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“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”            – President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09

Works means it accomplished something worthwhile with little waste and a good return on our investment.  Yeah, President Obama, this is YOUR Government “working well” (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Millions of dollars worth of television news trucks are sitting under tarps in Kabul years after the State Department bought them as donations for Afghan broadcasters, a letter from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said.  One of the three trucks, which together cost the government $3.6 million, was damaged en route to Afghanistan in July.  Purchased to help Afghans cover live sporting events, the satellite trucks are “still covered by shipping material.”

July.  Which means this year.  Which means the Obama Administration.  So, even as we are blowing up and scrapping other expensive gear that costs taxpayers tens if not hundreds of dollars – what, you couldn’t repurpose some of those vehicles?  After all, they’re just setting around, too!  But wait – it gets worse:

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I was not in my usual seat at GrokTALK! this morning so I’m listening to it here on iHeart radio and just after the start of the show (7:34), Steve says something I need to quickly expand upon:

Keep in mind that their argument was that they didn’t have a choice that there were Republicans who were going to vote for it anyways and they were trying to soften the blow but doesn’t make a difference.

Right….these “Republican Establishment Elite have to provide themselves with an out (NH State Senator Chuck Morse, NH State Senator Jeb Bradley, NH State Senator David Boutin, NH State Senator Bob Odell and the other cast of usual suspects) and a scapegoat – as one of those that would was going to do an unRepublican type vote was NH State Senator Nancy Stiles.

So the utterly political wail from these spineless ones is “Don’t blame us – blame HER!”. Just like Obama, very willing to charter a bus under which to throw her. Except they have one really big problem concerning NH State Senator Nancy Stiles!

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From the Op-Ed that Drew Cline wrote over at the UL about the Republican reluctance to go after Dems lack of support on the Constutition:

…It is a little surprising that Democrats have dropped the issue, given that they are using so many other distractions to avoid talking about President Obama, and that certain gun control questions poll well when phrased the right way. What is more surprising is that Republicans have dropped it. With every major race expected to be close, it could help.

It could – but considering how much ill will Scott Brown has engendered amongst the Second Amendment groups and activists, it would not surprise me that Papa Smurf put out the word “icksnay on the unsgay”.  Folks know of his voting record in MA and his post 9/11 statements concerning bans – his protestations to the opposite, the Trust factor is just not there.  And on the First Amendment part you asked about:

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Another pile of steaming, smelly stuff from Carol Shea-Porter in the NH1 / WBIN debate.  Yes, that same Carol Shea-Porter that stole GraniteGrok copyrighted material and used it in her campaign ads without permission.  But like all Progressives, laws are only for the little people (and she ain’t one of us, I guess) and considers herself above the law.  During her latest debate with Frank Guinta, she let lose another line that had me staring at the screen (16:00 – video after the jump until I can get their formatting right):

“People didn’t lose their policies as you know and if you don’t, you can look it up”

Well, I DIDN’T have to look it up, Carol – I was one of your NH constituents that DID lose his policy – one that I liked and one that was affordable to me. The paperwork that came to me from my company explicitly said that my plan had to be replaced because Obamacare mandated stuff that I didn’t want or need.  To have made that statement make you out to be a flaming liar for craven political purposes or marks you as rather stupid (or both).  MY healthcare plan changed, my premiums went UP due to Obamacare, and having just had a doctor’s appt (which, unlike others, I got to keep this one – others, not so much) to which I now get to pay a MUCH higher deductible and a much larger bill when TMEW and I go to the Pharmacy.

For her to have made that statement is sheer

unmitigated gall on her part – and yes, I watched that smarmy teacher smirk all night long so to hear this utter fabrication was just par for the course.

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To be free to choose implies acceptance of the results of choices made, which means, in turn, that there should be no assignment of blame to others, including the state, if these choices turn out to have been wrong.  – James Buchanan

I think I may be shifting over to WBIN / NH1 (Bill Binnie’s nascent media empire – the TV version) for watching the political debates for one simple reason: they are willing to share their video and allow folks like us to embed them.  WMUR – not so much as unless I wanna spend a goodly amount of time sussing out their HTML / CSS / Java code, it’s very difficult to find the actual references to their video (a “coding” paywall, if you would).

Anyways, they are running their debates and and I watched the Guinta / SEUI-Porter one.  I’m actually re-listening to it as I’m trying to find 1 sentence that CSP uttered but I came across this one *here, 8:39):

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The unions will have been responsible for helping the process of killing off more entry level jobs, given their insistence that entry level jobs that require no to little skills pay the same as midlevel skilled jobs.  An economically bad play – except to buff the image of such ilk like the SEIU (the most socialist / totalitarian of the union thug movement).  Now, that which was already in process in the EU is now coming here – so, will the unions “for” the fast food employees apologize for losing those jobs?  Emphasis mine, reformatted:

McDonald’s Corp. outlined plans for what it called fundamental changes to its business as it reported one of its worst quarterly profit declines in years, driven by problems in nearly every major part of its business. 

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Sorry, but here at the ‘Grok, if you tell us one thing during your campaign for office (adamantly anti-Illegal Alien Amnesty) and then flip on the issue for no discernable reason (other than what the picture shows to your left) (yes, she was then for it after being against it), we tend to take notice – and are keeping our flashlights on.  You see (like we are trying to educate Ed Mosca about), Principles matter to us – a LOT!  What IS the principle for you, Kelly?  Is it a strong one, resting on Granite?  Or the wind of political expediency?  After all, strong words AGAINST before election against, then strong words FOR a bit down the track.

But then when our Southern Border started looking like chicken wire, your Amnesty words fell silent.  You see, Kelly, we promised to watch – and listen.  Silence SHOUTS loudly.

Fast forward to today and the news that President Obama is granting Executive Illegal Alien Amnesty to 100,000 Haitians that aren’t even here yet – but will be soon based on Chain Migration.  Is this the kind of droids Amnesty you are looking for, Kelly?

Oh, and the news that President Obama is about to grant green cards to ANOTHER 34,000,000 Illegal Aliens?

USCIS Contracting will be posting a solicitation for the requirement of Card Stock used by the USCIS Document Management Division. The objective of this procurement is to provide card consumables for the Document Management Division (DMD) that will be used to produce Permanent Resident Cards (PRC) and Employment Authorization Documentation (EAD) cards. The requirement is for an estimated 4 million cards annually with the potential to buy as many as 34 million cards total

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Changing the Paradigm: not just for a “win” but as an extremely valuable part of Speech concerning one’s values

Winning is merely a precursor; it is what is done afterwards that is most important

How often, as we stroll through life, are we insistent that things be “just barely good enough” or are willing to settle for even less?  Do we step up to the shopkeeper’s counter and roundly demand “give me something that doesn’t rise to excellence – sorta ok is swell with me.  Oh, and spare no price in doing so”!  Hardly.  We do not willingly settle for that which does not perform up to the task – or breaks under pressure.

No, we expect things to work, function, or taste to high standards (and if one is very well off, that “spare no price” really comes into play).  No, we do demand and expect the best that we can. Our standards in our personal lives (for most people)  are that once having expended time, talent, and money, that what we obtain will actually do the job for which it is specified.  It should work well, wear well, or taste well.  We expect our relationships with friends and acquaintances be healthy and satisfying.

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The base reference was here: Oh Goody – Obama wants to import Ebola diseased illegal immigrants (and have us pay for them?) that I put up last night.  This morning I ran across this post from Erick Erickson at RedState that explains it – and a lot of other actions as well:

Remember My Obama Theorem to Understand the President’s Handling of Ebola

So many of you seem confused and confounded by what President Obama is doing. You really just need to remember my theorem about Barack Obama to understand him.

1. The world will be more safe if the United States is less safe.
2. The world will be more stable if the United States is less stable.
3. Act against one and two only when polling demands it and only then in a way that does not actually undermine one and two.

President Obama entire Presidency can be explained by this theorem.

Now you can

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