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I just don’t understand the hoo-ha over Bernie Sanders who is about as Communist / Socialist that has run for US President since Eugene Debs (even as Hillary is trying hard to out-Left him).  Socialism has NEVER worked, but I guess that with the “divide everyone” war on American citizen by Obama and the nonstop “I will give you” of other peoples’ money.  LIVs all around and not a single set of their eyeballs to watch the eventual meltdown that comes – Venezuela that finally awoke from its torpor and misery and kicked the Chavista socialists out of power in the legislature.  John at Powerline has this observation (emphasis mine):

Venezuelans were appalled not only by the poverty that socialism caused, but also by the corruption that accompanied the Chavez/Maduro regime. This is no surprise: as Glenn Reynolds has said many times, leftists hate free market policies because, while they enrich the ordinary citizen, they provide insufficient opportunities for graft among the political elite.

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SB left this comment at Steve’s post “Trump, Cruz, Carson, Rubio“:

I hope both campaign managers (Trump and Cruz) are prepared for the RNC to be up to dirty tricks to try to stop them from getting the nomination. This is no time to be gentlemen if the RNC plays dirty.

Well, it looks like Sundance over at the Conservative Treehouse thinks it is an eventuality and not an if.  The post talks about what we saw in the primary in the run up to this last November’s general election – Mississippi Redeux.  It’s a longish post so just an abstract here (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Tripwire Alert – GOPe Signals Intent To Use “Mississippi Strategy” Against Trump After Trump’s Primary Victory….

Remember Mississippi?The professional apparatus of the Republican Party are signaling their intent to do exactly what we predicted they would do.   Trump will win the primary, and the GOPe will split the party to run an additional candidate in the general election. It’s not Trump going third party – It’s the establishment GOP (GOPe) intending to go third party.   They are planning a modified version of the Mississippi Strategy from 2014.

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As the Big Government post says “Why BOTHER”?  After all, we’re only talking Trillions of dollars of other peoples’ money (er, that would be us taxpayers, and not the Secretary of State that’s boasting he’s now flown more than Million Mile Hillary).  From COP21 in Paris (the next attempt to implement Kyoto):

This ought to be fun listening to ‘Grok commenter Bruce Curie try to explain – no data, no skeptic; straight out of the SecState’ mouth (aka, LiveShot as Howie Carr or Lurch).  What Lurch says is just STUNNING – it’s almost as if he’s saying “We’re just making this all up for nothin’ but it will grow Government bigger”! It just proves out what most of us have said – all of this Watermelon Environmentalism masks the Red (the REAL color Red) of those proposing it – it’s all about the control of others.

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Is it as bad as CNN would have us think?

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Remember, Islam means “submission” – you to it.  Or die.  But this, via Hot Air, MUST be giving CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations, a front group for the radical and Shariah Law pushing terrorist group Muslim Brotherhood) absolute fits! Reformatted, emphasis mine:

France close down 3 mosques – 334 war grade weapons found – 223 arrests

Police investigating the Paris terror attacks have shut down three mosques in a series of raids to close the net on Islamic extremists, the Express reports.  Police in France also arrested the owner of a revolver found during Wednesday’s raid, France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.  Security officials found jihadist documents at the mosque where yesterday’s raids took place.  They have placed nine people under house arrest. Another 22 have been banned from leaving the country Mr Cazeneuve said.

…He said: “In 15 days we have seized one-third of the quantity of war-grade weapons that are normally seized in a year.”

Betcha this wasn’t just an intra-mosque target practice club league (unless we infidels are the targets).  I’m not surprised as the Youngest complained

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We on this side of the aisle said this would happen:

Noshville co-owner says health care costs contributed to closure

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) -A day after Noshville co-owner Tom Loventhal announced the restaurant’s Midtown location on Broadway will close this month, he said he planned to close next year anyway.  Loventhal said Tuesday the restaurant would close in 2016 because of health insurance costs.

“Because we have more than 50 employees, one of the reasons we’re closing a little earlier is the Affordable Care Act,” Loventhal said. “If you have more than 50 full-time employees, you have to offer health insurance. It’s an unknown risk that I’m not willing to take because I don’t know what the cost is, but it’s significant. Even though I might be only paying 50 percent of it, I’m not in business to take a loss.”…

Gee,

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Or in the case of the NY Times, an outright call for confiscation of guns.  However, that seems to be the ideological wash of the day (as if removing guns is going to just get rid of Islamic Jihad?) – everything is about the gun and not about the evil “political ideology in a religious wrapper” which is the root cause.  Instead, this is the important question – gun control is just the convenient cover – and should have been on every newspaper above the fold in the country:

“How did an Islamic guy who got an online Pakistani wife from Saudi Arabia and cavorted with people on the FBI’s terror watch list plan all of this without anyone noticing?”

Strangely, there is more outrage from the Left about law abiding folks exercising their Constitutional rights than there is about what the Left’s President Alinsky said at his inauguration in 2008:

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Hillary Clinton Once Again Trying To Solve Problems That She Caused

Arlington, VA — Hillary Clinton is in New Hampshire today, where she will propose yet another tax credit . . . this time intended to aid the manufacturing industry.

Clinton pledged this morning to help “revitalize the hardest-hit manufacturing communities,” but few policies have hit the manufacturing industry harder than President Obama’s energy regulations—and Clinton supports them 100 percent.

Freedom Partners Senior Policy Advisor Andy Koenig Issued The Following Statement:

“Rather than adding to the loopholes, handouts, bailouts, and carveouts that have come to characterize our complicated tax code, Americans deserve real solutions, real jobs, and real growth. Clinton’s proposed tax credit is an admission that the policies she supports—like President Obama’s EPA regulations—are devastating the economy. It’s time for politicians like Hillary Clinton to stop pandering to secure their own jobs and fight for Americans’ jobs.”

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Here at GraniteGrok, we relish the debate.  I recently put up a post on NH Rebellion’s time on WMUR’s CLOSEUP – Bulldog has asked to put up a rebuttal which I provide below completely but with some reformatting to make it more “bloggish”:

I am writing in response to Skip Murphy’s post of December 6, 2015 “CLOSEUP last week: NH Rebellion attack on Free Speech”. When looking at both the United States and New Hampshire constitutions, it’s important to understand that the rights apply to INDIVIDUALS (people), commonly referred to as citizens. NH Rebellion is a cross-partisan organization looking to enhance the rights of the people to have their speech heard and not be drowned out by a small number of special interests who build a system of bought-and-paid-for politicians that subvert the will of the people.

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Last nite, like a lot of TV political events, I tried to tweet out thoughts that come to mind and last nite’s totally useless Obama speech was no different. In fact, I summarized it like this:

#GROK #NHPOLITICS #OBAMA Typeical Obama – nothing new and no change. #Blockhead and #Blinkered

— GraniteGrok (@GraniteGrok) December 7, 2015

Except for one thing and that was he is demanding that Congress vote for his idea that anyone on the No Fly zone automatically be denied their Second Amendment rights. Gun control by other means. No trial, no jury, no judge – just someone within the Obama Administration filling in a checkbox next to a name.  Gulity by Administrative fiat.  The epitome of the Progressive’s Nirvana of The Administrative State.

The other thing I’ll do is retweet any good line, sometimes with a quick thought of my own, that comes across the event that I’m following.  Much to my surprise was this tweet by Kelly Ayotte, Jr Senator from NH, who seemingly is in complete agreement with President Obama on restricting gun rights of American citizens.  She’s a former NH Attorney General and one would think should have,at the least, a passing knowledge of both the US and NH Constitution on the subject of “arms”:

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If anything were to prove Obama’s deep ideological bias and hatred towards the American right to self-defense via the Second Amendment, it was last night when he tried conflating Islamic Jihad terrorist (and the risible lessening of such there of) by a citizen’s decreased right to own and bear arms by the use of a purely Administrative tool (the No Fly list).

Perhaps for folks like US Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), maybe Choice E fits.  For her, I cannot think of any other reason other than the perception, that many in law enforcement share, that citizens are not up to having such in this “modern age”.

No, Obama needs a category all his own: F.  A fitting letter, that, but trouble for us all, as it fits for “The State, and only The State, should posses the means of violence“.  Which means, in hard and horrible terms, that His State no longer needs the consent of the govern.  For you see, they are no longer the “consenters”, we’d be the subjects.  There is much to be said, if you think about it, that a law abiding citizen IS a Citizen (aka, The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen).

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Emphasis mine:

From: Jeff Chidester <jeffchidester@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:03 AM
Subject: I Need Your Help – Liberty House Fundraiser – Dec 12 – 3PM

I Need Your Help! – This Sat. (Dec. 12 – 3PM) we will be hosting a fundraiser for the Liberty House (http://libertyhousenh.org/). We will be watching ‘America’s Game’ – The Army/Navy football game. Our vets have been abandoned by their country. Some are homeless, suffering from PTSD, lacking basic clothing needs. We owe them our support.

I am personal asking for your help. For all the times I lugged my PA equipment around the state or served as an emcee, I need your help. For all the times I tried to make a difference because you asked, I need your help. For all the times I gave whatever I could, I need your help.  This is not just about money, it is about RESPECT. Our veterans have earned a special place in our hearts, let’s come together and show such an outpouring love for these wonderful men and women, that there will be no doubts in their hearts and minds that we truly do care.

And he HAS been there when at times, others refused!  

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Yeah, blogging has been light from me lately – let’s just chalk it up to a constantly changing schedule lately beyond my control and with it, too many interruptions to be able to concentrate properly on this “hobby”.  Thus, this has been sitting for almost a week, and to be frank, I forgot what my original thoughts on this was.  But hey, I took the time to transcribe it, so let’s throw something out, shall we?

I think this race is going to be shaped by who is in the best position to get things done for the people of NH. I’ve been ranked the seventh most bipartisan Senator to work with people to get things done. Been called a No Labels problem solver and had that designation so when we look at my record of standing up and working with other people to put NH first, to get results, I think that’s what this race is going to be about.

Right, Kelly.  So far this cycle we have seen exactly ONE dominant theme – the base is not just unhappy, it is

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