Kensington is a bucolic town, horse country, affluent, comfortable, a pretty place for an afternoon’s drive, but with the occasional discordant note.
This is a photograph of a small barn on a large horse farm located on Drinkwater Road near the intersection of North Road. It was taken on 24 July 2011, some 262 days after the last election, or maybe more apropos, 469 days before the next election. I drive by the barn twice a day and get emotional every time.
It’s always a pleasure to drive by the barn and it is also highly satisfying that these two women are no longer representing us in the halls of power. It’s sad that my neighbor is so ideologically obsessed that he needs to maintain this monument to his fallen candidates. But more than sadness, my fanatical neighbor evokes anger by insisting on subjecting me and mine to this display of ungraciousness in defeat.
Get over it and get used to it!
The placards are for two Democratic women politicians. Carol Shea Porter had been the New Hampshire First District’s representative in Washington. She was routed by Frank Guinta in November. Margaret (Maggie) Wood Hassan had been the state senator in Concord for the 23rd district that includes Kensington. This past election Maggie was decisively defeated by Russell Prescott.
Carol Shea Porter, or CSP, as she is affectionately known on right wing, is not a nice person. She is as strident as Nancy Pelosi, as belligerent as Dingy Harry, and almost as obnoxious as Debbie Wassermann Shultz. CSP (sounds like the acronym for a caustic chemical, doesn't it) once had a retired policeman, Carl Tomanelli of Londonderry, arrested (video here) for having the temerity to ask a question at one of her rigged town hall meetings. She does have one good point, she is no longer a member of Congress. Let’s keep it that way.
This is a photograph of a small barn on a large horse farm located on Drinkwater Road near the intersection of North Road. It was taken on 24 July 2011, some 262 days after the last election, or maybe more apropos, 469 days before the next election. I drive by the barn twice a day and get emotional every time.It’s always a pleasure to drive by the barn and it is also highly satisfying that these two women are no longer representing us in the halls of power. It’s sad that my neighbor is so ideologically obsessed that he needs to maintain this monument to his fallen candidates. But more than sadness, my fanatical neighbor evokes anger by insisting on subjecting me and mine to this display of ungraciousness in defeat.
Get over it and get used to it!
The placards are for two Democratic women politicians. Carol Shea Porter had been the New Hampshire First District’s representative in Washington. She was routed by Frank Guinta in November. Margaret (Maggie) Wood Hassan had been the state senator in Concord for the 23rd district that includes Kensington. This past election Maggie was decisively defeated by Russell Prescott.
Carol Shea Porter, or CSP, as she is affectionately known on right wing, is not a nice person. She is as strident as Nancy Pelosi, as belligerent as Dingy Harry, and almost as obnoxious as Debbie Wassermann Shultz. CSP (sounds like the acronym for a caustic chemical, doesn't it) once had a retired policeman, Carl Tomanelli of Londonderry, arrested (video here) for having the temerity to ask a question at one of her rigged town hall meetings. She does have one good point, she is no longer a member of Congress. Let’s keep it that way.
Maggie Hassan is a misplaced Massachusetts motormouth who wants to convert New Hampshire to a tax and spend haven. Maggie is so convinced of the righteousness of her position that she will talk your ear off until you agree with her. Listen? Not in her vocabulary. And Maggie? A one-name name, like Bono or Cher or even Hillary. What an affectation!
As an escapee from the Bay State myself, I don’t miss the corrupt politics and don’t want them coming to New Hampshire. What has gone wrong in Massachusetts should stay in Massachusetts!
Perhaps these signs are a reminder to my neighbor to redouble his efforts in the next election to restore these two left wing zealots to power. They should also be a reminder to us, the center and the right, that the Republican sweep in New Hampshire in 2010 has stopped the fiscal madness in Concord and at least dented the deficit plagued Washington establishment. We mustn’t be complacent. We have seen that the threat from the liberal progressives is real and that when they take power they spend irresponsibly while they whittle away at our liberties.
This post originally appeared in the Granite Grok on 2 August 2011.
As an escapee from the Bay State myself, I don’t miss the corrupt politics and don’t want them coming to New Hampshire. What has gone wrong in Massachusetts should stay in Massachusetts!
Perhaps these signs are a reminder to my neighbor to redouble his efforts in the next election to restore these two left wing zealots to power. They should also be a reminder to us, the center and the right, that the Republican sweep in New Hampshire in 2010 has stopped the fiscal madness in Concord and at least dented the deficit plagued Washington establishment. We mustn’t be complacent. We have seen that the threat from the liberal progressives is real and that when they take power they spend irresponsibly while they whittle away at our liberties.
This post originally appeared in the Granite Grok on 2 August 2011.
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