5 June 2007 - Granite Grok

June 5, 2007

Liveblogging the Republican Debate from the Media Center, Manchester, NH [Scroll Down to next post for updates]

6:00PM— Live from… a big gym, many hundreds of feet from where the debate will actually occur- it’s the NH Republican debate! We are located in the CNN Media Press Center, which consists of hundreds of seats, tables, media people, and a great many TV monitors. While excited to be a part of the spectacle as …

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UNION LEADER FLIP-FLOPS

According to today’s lead editorial in the Union Leader, legislators are wrong to oppose the various constitutional amendments percolating in the House on the ground that they kill local control of public education because there is no such thing as local control of public education and in fact there never has been such a thing as local …

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FERGUS WANTS TO MAKE SURE HE GETS HIS COLUMN BACK

Check out Fergus’ pitch to Republican legislators to vote for the misbegotten Whalley amendment — the Union Leader says to.  Pretty pathetic. From: Fergus Cullen [mailto:fergus@nhgop.org]Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 4:51 PMTo: fergus@nhgop.orgSubject: Passing an Ed Funding Amendment Dear Republican Legislators: I want to encourage you to support passage of an education funding amendment, provided …

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Dems: If elected, we will have “peace for our time.” Well, nobody really said that, but they might as well have…

British P.M. Neville Chamberlain infamously declares, after appeasing Adolf Hitler, "My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time." . Considering the reality of the dangers posed to America by the nascient fundamentalist Islamo-Fascist movement …

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Political Prime Time in NH… and GraniteGrok is on the scene.

With this week’s NH presidential primary debates, the race for the White House in ’08 has definitely kicked into high gear. The gang here at GraniteGrok has managed to weasel its way into becoming a recognized piece of the rapidly growing, exciting New Media- especially here in the Blogosphere- that appears more and more an important …

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LIPSTICK ON A PIG

One of the arguments being advanced in favor of the constitutional amendments presently percolating in the House, the most prominent of these being the Whalley and Smith amendments (I’ll call them the House amendments), is that they would restore the status quo prior to the Claremont decisions.   This argument is stunningly wrong.  The status quo …

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