19 January 2011 - Granite Grok

January 19, 2011

Bend It For The Benjamins

As a follow up to this, yesterday or maybe the day before, the NH Journal (NHJ), New Hampshire’s prominent internet news source if the news is whatever Hynes communications is being paid to call news, decided to float a lie called pin the conservative blogger to Jack Kimball. Someone the NH Journal staff knew would stir the pot was fingered as Kimball’s communications director if he won the job as GOP State party chairman, even though no one–including Kimball and the blogger–knew anything about it until after the digital ink was dry.

Uh Oh…Part 2 of ??

Yesterday, I wrote about Kelly Ayotte’s risky (and disconcerting) decision to sign Mark Udall’s letter to Congress, urging a love-fest, where members sit in a bi-partisan "boy-girl-boy-girl" fashion at the upcoming SOTU speech. Well, the bad news just keeps coming in. As I was writing, Kelly had just come back from a weekend jaunt to Afghanistan, courtesy …

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A Compromise?

There is a very touching bit of sympathy-searching in the Union Leader’s My Turn editorial today. Eric Merklin, husband of State House Rep Tara Sad (D-Walpole) cranks up the left wing template on state house violence and goes fishing.

The Debt Ceiling Vote: STOP THE MADNESS NOW!

There’s a heated discussion going on all over America. It’s about the upcoming vote on whether to "raise the debt ceiling" so that Congress and the political/government/ruling classes can continue spending money we don’t have…WE DON’T HAVE IT! But…there are always "excuses" to continue DOING THE WRONG THING. NH Republican Reps. Charlie Bass and Frank …

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