17 November 2010 - Granite Grok

November 17, 2010

One last word: A Private Conservation with Bill O’Brien….

The race for Speaker of the House is almost concluded, and it was in many ways an even more hotly contested and more comprehensive political struggle than the general election battle against the Democrats. So, to wrap it up, I want to tell about a personal conversation I had with Bill O’Brien not too long ago. And I don’t think (I hope, at least) that he …

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Bill O’Brien: Have you offered NH House Committee Chairs to anyone?

I ran into Bill O’Brien at the Jack Kimball’s campaign debt retirement event in Portsmouth tonite.  Given the rumor that is flying around the state, and the fact that GraniteGrok has put its credibility on the line by endorsing him, I confronted Bill with the question: "Have you offered ANY NH House Representative a Committee …

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Picking Up The Gauntlet

The morning after I had taken my first casual whack at eliminating the deficit–The New York Times has a nifty interactive form you can use (here) to check off items it chose from the debt commission report to see if and how you might solve the problem–I wake up to a Google Alert that’s practically …

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A Presentation of Ideas Concerning New Republican Leadership in the NH House of Representatives – Part 3

Part 3 of a three part series of Guest Posts by the Honorable Paul Mirski, member of the NH House of Representatives (and one of the Fathers of Conservatism here in NH). He is seeking to be the Majority Leader in the NH House of Representatives.  Part Three suggests five or six overriding legislative themes …

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It’s Another “Can’t We All Just Get Along Coalition”

NoLabels is NoDifferent than the Live Free or Die Alliance, The Coffee Party, or any number of other would-be, sing a song and grab a Coke, dream a little dream utopian chat fest that pretends there is a middle to exploit the politically weak. They are all formed or founded by liberals, with liberal money, in an effort to drag Republican’s or conservatives to the left, forming a bloc of confused voters, operating on a platform with no core principles, to dilute right wing efforts to shrink government and remove its excessive overreach on our lives. (More or less)