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Another Thanksgiving Note to the NHGOP

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 [ Read more ]

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

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 [ Read more ]

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The DSCC Tries To Escape the Bitter Taste of TEA

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 [ Read more ]

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There is no return from this exit..

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

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. [ Read more ]

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

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”, [ Read more ]

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Government Did Build That – And it Sucks!

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 [ Read more ]

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Merrimack County Republican Committee – My ‘discussion’ Part 2

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 [ Read more ]

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New Hampshire’s Congressional Delegation Applauds Deal…

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 [ Read more ]

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What the DC Establishment Republicans Will Probably Do Next…

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 [ Read more ]

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

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 [ Read more ]

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Succumbing to Democrat identity politics will not work out well

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 [ Read more ]

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Election Today in Manchester…

September 17, 2013

There is a Special Election Today in Manchester.  You know what would make it really special?  If the Republicans just show up and vote. That would be very impressive. Manchester, Ward 7.   The Democrat Majority in the House is not that big.  You can make it a bit smaller.  

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Republican Gerbils and Amnesty

August 9, 2013

This would be funny if it weren’t so terribly true.  Via Ace: “…they are determined to do this. It’s like I say about gerbils. Gerbils will always get out of their cages because all they do is plot 14 hours per day how to get out of the cage. They have no other thoughts. They [ Read more ]

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Data Point – Obamacare still not liked

August 4, 2013

I guess that’s why Obama is about to spend $750 million to convince is “Smile!  It’s GOOD for you!”.  From Powerline, this part of a poll on Obamacare, a commentary on “government shutdown” or Obamacare.  There’s nobody that has submitted legislation aligned with this question, it is still an interesting result from LIVs that wouldn’t [ Read more ]

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Sturm und Drang over Sturm & Ruger

July 10, 2013

The top story on the New Hampshire Right this morning (hinted at here by Groksterette Susan Olson) is news that Gun Manufacturer Sturm, Ruger & Co., which has a large facility in the Granite State, will be expanding someplace other than New Hampshire. Company President Michael O. Fifer told shareholders at their annual meeting in [ Read more ]

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Immigration and the Market Economy

June 18, 2013

Dr. Thomas Sowell makes a point that should seem obvious to any pro-market economy Republican… Farmers may wish for more farm workers, just as any of us may wish for anything we would like to have. But that is wholly different from thinking that some third party should define what we desire as a “need,” [ Read more ]

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Claremont special election…

June 5, 2013

Osgood via doubleyouemyouare……..

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Well, given the performance of the former NH Congressmen, can’t say I blame him

May 22, 2013

By that, we supposedly put two Republican mens’ butts into US House Representatives chairs with one and only one main major mission – cut the spending.  Each time a Continuing Resolution showed up that could have stopped the national madness that has been adding to the National debt, they folded on their promises and folded [ Read more ]

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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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