6 August 2009 - Granite Grok

August 6, 2009

The “Town Hall” meeting that wasn’t. Shaheen playing “Whack-A-Mole”?

You won’t catch me, my little pretties! Heheeheheee! After being billed in an email by a well-financed (read: "astroturfed") Democrat activist network as a town hall event featuring Jeanne Shaheen, not only did the Senator not show, as reported earlier, it turns out that it wasn’t a "town hall" style meeting, either. Can’t they just make up …

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Ovide Lamontagne: I would have voted NO

Potential Republican Senate candidate Ovide Lamontagne weighs in on the Sotomayer vote. Anyone care to guess how Judd Gregg’s hand-picked successor, Kelly Ayotte would have voted, given that her benefactor cast his vote in the affirmative?  (MANCHESTER) – Ovide Lamontagne, potential candidate for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, made the following statement today regarding the confirmation of …

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Hopefully we can trade UP when this clunker goes!

  . .                                                                                                                   I know- he’s ever then genteel statesman, seeking the "compromise" so we can "govern" and all that crapola. I cannot wait until Judd Gregg "serves" his last day in Washington… This just in from Leslie Carbone via the email, under the subject heading Sotomayer confirmed: Empathetic Republicans: Alexander; Bond; Collins; Graham; Gregg; Lugar; …

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Apparently the AARP rank & file didn’t get the memo!

AARP members attending a "forum" apparently decided that they weren’t just going to fall in line like good little automatons and support the nationalization of health care. Despite the fact that the AARP apparatchiks were disinterested in what the gathered seniors had to say and ultimately took their sound system and left, the meeting carried …

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And we thought Chairman Buckles was in a “class” by himself!

  Mirror mirror on the wall… Who’s the nastiest of ’em all? Warner Todd Huston alerts us to a story of a Democratic party chair "engaging" in the ongoing healthcare debate. Well, not really debating or anything like that, but in fact, name calling in a blog commentary post. And no, we’re not talking about …

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