Steve MacDonald

“White House policy advisors who objected to the breadth of Mr. Obama’s ‘keep your plan’ promise…were overruled by political aides.”

So they are not just liars, they are determined liars intent on deception.

From Marc Theissen – WSJ

It’s not easy to get a lie into a presidential speech. Every draft address is circulated to the White House senior staff and key Cabinet officials in something called the “staffing process.” Every line is reviewed by dozens of senior officials, who offer comments and factual corrections. During this process, it turns out, some of Obama’s policy advisers objected to the “you can keep your plan” pledge, pointing out that it was untrue. But it stayed in the speech. That does not happen by accident. It requires a willful intent to deceive.

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She has stage 4 cancer; she can’t keep her plan and now she can’t keep her doctor either…

My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.

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There are mobs of rank and file Democrats (moderates, independents, and so on) whose only grasp of what the TEA Party represents comes from the professional left and their media allies.   (Lucky for them the socialist progressives own the education and media industrial complex, with only a few exceptions, so their PR campaigns get more play and more often.)

But the crux of the TEA Party Agenda, regardless of the mindless regurgitation of Democrat party propaganda by the spleens and colons of the American party of Marx and Engels is that the TEA Party and its supporters want something that most American’s would happily embrace if not for all the sound and fury from the left that signifies their biggest fear; The TEA Party Agenda prefers an end to run-away spending and more local control (regardless of how much government costs now) becasue it affords taxpayers more control over the process and by extension more control over the spending itself, and more control over how government affects their day to day lives.

No matter what party you affiliate with or even if it is no party at all, local control is the solution to a runaway Federal government filled with tone-deaf politicians, bureaucrats, lobbyists, and the rent seeking and crony corporatism that are beyond your reach, spending your future, your children’s future, and beyond.

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Not just the driving, but the legislating as well.

PORTSMOUTH — A 67-year-old Kittery Point, Maine woman who police say Martha Fuller Clark hit with her car Friday night said the state senator should no longer be allowed to drive.

“I just think she shouldn’t drive,” said Carla Dow during an interview Sunday. “I think it’s negligent to drive … when you know there’s something wrong with you.”

Dow was walking on a sidewalk along Maplewood Avenue Friday night at about 8:39 p.m. when Fuller Clark’s car jumped the curb, struck her in the back of her legs and threw her to the ground, she said Sunday.

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This week on GrokTALK! Steve opens the program solo, joined in segment two by Mike, with Skip calling in for the last two segments.

Some of the Topics, in no particular order…Jeanne Shaheen’s vote that could cancel 93 million existing health care plans, NH Democrat House Rep Laura Pantelakos announces – “I don’t care about protecting people’s Liberty,”  NH State Senator Martha Fuller Clark hitting a pedestrian with her car, Obamacare, Nixon, the promise of a booming US energy economy, Orrin Hatch, Grass roots vs. the DC establishment, and more…

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More detailed segment descriptions and links to individual segments follow.

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You can’t claim a moral imperative for war if you have no morals.  Perhaps that explains this, or maybe it is just jealousy?

Israel conducted air raids against a Syrian missile base near the port city of Latakia early on Thursday, according to an anonymous US administration official.

The official, speaking to CNN, said Israel targeted missiles and related equipment out of concern that they would be transferred to Hezbollah.  It is unclear why the US would leak such information, as it could increase the pressure on Syria to retaliate against Israel.

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Charles Krauthammer Washington Post

Beyond mendacity, there is liberal paternalism, of which these forced cancellations are a classic case. We canceled your plan,explained presidential spokesman Jay Carney, because it was substandard. We have a better idea.

Translation: Sure, you freely chose the policy, paid for the policy, renewed the policy, liked the policy. But you’re too primitive to know what you need. We do. Your policy is hereby canceled.

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Back in 2010, US Senator from New Hampshire, Jeanne “IRS Letter” Shaheen,voted along party lines to kill a Republican Resolution designed to repeal the grandfather rule in Obamacare…

Washington (CNN) – Senate Democrats voted unanimously three years ago to support the Obamacare rule that is largely responsible for some of the health insurance cancellation letters that are going out.

In September 2010, Senate Republicans brought a resolution to the floor to block implementation of the grandfather rule, warning that it would result in canceled policies and violate President Barack Obama’s promise that people could keep their insurance if they liked it.

Emphasis mine.

If your memory is not too short you will recall that the same Jeanne Shaheen who asked the IRS to investigate 501(c)4’s (an act from which she could benefit politically) later said there needed to be an investigation into why the IRS was investigating 501(c)4’s and other non-profits.  This is the same Jeanne Shaheen who refused to delay Obamacare in exchange for spending concessions to avoid a shutdown, but recently suggested that maybe, just maybe, we should delay Obamacare.

In case you didn’t follow me there, Shaheen voted to keep the Obamacare rule that made it likley that 93 million people would lose their existing health plan (by regulatory design) and now wants to put that whole mandate thing on sabbatical until after her re-election campaign in 2014.

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A Solar Plant didn’t just go bankrupt after wasting millions in Democrat backed Green energy stimulus, it left a hazardous wasteland for taxpayers to clean up as well…

The Abound Solar plant, which got $400 million in federal loan guarantees in 2010, when the Obama administration sought to use stimulus funds to promote green energy, filed for bankruptcy two years later. Now its Longmont, Colo., facility sits unoccupied, its 37,000 square feet littered with hazardous waste, broken glass and contaminated water. The Northern Colorado Business Report estimates it will cost up to $3.7 million to clean and repair the building so it can again be leased.

“As lawyers, regulators, bankruptcy officials and the landlord spar over the case, the building lies in disrepair, too contaminated to lease,” the report stated.

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How many times do we have to say it?  There is just so much our Democrat Friends ‘Believe’ that just isn’t so.   And we can add drilling our way to

lower gas prices to the list.  (I can’t believe we even have to make the case that increasing the supply of anything can and typically does reduce prices.  Basic. Economics.)

Despite all the efforts of Democrats, Progressives, their Green with envy socialist Enviro-wacko-water-carriers to make finding and drilling for domestic energy as expensive and impossible as can be, the US is in the midst of an oil and gas boom; and OMG, gasoline prices are falling.

Barack Obama said it and all the liberal sycophants (plus the media) parroted him.  “You can’t drill your way to lower gas prices.”

Bu**Sh**!

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If any of you take your kids out Trick-or-Treating, do me a favor.  Pay attention to see who if anyone is handing out those letters from Michelle Obama about how some kids shouldn’t be out getting their ‘Fair Share” of the free candy and goodies.  Write down their addresses and email them to me.

I’ll share them with our team of investigators so they can see who registered to vote from those homes in previous election years.

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As I type this the committee meeting at which the Democrat House Rep and House Criminal Justice and Safety Committee Chair, Laura Pantelakos said, and I quote, “I Don’t Care About Protecting People’s Liberty” is still underway.  (They are discussing HB675 – Another Dep’ty Dawg Shurtleff gem- Authorizing License Plate readers.)

But that is nice to know.  The Democrat Chair of the New Hampshire House Criminal Justice Committee doesn’t care about protecting people’s liberty.  Ain’t that sweet, that little unguarded moment of honesty.

The remarks were immediately contested by Republican House Reps, to which Pantelakos responded, “people are entitled to their opinion.”  I’m glad you said that Democrat Rep Pantelakos because that means I am entitled to mine, about you.

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