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Skip So, what did Obama say about "balance" again? I’m thinking this level of spending increase is neither fair not balanced. (H/T: Greg Makiw)
Hizbullah, Taliban – and the press and the Democrats blather that the political process is broken? Hey, morons – if you keep Alinskying your political opponents, WHY would they want to do what you want? Yeah, we’re demonized for the simple idea that your parents tried to teach you: don’t spend more than you make. … Read more
Podcast – week of 08/06/11 GrokTALK! Streaming Live! from GraniteGrok To play (or "stream") a clip now, just click on it. To download it to your PC, right click on it and tell the process where to save the file for you. When we are live – join in by emailing us at GrokTALK@GraniteGrok.com or … Read more
After last Thursday’s townhall, I had a question for Congressman Frank Guinta: forget the debt ceiling and avoiding default – how are we actually going to pay off this debt? How come we have not heard the answer to that question during this debate?
Yesterday after the GrokTALK! show, we tried to make the Lee / Madbury TEA Party event held at the large field behind Dante’s Pasta & Vino in Barrington, NH. Unfortunately, I did miss a number of the speakers – both from arriving late (it started at 11:30am, the show ended at 11am, had to pack … Read more
Seattle PI: ABA debates birthright US citizenship TORONTO (AP) — The American Bar Association will vote next week on a resolution urging the U.S. Congress to reject any changes to the Constitution that would eliminate the automatic grant of citizenship to anyone born in the United States. The association, which is holding its annual meeting … Read more
Last night, GraniteGrok went to the Hooksett Public Library for Frank’s first Townhall since voting on the Budget Control Act of 2011 (raising the debt ceiling). Given that he has riled up both his Right side base and his Left side opponents, I at least give him kudos for walking into the arena. The downstairs … Read more
Last night, GraniteGrok went to the Hooksett Public Library for Frank’s first Townhall since voting on the Budget Control Act of 2011 (raising the debt ceiling). Given that he has riled up both his Right side base and his Left side opponents, I at least give him kudos for walking into the arena. This clip … Read more
Next question at Frank’s Townhall last night was THE question of the night (as far as relevance was concerned, IMHO) – When will we see actual cuts to the budget and not just a slowing growth of the budget???
OK, I mentioned that there were a couple of blowhards at Frank’s Townhall last night. No, they are not labeled such just because they were of a much more Liberal take than I am on the issues they spoke on. Rather, it was because they thought it was about them, that it was their turn … Read more
Live Streaming local and National News with opinion you could only get from GraniteGrok. EMail: GrokTALK@GraniteGrok.com or Call us! 603-524-7478 This week, 9-11AM… Grokster Rick will be join Skip as co-host Also joining us in studio for co-hosting duties is special guest, Tom Pauken, long time Conservative / Republican activist to talk some more on … Read more
UPDATE: here’s a link to the S&P statement on the WSJ site. =================================================== Standard and Poor’s is the first of the major ratings companies to downgrade the United States of America’s financial rating: from AAA to AA+ with a negative rating outlook going forward. It says: You can’t keep your financial house in shape. Worse, … Read more
You go, Judge Judy and Bailiff Bird! And before you label me racist, I don’t care: that the guy is black that the guy could have been red that the guy could have been yellow that the guy could have been brown that the guy could have been green with purple polka dots It’s his … Read more
“But more importantly, it comes out of the fact that, during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it. In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores, and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the … Read more
The story of the human race has been a gradual spread of specialization and exchange…. Prosperity consists of getting more and more narrow in what you make and more and more diverse in what you buy. Self-sufficiency – subsistence – is poverty. – Matt Ridley
Let me see if I have this straight:
Congress just voted to add $3 trillion to the debt within a year so that Congress and Obama can spend even more money we don’t have later, and we’re supposed to be happy over that the pandering politicians (who are backslapping each other in having shown great courage to enable themselves to spend even more) can just keep doing what they’ve been doing for decades?
That is, they spend other peoples money, often resulting in much duplication, waste, and fraud, and then they campaign that they will stop the duplication, waste, and fraud? All the while knowing what their real purpose is to merely get re-elected to do it all over again?
It’s like they’ve locked themselves into a party bus, blackened all the windows (including the front windshield), and in their self-assured incompetence, continue hurtling to the precipice, and still want us to love them as it is our kids and grandkids that are strapped to the roof that will have to pay for it all?
And trust me, they will pay, in one fashion or another.
And I am supposed to be overjoyed that:
Once again, these charlatans have voted to not carry out the job we have elected them to do – which was READ THE FREAKING BILL!
Once again, we are hearing echoes "We have to pass the bill to see what’s in it" – and thanks to the slovenly way that they refused to take the time to do it right (was stalling the process until it was way too late a feature, a bug, or a deliberate act of public stupidity)? They must be freaking great magicians or the living embodiment of The Midas Touch (you know, everything they touch turns into a rusty muffler?) because what seems to be there at the end of the vote is transmogrified into something different. That’s because they refused to do the public hearings, the markups, the debates, the re-writes to get it right. Instead, we get slap-dash and NOW, like Obamacare, like Dodd-Frank, and these other thousand page bills, the really terrifying and liberty destroying parts come out into public. Unlike Barnabas Collins, they just keep going seeking more and more victims.
And we’re supposed to turn a blind eye that:
From Pindell’s site (emphasis mine): Newmarket Republican Chair Joe Barton will not resign from his position as state Republican Chair Jack Kimball requested following Barton’s Facebook post over the weekend that he would pay $1,500 to anyone willing to primary State Sen. Sharon Carson (R-Londonderry). Barton made the comment on the New Hampshire Republican Party’s … Read more
Certainly, this spawned this post. Yes, another case where. I. Just. Could. Not. Help. Myself. From. Asking. on Facebook: Heh!
it’s all about the mean. I listened to the Ray Stevens video that Tim posted, and near the end of the video, this line caught my ear: "Once you renounce any sense of decency, it gets easier and easier!" Which, given the topic and butt of the video and adding in Rick’s post, translates as … Read more