Steve MacDonald

Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, an award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance and the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, and more (yes, there's more) at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, the Republican Volunteer Coalition, and has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

Sullivan’s New Hampshire

Sullivan's NH -Burning down the houseThe ‘Su’ in Suckly, Kathy Lawsuit’ Sullivan, has a regular editorial in the Union Leader.  I have no idea why but after reading it and taking a shower to get the brimstone smell off of me, I have to make an arbitrary decision as to whether I should comment.  Normally I do not.  Her template is the recipe for left wing baby formula and so unoriginal I could probably find it in every other paper in the country with the word New Hampshire replaced with (insert name of your state here.)  But this time she closed her ditty with the words…"They are about to destroy the New Hampshire we love."

This is red meat-bait for right wing carnivores.  It begs the obvious question, ‘"what New Hampshire do they love," they being Sullivan and the far left democrats, and history has been kind enough to provide us with an answer.

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Why Jack?

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You know what I’m talking about here – I’m talking about the next Chair of the NH GOP, and about the direction this Party takes over the next couple of years, too.  While we’re at it, consider these arguments when thinking about the next NH RNC Committeeman.

Here’s where my thinking takes me on the subject:

Recent Republican History

Republicans lost their way, somewhere between “read my lips”, immigration "reform", David Souter, rare stamps, the "New World Order", No Child Left Behind, NAFTA/CAFTA, and “sure, TARP sounds like a good idea.”  And to be honest, both Bush Presidents were closet-globalists.

It’s no wonder we’re angry; angry with Obama and the Progressives, then angry at those who didn’t push government growth and spending back to 1850-levels BEFORE Obama and his minions got their hands on the national checkbook.

As a country, we are fiscally screwed, upside-down, and inside-out, and so many Republicans in DC helped mix the mortar of the concrete shoes Obama just put on us, ever-so-ready to give us a little shove off the pier.  Honestly, I’m not sure there aren’t a couple of RINOs standing by to help him do it.

We needed better than that then, and we need better than that now.

To me, Gov. Sununu smacks of this era – being dead-center in GHW Bush’s staff and NH Governor – a virtual life of politics.  He can make claims to appreciate these “new Republicans” to the obedient press and even invite a couple of “safe” activist groups into his tent, but I honestly don’t get the feeling that he fully appreciates the active, liberty-oriented crowd.  Our problem is that we say what’s bothering us, and we aren’t afraid to call anyone out – Sununu and RINOs, or anyone who doesn’t follow the Conservative path.  If you think about it, that’s the Tea Party community’s biggest contribution to the game – someone had to finally do it.  And Gov. Sununu’s just never took steps to make us feel like he’s in OUR tent.

If he were smarter about this, he would have offered a powwow caucus, making nice with us all a long time ago (pre-election) – and it probably would have worked out for him.  Now, he’s whining to the press about us being “divisive” when we simply dare to challenge fellow Republicans – those days are long gone, Governor.

And so, Juliana is his hand-picked, endorsed successor.  She could be Mother Theresa, but she’s John Sununu’s Mother Theresa, which rubs me the wrong way.

Party Experience (more after the jump….)

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It’s A Shameless Capitalist Endorsement!

Adros EnergyI have invested some time and (renewable) energy arguing against federal subsidies and hand outs to prop up businesses that make environmentalists and their democrat sugar daddies happy.  My primary objective with "green" energy projects has not been the business itself or even the goal, but the way in which the state and federal government uses our money to pick winners and losers or to incentivise things.

So it only seems fair to point out when someone is trying to advance alternative energy the right way.   I recently met the guys who run Adros Energy in Amherst New Hampshire.  Theirs is a veteran owned company that does home energy audits, and specializes in hybridizing or combining clean energy systems like solar, thermal and wind together to free people from the control of government regulations over energy and what usually amounts to some kind of monopoly on power and pricing by one or few providers.

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Show Your Support For HB 89 -To Challenge Obamacare

Rep. Al Baldasaro’s committee, the Committee on State and Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs, is going to be holding a subcommittee hearing tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. in Room 203 of the Legislative Office Building for HB89,

Uh Oh…

Last week, Senator Mark Udall (D-CO), submitted a letter to Congressional leaders and members, "urging them to come together at the State of the Union address…" Udall had some fellow members of Congress sign the letter, in a sign of bi-partisan unity, and (the magic word) increased "civility". Sitting at the loser’s side of the table, … Read more

How To Know You Have A Winner

You can just tell when you have a winner. It becomes more important for your opponents to smear your candidate than to promote theirs. It’s all about scare tactics. The noise machine. The echo chamber. Creating a narrative. And the media and the career party folks all seem like they are on the same side frantically offering doomsday scenarios.

Hater Heal Thyself

If the discourse is so toxic and progressives are so concerned about where this will take our country, then perhaps they can demonstrate their commitment and compassion and lead by example?

Dean “Bob” Barker climbs off the Hamster

Dean ‘Bob’ Barker will no longer be handling the day to day duties at Boo Hoo Hamster so we are left to wonder whose job it will be to decide what hate and threats should stay up as representative of free speech and what should be taken down as free speech that is more trouble than it is worth. So many qualified people to choose from for that job…

GrokTalk! for Saturday January 15 th 2011

It’s 120 minutes of Live Streaming local and National News you could ONLY get from GraniteGrok.com   This week… 9am to 11am EST NRO Editor Kevin Williamson, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide To Socialism will be our guest Jordan Ulery candidate for NH GOP National Committeeman calls in And Jim Bender talks to Skip … Read more

Repeal The “Evergreed” Law

The Evergreed law screws taxpayers. It gives automatic wage and benefit increases based on the last approved contract removing any incentive on the part of the unions to negotiate in good faith with a town or city unless it thinks or knows it can do better than the contract it already has.

Liberals Should Listen To Michael Ellenbecker

Per Skips post a few inches down the scroll… I will not enter our people’s house until this abhorrent policy is changed. I urge all of my fellow citizens to do the same. MICHAEL ELLENBECKERConcord Mike can spend that time watching the Oprah Winfrey Network with his fellow (progressive) citizens. I’m good with that.

Scale and Perspective are Everything

Back in 2009, President Obama announced that he would be finding ways to cut $100 Million from the Federal Budget (did this ever happen? haha…).  Later, after some scoffing at this wimpy, meaningless number, he proposed cuts of $17B.  While this is an older story, I would like all of the Republicans in Congress (just forget about most of the Democrats) to watch these short clips, and realize just HOW MUCH cutting they need to do to make any real difference…as we approach the debt-limit increase debate.

Scary stuff when you look at something like this in its proper perspective. Do you all realize how much serious trouble we are in as a Nation?

Obama’s $100M cuts

More great perspectives from “10000 Pennies”, after the jump…

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Projection

This can’t be stated often enough, particularly when the dreamers on the left imagine tragedy to excuse their second amendment positions–liberals must be afraid of gun owners because the people who think like liberals are simply too unhinged to be trusted with firearms.

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