This week our guests are NH Republican House Rep and candidate for the New Hampshire second Congressional district, Marilinda Garcia; former NH House Rep and Manchester Republican Committee chair, and former New England Radio talk show host Mike Ball (from “Mike and Moe in the Morning” and The Big Show”); and NH House Legislator JR Hoell joins us to talk gun rights and the ‘Brown’ RINO.

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DaTechGuy has good advice (emphasis mine, reformatted) for the Speaker of the House, given his outburst about Conservatives.  But guess what?

The reason you have a majority to be speaker , are invited to Sunday shows and have your press conferences covered is because of the Tea Party that mobilized to elect that GOP majority.  The reason you keep that majority is those Tea Party voters also gave the GOP the majorities in state houses when it was time to draw districts.

Imagine if the Democrat wave that swept through in 2012 had been just two years earlier?  How likely would the Republican wave DaTechGuy remembers from 2010 actually have happened in 2012?  Boehner wouldn’t have been Speaker and we would have had an uninterrupted reign of Madame “We have to pass it to see what’s in it” Pelosi.  Now go to the next level of scariness – if you thing US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has enabled Obama’s Unitary Presidency by making the Senate all but irrelevant in the Founders’ scheme of divided Government, where would we be after four years of co-joined rubberstamping by a tag teaming Pelosi?

Gratefulness?  Humility?  For acting as the breakers against which the Obama / Democrat tsunami was stopped?  Hardly – given what many have seen lately, there’s more than a fair share of Republican hubris along with Boehner’s  that they alone were responsible for 2010 – and have subsequently thrown the TEA Party’s enthusiastic ground pounders (with their ‘outmoded’ political philosophy and their totally out-fashioned suburban / rural sense of sensibilities for the absolute nuances rooted in DC) under the bus with the flair and expediency of Obama.  Add in Mitch McConnell’s antics and what we’ve seen at the State level, will 2010 be a generational high water mark due to lessons unlearned?  DaTechGuy continues:

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I’m often spurred to write about a subject out of hostility and a deep loathing of that subject, Al Gore and the current President spring to mind. I’m aware that sometimes my posts are vitriolic, bordering on cruelty when the subject is the current President. I press “Publish” nonetheless, then later wonder if that was the correct thing to do and that maybe I’m hurting my own credibility or reputation somehow. I usually then reread the post, but have never taken one down. Though the concern remains in the back of my mind, I have deep, deep feelings on this President and what he’s doing to this country so I feel I should share my criticisms because maybe I’m not alone in feeling this way. This morning I was relieved to read an email. I share it with you below. Perhaps, I should link to it whenever my posts regard this President because it pretty much sums up my view as well.

Mychal Massie is a respected writer and talk show host in Los Angeles . He wrote:

“The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn’t like the Obamas? Specifically I was asked: “I have to ask, why do you hate the Obamas? It seems personal, not policy related. You even dissed (disrespect) their Christmas family picture.”

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Bumped and updated:  Heh!  Van Mosher is closing in on the top seller spot!  Look folks, a triple win: the MCRC, Van, AND the ‘Grok!  Go ahead, buy a ticket!

Bumped and updated:  Where to buy?  A note from Van Mosher:  I can sell you the tickets. Call me at 228-5483 or e-mail me at bows4sb2@aol.com. The person who sells the most tickets will get 5% of the proceeds. If I am the winner I will ask that that money goes to GraniteGrok [Skip’s response: Yippee!]

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That would just be the only right thing to do – especially since the top prize is an AR!

2013 Merrimack County Republican Committee Raffle

Current Prize List (Additional prizes may be added, Final prize list will be available at the drawing)
Drawing date: December 19, 2013, The Draft Restaurant, Concord at 6:00 PM   Do not need to be present to win.

Grand Prize:  New Stag Arms M4-Style Rifle, Chambered in .223 (5.56 mm) with SightMark Ultra Dual Optic Scope

• Firearm provided by Riley’s Sport Shop.

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FINALLY – a “yay! in that the boat may be swinging about.  We’ve been pounding on NH Republicans and the NH GOP on the truism: Consistency + Trust = Votes (all other things being equal).  But first, you have to ACT Consistently, and talk Consistently, and if you can master that (it really isn’t all that rocket scientist difficult), it becomes easier to “comment” on your opponents’ Inconsistency (heck, we’ve been doing it for….years now).  They may actually be starting to get with the program – and maybe can go on the offensive and not look the fools (as someone on their side is doing the same thing).

Now let’s be clear – Scott Brown may have been the most Conservative guy that could get elected in Massachusetts but New Hampshire isn’t Massachusetts (yet) and the definition of Conservative that works there is, well, rather lame here (e.g., go here).  But hey, go with me here for a bit: the NH Dems are in High Dungeon over the comings and goings of Mr. Brown thinking that he’s going to run for something here in NH, especially against Jeanne Shaheen an take her Senate seat.  So, now they’re in all-out attack mode to demonize him – but are looking like they are in All-Flail mode.  Problem is, they forgot they have a 6 to watch out for – and are now showing their lack of InConsistency, gave a wide open gateway to their opposition.  From DiStaso (emphasis mine, reformatted):

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Yeah – there:

That would be the “Free State” of New Hampshire – 18th most economically free “sub-national jurisdiction” in North America (out of 60).

Even as Progressives are bound and determined to make the States completely subservient to the Federal Government Washington DC (even as much of the fight over the Constitution was to keep that from happening – see what happens when our schools no longer teach history??), we see that what happens in the States still has a big effect on their citizens.

It all comes down to “who is in control” and “who gets to decide what I can do” – the essence of Freedom. 

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Simply, Bright and Shiny Objects become lost in the Memory Hole…and one wonders why President Obama is now the 2013 recipient of Politifact’s “Lie of the Year”? (emphasis mine):

Still, what are we getting for our money?

In 2008, the promise was to save each family of four an average of $2,500.

In 2009, the promise was to insure 47 million Americans who didn’t have insurance, and to save you those $2,500.

In 2010, the promise was to insure 47 million Americans who didn’t have insurance, and to save you those $2,500, and let you keep the plan you have and the doctor you like.

And then the closer we came to the start of it all, when the Shiny Objects started to gather a veneer of rust and dirt, the equivocations and hedges started:

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Every single “crisis” (either real or man-made) always seems to be solvable ONLY with the introduction of a larger bureaucracy, more intrusive Government, and even more abusive intelligensia (are ya listening, NH Listens?) when it concerns the Right to Private Property.  After all, “it’s for the children” is the siren call for more collectivism and “it’s for our future generations” is the Socialist Song of the Environmental set that just can’t stand the fact that we refuse to be treated to child-like sheeple.  It seems as soon as we dispatch one crisis, they make up another.

Even here in water rich NH, we are being told “in XXX years / decades / centuries, we’ll run out!” – they never seem to understand that they are ALWAYS getting two things wrong:

• we still don’t know about all of the Earth’s resources they think they do.
• constantly underplay or ignore how resoureful humans can change their Malthusian religious outlook on the future

The news of this must have really pissed them off:

A new study, the first to comprehensively survey the world’s known reserves of undersea freshwater, estimates that there are roughly 120,000 cubic miles—more than 100 times the amount of freshwater we’ve drilled from the ground since 1900—of fresh and nearly-fresh water trapped underneath seabeds. The upshot: we could be seeing more offshore drilling for water as well as oil in the future. . . .  

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It’s been a while since I last opined on the partisan nature of the Coffee Party (and the NH franchise in particular).   But an NHCoffeeParty tweet did pass before mine eyes on this chilly December morn… and it smelled faintly of progressive rhetoric.   A quick review of the tweet history proved a point that the NH Coffee Party facebook page confimred.

Everything I saw sources back to Democrat talking points.  It all supports left-wing rhetoric.

The Coffee Party is still nothing more than a Progressive mouth-piece selling itself as something centrist and someone has tried to jump start this Norweigan Blue in support of the Democrat machine–just in time for the 2014 election season.

If I may make a suggestion to the NH Coffee Party people…

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“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”   —Benjamin Franklin

French author Victor Hugo once quipped, “An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.” But I disagree. So here I sit with my hat off to Representative Annie Kuster because she proved Victor Hugo wrong. (see the video below the jump)

At a recent town Hall Meeting a constituent asked her about “BenGhazi.” Representative Kuster responded, “I am here to talk about the Middle East not Ben Ghazi.” GOOD FOR HER! Way to go, Annie…We all know you have never met Ben Ghazi…You have never had a conversation with Ben Ghazi and you don’t know what his position on social policy is, much less Middle East diplomacy. THE NERVE OF THAT WOMAN TO ASK SUCH A QUESTION!   

Update- There was something Fishy and Gamey about the Canoe Tax reported by the Eagle Tribune.  We’ve been informed that there is no such bill.  (Details on the jump- below my original post.)

Original post from 12-11-2013

I’ve been watching this news filter through social media, and I read Skip’s post about it earlier, and my mind began to wonder as I read this from the Eagle

Tribune…

Traditionally, the agency has been self-sustaining, paying expenses almost entirely out of the fees charged for hunting, fishing and other licenses and permits.

But the number of people buying hunting and fishing licenses has been declining for a decade, reflecting a nationwide change in recreation habits. But as fewer people take up the gun and the rod, who’s going to pay for Fish and Game services, not to mention the salaries and benefits of agency employees?

If the reason for declining revenue is fewer people engaging in the activity for which Fish and Game exists why do they need more money and not less?  And why do we need to do with less to pay the tax so Fish and Game, whose mandate is in decline, can have more?

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Read through Founders notes, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Federalist and anti-Federalists papers and it becomes clear that they believed that our Rights came from simply being human – gifts from God and Nature’s God.  They are not bestowed upon any of us by the fact that Government exists.  In fact the existence of Government was to act as a bulwark against anyone taking those Rights away – to protect that which a Higher Power has given.

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