Starting Saturday morning at 9 am!
As usual, this week’s broadcast version of GraniteGrok and AnkleBitingPundits brings an array of items and guests for your consideration– ALL STARTING AT 9AM! As always, thanks to the technical wizardry and analytical skills of Skip, if you are beyond the broadcast area of Newstalk 1490 WEMJ, simply click here for instructions on how to connect and listen on the Internet via livestream. (Podcasts here)
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Senator Sununu checks in from the campaign trail. We’ll discuss the deceptively named "Employee Free Choice Act" (EFCA) that removes the right of employees to a secret ballot when deciding whether to unionize, replacing it with a "card check" decision. We’ll get an update on the campaign and get his take on the economy and what’s next. Can we trust Jeanne Shaheen when it comes to her no tax promises?
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Republican state senate candidate Greg Knytych hangs with us for a while. He’ll tell us what it was like addressing the crowd at Wednesday’s Sarah Palin appearance here in Laconia. We’ll talk about what the day was like, and why it was exciting (for a change, lately) to be a Republican. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen such enthusiasm among Granite State GOPers. We’ll savor the moment…
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Our friend Liz Mair is the Online Communications Director, eCampaign Division for the Republican National Committee. She’ll check in to discuss the newest phenomena in the presidential campaign: "Joe the plumber". Specifically, we won’t be talking about the guy himself, but his question, and more importantly, Obama’s answer, and what it all means. I’ll be blunt– when Obama promises to "spread the wealth", he sounds like your basic communist. We’ll see if Liz agrees with that assessment.
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Every day I read the paper, and every day I learn NH’s budget hole just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Gov
Do-Nuthin’Lynch says he’s working to find solutions, seeking input from state workers. We’ll see if Gregg has any thoughts on how to help the poor Governor get us out of this mess (that he and his fellow comrades in the Democrat Party helped create). We’ll also touch on Hawaii’s short-lived universal health care experiment that ended, well, as a failure. Let that be a lesson for the rest of us!
"People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free," said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. "I don’t believe that was the intent of the program."
D’uh! Really?
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Next Saturday brings the Second Annual Machine Gun Shoot, presented by the Pemi-Baker Valley Republican Committee to be held at the Pemigewasset Valley Fish & Game Club located in Holderness, NH. Jerry Thibodeau will give us the details of the day’s events which features a multitude of shooting activities including pistol, cowboy, trap, silhouette, rifle, and of course, machine guns!
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Joe Kenney, the Republican candidate for NH Governor will join us once again to discuss his campaign against the an ever-popular John Lynch. With the aforementioned big budget woes , all is not peaches and cream. Can Kenney capitalize on Gov. Lynch’s budget-busting ways that threaten to permanantly damage our NH Advantage? What would Joe do if he was in Gov Lynch’s shoes?
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Warner Todd Huston runs the Publius’ Forum blog. His work has been featured on townhall.com, renewamerica.us, opinioneditorials.com and many, many other websites. He wrote an interesting post based on the lead editorial that appeared in last Sunday’s Toledo Blade, noting that it was
a seeming plea to institute in America a chief communist principle: the “right” to a job. As anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of the Constitution knows, of course, there is no such “right.” Nor should there be. But this hasn’t stopped the Toledo Blade from pushing this anti-American notion and pleading for Barack Obama to take it up anyway.
We’ll discuss how the suggestions put forth in the disgusting piece are based on vote-seeking ideas cooked up by FDR such as the so-called "second Bill of Rights". My Uncle Mike, a history teacher at a public school in RI, once told me (before I really understood such things) that we came very close to socialism during those days, with many of Roosevelts "progressive" schemes actually emulating facets of communism. Warner raises many interesting and scary points in his analysis of both the Blade editorial and Obama’s "plans" for America.
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