3 April 2014 - Granite Grok

April 3, 2014

Notable Quote – Angelo M. Codevilla “Whining For Milder Taskmasters?”

Does the Country Class really want to govern itself, or is it just whining for milder taskmasters?  How ready, willing, and able is the Country Class to do more than vote every couple of years for people about whom it does not know and on issues it does not care to understand?  Above all, how …

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Dear NHGOP: What If the Base Pulled A ‘Murkowski’ on you?

What is a Murkowski? A spoiled princess, whose senate seat was bequeathed to her by her daddy, Frank Murkowski, a long term part of the Alaska GOP establishment. Well, in 2010, a fine, upstanding veteran, and conservative, Joe Miller, rode the TEA party wave to primary victory, and looked ready to defeat the Democrat in …

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Charter Schools – Freedom is not limited to just school choice

Betsy’s Page is run by a charter school teacher and in the years I’ve been reading her (an “aggregator” sorta like an extended version of Instapundit, or Weekend Pundit‘s “Thoughts on a Sunday”).  Here is a part of today’s “page” that speaks to that the Freedom to Achieve also means the Responsibility to Work Harder …

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Blogline of the Day – Redcoat outgunned again

I never say him in one, though.  Actually, I never watched him at all.  But this IS rather clever: “Piers Morgan ended his final show on CNN with an angry plea to take away America’s guns. Oddly enough, the last Brits that held these same views were canceled in 1776.” Jodi Miller of NewsBusters

Because Principle Matters to The Base – We Bring You The NH Senate Race Poison Poll

Inspired by Pete Da Tech Guy Ingemi, we here at Da Grok, bring you the NH Republican Senate primary Poison poll. Why? Because people who vote Republican, see also ‘Da Base,’ have shown a consistent willingness to stay home or to vote for someone other than the Republican, when the candidate they have been provided …

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Voting a majority of the time with Senate Democrats doesn’t make you the “Anti-Shaheen”, Scott Brown!

Funny, I don’t remember Scott Brown saying this at our meeting:  “I was the most bipartisan senator in the United States Senate.” (Scott Brown on Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 in a meeting with Republicans in Portsmouth, N.H.).  Remember these numbers: 22%, 46%, 62%. Shaheen votes 99% with the Democrats, Brown votes 62% of the time …

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