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The Concord Monitor notices ITEP's study and the reality it exposed about our pledge politics : Poorer people pay more in New Hampshire.
...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 ...
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Every time I see Jeb Bradley , or Charlie Bass, or Judd Gregg crowing about how the world will end if we pass health care reform, I am reminded of how when they were in charge, they did nothing to address this domestic catastrophe.
All the money in the world for Iraq, and for cutting taxes for ...
Congress
Jeb Bush
Judd Gregg
Iraq
The Poet : Immigrants
No ship of all that under sail or steam
Have gathered people to us more and more
But Pilgrim-manned the Mayflower in a dream
Has been her anxious convoy in to shore. Give thanks. This is a Happy Thanksgiving Open Thread.
Other
In New Hampshire, over eight cents of every dollar earned by our poorest citizens goes to the state. The richest one percent of us gives two cents .
(The tea party people, undoubtedly almost all of whom do not belong to the richest one percent, appear unconcerned with this.)
In New ...
Other
There was an odd editorial in the UL today claiming that Senator Shaheen has not disclosed where she stands on health insurance reform, other than her vote to move the senate bill forward for debate.
http://www.unionleader.com/art...
Have they not been paying attention? As anyone who ...
Congress
Two studies, one supported, in part, by the Social Security Administration and the other put out by The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy show that after thirty one years, beginning with California's Proposition 13, that these cuts and caps have benefited the wealthy at the ...
World
Rich Lowry
The ancient rule of politics is, "When your enemy is committing suicide, don't get in the way." Piling on can only make you look bad without leaving the opponent any more doomed. That provides no help in figuring this one out.
Tuesday, the orchestrated leaks tell us, President Obama will ...
White House
An RNC national committee member from Indiana, Jim Bopp and nine others, have proposed a resolution to not allow the national party to send money to candidates who do not meet eight of the ten party principles.
Those principles include opposing abortion rights, opposing same-sex marriage, ...
White House
Ronald Reagan
Republican National Committee
I mean, who's better at half-truths and distortions than our own Senior Senator?
A future FOX News regular - you heard it predicted here first.
Congress
Fox News
Mitch McConnell
Anybody who knows me knows I love good electric guitar playing, from Charlie Christian on out. Here's an oldie but goodie from the Fillmore East, which closed when I was too young to go to concerts.
If health care reform could sing, it would be this:
Other
Huffington Post
I'm starting to lose track of all of these GOP/NRSC/DC grassroots fundraisers : The National Republican Senatorial Committee hosted a $500-a-person reception last night at its headquarters near the Capitol with special guests Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Texas Sen. John Cornyn, ...
Congress
Washington, D.C
Republican National Committee
Mitch McConnell
John Cornyn
Judd Gregg
The once reality-based NRO engages in some analysis-by-anecdote to disprove Frum , who asserts that women don't like Facebook Governor Palin: (By the way, when I saw her campaign in N.H., I was surrounded by moms with strollers.) Moms with strollers? She must have been popular in the Granite ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Barack Obama
It took months of study and some false starts, but the state group looking into the gradual collapse of the state park system has had a Eureka! moment.
It's a revolutionary free market idea. Robert Heinlein is saying "TANSTAAFL, dammit!" (You can pronounce that anagram of 'There Ain't No Such ...
Congress
Judd Gregg
General David Petraeus
Craig Benson protege and former Attorney General Kelly Ayotte : By trying Mohammed in New York City, Ayotte said federal prosecutors will give him a chance to "spout off on his anti-American ideas and we will also allow terrorists around the world to get access to intelligence that they can use ...
World
United States
General David Petraeus
We will return to the regularly scheduled programming after this short commercial break: And here's basically the same thing from Rep. Steve Israel , but without the frightening mental image of Bill O'Reilly as toxic bubble.
This is an Open Thread.
Congress
Steve Israel
Bill O'Reilly
Craig Benson protege Kelly Ayotte says "we shouldn't torture to get information," but then, perhaps remembering that she's a candidate in an increasingly fringe party, clarifies: When asked if she would vote to abolish water boarding, Ayotte said, "I would like to think about that further."
...
Congress
United States
John McCain
Behold the wreckage of the Loeb-Thomson pledge:
I'll have more to add to this, but for now I wanted to get this visual bomb of the dysfunction of our state revenue system up as soon as I found it (from this study (.pdf) ; h/t here ).
The bottom 20% of earners in this state give 8.3% of ...
Other
First, congratulations to Dean, Mike & Laura - recipients of NHYD's highest honor (the C. Arthur Soucy Achievement Award) - and to NH Young Democrats John Barriere (JFK NH Young Dem of 2009), Jessica Clark (RFK Progressive of '09) & Karen Liot Hill (EMK Young Elected Official of 2009). All ...
Congress
Youtube
Or something like that.
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 ...
Congress
Judd Gregg
" Even the liberal voters are very concerned about waste -- they're concerned about fraud, they're concerned about how large our government has become. So, we've been really well received everywhere we've gone," Republican Senate candidate Jim Bender said. I admit it. Sometimes I get ...
