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From The Corner comes this story about how the Establishment Republican Old Guard just can’t stand that  now taking a shot at a seated TEA Party / Libertarian, Congressman Justin Amash:

Philip Rucker of the Washington Post reported yesterday that Representative Justin Amash, the House’s ur-libertarian, could have a primary situation:

Within Grand Rapids’ powerful business establishment, patience is running low with Amash’s ideological agenda and tactics. Some business leaders are recruiting a Republican primary challenger who they hope will serve the old-fashioned way — by working the inside game and playing nice to gain influence and solve problems for the district. They are tired of tea party governance, as exemplified by the budget fight that led to the shutdown and threatens a first-ever U.S. credit default.

So it seems all over – a Republican that actually says what he believes and then walks that talk come voting.  It is the TEA Party / Libertarian wing of the party that is not pulling the Party rightward (which infuriates the Dems as they follow that foreign philosophy call socialism and throws a monkey wrench into the “go along / get along – we’ll do the same things but do them better than the Democrats” world view of the Republican elite (here, in Michigan, at the national level, everywhere).  They find it hard to understand that, more and more, many of us are returning back to the philosophy on which this Country was founded – and standing on them.   They don’t understand that the “New Republicans” aren’t motivated by “getting stuff done” or “moving the Country FORWARD!“.

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Government seems to have forgotten that they exist at the will of the people, not to rule over them, but to serve them in the needs of society, organization, stability, and public safety. Recently, due to the total failure of of our two party system to work cooperatively, to negotiate and compromise in the best interests of the people, we saw one proud group ignore their childish attempts to punish the people over their own partisan ego and divide, and refusal to compromise on either side of the aisle. I am referring to World War II Vets, often referred to a the Greatest Generation, who would not let childish self-indulging political power plays get in the way of them visiting monuments to honor them on public land that belongs to all of us. The Federal government may set aside parts of our country as protected lands, but they do not have the right to deny us access to is it because it does not belong to them, it belongs to us, the people. Like our founding fathers, these old Warrior Veterans revolted against the orders of government, and we should all be proud of their actions. In fact we should be so proud that we follow their lead – tear down the barricades and refuse to accept that government even has the right to close public facilities – after all this is our country, not a Communist state where Government owns and can dictate who gets to use what land for what purpose. I mean how can we be so adamantly opposed to Eminent Domain and yet accept that the government has the right to deny us access to land they took in our names, and supposedly for our benefit?

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Right after Karen and Ann Marie spoke, Diane Bitter stood up to announce / remind folks that the Seacoast Republican Women is going to have a panel on Common Core:

Monday, October 21, 2013
6:30 p.m.

Portsmouth Public Library
Levenson Room
175 Parrot Avenue,
Portsmouth NH

Panelists:

• Ann Marie Banfield, Education Liaison for Cornerstone Policy Research
• Doris Hohensee, Co?founder, N.H. Families for Education
• NH State Rep. Jane Cormier
• NH State Senator Sam Cataldo,
• Jane Aitken, Education Activist

To RSVP and for additional information, contact: Diane Bitter, dbitter@aol.com

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Questions?  Yes, questions of Dr. McCaughey following her talk about Obamacare and she was happy to take them:

Question #1:

In the bill, so many of the different components say “at the discretion of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. So, if we get a Republican President, are those put in stone now because of Sebelius?

Takaway: Pew – only 38% could name the three branches of Government.  That how Obama can say the false things he does and get away with them – the public doesn’t any better.

Question #2:  Please talk about the “navigators”?

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And the questions did not stop coming!

Question #4:

Going back to the ACA when it first started: we were told by Pelosi that we would find out what was in it.  that should be clue enough to get angry because that is also taking away our Freedom just as much as what Madison said in Federalist #57 – it is just as big!

Takeaway: Comprehensive = unread.  Madison had a lot of foresight on a lot of the problems we now see.  So what are we doing about Obamacare being changed so often (no longer what was passed)?

Question #5:

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Heh!  Expect to be deluged with songsters coming out of the woods (but not from Obamawoods ringed with National Park Service brownshirts – poor color and attitude choice, IMHO).  Steve has one here and this from Mark Steyn will be joined by hundreds, I bet:

This land is our land, it sure ain’t your land
From downtown DC to the Lake Mead shoreland
From the Arctic Refuge to the Gulf Stream waters
This land is closed to you and yours

So don’t go cruisin’ that endless Skyline
And quit your fishin’, put down that fly line
Don’t pay respects to your country’s war heroes
Their land is closed to you and yours

Don’t even look at that view of Rushmore

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Am reading down through the list of LSRs – thoughts of our legislators for bills for the upcoming session.  Well, we see that at least ONE person hates the idea that law abiding Citizens can’t be trusted with firearms without yet one more database kept on its citizens.

If she can’t take it from you, she certainly wants to know exactly who owns what. And with that last one, if it goes where I think it will, shall forbid any private sale of firearms. Like if one of the other Groksters had a firearm that they no longer wanted but did catch my interest (of which I can think of several)?  And WHY is it any of your business, Ms. Andrews-Ahearn?  Are you scared of the guns, or the citizens that possess them?  Or is this, yet again, the Progressive way – punish the bad folk by punishing all of us?  What is it about being a busybody that inserts themselves into everyone else’s lives, stops them from doing what they like (or at least makes it far more difficult), and then feels good about themselves?  Were you, in a former life, a National Park Service that enjoyed keeping WW II vets, or Korean War vets, or Viet Name War vets out of their memorials?  Does it give you “a thrill up my leg” in determining how others MUST live their lives?

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Besides the keynote speaker, Dr. Betsy McCaughey, two other ladies also had speaking opportunities during the meeting:

• Karen Testerman, conservative activist and exploring a run for the NH GOP nomination for US Senate
• Ann Marie Banfield, math whiz and educational liason for Cornerstone Policy Research, on Common Core

Karen Testerman (with whom we had a “pre-meeting” interview here):

Ann Marie Banfield on Common Core:

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First on the Socialists – an observation from El Rushbo:

Let me give you an interesting observation on William F. Buckley. It’s a quote, but it’s more an observation. Buckley pointed out that in the ’30s we were told we had to “collectivize the nation,” i.e., big government. Go socialist. We had to collectivize the nation because the people were so poor, and now we’re told that we have to collectivize because the people are so rich — and he’s right.

Back in the thirties, FDR, all the boys? “Oh, yeah, we got way too many poor people! We need to go socialism so that we can raise standards of living.” Today why are we doing it? “‘Cause we got too many rich people, and they’re stealing everybody’s everything, and we gotta take it from ’em.” I think it’s a great observation.

And from the Globull Warmists?

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Political Scoop – every Friday (mostly – he’s not as prolific as we are) Pindell puts up his Political Standing weekly and it generally has a Questions of the Week in it. Given that he mentioned us, I’ll play along with it:

• What are we to make of the Union Leader linking to Granite Grok on its homepage?

Well, thanks for the mention and I have a great answer for you, although many MSMers might lift an eyebrow (given the natural ideological bent of the newsroom)…

Here’s the snap shot.  And here is the link to Grokster Steve post.

For me, this is the money quote from the post: The states have an excellent opportunity to take back their responsibilities from Uncle Sam and give them back to local agencies, municipalities,  and the people who pay for all of it; who may then see what it is that really needs doing, and reapportion those funds accordingly, even if that means giving them back to the people who earned them.

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The government has shut down 17 times. Obama is the first president to ever issue an order to lock veterans out of military cemeteries.

— Steve Stockman (@SteveWorks4You) October 4, 2013

Washington Examiner:

…The American Battle Monuments Commission attributed the closure to the government shutdown. “Due to a lack of funding for ABMC operations (U.S. Government shutdown), ABMC cemeteries and memorials are temporarily closed,” the commission said.

…Ferguson told the Washington Examiner that the commission has $85 million left over from fiscal year 2012.

Remember – if Obama is willing to use Veterans in an Alinsky action:

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WE own it – not you!  WE own it – not Government.  You are MERELY the caretakers of our stuff – learn your place!

We often show much deference to those that work in Government – and generally more to elected officials (I think more so the higher the office and the further away they are – which makes NH so special as we just treat them just like the folks down the street).  But certainly, from my view point as one of those citizens that the DC based politicians love to lay the Hate on (um, a probably more than a few, on both sides of the aisle, here in NH ’cause I seldom keep quiet) simply because I stand for a limited government that spends within its citizens’ means and within Constitutional boundaries and values.  And a government that knows its Proper Role – which it does not seem to understand anymore at the Federal level.  From what I see of Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi (and yes, some on the Republican side as well) et al.

Another story like that of Obama refusing to let the WW II Vets into their own memorial – Great Smokey National Park (emphasis mine, reformatted):

So, we still plan to hike in Great Smoky National Park, but we have chosen a trail where we can park outside the park on private land and then hike into the park. We intend to defy any ranger we meet who tries to stop us, but by not putting a vehicle in a vulnerable position under their control, we give them less power over us in such circumstances.

Finally, I want to make one more point. This is the United States of America, supposedly “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Yet, in my essay above I describe how American citizens are either hiding from or protecting themselves from agents of our government, even though they have done nothing wrong.

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