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GrokTALK! March 1, 2014 With Jenn Coffey on The Medicaid Trap & The ObamaCare Trap

by Steve MacDonald March 5, 2014
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Jenn Coffey joins us in segment three to talk about more issues with expanding Medicaid in New Hampshire. We talk about the importance of not depending on federal dollars that can and do get cut and how no lessons appear to have been learned from special Ed dollars that ended up being a fraction of […]

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The Failure of Veteran Senate Republicans

by Tom March 4, 2014

I’m wondering why some of our veteran Senate Republicans are jumping on the easy track to fixing the so-called Medicaid expansion “problem”. Republicans are supposed to lean toward market based, economic oriented solutions and away from entitlement-based fixes, which ultimately our grandchildren, not us, nor the aging Republican Senators (who feel the need to “do something“), will pay for. […]

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RLCNH Pledge to Stop Obamacare in New Hampshire

by Tom February 27, 2014

  The Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire (practically the only NH Republican caucus worth paying attention to), has put together a pledge, for candidates and officer-holders, to declare their commitment to helping stop Obamacare, a “gateway drug to socialism in the Granite State“, in New Hampshire, which could also mean an income tax for us […]

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The Cost of Medicaid Has Increased 31,212 %

by Steve MacDonald February 26, 2014
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If NH Senate Republicans would like to do some more math on just how much that best-case scenario 10% is going to cost their New Hampshire constituents over the long haul, (Democrats don’t care, by the way) they might want to factor this in as well. c/o The Daily Caller Using government data, in his […]

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GrokTALK! Feb 22nd, 2014 with Darren McKinney, Ed Naile, and Author Warren Ray

by Steve MacDonald February 22, 2014
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This week our guests are Darren McKinney from American Tort Reform to discuss Judicial Hellholes (New Hampshire just made their ‘Watch List’); Ed Naile joins us for more voter fraud revelations tied to Joe Biden’s neice Alana; and then Warren Ray, author of ‘Shadow Patriots,’ shares his thoughts on his book and potential real world […]

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What Some Senate Republicans Want For New Hampshire

by Steve MacDonald February 21, 2014
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“Those arrested include operators of home care agencies, operators of nurse staffing agencies, office workers and personal care assistants. One woman is accused of bilking taxpayers out of $75 million.” Fraud is a major factor in Medicaid.  Expanding Medicaid will only expand the fraud.   The irony in this is that Medicaid expansion is part of ObamaCare […]

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DC Republicans caved: talking “Limited Govt” but giving up on “Unlimited Spending”

by Skip February 12, 2014

What are we doing? Why are the leaders of our party—the party that is supposed to stand for balanced budgets and fiscal sanity—giving up on the fight? Why did our party’s leadership essentially caucus with the Democrats in order to work against us? 2010 was the year that the TEA Party fed furor over the […]

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Notable Quote – Brent Bozell

by Susan Olsen February 11, 2014

“Time and again, year after year, the Republican leadership in the House and Senate has come to grassroots conservatives, and Tea Party supporters pleading for our money, our volunteers, our time, our energy and our votes. In return they have repeatedly promised not just to stop the liberal assault on our freedoms and our national […]

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NH SB 120 The Democrats Long Sought ‘Wall Of Separation’ Between “Free” and “Speech” (Sponsored by Republicans)

by Steve MacDonald February 9, 2014
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Rumor has it that the NH Republican majority Senate is ready to dust off Republican sponsored SB 120, and push it through the legislature.  The democrats could not be happier. SB 120 is a bill that redefines what a committee is, and what classifies as an expenditure for the purposes of political speech.  And it […]

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Only the people change….plus some more

by Skip February 7, 2014

After all, some who were self-reliant and were paying for their own health insurance will now be put on the Public Dole (H/T: NetRightDaily with extra visages owned by their owners)

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Data Point – Another reason why Republicans poll so badly

by Skip January 15, 2014

From Gallup: So, We the People think Government is “the worst of all evils” (thanks, General Stark!) as we continue to lose freedoms (the power to choose for ourselves).  Obamacare is taking our choice away in the area of healthcare.  Dodd-Frank (financial sector) is now starting the nationalization of the banking sector (more on ObamaLoan […]

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What Goes Around

by Ed Naile January 10, 2014

Let me get this straight: Elite Establishment Republicans blame an obscure Republican candidate who said something about rape, the Alinsky crowd chose to exploit, and THAT is the reason the Establishment Republicans lost races in 2012. After that “lesson” expert Republican campaign gurus are said to be going about teaching the hillbillies how to deal […]

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Senate Democrats Refuse to Fund Veterans Benefits Again

by Steve MacDonald January 10, 2014
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The Powerline title I sourced this from says it all: “Once Again, Democrats Vote to Cut Veterans’ Benefits in Order to Enable Fraud By Illegal Aliens.” “Feeding” the dependents of illegal immigrants who may not even be in America is more important to Senate Democrats than funding Veterans benefits. That is offensive enough, but what […]

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What Debbie Wasserman Schultz Has In Common With “Some Republicans”

by Steve MacDonald January 1, 2014
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This one’s a keeper. The next time some RINO starts crying about the Tea Party ask them if there is anything else that they and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Wacko Chair of the DNC) are both committed to in 2014? Wasserman Schultz is committed to combating that Tea Party in 2014.  It’s that damn gridlock again. […]

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“No compromise. No being co-opted”

by Skip December 30, 2013

Democrats and Republicans – “two vultures fighting over a carcass“: Schweizer emphasized that the way to defeat the permanent political class–in particular, the Republican establishment–is to espouse the same “no compromise” approach Reagan espoused toward the Soviet Union. Looking back on 2013, the Tea Party and conservatives garnered victories on a host of issues–such as […]

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Income Inequality – but what about our personal choices, Mr. Obama?

by Skip December 26, 2013

President Obama has decided, along with most of the Democrats / Progressives / Socialist, that he must bring the Marxist philosophy of Class Warfare to play – but call it Income Inequality.  After all, who is against inequality of any type?  Who is not for the traditional notion of equality?  Well, those that are out […]

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Will NH Senate Republicans Come Out Against the ACA/Medicaid Death Tax?

by Steve MacDonald December 18, 2013
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Something else we might want to ask our cadre of ObamaCare supporting Democrat legislators this election season. 1) Why did you vote for a bill (ACA) knowing that it made insurance so expensive that older middle class citizens who need each other as much or more than ever would be better off divorced as a […]

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I got little tonite ‘cept a quick thought on the DC Republicans returning a victory to Customer Service

by Skip December 10, 2013

…and seeing a beaming Harry Reid and Obama on the other side of the counter.  After all, by not fighting hard and not throwing sand into the gear works, Democrats have now flipped the ideological bent of the DC Court of Appeals with Reid’s nuking of the filibuster – Obama will probably not have to […]

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Another Thanksgiving Note to the NHGOP

by Steve MacDonald November 29, 2013
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Skip reminds us that GraniteGrok is becoming the scape-goat of choice for NH-GOP failures.  Just like Democrats Republicans to blame someone else for their own shortcomings.  But I’d like to remind the NH-GOP that GraniteGrok covered the Jeanne Shaheen letter to the IRS story more than a year before the state and national party even […]

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Hey! NH Republicans – Any Deal to Take The Medicaid Money Will Give Partisan Democrats Cover On ObamaCare.

by Steve MacDonald November 20, 2013
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We’ve been going on a lot about Medicaid expansion in New Hampshire, and why shouldn’t we?  Both sides are dickering (yes, I actually said dickering) over how to accept other people’s money so that they can then dicker over how to take ours, all in the name of helping people. Far be it form me […]

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The DSCC Tries To Escape the Bitter Taste of TEA

by Steve MacDonald November 15, 2013
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We know that the uACA (That’s unAffordable Care Act) has already forced millions of jobs out of existence.  With employment suffering from ObamaCare and the looming shadow of the return of the bride of the business mandate portion of the ACA next year, millions more jobs will be erased by Democrat policy.  So what does […]

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There is no return from this exit..

by Susan Olsen November 15, 2013

‘But Democrats said the cost of the program should not be the measure’s only criteria, noting expansion will help hard-working families who cannot afford health care.‘

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Some in NH Republican Senate Plan to Take 2.4 Billion For Medicaid Expansion

by Steve MacDonald November 6, 2013
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From Aaron Day, President of the RLCNH Urgent: Some of our friends in the Republican Senate are holding a press conference tomorrow to describe a plan that they will put forward that involves taking $2.4 billion from the federal government under the expansion of Medicaid provision in Obamacare and giving the money to private insurers. […]

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You know, I DO wish that Kelly was palling around with this guy before voting for illegal alien amnesty…

by Skip October 24, 2013

If she had as much of a shred of compassion for the low-skilled low-wage American worker as she does the illegal aliens that Big Biz, Big Govt, and her palie-walies Maverick and Grahamnesty, she wouldn’t be in as much hot water.  It would have been much better if Kelly Ayotte, she of the “common sense”, […]

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Government Did Build That – And it Sucks!

by Steve MacDonald October 24, 2013

One of the things Obama and the Democrats refused to give Republican’s to avoid or end the PR shutdown of the Federal Government was a delay in the individual mandate.  Businesses got one.  They thought it only fair that the law apply equally to all.  Everyone should get the same delay privileges.  Democrats disagreed and […]

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Merrimack County Republican Committee – My ‘discussion’ Part 2

by Skip October 23, 2013

So, the second part of my discussion given at the MCRC meeting last week – finally getting to the center points of the opportunity.  The GOP and the NH GOP are still in the throws of a civil war that has only intensified over the last few years.  It can be broken down into two […]

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New Hampshire’s Congressional Delegation Applauds Deal…

by Steve MacDonald October 16, 2013

NHPR’s complete title is…”NH’s Congressional Delegation Applauds Deal To End Shutdown.” A more appropriate title might be, NH’s Congressional Delegation Applauds Spending Another Trillion of the Backs of Your Children, Plus Interest!” Or how about “Democrats Craved, Republicans Caved, Future Generation’s enslaved.” Senator Ayotte, you will note–if you read the NHPR piece, is very excited […]

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What the DC Establishment Republicans Will Probably Do Next…

by Steve MacDonald October 10, 2013
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Obama’s numbers are tumbling, Democrat strategy is failing, the shutdown optics are horrible for Democrats, and in a matter of days the Republicans could salvage some of your children’s future by stopping the unsustainable debt train that has steamrolled over us since 2009.  They might not get all that they want but they might get […]

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NH Dems already killed off the DC Dem argument: “settled law!”

by Skip September 30, 2013

Here in NH, we have heard the NH Dems cry “SETTLED LAW!  SETTLED LAW!” when they thought that  Republicans were going to “re-legislate” the homosexual marriage law.  And a bunch of others.  And yet, when they took control this session, immediately they started in “re-legislating” in either watering down or removing laws that the Republican […]

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Succumbing to Democrat identity politics will not work out well

by Skip September 22, 2013

“We have to reach out to this group in order to win and show that we’re hip!” “NO!  Now we have to reach out to this other group”.    “Wait!  You’re forgetting this other one – it’s important because it contains a whole 2% of the voter population!” Yuck.  This coming from Republicans as we […]

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