Massachusetts taxpayers under water again

DAM SCARY: Water rages through the 300-year-old Forge Pond Dam in Assonet yesterday. The dam was breached after Thursday’s torrential rains.

Stop me if you've heard this one before, the Massachusetts "leadership" on Beacon Hill is squandering tax dollars, spending them with impunity on welfare expansion, Commonwealth Care, and other things not enumerated to them by our state or federal Constitution, and now Bay State residents are at risk due to the resultant neglected infrastructure. It is a reflection on the State of the State that residents in flooded communities are now at risk while immigrants are suing to be covered by Commonwealth Care. Granted, these are legal immigrants, but they are non-residents, this Commonwealthcare is enough of a failed program, no need to expand it further while our bridges, dams, rails and tunnels collapse around us.

You would think these overgrown children would have learned their lesson when a slab of dilluted cement fell on a poor commuter's head in the the Tip O'Neil Tunnell, but no. Last year, Deval Patrick had to borrow money from the federal government to fix our roads, an outlay that is supposed to be covered by our exhorbiant gas taxes($.41.9 a gallon, that's roughly 1/6 the total price of gas), where did that money go? Apparently the same place that our bridge and dam inspection budgets did, siphoned into the welfare state.

Who will be the casualty this time? If you live in an affected community, look around your PTA meeting, your local diner, your church, you could be looking right at the next eventual casualty of progressive malfeasance run amok on Beacon Hill.
-Nick McNulty

Bay State dams in deep water

Gov. Deval Patrick plans to drain $400G in funding

By Marie Szaniszlo

Thousands of Bay State dams - one of which overflowed yesterday and sent townspeople scurrying from their homes - could soon be left to hold back floodwaters with little oversight as the governor plans to cut $400,000 from the state Office of Dam Safety.

Wendy Fox, spokeswoman for the Department of Conservation and Recreation, confirmed the $427,000 budget for the office is being decimated through Gov. Deval Patrick’s midyear cuts.

She said the plan is to focus on the worst dams with the $27,000 left in the budget while letting most of the 2,900 other dams go unchecked. She added DCR will dip into capital funds to help.

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John Boehner: "Freedom is a Right." GOP Leader Answers Your Health Care Questions

Obama's nanny care insults the American spirit

By: Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst
February 24, 2010

You are victims. You are helpless against the wiles of big corporations and insurance companies and you need protection. You need the government to take over and do things you cannot do for yourself.

That is the thinking of what David Brooks calls "the educated class" that favors the Democrats' health care bills. Members of this elite spout tales of woe of people denied coverage or care with the implication that there but for the grace of government go you. So sign on and the government will take care of everything.

But voters quickly sniff out what this means. The government will use the "science" of comparative effectiveness research to achieve cost savings the only way government can: denial of care. The Soviet medical system kept down the heart disease caseload by placing cardiac care units on the fifth floor, walk up. Death panels, anyone?

Why do Americans reject such policies while Europeans seem content with them? One reason is history. Twentieth-century history -- and 19th- and 18th-century history too -- showed Europeans that they were often the helpless victims of tyrants and total war. That made them content to rely on government for security.

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Another failed Big Government welfare program

GOP: Anti-foreclosure program could prolong housing slump

“Many Americans are throwing their money away through a government program that’s supposed to help them, but is only leaving them in a bigger financial hole,” U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said in releasing a report he co-wrote with U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).

Under HAMP, major U.S. banks have agreed to voluntarily “modify” financially strapped homeowners’ mortgages rather than foreclosing.

Lenders typically cut a consumer’s monthly mortgage bill to no more than 31 percent of household income, extending a 30-year loan’s terms out an extra 10 years to make up the difference. Banks also get government cash bonuses for every mortgage permanently modified.

However, the Obama administration recently admitted that just 116,000 homeowners out of 1 million who’ve sought HAMP assistance have actually gotten permanent help.

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CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens' rights

Washington (CNN) – A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.

Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government's become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Forty-four percent of those polled disagree.

The survey indicates a partisan divide on the question: only 37 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents and nearly 7 in 10 Republicans say the federal government poses a threat to the rights of Americans.

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Upcoming GOP Events

From the Woburn GOP


Hello All,

* Note: Signature sheets, along with bumper stickers and signs are available for all candidates. Contact your city or town committee chair to obtain signature sheets.

Pick the candidate(s) of your choice and start collecting signatures. Have sheet(s) with you at all times to gather every signature that you can.

Statewide signature gathering is a very large project so all your help will be needed and appreciated! If each of you collected 1 sheet of signatures from family, friends & neighbors we would have a full ballot in the September primary!!!


Here is a list of upcoming activities and events:

* Thursday, 2/25, Charlie Baker & Richard Tisei Meet & Greet, Harley House, 909 Mass Ave, Lunenburg, 5-6PM

* Thursday, 2/25, Night with MA Republican Candidates Christy Mihos and Richard Tisei, Mission Oak Grill, 26 Green St, Newburyport, 7-9 PM, FREE

* Friday, 2/26, Chelmsford RTC Lincoln Day Celebration, 7- 9PM, Chelmsford Country Club, Guest: Todd Feinberg sharing thoughts on Pres. Lincoln, founder of Republican party, $5, RSVP to Maxine: sistersuzie@comcast.net

* Saturday, 2/27, Tea Party Meet & Greet with Christy Mihos, Gubernatorial candidate, Doubletree Hotel, 5400 Computer Dr, Westborough, 9-11AM, $10, rsvp by 2/25: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dENYZWhDNU5JT3BEUmRHSWNMMWFpSnc6MA

* Saturday, 2/27, Kamal Jain for Auditor Kick-off, Osgood Bradley Building, 18 Grafton St, Worcester, 1-4PM, RSVP events@kamaljain.com



* Saturday, 2/27, Charlie Baker & Richard Tisei Meet & Greet, Angelica's Restaurant, Rt 114, Middleton, 1-3PM, Free, coffee & light refreshments, RSVP: 508-423-4089

* Sunday, 2/28, 4th Congressional District of the Mass Republican Assembly Lincoln-Reagan Brunch, Elks Lodge, 4500 N. Main St, Fall River, 10:30AM-12:30PM, $15PP Guests: Christy Mihos, Kamal Jain, Earl Sholley, Marty Lamb, State Rep candidates, RSVP: Linda 508-254-7785

* Thursday, 3/4, Mary Connaughton for Auditor Wine & Cheese reception, home of Jeanne Kangas, 959 Hill Rd, Boxborough, 7-8PM, donations at www.maryforauditor.com or at the door, RSVP: jkangas@arnoldkangas.com

* Saturday, 3/6, Holly Robichaud and Michael Graham will host another Campaign School, 1 Cranberry Hill, Lexington, 9-11AM, RSVP: Holly@TuesdayAssociates.com to attend

* And then to Billerica for a Corned Beef & Cabbage Dinner for Selectman Mike Rosa's re-election campaign, Saturday, 3/6, 12-3PM, Solomon Post VFW, Phiney St (off Rt 3A), N. Billerica, $10, RSVP: 978-663-2834

* Thursday, 3/11, Tea Party Candidates Night, 6PM, The Bunting Club, 449 Boylston St, Lowell, statewide & local candidates, FREE, RSVP: lowellteaparty@gmail.com

* Saturday, 3/13, Martinez Committee Annual Pre-St. Patty's Day party, 6:30PM, Skellig Pub, Moody St, Waltham, $25 in advance, $35 at the door, RSVP: Nancy Events@SandiMartinez.com or to sandiforstatesenate.com

* Saturday, 3/13, AttleboroGOP Lincoln Re-Enactors - Civil War History plus breakfast or dinner, Good News Hall, 235 West St, Attleboro, 10AM OR 1PM or 4PM, $15/ person. RSVP: 508-226-8020

* Sunday, 3/14, Karla Romero fundraiser - Wonder Women, Jazz lunch for female candidates, 1PM, Champion's, 234 Main St, Everett, $10, RSVP:info@voteKarlaRomero.com

* Saturday, 4/17, MA GOP Convention, DCU, Worcester

* Thursday, 5/20, GOP Red Sox Game v. Minnesota, $28, RSVP: bmckinney@marathonphysicaltherapy.com

Partisan Barney Frank "inheritted this mess!(tm)"

From yesterady's Boston Herald;

“I don’t understand how you make things better from the outside. I share the frustration, but I would have hoped he would have stayed around and voted to change the filibuster rule,” said Frank (D-Mass.), before appearing at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst to sign copies of his biography with author Stuart Weisberg.

On partisanship, Frank said he believes a clear shift began under Republican Newt Gingrich’s tenure as House speaker in the second half of the 1990s.

Before that, he said, Democrats and Republicans could disagree but remain cordial and work toward compromise. Now, though, the pressure to please the party’s base to win primary elections has spawned a Congress in which the sides are “very ideologically differentiated,” he said

Evan Bayh is departing the Senate because it has become too partisan and divisive(and he is eying a run against the plummeting Barack Obama). While he is a good soldier, and will not come right out and say it, contrary to Congressman Frank's partisan remarks, this is a condition of Democrats. Frank blames Republicans, starting in 1994, facetiously failing to mention that the 1994 Republican Revolution was a direct reaction to partisan Democrats trying to cram Hillarycare and other socialism down America's throat. The 2010 Revolution - already begun by Scott Brown - is similarly seeded with Democrat tyrranical partisanship. Remember, just one month ago today, Democrats were stubbornly pushing the socialized medicine plan through congress, despite the fact that it was despised by more than 65% of the country. They were doing so behind closed doors, and without even speaking to Repulicans. Only after Scott Brown was elected did President Obama dust off his old campaign-era term of "bipartisan".

Modern liberal Democrats are the most partisan, anti-constitutional lot in our history, and they drove Evan Bayh out of congress. Republicans have little voice right now, and certainly are not setting the tone in Washington, partisans like Obama, Frank, Pelosi, Markey, Kerry, Boxer, Reid, and Schumer are doing that. But, in true, unaccountable, "Not Me!" Democrat fashion, Barney Frank shamelessly blames the GOP. Frank's solution? Change the filibuster laws so Democrats can go back to running the country via fiat(don't worry, the laws can be reversed as majorities or executives shift, as we saw in Massachusetts with our election laws last year).

Frank supports changing the rules on filibusters, which the minority party - in this case, Republicans - often use to debate bills for so long that an actual vote is prevented.

Yes, that will certainly clear up the partisan rancor inside the Beltway.

Retire this clown, vote for Earl Sholley this November. Besides crumbling our economy through Fannie and Freddie, Barney Frank is a primary contributor to the partisan, ideological mess that is Washington D.C. today. He is very much a part of the problem, Earl Sholley is the cure.

-NM