Carnac the Magnificent says “Watch Out Maggie!”

Answer: Maggie Hassan

Question: Who is the least popular and most vulnerable NH Governor at this time in their Governorship in the last 35 years?

Yup you read that right. Early in her first term Hassan already has a lower approval rating than anyone before her in over 3 decades. Yup, even Benson (For our Democrat readers).

It really isn’t that surprising though.

1) Hassan created a horrible,unbalanced and irresponsible budget.

2) Hassan bet big on a Casino and lost. (At the hands of her own Democrat led House mind you)

3) Hassan blasted the Senate approved budget only to praise the final state budget that is nearly identical to what the Senate originally put forward.

4) Hassan has no (ZERO) accomplishments in her first term thus far. None. What about…nope. None.

Perhaps if she worried less about running for Senate in 2016 and more about taking care of the businesses of New Hampshire now, she wouldn’t be in this mess.

George W. Bush’s Approval Rating Higher than President Obama’s

Politco had an article today about how George W. Bush is slowly reemerging into the public stage. Among the interesting tidbits of the article came the following:

“What’s more, his approval ratings — once as low as 23 percent — have climbed to a seven-year high of 47 percent in a recent Washington Post poll. A CNN poll last month showed Obama’s approval at 45 percent.”

Seems that mistake after mistake after mistake has really done a toll on how the county views the President.

The real question here though is when are the liberals going to put as much heat on Obama for his various policy positions as they did Bush?

Whether it is drones or wiretaps, Democrats must agree that Obama has gone above and beyond anything Bush could have even imagined.

So much for consistency….

Former Speaker: Thank a Democrat For the Loss of Sturm, Ruger Jobs

There was no shortage of discussion on Right to Work legislation over the 2011-12 legislative term. Former Speaker O’Brien made it a centerpiece of the Republican legislative agenda. Had it not been for the veto pen of then Governor John Lynch, it may have become law. Every single Democrat legislator voted against the bill and against the veto override. A Right to Work bill was filed this term as well, but with a Democrat majority in the House, it had little chance of survival.

One defense those opposed to Right to Work frequently use is that “We don’t have evidence that companies use Right to Work as criteria for expansion or relocation.”

Today, New Hampshire learned, via the Union Leader, that Strum Ruger, a well established  gun manufacturer with a plant in New Hampshire, has opted to expand it’s operation in North Carolina, rather than the Granite State. The story includes this important sentence:

The company had a long list of factors, including a preference for a right-to-work state, where workers cannot be required to pay union dues if they choose not to join one. “Right-to-work state was one of our criteria,” Reed said.

Immediately this morning, email and social media exploded with various opinions on the development. Most noteable was a facebook post from Right to Work champion, former Speaker O’Brien, which read as follows:

The Democrats have these ridiculous bumper stickers that distort history by saying that if you like some government spending program or another, thank them.

Putting aside those distortions and the fact that they are now bankrupting thoseprograms and the country, in New Hampshire we really do have a need to note a specific result of Democrat legislative efforts. In this case it is for the loss of New Hampshire manufacturing jobs that come with the strict obedience of Democrat Party leaders and legislators to their union boss benefactors in opposing a right to work law.

Despite Legislative Democrats’ mantra that no business considers right to work laws in coming to a state or staying in a state and despite their repeating that mantra incessantly when those legislators were slavishly voting to uphold Gov. Lynch’s veto of Right to Work Legislation, here’s direct evidence, and a demonstrable loss of great manufacturing jobs in New Hampshire, that they do:

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130710/NEWS02/130719971

Next Bumper Sticker Perhaps:  Thank a Democrat For the Loss of Sturm, Ruger Jobs!

We liked the sticker idea. Maybe someone can print up a couple hundred of these?

Why New Hampshire is indebted to Senator Charles Morse

Charles Morse, R-Salem, deserves high praise, not only across his Senate District, but across all of New Hampshire. Because of his efforts and leadership as the Finance Chairman of the New Hampshire Senate, we have a budget we can be proud of. It is a budget that raises zero taxes or fees. It is a budget based on reasonable revenue estimates, a budget that lives within its means, and a budget that takes care of our most vulnerable citizens.

This budget, crafted by Senator Morse, has received praise across the political spectrum. With broad bipartisan support, it unanimously passed the New Hampshire Senate, and had a wide margin of victory in the New Hampshire House, with just a few dissenters. The Morse budget requires strong leadership and management in order to keep it on the straight and narrow, and I hope for New Hampshire’s sake that Governor Hassan is able to manage this biennial budget.

When election time comes again in a year and a half, remember the strong leadership Senator Morse delivered for the State of New Hampshire. Remember the investments made by the Morse budget in our State’s future, and I pray you remember that any economic progress made in the next two years are not due to Governor Hassan’s efforts. They will be due nearly entirely to the Morse Budget, and all Granite Staters are indebted to Senator Charles Morse for his leadership and management work in delivering this great pathway for New Hampshire’s prosperity.

Representative Joe Sweeney
Rockingham District 08

What Will Gomez Do?

Gabe Gomez won’t flirt with a New Hampshire run like Scott Brown after he fails to win a partial Senate term today, but here’s one for those of you who keep one-if-by-land/two-if-by-sea watch on Massachusetts:

Massachusetts and neighboring New Hampshire have a history of GOP businessman and upstart candidates running for high office as outsiders and disappearing when they lose. If Gomez is really a Republican – and he is suspect due to professions in a letter to Gov. Patrick seeking appointment to the seat after John Kerry’s nomination as Secretary of State – he will build the party as finance chairman for someone else’s statewide run and a candidate for a lower office. Gomez has less political capital than Romney...

My full Rare op-ed: Why Gomez Will Lose Reagan’s Massachusetts