Republicans

Great, Just What We Need, More Anti-Republican Crap

May 6, 2013

When I first announced the return of GrokTALK! a few weeks ago, in pursuit of likely guests, the very first response I got on my status update from a Republican Facebook page was, “Great, just what we need, more anti-Republican crap.” In some respects yes, but not because the objects of our remarks happen to “claim” to be Republicans.  It would be a result [ Read more ]

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Stellllllaaaaaaaa!

April 25, 2013

Democrats are not (NOT)  suggesting that Democrat Dick Patten resign–he is accused of stalking and what amounts to sexual harassment. “A city man has received a temporary stalking order against Rep. Dick Patten, D-Concord, after the man complained Patten allegedly tried to kiss him and was repeatedly calling and texting him, according to the Concord Monitor, [ Read more ]

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Re: Take It Back or Burn It Down?

April 7, 2013

Send me in, coach – Isaiah 6:8

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Take It Back or Burn It Down?

April 7, 2013

The current New Hampshire Republican Party has devolved away from being any kind of bulwark against creeping progressivism and the ardent promotion of candidates who will man the bulwark or (God help us) take us into battle, to little more than an exclusive party for hand-picked political insiders, partying away in the captain’s quarters of [ Read more ]

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New Hampshire’s “No Information” Voter

March 31, 2013

Grok Friend Spec Bowers just posted this on facebook. (Talk about a bridge too far.) A friend was talking with a neighbor about the gas tax. The neighbor said, “Yeah, that’s what you get when you vote Republican.” My friend told him the bill is being pushed by the Democrats. His neighbor replied, “No the [ Read more ]

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Guest post by NH State Rep. Jane Cormier: “Sleepless Nights”

March 22, 2013

It is now 4:45 am. I am wide awake, thinking about the vast number of things that need to be accomplished today. As a wife, mom, legislator, volunteer, and music educator, I can tell you there are lots of sleepless nights.  I suspect it is a difficult time for most of us as we struggle [ Read more ]

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Did some of those HB617 Republicans not like that Flashlight that shined brightly? Good – Mission Accomplished

March 21, 2013

OK, I know this is a couple of days old, but still worth posting as an object lesson.  We here at the ‘Grok raised a fuss and a big ‘ole stinkeroonie as we figuratively shined our flashlight into a dark corner – the kind of one where taxpayers end up paying for the mistakes that [ Read more ]

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Fool Me Once, Shame on You, Fool Me One Hundred Times….Call Me A Republican Senator

White Flag of Surrender March 10, 2013

The Sunday Union Leader has a staff editorial in which it comes to the defense of Senator Ayotte accepting and attending  an invite to dinner with Mr. Obama and a number of other ‘Ranking’ (see also Rank) GOP Senators. To suggest that there is no value in conveying that message to the President in person, [ Read more ]

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I knew he was lost

March 8, 2013

Via Weasel Zippers:  

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As Glenn Reynolds says, ‘Heh’

March 8, 2013

Via Instapundit: “This is probably why John McCain and Lindsay Graham have their panties in a wad: Rand Paul filibuster energizes Tea Party against GOP establishment.” Meanwhile, seen on Facebook:

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Roll Call Examines Why The NH-GOP is Such a Mess

March 5, 2013

Roll Call has an article that will be making the rounds.  According to some people from around the Republican firmamanet… The Granite State’s political infrastructure is “a mess,” complain out-of-state GOP consultants, and the state has become an increasingly difficult place to run campaigns. The article goes on to observe some coincidences with problems in [ Read more ]

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Only Taxpayers are supposed to Tighten their Belts

March 4, 2013

The Republican majority in the Belknap County Convention is fighting County tax increases. These Republicans seem to be the only people in any level of government showing concern for the bill-payers (taxpayers) most of whom are already struggling in today’s poor economy. In January, President Obama raised working people’s taxes and everyone’s cost of living. [ Read more ]

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Even if it Causes Americans to Suffer, Defeating Republicans is Obama’s Priority

February 25, 2013

President Obama and the fawning mainstream media want you to think that the “sequester” and the harsh “sequester” cuts are being forced on him by others. These are deliberate falsehoods. The “sequester” was President Obama’s idea to pretend concern, in anticipation of his re-election campaign, for our huge deficits by agreeing to future (small, less [ Read more ]

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HB617: Thanks to BOTH NH Democrats AND Republicans, filling up is going to cost us all $0.15 / gallon

February 21, 2013

Yup, that’s right.  The NH House’s Public Works and Highway Committee members decided that it was so durn important to fix roads and such, they couldn’t be bothered to really set a priority list and bump down others much less important (remember:  “Maggie the Marxist” – she choose diapers over students??  $2 million for adult diapers? [ Read more ]

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Dem NH Majority Votes To Kill School Scholarship Program

February 21, 2013

Children and poor families hit hardest So which Republicans’ voted against private scholarships for poor kids in New Hampshire? Ann Marie Banfield provided a list, with contact info, and reminds us (On Facebook), a vote against will actually cost taxpayers more.  (I talked about it here yesterday.) The HB370 (repeal) passed 188 to 155 and [ Read more ]

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Words of Wisdom for the GOP – from Uncle Ted!

February 13, 2013

“Working hard, playing hard America is literally recoiling in shock and dismay on an hourly basis,” Nugent said. “Where is the GOP?” Any person reading the ‘Grok for any amount of time know that we like Ted Nugent.  Why?  Rather simple, really – a true blue Patriot and Conservative , he knows what he believes, [ Read more ]

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Adventures in Babysitting

February 13, 2013

J.Robert Smith has a good article at American Thinker on Republicans taking back the tax issue, and that is certainly true,  but there were two things in particular that stood out to me… First, the current US tax code consists of almost 74,000 pages.  (What the…) Second, on one of those pages can be found this. (paragraphs appear here in [ Read more ]

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Hey! Dufus! Why the Hell Aren’t You Covering “This!?”

February 12, 2013

Shawn Millerick, the head of the political fiction section at NH Journal, wanted to know why we at GraniteGrok were not covering the real world story about Ann McKluster Kuster not paying her property taxes.  The appropriate response was to provide a link to the story I actually wrote on February 5th about how Ann [ Read more ]

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I have a question for Republican politicians in the NH and DC Houses and Senates:

January 9, 2013

With the Democrats falling all over themselves in paroxysms of one-upmanship to see who submit laws to nullify a law-abiding Citizen’s exercise of the Second Amendment the most or the fastest (or, in the case of Diane Feinstein and others – simply take them, and in the case of a few others – threats to [ Read more ]

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The MRC (Manchester Republican Committee) Facebook Squabble

January 6, 2013

Someone thought it would be appropriate to put a link on the MRC Facebook page to my recent observations about Jennifer Horn and her abrupt 180 on the Fiscal Cliff deal. (She seemed offended by the “deal” until after someone told her Senator Kelly Ayotte voted for it.  It then became “the best we could [ Read more ]

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Gun Control – are Republicans in DC about to go weak-knees again?

January 5, 2013

Are we to the point of asking “what will the Republicans stand for – do they even know what they stand for”?  Or do we relegate them mostly sit in the corner, mumbling to themselves, drooling?  Anyone that knows me knows that I am always good for a debate (er, not that I am always [ Read more ]

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NH House A Gun Free Zone

January 2, 2013

By a vote of 196 to 153, the New Hampshire House voted to make their little corner of heaven a gun free zone.  Six (r)epublicans voted with the Democrats to ban citizens from carrying firearms in Representatives Hall and the House gallery.   Belknap County – Dennis Fields, Sanborton Carroll County – Karel Crawford, Center [ Read more ]

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For a meager mess of porridge; so what DOES the Republican Party stand for now?

January 1, 2013

From RedState Twitter Feed: RSBooBooKitty: Blank Check Barry and his Blue Journalism Gang just knocked over the Hapless Hill Savings Bank of Other People’s Money. #RSRH Such a Happy New Year start – Senate Republicans caved into Obama’s Progressive Punish the Successful campaign.  $620 Billion more in taxes.  Only $15 Billion in reduced spending.  A [ Read more ]

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Sticks and stones?

December 23, 2012

Via the Washington Examiner (Philip Klein): Mr. Obama repeatedly lost patience with the speaker as negotiations faltered. In an Oval Office meeting last week, he told Mr. Boehner that if the sides didn’t reach agreement, he would use his inaugural address and his State of the Union speech to tell the country the Republicans were [ Read more ]

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A rumination: Republicans, Democrats, ideas, and the Statist urge to power

December 20, 2012

Unlike some types of Republicans—often referred to as “Main Street” or “Country Club” Republicans—Democrats tend not to suffer from any dearth…

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