24 February 2009 - Granite Grok

February 24, 2009

Tweets from Obama’s speech

GraniteGrok is on Twitter – for this speech, instead of live blogging here, I just decided to tweet as Obama spoke.  Tweeter allows for looking backward at what one does, so here’s what I said during Obama’s time at the rostrum.  Entries are in reverse chronological order (latest first). You can follow us in Twitter: …

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Hmm, should hope spring eternal?

I have been saying for a while that two words that Republicans should be highly contemplating bringing back into use are "accountability" and "discipline"; you also cannot have one without the other.  You cannot use one without the other.  As noted earlier, Republicans in TN and CA have used both (I do need to do …

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The HOT Seat

  . The race to fill the vacated Senate seat in NH’s 3rd District with a special election will be anything but dull. Given the hot contest between the now-resigned Republican victor Denley and flaming-liberal former-Judge Willard "Bud" Martin just a few short months ago, there is no doubt that the interest shown then will re-appear. …

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Aw, c’mon – how much Big Government is between him and her??

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified." -President Barack Obama, 1/20/09 Or how about "talks with itself"?  Yup, the phrase that keeps …

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“One month down, 47 more to go”

As I wrote here, ShamWow, there’s a problem.  And this may be showing more Sham than wow… Given the Stimulus Bill (aka, the Pelosi-Reid-Obama Generational Theft bill), I’m not surprised.  As time passes, more and more "stuff" keeps getting called out for items that will "transform" America – but items that did not undergo the …

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