Tea Party

DC “Audit the IRS” rally – some pics

June 19, 2013

It’s a Wednesday.  A work day.  Short, short notice.  Still, quite a few people and a showing for the TEA Party as a movement again.  No, not the HUGE rallies that we saw BEFORE the IRS started their targeting of conservative groups (and religious and educational and….well, anyone holding social or political values other than [ Read more ]

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Blogline of the Day: ” the Lindsey Graham of the Tea Party”

June 13, 2013

Heh!  From Powerline, speaking on Rubio’s change JUST before the vote from “We secure the border first” to “All you illegals become legal first off”: For many years, I’ve been referring to Lindsey Graham as the “Arlen Specter of the South.” The idea is that, although Graham isn’t as bad as Specter was, he’s the [ Read more ]

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So I suppose Dems think that mini-skirted young women walking on dark alleys are “asking for it”?

June 5, 2013

Yeah, let’s get this out of the way for the Progressive H8ters out there whose blood pressure just reached the moon: Yup, am a homophobic misogynist bigoted child-killer Neanderthal.  And other have called me “radical” and “uncompromising”.  On the bright side, I can be amusing at times… But this isn’t about me, but it IS [ Read more ]

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A voice suffering from Government Tyranny – simply for being TEA Party – Part 2

June 4, 2013

“I think the IRS needs to fix its labeling machine: we’re the San Fernando Valley TEA Party not Occupy Oakland” In addition to Becky Gerritson, another TEA Party founder by the name of Dr. Karen Kenny  of the San Fernando Valley TEA Party testified to the Congressional committee on the targeting that they received from [ Read more ]

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A voice suffering from Government Tyranny – simply for being TEA Party – Part 1

June 4, 2013

Am on vacation this week – a “staycation” in doing errands as well as finally starting to approach the long list of “honey-do’s” (as well as long list of tasks of my own).  Both have long laid fallow resulting in, well, “the house suffering from benign neglect from blogging”.  A week won’t cut it down [ Read more ]

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FEAR

May 28, 2013

From the X-Files Season 2 Episode 3 – Blood Scully: “Why Mulder?  Why would they intentionally create a population that destroys itelf.“ Mulder: “Fear.  It’s the oldest tool of power.  If you distract, by fear of those around you, it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above.” Scully is asking why the government [ Read more ]

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Data Point – Support for President Obama is falling

May 27, 2013

It has been a while since I put up the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Poll – time to restart: Since his Second Inauguration, his job approval level has been dropping – and fast. Yes, his personal approval levels remain positive (something that I have never figured out).  It seems that the scandals that are now engrossing [ Read more ]

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Blogline of the Day – Laura Ingraham

May 25, 2013

“Pete Wehner is missing the whole point of why the Tea Party is so furious with the GOP Establishment. Yes, we think that they are a bunch of squishes, hacks and sell-outs. That is true. But we also think despite all their advanced degrees, they’re stupid. We think that their ideas on immigration are crazier [ Read more ]

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O on Terrorism, Striking Foreign and Domestic Intersections

May 24, 2013

Yesterday, the pusillanimous powder puff currently lounging in the Oval Office gave a speech on the “war on terror”. Below are some of the lines that struck me as interesting given the current maelstrom of power abuse scandals spinning around the great eared one. Oblow-hardia: “We will never erase the evil that lies in the [ Read more ]

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TEA Party starting to return to protesting? Here in NH, a re-start. DHS Police take notice?

May 22, 2013

With the recent news that the IRS was using its bureaucratic muscle to muzzle TEA Party groups ahead of the last Presidential election (hmm, the Press kept harping that the TEA Party disappeared – now we know, in part, why), is this now going to be a Rick Santelli type moment, Version 2.0?  They started [ Read more ]

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Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun?

May 20, 2013

I’m sure this is just another coinceidence, right? From The American Spectator Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun? The stunning questions are raised by the following set of new facts. March 31, 2010. According to the White House Visitors Log, provided here in searchable form by U.S. News and World Report, the [ Read more ]

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Belknap County Conservative Republicans’ Family Fun Day – interview with Don Walker

May 19, 2013

After doing GrokTALK! first thing in the morning in Concord, I headed up to Laconia to Funspot where the Belknap County Conservative Republicans were having their Family Fun Day – under the tent, free food, and opening up their arms to the public at large to talk about the Republican Party Platform, Constitutional values, and [ Read more ]

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The answer, obviously if you had been paying attention, is “Yes!” (shades of SB11)

May 17, 2013

He keeps asking, so we keep answering.  This week, Pindell finally gives an UP to the TEA Party movement, along with a question: Tea Party: The decentralized movement got a new reason for being this week with the news the IRS was targeting them. Since they were proven right on this does it mean everyone [ Read more ]

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Can’t Keep Up…

May 14, 2013

IRS Intimidation forced at least One TEA Party group to shut down EPA grants waivers to left wing groups that it denies to right leaning ones. HHS’ Sibelius to be investigated for trying to shakedown insurers. Obama Administration gives Wind farms a pass on deaths of Eagles, prosecutes oil companies. The IRS scandal now leads to Washington [ Read more ]

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Blogline of the Day: Sir Winston Churchill on the Obama IRS Scandal?

May 13, 2013

As Steven Hayward of Powerline points out, this speech by the British Prime Minister during WWII given while campaigning to retain that position after the war’s end, points out that a Socialist Government brooks no dissent. Yes, the title of this post is a wee bit over the top (after all, Churchill is no longer [ Read more ]

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IRS Admits to Targeting Tea Party Groups

May 11, 2013

This deserves more coverage than I’ll give it here but I am leaving for Concord to record GrokTALK!   We” consider this a primer. The right accused the IRS of targeting TEA Party groups for exception grief and scrutiny while ignoring similar groups on the left. The IRS has officially admitted to do doing this. The [ Read more ]

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Democrat Civility Alert #infinity+1: This pretty much defines what “fringe” is for Democrats

May 9, 2013

At least there is none of that faux friendship of “my friend from <name your state>” that we often hear from US Congressmen or Senators.  It seems that Democrats believe, and are now willing, to call ANYONE with an R after their name, “fringe” whenever the Rs don’t do what the Ds demand they do. [ Read more ]

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Quote Of The Day – The Daily Mail’s Simon Heffer On Nigel Farage And The UKIP

May 8, 2013

“[Nigel] Farage is a Technicolor man in a monochrome political class. To the chattering classes, his brash, confident, matey, plain-spoken persona makes him something of a demon. But to millions of voters he’s someone with whom they can identify, and who avoids the nuanced language of almost all other politicians.” Why does this man generate [ Read more ]

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Two plus two = eleventy-three

April 24, 2013

Via Weasel Zippers:  

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An observation: Does the Left now hate Muslims?

April 21, 2013

Quick observation: all week long, one Leftist / Progressive / Democrat has trotted out the meme that it had to be a white TEA Party extremist that set off the bombs – someone who loves a lo-cal Government struggling on a pittance.  Three examples: David Axelrod’s “hanging” innuendo of a tax day protest, Charles Pierce that [ Read more ]

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Blogline of the Day – Obama and the TEA Party

April 18, 2013

“Ironically, the only populist mass movement on domestic-policy issues Obama can claim credit for creating is the Tea Party, which I think we can all agree isn’t what he had in mind.” Indeed – Obama has this as part of his Legacy.  Enjoy! (H/T:  The Corner)

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Obama knows “who dunnit”!

April 17, 2013

(H/T: Liberal Logic 101)

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Why, James? We’ll let you know what you missed later – maybe at the Rally, even.

April 12, 2013

On the occasion of the day of the week being Friday, I sometimes go over to WMUR‘s Political Scoop to see what Pindell is yakking about in NH politics. Hey, it’s what we political bloggers do here in NH and everywhere else – find a story and take a riff off it or a fisking [ Read more ]

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What Is It That The NH-GOP Does?

April 8, 2013

It occurs to me that the town and county committee’s try to do quite a lot to support local candidates and races.   But what exactly is it that the State party, via the Executive Committee and chairman, do for Republicans in the state, other than give them an excuse to eat popcorn? They don’t [ Read more ]

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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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