22 December 2009 - Granite Grok

December 22, 2009

Looks like Fergus is at “the Fringe” – at least on this poll

Looks like this Cross Target poll on Republicans that are vying in NH’s First Congression District has Fergus Cullen at the fringe of electorates’ wish list: Undecided: 48.3% Guinta: 24.5% Mahoney: 15.3% Ashooh: 6.4 Cullen: 5.5% Now, it’s very early in the race for non-political, non-news junkies here in NH, so having almost half of …

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Will Obamacare finally pass?

It depends solely on the Democrats!  Sure, blame the Republicans (standard operating procedure) but in this, it is all on the Democrats – they have the numbers in both the Senate and the House to do enact this if they want.  Will they? Rich Lowry doesn’t think so: 1. Public Revulsion — see buying of …

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Notable Quote – Thomas Jefferson.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulare their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.  This is the sum of good government. – President Thomas Jefferson

“We can’t sustain the debt we’re adding. Soon we’ll reach banana-republic status.”

Obama promised that he was going to transform America; he was not kidding.  A conversation with Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) and NRO (emphasis mine) Gregg: Welcome to a New America American government changed last night. “We are now functioning under a parliamentary form of government,” says Sen. Judd Gregg (R., N.H.) in a conversation with …

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I. Can’t. Survive. On. Obamacare.

The following is from Hot Air – a doctor writes in about what the Obama Administration and the Democrats who wish to nationalize our healthcare system (and make no doubt about it – that is their aim) and in the process, destroy a private industry and private market operators. Dr. Becky Hollibaugh of Friend, Nebraska …

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