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New Hampshire: Fdr

February 27, 2009 - 10:34 am
NEWS FEED: GraniteGrok

The Obama Administration - seeking to reduce your choices

 

It is well known that Obama is in love with FDR's take on the Bill of Rights - instead of focusing on what how the Bill of Rights commands the Feds on how to leave citizens alone, he wants to concentrate on FDR's 2nd Bill of Rights of what Govt HAS to be able to do for you.

Nanny State on Steroids is what it actually comes down to.  Not only does Obama want to take from the Producers in society to just give to those that have not earned it at unoprecendented rate, but it is embolding those Holier / Brighter than Thou's to come out of the wood work.

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February 11, 2009 - 06:04 pm
NEWS FEED: Blue Hampshire

Pothole Frank and the Politics of Failure

By measurestaken

In the wake of the passage of the Stimulus Bill, I thought it fitting to spend a few minutes considering how I and my fellow residents of Manchester - including Mayor Frank Guinta - would fare. My research didn't give me a very clear idea of what the folks in New Hampshire's largest city can expect from the $790 billion dollar plan, but it did illuminate something else for me: Pothole Frank is a crappy mayor.

Thru what serendipity did I glean this? I began at the website of the US Conference of Mayors (www.usmayors.org). News reports about the fiscal stimulus plan had mentioned that the mayors had put together a wish list of local projects that they hoped could be funded by the stimulus package.

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February 9, 2009 - 08:52 am
NEWS FEED: Blue Hampshire

Open Thread: If You Want FDR, Find Huey Long Edition

By elwood

It really doesn't detract from the greatness of Roosevelt and the brilliance of the New Dealers he assembled to take note: he was being challenged, hard, by the populist rhetoric and proposal of Louisiana's Huey Long.

Long was a controversial figure - he's Willie Stark of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. He destroyed some of his opponents and he scared a lot of people, though long-time mayor of Franklin NH and occasional NH-02 Congressional candidate Eugene Daniell was a strong supporter. (T. Harry Williams' Huey Long is a great biography. Randy Newman credits it in a footnote(!) on his own great album about Long, Good Old Boys.)

The reason I'm thinking of Huey is, I'm not sure FDR would have been as bold if he were not feeling pressure from a loud, organized bloc on his left to counterbalance Wall Street...

This is an Open Thread.

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