable energy ask Obama about his support for (unsustainable) nuclear power
And there's NH's own, DFNH co-founder Zo Tobi right there too! ...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Tue 5:07 p.m. - 2 clicks
Concerned About Fraud, Waste and Abuse?
Check out Recovery.gov to see what's happening in your neck of the woods. ...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Tue 11:48 a.m. - 2 clicks
The Obama brand: Feeling good while they rob you blind?
SOURCE: Alternet.org BY Chris Hedges The Obama Brand: Feel Good While Overlords Loot the Treasury and Launch Imperial Wars | Brand Obama makes us hopeful. We like our president and we believe he's like us. But we're being duped into doing a lot of things that are not in our interest. January 25, 2010 Editor's Note: The following is an adapted excerpt fro...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Tue 5:20 a.m. - 2 clicks
Governor Lynch statement on death of Pfc. Marc Decoteau
Gov. John Lynch released the following statement today regarding the death of Pfc. Marc Decoteau who was killed in action in Afghanistan on Friday: “My thoughts and prayers, and those of my wife Susan, are with the family of Pfc. Marc Decoteau. “Pfc. Decoteau served our nation with courage and honor. He sacrificed protecting all of us. On behalf of the citizens of New Hampshire, our deepest ...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Feb 1 - 8 clicks
Roger Shuler on recent Supreme Court decision
SOURCE: OpEdNews ebruary 1, 2010 Roger Shuler on Recent Supreme Court Decision By Joan Brunwasser Roger Shuler is an Alabama journalist and The Legal Schnauzer blogger. Welcome back to OpEdNews. The big news of late is the recent Supreme Court decision striking down limits on corporate ...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Feb 1 - 3 clicks
The Many Faces of Shafmaster LLC
In a previous diary I called attention to the fact that our (the American people's) generosity, dispensed via low interest loans from the Commerce Department's Fisheries Program, had been repaid by the Shafmaster enterprises by polluting the waters of Great Bay. That is, to recap, Jonathan S. Shafmaster, either in his own name or as Lordco Pier Associates, had collected, over a period of six ye...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Feb 1 - 3 clicks
Breitbart Blasts Liberal Hypocrisy in Manchester as Stooge Confesses to Felonies in New Orleans
Blue Hampshire - Jan 31 - 5 clicks
In the Lions Den--Pres. Obama dialogues with Republicans
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Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 30 - 3 clicks
PR firm celebrates SCOTUS decision by running for Congress
SOURCE Care2.com A Washington-based PR firm is running for Congress. Not supporting a candidate, but running as a candidate, to demonstrate the outrageous nature of last week's Supreme Court decision that treats political campaign spending by corporations as free speech. In a satirical move by polished pros, PR firm Murray Hill has launched its election campaign with all the tools of a "regula...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 30 - 3 clicks
Happy Anniversary
Blue Hampshire - Jan 30 - 6 clicks
Pollster, or Pundit?
Blue Hampshire - Jan 29 - 7 clicks
Oncler Sununu
Blue Hampshire - Jan 28 - 6 clicks
J.D. Salinger Died
Blue Hampshire - Jan 28 - 2 clicks
Gov. Lynch's statement on today's decision regarding the Joint Underwriting Association
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 28 - 8 clicks
Governor and Council approve funding for green launching pad
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 27 - 10 clicks
Ingrates
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 27 - 2 clicks
qotd
Blue Hampshire - Jan 26 - 6 clicks
Pledge Politics
Blue Hampshire - Jan 26 - 2 clicks
Buh-Bayh
Blue Hampshire - Jan 26 - 2 clicks
Oh Dear
Blue Hampshire - Jan 25 - 2 clicks
SCOTUS helps with 10-year plan to dismantle campaign finance regulation and disclosure
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 25 - 3 clicks
How the American people can defeat unlimited corporate money and influence in elections
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 25 - 2 clicks
41 industry leaders call on Congress to halt corporate 'bribery'
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 25 - 2 clicks
Democracy For Sale: Some Possible Solutions Are On The Way To Cancel The Purchase
Blue Hampshire - Jan 22 - 2 clicks
Granny D's Comments About US Supreme Court Corporation Donations Decision
Blue Hampshire - Jan 21 - 3 clicks
Is Shea-Porter NH's Scott Brown?
I don't know if DiStaso's analogy is right, but it's definitely interesting. Does Carol Shea-Porter drive a truck? ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT? Republicans may scoff, but Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter actually has something in common with Scott Brown. She came into office as......
Granite Prof - Jan 21 - 2 clicks
Granny D responds to Supreme Court ruling on corporate campaign contributions
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 21 - 2 clicks
SCOTUS takes another swipe at democracy a la "We the People"
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 21 - 2 clicks
Breaking: US Supreme Court opens floodgates of corporate money for campaigns!
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 21 - 3 clicks
Ashamed
Blue Hampshire - Jan 20 - 2 clicks
HUD-DOT-EPA Interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 19 - 2 clicks
Looking out for the premature "calling" of the election in MA senate race
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 18 - 2 clicks
Election experts issue orange alert for Massachusetts special election
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 18 - 2 clicks
United for Coakley
Blue Hampshire - Jan 18 - 2 clicks
Brad Friedman discusses role of LHS Associates and Diebold in critical MA special election Tuesday
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 17 - 2 clicks
Protect the Count Massachusetts! Help avert election fraud disaster
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 17 - 2 clicks
Binnie's early buy really just in time
Republican U. S. Senate candidate Bill Binnie caught the attention of political observers last week when he made a two-week, $160,000 television ad buy. As Dean Spiliotes noted, it's all about name recognition for Binnie, who is staking his candidacy......
Granite Prof - Jan 15 - 3 clicks
Sullivan 2: Obama won, but GOP carried state rep seats in '08
A little more on Sullivan 2: while Obama carried the district at the top of the ticket, Republicans swept all three state representative seats. Here are the numbers from 2008: Rodeschin (R), 2,608 Maiola (R), 2.446 Howard (R), 1,984 Jillette......
Granite Prof - Jan 14
Journalism!
Blue Hampshire - Jan 14 - 3 clicks
GOP wins Sullivan 2 by 2-1 margin
New Hampshire Democrats are sending aid south of the border to save a suddenly vulnerable Martha Coakley, but they're facing problems of their own here at home. Case in point: yesterday's special election in Sullivan County District 2, which Republican......
Granite Prof - Jan 13 - 4 clicks
Voter Suppression 101
Blue Hampshire - Jan 13 - 3 clicks
Afghanistan from the viewpoint of two veteran journalists
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 10 - 2 clicks
UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld deserves statue on Wall Street, not prison sentence
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 8 - 2 clicks
The NH GOP Nanny State
Blue Hampshire - Jan 8 - 2 clicks
If Judd Gregg were running
Union Leader editorial page editor Drew Cline plays the "what if" game on his blog today: Obama’s approval ratings are hovering around 50 percent. Congress has worse approval ratings now than a year ago. Americans don’t want the health care......
Granite Prof - Jan 6 - 6 clicks
Race to replace Gatsas goes "national"
Over at Governing. com, Josh Goodman names New Hampshire's District 16 special election as one of the seven state and local races to watch during the first quarter of 2010: 7) New Hampshire State Senate District 16, February 16 --......
Granite Prof - Jan 5 - 5 clicks
Marriage Equality: The Fight Continues. Next Stop: Town Meeting Day, March 9th?
Blue Hampshire - Jan 4 - 2 clicks
Out of town hate mongerers find out they're not in Kansas anymore
Democracy for New Hampshire - Jan 4 - 2 clicks
2020: nh-al?
Blue Hampshire - Jan 4 - 3 clicks
The Historic Moment Of 01/01/10 - 12:01 AM: Marriages On A Wonderful First Minute Of A New Year
Blue Hampshire - Jan 1 - 2 clicks
Top 20 Blue Hampshire Diaries 2009 (or 125,386 visitors can't be wrong)
Blue Hampshire - Dec 31 - 2 clicks
Are They For Real?
Blue Hampshire - Dec 28 - 2 clicks
Part Two: BlackBoxVoting's Bev Harris walks us through the DOJ anti-trust probe of ES&S
Democracy for New Hampshire - Dec 22 - 2 clicks
Itse-Bitsy Ravings
Blue Hampshire - Dec 22 - 3 clicks
