New GrokTALK! Banners And Images

  I like to freshen up the look every now and again and this was on the punch-list.  We needed a new profile photo and banner for GrokTALK!  Don’t be surprised if I tweak these a bit in the coming days and weeks. That’s just how I roll.  

The Cost of Medicaid Expansion in NH

As Republicans advance Medicaid expansion in NH local activists have developed an online tool to show taxpayers just how expensive this will get, even IF the Feds keep their funding promise. (2016-01-30 Segment 1a)

It’s not just Groksters ticked off by US Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH)

I had to run out this morning to do a couple of errands for TMEW and while getting some gas ($1.94/gallon for mid-range!), met up with a long time Republican activist.  After chatting about this primary (we both agreed that this has been the wildest, most upside everyway one we’ve seen with Trump upending all of the regular “rules”.  The Internet became a disruptive force for a number of industries; he has done it in politics like Obama did starting in 2008 (Big Data analytics for the latter, celebrity and media manipulation for the former).

That said, he is disgusted with how the NH Republican Leadership are turning themselves in the Jr. Partners of the Democrat Party and to point, Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion here in NH (and certainly not limited to that, either).  He’s about to leave the Party because while it says it stands for one thing, its leadership (its elected officials in the NH House and Senate).  He also mentioned Kelly Ayotte, like what I received from her (front of the mailer envelope:

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Iowa Caucus as explained by a kid toy

Legos, that is: I dryly note the bias shown – Vermont Public Radio says “How the Iowa Caucuses works” and then goes on to tell how the DEMOCRAT cauci work with just a passing reference to the Republican version.  Yet another example of a Democrat “bait and switch” (heh!) – like during election times, they campaign about … Read more

January 30th, 2016 Podcast

This week we are introduced to the NH Income Tax Calculator. We also welcome Sen. Bob Smith on Ted Cruz and this week’s debate, David McIntosh – President of Club for Growth, Aaron Day on the Medicaid Expansion hearing, Crissy Harris from AFP joins us to talk EPA overreach and Obama energy policy, and our guest co-host this week is … Read more

Addicted to ‘Something’ in New Hampshire

By special request, this is a (just under 3 minute) monologue I recorded in place of a top-of-the-hour news read. It is on the expansion of Medicaid in New Hampshire (the re-authorization theater), the state’s “Heroin epidemic,” and inspired by the great works of Theodore Dalrymple on opiate addiction and the bureaucracy. .

Most Recent RCP Polling

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Some of the latest polling from RCP, if your curious…

NH – Suffolk: Trump 27, Kasich 12, Cruz 12, Bush 11, Rubio 10, Christie 6, Carson 5, Fiorina 4, Paul 2, Huckabee 0, Santorum 0

NH – NBC/WSJ/Marist: Trump 31, Cruz 12, Rubio 11, Kasich 11, Bush 8,  Christie 7, Carson 5, Paul 4, Fiorina 4, Huckabee 1, Santorum 0

Iowa – Gravis: 31, Cruz 27, Rubio 13, Carson 7, Bush 6, Kasich 4, Christie 3, Fiorina 3, Paul 2, Huckabee 2, Santorum 1

National – IBD/TIPP: Trump 31, Cruz 21, Rubio 10, Carson 9, Bush 5, Paul 4, Kasich 2, Fiorina 2, Christie 1, Huckabee 1,  Santorum 1

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ICYMI – GrokTALK! January 23rd, 2016

We’ve got a new show tomorrow so get caught up with last week’s program today; with guests David Goethel, Pete Ingemi, Rick Manning, Max Abramson, and guest-host Jane Cormier. GrokTALK! – rebroadcast every weekday from 9-11 am EST. This program is being rebroadcast at Spreaker.com, and on The Rock NHCR.com.  (Player will update at 9 am EST.) … Read more

NH Police Chiefs staging their own Washington Monument Syndrome over Asset Forfeiture spigot shutof?

needle syringeThe Washington Monument Syndrome is the typical response when a bureaucracy is denied its funding – it ALWAYS goes after the most newest and brightest Shiny Object – and then either deny access to it by taxpayers (e.g., close the W.M. to tourists) or declare DISASTER if their funding is denied.  And in this case, monies not under the control of anyone but by them.  Only a part from the Nashua Telegraph (paywall), but enough:

Nashua, Manchester narcotic units threatened by cut in funds

Oh NO!  Those dreaded city councilors / Mayors / Budget Committees – how DARE they not fund their departments to fit their needs to defend their citizens!  Why those cheap…..oh wait:

NASHUA – The federal government’s decision to freeze payments to local and state law enforcement agencies from its Asset Forfeiture Program could cripple the Nashua and Manchester narcotics units and others statewide at a time when the heroin and opioid epidemic is rampant, their police chiefs said Wednesday.

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Tomorrow on GrokTALK! [Updated]

Guest co-host Susan Olsen joins us as we welcome Sen. Bob Smith on Ted Cruz and this week’s debate, David McIntosh President of Club for Growth, Aaron Day on the Medicaid Expansion hearing, and Chrissy Harbin from AFP joins us to talk EPA overreach and energy policy. And…we’ll be introducing the NH Income Tax Calculator tomorrow morning so be … Read more

New Hampshire’s Medicaid Expansion fraud: Granite Staters will pay the price

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Yesterday the New Hampshire House Health and Human Services Committee held a public hearing on re-authorizing Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion (they renamed it to the Health Protection Plan because a majority of Granite Staters disapprove of Obamacare). The hearing was to discuss House Bill 1696 which re-authorizes Medicaid Expansion through 2020.

The original plan was supposed to sunset when federal funds went below 100%. Legislators lied to New Hampshire. The federal funds will indeed be dipping below the 100% in 2017 but they were in the house pushing a re-authorization rather than the sunset it as promised.

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Businessman Need Not Apply! Wait…

… scratch that.

I heard about this William F. Buckley quote but didn’t read it until a few days ago.  And since that time, I’ve had a chance to chew on it.

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Parts of Buckley’s statement do seem to fit, do they not?  Especially the reference to Trump’s vanity.  And regardless of what one thinks about Trump’s style — effusive self-aggrandizement, the maundering occasionally incoherent free-verse, the combative elbows-out swagger — the criticism regarding “a successful business man” in this quote rings fair in my view… at least it did on first glance.  Now, I’m not so sure.

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The Washington Establishment only Fears Ted Cruz

If you are happy with our government in Washington, DC, then just vote for any Presidential Primary candidate approved by the Republican or Democrat establishment. 
Any such “approved” candidate will continue most or all the big government, wasteful, corrupt policies that destroy jobs, places an immoral debt burden on future Americans, oppresses citizens, and ignores the expressed wishes and best interests of the American people.    

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