Payroll Tax Extension - $160 from President Obama or $1040 from the House Republicans, You Decide!

President Obama just finished his press conference trying to place all the blame for the failure to pass the Payroll Tax extension on House Republicans. It’s a bold face lie and he knows.

The rules are clear and unambiguous, the Senate President Harry Reid now has to assign members of the Senate to a conference committee to reconcile the differences in the 2 bills, the Senate Version with a 2 month extension and the House version with a full year extension.

President Obama himself favored the 1 year extension until he didn’t! Why is President Obama playing with the poor and middle class? Is this part of his Class Warfare strategy to win re-election?

President Obama also told a few lies or at least serious spins of half truths.

President Obama claims it is $40 per week while the CBO says it is about $1000 per year or $20 per week. Yes, even the $20 is a lot of money to someone living week to week, unemployment check to unemployment check, I understand. I wonder however if the millions of elderly retirees and others on Social Security and Medicare are aware that Obama is talking about taking money away from Social Security and Medicare to fund this Re-election Year Christmas present!

President Obama told the story as if the Rules for Conference Committees didn’t exist and those mean old Republicans are taking money away from you. He makes the giant leap that the people are stupid and don’t understand the rules.

In Summary you must decide do you want to support the Senate Democrats led by Senator Harry Reid and President Obama so you can get a tax break that totals $320. Assuming that you use the pie in the sky President Obama figures, or $160 using the CBO figures. Or do you support he House Republicans who want you to have a Payroll Tax cut of $2080 using President Obama’s figures or $1040 using the CBO numbers.

Either way it is a no brainer, Senator Harry Reid should call the Senators back, assign a committee, and do this right!

Representative Boehner stick to your guns, stay on the high road, hold out for the principle of running the Government as it should be and not this haphazard approach of President Obama and the Democrats that has caused so many problems already!

Mitt, ICYMI: Texas 1200 Florida 0

Mitt Romney made a big deal about the illegal immigrant population growing faster in Texas than in Florida. Well, Mitt, evidently geography wasn’t your strong subject in school. Texas has over 1200 miles of border with the country of Mexico. Florida on the other hand is surrounded by ocean, and has 0 (zero) miles of border with a foreign country.

In Texas, Governor Perry is fighting a war with the Mexican drug cartels along this expansive border, with little to no help from the Federal Government. Governor Perry has had to enlist the Texas National Guard and the Texas State Police Special Forces to try to reign in the daily incursions along this huge border. Furthermore, in an act of Treason, the Obama Administration, specifically the Department of Justice under Eric Holder through the “Fast and Furious” program has been supplying military grade weaponry to the enemy!

Then to state that after you decided to run for the Office of President of The United States you went to your landscaping company and demanded they fire the illegal immigrants working on your properties. That is quite an admission. You were fine with them offering you cut rate service up until the cost savings were no longer beneficial because being a candidate for public office took precedent. Its always all about what is best for Mitt!

Mitt tell us about your record on illegal immigration while Governor of Massachusetts! You did nothing, in fact illegal’s are afforded in-state tuition at Massachusetts higher education institutions!

Mitt Romney, extremely squishy on illegal immigrants!

Occupy Wall Street – A Brilliant Strategy for Ending Unions!

This morning while reading the various demands of the Occupy forces and it occurred to me that the Democrats have come up with a Brilliant Strategy for ending Public Sector unions.

Everyone needs to stop paying their mortgages, is one of the techniques they hope to use against the Big Banks. They think this will bring America to their knees and I now have to agree they are correct.

I know my property taxes are escrowed with my mortgage. I don’t pay my mortgage my property taxes won’t be paid! No property taxes collected, no Police, Fire, Public employees, or Teachers will be paid! The banks won’t have any money to loan to the municipalities, the cities and towns will have to shutdown! There will be no money for the banks to loan to people buying cars, voila, the Auto Workers unions will collapse.

No money coming in to the unions, no money to pay for union benefits! The union pension Ponzi Schemes will collapse!

I’m just guessing, but I assume that the average Conservative home has guns and enough ammunition to protect their property from any intruders including the Cities and Towns trying to take them for tax liens. With no police to protect the city and town workers I doubt they will be attempting to take conservatives homes. The liberals on the other hand won’t be able to protect themselves their families or their homesteads, and will probably want to give them up freely anyways to help out their union friends that caused this.

Let the Revolution begin!

Work Hard Have Fun!

Bob DeMaura

Hillsborough 03 Special Election - Who's on First?

Hillsborough 03 special election was a major debacle for the Republicans. Where to start in explaining where things went wrong is a tough choice.

Do I start with the fact that we had a somewhat weak candidate. Oh, he was very conservative in his views, Right to Work, Castle Doctrine, Right to Life, etc. but he wanted to run as a moderate to not upset his Peterborough base of voters. I was told at one point to be careful mentioning the “T.. P…. words,” in fact please refrain from using them in connection with David Simpson and his campaign. He also wanted to stay aloof of the fray, not get down into the trenches and fight. No negative Letters to the Editor about the opponent Leishman allowed.

There was an offer from ABLE-NH (a disabled lobbying group) and Leishman to participate in a forum run by ABLE. Of course, this was a rigged game with a stacked deck, but instead of negotiating with them, it was outright rejected. I authored the Letter to the Editor explaining the campaigns position, that it was not appropriate for a Special Interest Lobbying group to run the forum, I really wanted to say the truth, this was a rigged game with a stacked deck by a hyper-partisan group looking to get more stuff for themselves and their children, hoping to trip up Simpson for quotes to put in the paper.

We were fortunate in having the NH GOP and the Hillsborough GOP come out to “Help Us” or were we? Yes, they did some really good works I guess. Advice on how many mailers to send out, how many signs were needed, things to say or do with reporters. They also came in with a “Canned” campaign all laid out on a spread sheet. It was an awful plan for a NH House Seat special election. All the phone calling was being done by volunteers at the GOP Headquarters in Concord. This relieved the candidate from doing any of the actual calling as he was in Peterborough and the phone banks were in Concord!

It seemed to me the schedule was upside down and backward with phone calling early in the campaign leading up to a few weekends of “Literature Dropping” one for each town in the district. That was a major issue with the locals in the campaign namely myself. New Ipswich is large and very rural; Peterborough is large and somewhat rural. There is no way you were going to reach every Republican household in one day in these towns.

But the fact that they wanted to do literature at the end and phone banking at the beginning made no sense to me. I wanted to get literature in the voters hands early on in the cycle including Absentee Ballot Request forms. I was informed that no one uses Absentee Ballots and it is a waste of time perhaps that is true especially if you get the forms to them in the last week of the campaign! Even defining “Literature Dropping” was an issue, they wanted to place it and run, I wanted to knock on every door and hand them the literature, bring back a list with the “Not Homes” flagged so they could be called on a follow-up by the candidate or staff in the district not some anonymous people in Concord.

Frustrated with the “Help” from the GOP,  Jeff Frates-Fox from New Ipswich and I started slogging our way through New Ipswich Republican addresses supplied to us by the GOP. Note, no Undeclareds were on this list as the theory was to “let sleeping dogs alone” Soon after we started this I was removed as campaign chairman, the official excuse was for not keeping the spread sheets updated with things like the meeting place for the “Literature drops” scheduled a month out. Did I mention that the spread sheets were in possession and control of the NH GOP. I presume the real reason was the NH GOP wanted to take full control of the process and I wasn’t following their plan.

I practically begged the candidate and some of his other staff to start working the Peterborough addresses immediately. The response was they didn’t think we should change the campaign strategy and schedule in mid-stream! I asked a number of times who was taking care of Greenville, the answer was we have it under control. I don’t think the candidate did any voter outreach in Greenville, all they got was phone calls from NH GOP office and a literature 'drop and run' at the very end.

So there you have it, a weak candidate not willing to do the dirty work, a proven losing campaign strategy now 0 for 3 over the simple system we used last fall to get 4 Republicans elected in H03.

How did they beat him, a huge turnout in Peterborough made up primarily of women (at least 3 to 1 possibly 4 to 1 over male voters) sympathetic to the ABLE moms trying to just get services for their children, teachers who were frightened by the unions that they would lose their bargaining rights and gays looking to protect gay marriage. Republicans in Greenville and New Ipswich not willing to go out of their way to support another candidate from Peterborough who doesn’t come out to see or call them didn’t help the cause.

Good news is the 2012 election cycle is right around the corner. The NH GOP and the Hillsborough GOP will be so busy with the other races they will leave us alone out here to do our thing the way we know it works!

Work Hard Have Fun!

Bob DeMaura

Update: In Peterborough, 586 Democrats voted, 290 Republicans, and 394 Undeclareds with Simpson getting 358 total votes! These could be off by one or two as this was a quick hand count!

Wealthy Elite Democrats, Tax Deductions, and Exemptions are NOT Mandatory!

Throughout the recent debates over raising the debt ceiling and the possible solutions to the USA’s budget deficit problems the battle lines were clear. The Republicans feel there is a spending problem, the Democrats believe we have a revenue problem, that we need to tax more!

President Obama himself along with a number of Hollywood elites such as Matt Damon came out and stated that they could pay more taxes and felt that anyone in their position should pay more taxes.

These “Limousine Progressives” could solve this issue all on their own, it is as simple as not taking all the deductions and exemptions allowed when filing their income taxes. The IRS will not chase them down because they paid too much or didn’t take all the allowable deductions. No, the IRS will just accept their tax returns and cash the check.

Note the key word here is “Allowable” deductions and exemptions. You are allowed deductions and exemptions but you are not forced to take them, they are not mandatory!

Instead of all this faux bluster over raising taxes on everyone, they can solve the issue all by themselves.

So why don’t they?

Work Hard, Have Fun!

Bob DeMaura

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