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Steve MacDonald 
Never a town to avoid scandal, Atkinson is at it again.
They are holding a “candidates night” for the “public” to get to know the people running for office.
One such guy is the thug and former Atkinson part time police chief, Phil Consentino. He is a small time bully who has always abused his office and that landed him in the position of NOT being police chief after a sexual harassment settlement last year.
He is back running for selectman.
Steve, Mike & Skip open with the growing NH GOP Committee revolt against Medicaid expansion, and how the expansion is a joke whose biggest punchline is delivered to a different legislature, 3 years from now. Then its on to Crimea River as Obama’s impotence on the world stage gets an encore act at the “Globe” … Read more
The Merrimack County Republican Committee has joined the ranks of Republican Committee’s scross the state that oppose the Bradley/Morse plan to expand Medicaid in New Hampshire (SB413). And they did it after he spoke in support of his plan at their meeting. Over on the Grok Facebook page we got an update from Susan Olsen … Read more
From Day One… The Washington Post posited today that Obama’s foreign policy is based on a fantasy. I think they’re right, but there’s another fantasy at play, here, too. Obama’s campaign pitch and much of his foreign and domestic policy were always based on the fantasy that his mere presence and his mere words would … Read more
Every day there are more people, and more reasons made public for not expanding Medicaid in New Hampshire–what I have dubbed ‘BradleyCare! But this may be the single most important reason of all.
I better preface this first.
Do you recall the left’s reaction to the O’Brien Budget? Do you remember how Democrats responded when the Republican Executive Council didn’t want to fund Planned Parenthood? They freaked out. They freaked out for weeks. They freak out over the slightest sliver of light if it threatens their agenda.
Why are they not freaking out over BradleyCare! and it’s “guarantee” to sunset the program?
Most days I will try to sift through the Grok Twitter feed for things to retweet. Yesterday I retweeted plenty but this one in particular caught the attention of New Hampshire’s own @nhdogmom. Follow me as we see how a Kool Aid drinking leftist gets mad when you ask them to explain their own words. C’mon, it’s fun.
Here is the retweet that I sent out into the world, regarding a sex and bondage video made by Planned Parenthood.
RT @saltsgreg: NH Senator Peggy Gilmour and PPNNE mutually support videos about BDSM — GraniteGrok: http://t.co/qty9c2u67L #nhpolitics
— Steve Mac Donald (@TheRealNHSteve) March 3, 2014
…and here is @nhdogmom, not at all concerned about a BDSM sex video for kids; this is PPNE not Catholic priests–so it’s all good. She just wants to make sure we know that Democrats support staying out of people’s bedrooms and private parts, the implication being that Republicans do not. War on Women, yadda-yadda-yadda. But her claim regarding Democrats is so far-fetched, so wrongheaded, such an outright untruth that…well, let’s follow the tweets, shall we.
No one excels at fear mongering like the left and Arizona’s SB 1062. It was never anti-gay and its veto was not a victory for gay rights (it was a victory for ignorance). And the same ignorance and fear-mongering that lead to the outcry over nothing will probably suffice to keep most of those who were misled from ever knowing the truth. We are here to help. Well, Rich Lowry is here to help.
The bill was roughly 998 pages shorter than much of legislation that passes in Washington. Clocking in at barely two pages, it was easy to scan for disparaging references to homosexuality, for veiled references to homosexuality, for any references to homosexuality at all.
They weren’t there. A headline from The Week declared, “There is nothing Christian about Arizona’s anti-gay bill.” It would be more accurate to say that there was nothing anti-gay about Arizona’s anti-gay bill.
The legislation consisted of minor clarifications of the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which has been on the books for 15 years and is modeled on the federal act that passed with big bipartisan majorities in the 1990s and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
If you search “Medicaid” in that search bar in the top right corner of the page, you will find a wealth of information (exposition, links, and so one) as to why we should not expand Medicaid in New Hampshire. (Just two days ago we had a great discussion with Jenn Coffey about it on GrokTALK!)
If that is not enough reason, how about this? Michael and James Sununu, yes those Sununu’s, have penned an excellent summation of the current situation; why we should not be expanding Medicaid in NH, and why Republicans of all people, in the State Senate in particular, should not be leading on expansion. Here’s a snippet.
Supporters of expansion say we have to reduce the uninsured population. They argue the cost of the uninsured is too high and by insuring them through the government (albeit through taxpayer support for private insurance premiums) we will lower the overall cost of health care. Except available evidence shows us it doesn’t work. Maine expanded Medicaid coverage in 2002 for the same reason, but it was a huge failure. Before expansion, 12 percent of their population was uninsured. After Medicaid expansion? Still, 12 percent uninsured. Markets adjust when government gets more involved, so while Medicaid rolls expanded, private insurance rolls fell, costing taxpayers and businesses more money.
Full court press on Arizona Bill that didn’t actually do anything to gays. Full court press when just one of many bakeries (photographers, florists, etc) is uncomfortable providing a service for a gay wedding – must put them out of business. Iran kills some gay men…nothing. Idaho bakery declines to cater same-sex wedding: OMG JIM … Read more
The majority of vote suppression in New Hampshire is caused by Democrats harboring and/or encouraging non-residents to vote here instead of where they actually live, thereby suppressing the electoral voice of actual residents whose votes are erased as a result. The Democrat’s suppression of your votes is wide-spread, and their commitment to suppressing your will can be seen in their defense of non-resident voters.
Their single largest non-resident voting block is college students forced to pay out-of-state tuition by, you guessed it, Democrats. (The second is OFA activists–professional campaign grifters.) Anyone who dare suggest we not allow these non-residents to vote in New Hampshire is accused of vote suppression.
The problem with the Democrat’s vote suppression argument is that it is lie and thanks to an Obama For America Organizing for America Organizing for Acorn activist from South Carolina, who voted absentee in New Hampshire in November 2012, we get to make the point again.
The list of local NH-GOP committee’s against Medicaid expansion is growing. I don’t have a complete list, but here is the most recent one to cross my desk.
At the monthly meeting of the Amherst Republican Town Committee, held earlier today, the following resolution was passed unanimously.The New Hampshire Republican Party, State Senate, and State House leadership have been informed, as the resolution requires.RESOLUTION OPPOSING MEDICAID EXPANSIONThe following Resolution was adopted by vote of the Amherst Republican Committee members at a regular meeting of this body, on Saturday, March 1, 2014:
Is it still Obama’s National Security Team if it meets and Obama is never there?
Great question, because they met to talk about the situation with Russia and the Ukraine and Obama was too busy to attend. But don’t worry. According to “sources” he has been briefed by Susan ” it was a YouTube Video” Rice, and oh–the Russian Millitary has ‘Officially’ Seized the Crimea. (see also..)
There’s a voting present joke in here someplace.
And the left’s ears must be bleeding… Sarah Palin was right.
Yes, I could see this one from Alaska. I’m usually not one to Told-Ya-So, but I did, despite my accurate prediction being derided as “an extremely far-fetched scenario” by the “high-brow” Foreign Policy magazine. Here’s what this “stupid” “insipid woman” predicted back in 2008: “After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia’s Putin to invade Ukraine next.”
see also JWF
Updated on the jump
We’ve gotten into the habit of starting the live stream feed a few minutes before we officially start recording GrokTALK! at 9am on Saturday Mornings. There’s no planning, it just happens when it happens. We fill it with show prep, sound checks, whatever we happen to be doing. This week, I had something loaded in … Read more
I don’t have time to watch liberal .01 0.001 percenters engage in idol worship but my wife is a big fan of movies and is nearly impossible to beat in any kind of Hollywood trivia game. She also thinks three hours is a bit much to hand out some statues, but she checks in on … Read more
This week our guests are Jenn Coffey and Rep Dan Itse Live broadcast by Ustream
This week we talk Arizona’s religious freedom bill, The Ukraine, the GOP Committee revolt, Marxism, and the left’s support of BDSM education for teens (that’s sexual bondage, dominance, Sadism, and Masochism); Jenn Coffey joins us to discuss more problems with Medicaid expansion and how Democrats and ObamaCare have locked NH citizens out of having access … Read more
_____ This week we talk Arizona’s religious freedom bill, The Ukraine, the GOP Committee revolt, Marxism, and the left’s support of BDSM education for teens (that’s sexual bondage, dominance, Sadism, and Masochism); Jenn Coffey joins us to discuss more problems with Medicaid expansion and how Democrats and ObamaCare have locked NH citizens out of having … Read more
Warren Ray, is an artist and small business owner, originally from New Hampshire, who currently lives in central Illinois. He is also the author of ‘Shadow Patriots,’ a post-economic collapse action thriller that follows the story of Cole Winters as he navigates through a crumbling, corrupt, war-torn America. Warren shares his thoughts on his book … Read more
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