Sen. Ayotte is Awesome...Again.

I'm continuing to be impressed with the freshman Senator's perfomance in Washington, D.C. This is one elected official that is actually doing something.

Isn't this a refreshing idea.

The latest is legislation advanced by the Senator to do away with a license for commercial drivers known as a TWIC License. This in reality is actually a $135.00 tax plus fees for trucks to enter port facilities in the United States examples include: LA/Long Beach and Newark, NJ. This TWIC license came in response to 9-11 security and my experience is that it is just another layer of bureaucracy and taxation that isn't needed.

This is also significant because as I've said before the political future of Senator Ayotte isn't dependant on getting involved in an issue like TWIC license repeals. She could do like the rest of the NH Congressional Delegation does and simply focus her attention and resources on themes that play well in New Hampshire.

The repeal of TWIC Licenses will also enable greater commerce and improved transportation through U.S. port facilities and ultimately this will create jobs.

Thank you Sen. Ayotte for doing this.

593 Frustration.

When you're outside the Concord beltway it's hard to get information about what is really going on.

I'd really like to know what is going on with H.B 593 and I don't think it has anything to do with two versus four gaming licenses. So, the Concord Monitor is reporting that the legislation has been delayed for a vote and sent back to committee.

Great.

Former Senator Rubens wins another Pulitizer type prize award for his explanation on how any why leadership did what they did. Especially, the part about "near death experience."

They should just pack it in. Just ITL the bill.

Gov. Lynch has said that he doesn't want it. It doesn't matter that other states have done this and done it successfully, Gov. Lynch doesn't want it and he is still the Governor of New Hampshire. The casino interests should recognize the environment that they're in and just withdraw. Sometimes a straight withdrawal is the most effective strategy of all. H.B. 593 doesn't need any more study or analysis I think it would be really quality and leadership if this legislature would say in the blurb for ITL:

"Governor Lynch has repeatedly said that he does not support expanded casino gaming in New Hampshire. We find that now isn't the time to consider this issues and policy implications only to find the legislation meet a veto as a promise kept."

Mister Speaker would I now press the green button.

College Kids Go Home.

I've been playing alot of Chess lately, and for the most part I've been winning!

But the game does impact my politics or at least I think it does.

Last night I came home started watching the world edition of CNN with images of artillery barrages against various Syrian neighborhoods and couldn't stop thinking about chess strategy and exchanges between bishops and knights over contested territory. My next thoughts were on an Atlantic Monthly article I'd read earlier on:

 "Earlier this week I criticized Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice for their high-volume indignation over Russian and Chinese vetoes of a UN resolution that would have called on Syria's president to step down. And I still think Clinton and Rice were hypocritical, given America's long tradition of overlooking the atrocities of dictators who are as close to America as Bashar al-Assad is to Russia."

Chess Moves.

Then CNN turned to the human side of all this. People are getting killed, daily.

Of course the journalists are all college educated and see these issues from their streetside perspective, and with a dead child laying on the slab how could they not.

But the issues are much larger than this. Much larger.

I'm not tying to sound unsympathetic but the college kids need to go home. They're in danger to not only themselves but I'd question what they're reporting is really going to amount to.

Let the Chess players like Secretary of State Clinton do their work.

Where The CSA Still Matters.

The Santorum surge...

Either I missed it or the political strategists haven't been reporting it.

Before this happened I've been thinking that the Romney campaign could have laid off 1/3 of its campaign staff and used these resources to train their guns on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. I think Santorum pulled a Battle of the Bulge and its has a chance in being successful.  

But I'm not a Santorum supporter because I've been to Missouri.

I don't think alot of people even go to Missouri. How many people do you know that plan a vacation and say "Lets go to Missouri." It just doesn't happen. In any case I've spent some time in places like Springfield and trying to remember, Boonville. As an OTR truck driver I was sent down to Missouri to these huge underground cold storage facilities that have literally been dug into small mountains in that state. Its quite something to drive into a dark cavern and look for your loading dock in a sea of at least 150 trailers and mercury vapor lighting. If your wondering why they're doing this they can save a ton of money on refrigeration by warehousing cold items underground. And after dealing with some of the individuals in these areas and meeting other people from Missouri my perception of this state is:

The Confederate States of America (CSA) still exists, it's just hibernating right now. The values are intact and someday it will come back.

God does exist and supports the Missouri and the CSA and it's in that order.  

Missouri doesn't like or tolerate outsiders. I was speaking to one of the receivers and he actually commented on my accent (I don't have an accent)"Your from the East." he said. I'm trying to read his attitude, his eyes and what he is saying. I'm thinking I'm a Yankee in CSA territory so he probably doesn't have much use for me.

I'm still glad my side won though.  

I'd also note the Mormons were squarely kicked out of Missouri so I'd imagine they don't have much use for Romney either.

The Kevin Smith Effect.

So I'm reading a copy of the Littleton Courier newspaper. This is an advertising paper with a left wing slant that has been published since 1889.

There's a front page article about Kevin Smith for NH Governor.

It starts out, "With a degree in public relations and marketing in his back pocket gubnatorial hopeful Kevin Smith has his eye on job creation all the way and wants to become the Massachusetts governor's worst nightmare."

Good product differentation there. And be sure to piss off the largest adjacent economic climate in a New Hampshire depression.

I'm sure the campaign of Kevin Smith goes deeper than this so I'm reading on: "My philosophy is that the government doesn't create the jobs, but the government can create the atmosphere that brings the jobs here." Smith said.

More interesting.

Is this the definition of Keynesian economics from a conservative? He didn't say it but statements like this are usually accompanied by supporting public-private partnerships.

Isn't Solandra in California an example of this?