I heard the John Wayne interview on the way to work Friday. I was struck by the striking similarities between then and now. The exact words could have been uttered today because they’re just as relevant. Which makes my pulse race and blood rush through my veins in anger. It’s the same sh#t we’ve been dealing with for over 40 years with the same type of people as those asinine cranks in the GOP that folded, again, last week and that have been working against people in the party that are actually trying to do something to rein in government and not simply reign in government.

That’s why the GOP has a problem. It’s full of bullsh%t artists that sling sops to the conservative electorate come election time. I’m sick of it. I’m not alone. And that is why there is a Tea Party. People are banding together to get their representatives to actually do something to constrain the voracious leviathan. Not just to talk about it.

I don’t give a rats if Senator Ayotte got her panties in a wad because tactics were inconvenient. I say primary her.

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Don’t believe that?  That’s just some glib meaningless quip hastily assembled, you say, and you need something more. Okay, how about correlating voting results with Food Stamp use?

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The conservative base is looking for STRONG candidates – those that know the issues, those that have actual stances of granite built on solid philosophy (instead of dingleberry type positions that flapped in every political wind / event that comes along), and those can inspire them that they will do what they say and keep their promises.  Love’em or hate’em, folks like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee certainly know the issues and have crafted their stances.

And NO ONE can say that they are, or have, failed to keep their promises to those that “brung them to the dance”.  They said what they would do and they are doing in.  Bold, Bright Colors.

New Hampshire conservative voters should be so lucky!  Looking at this headline from Pindell’s site is not giving me confidence – are we damned with only faintness (and take that anyway you want):

“GOP candidates for House, Senate avoiding standing with Cruz or Ayotte on debt deal”

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…slim and none.  Methinks Pindell might have just been looking for a word count:

Jack Kimball/Jeff Chidester: If this pair of friends decides to publicly get behind someone in a Republican primary, it will serve as a clear signal to tea party activists of which way to go. Kimball is the former state Republican Party chair. Chidester is a radio talk-show host and the former state director for Michele Bachmann’s campaign. Guinta won the 2010 primary because of the inroads he made with the tea party, but that segment grew disappointed with some of his votes when he got into office. Innis might be too moderate for some of them, but if he earns their trust on national security and privacy issues — which he mentioned in his campaign announcement video — things could get very interesting. This assumes, of course, that Chidester isn’t running for the seat himself, something he is considering.

Knowing both well, I highly doubt that Guinta or Innis will get an endorsement here. Why?  Here’s some history and points Pindel left out:

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This is from Pindell: “Ayotte is now acting like the person people thought they voted for.”  James, let me remind you that I’m not the only one – and they were LOUD.  He continues:

However, during the shutdown, Ayotte came into her own politically. She was no longer following the lead of mentors like U.S. Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham. When she reportedly confronted Republican colleague Ted Cruz on his shutdown tactics, even Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was suddenly following her lead.

Really?  Tell me – what was she saying contraposed to Maverick and Grahamnesty? Neither of them have fight left in them – expect to fight those actually fighting FOR real Republican values (Grokster Scott has a great article on this – go read it or go read it AGAIN if you already have).  Neither of them were supportive of the Cruz / Lee movement in saying “no mas” to a larger government, more debt, and most wrongly – letting Obama now further subvert the Constitution (Article I Section 8) having no limiting authority to increase the debt to what ever he wants.

What she told her base was “I will not fight for the values that are most important to you”.

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A very disturbing, but not unsurprising, story out of Utah (via The Blaze) where it seems that both Democrats AND Republicans are saying “its for the children”, they have no problem in taking it from YOUR children – really (Emphasis mine, with some reformatting)!

‘Put Up or Be Quiet’: Large Families in This State May Soon Be Paying More for Education

Utah parents may be footing a tax hike amounting to roughly $400 million in total if State Senator Patricia Jones’ proposed legislation goes through.  The state lawmaker has reportedly been pushing an end to the state’s child tax credit, saying the state should put the money into public education instead.  “I think it’s tax fairness at its best,” Jones is quoted as saying. “It is bold, but our students deserve bold.”

Not so much, parents who are, you know, RAISING those kids that you consider to be “our students” (yes, once again, we hear from the village idiots). As opposed to, you know, the hard working families keeping their own money for their own families?  “Bold” – since when has it been bold for a Democrat to propose a new tax on the productive?  Proposing more taxes on non-entitlement families?  Happens all the time – you know, these greedy politicians couldn’t smile at all if some “Bold” new tax idea didn’t pop into existence in that evil vacuum on top of their shoulders (I was going to say heart, but that seems to be as black and dense as a burnt out star – no compassion for the working families can find even a miniscule pinhole to land there).

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This week on GrokTALK! Skip and Steve’s guests are Max Abramson and Ann Marie Banfield…

Some of the Topics, in no particular order…The Philosophical Split in the GOP and NHGOP, Kelly Ayotte, the Castro Regime, Papa Sununu, Skip’s Speech at the MCRC, we get an update on Max Abramson’s court case, tackle several aspects of common core, self defense, local curriculum and common core, teachers and common core, parents and common core, and political activism in Public schools.

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More detailed segment descriptions and links to individual segments follow.

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The vision that Progressives / incremental socialists is that we should be overjoyed to have technocrats run an “ordered” society – where all of us would know our place in society and that things would be ever so “efficient” under the wise gaze of of absolutely non-partisan bureaucrats who only care about “good” outcomes regardless of ideology.  Well, that last part has been blown out the door with the IRS scandel where citizens were targeted multiple ways simply because they disagreed with the current Administration and advocated for, well, a more limited government.  Thus, we saw the retaliation by these same folks that Progressives said we were to trust!

Not only that, we were to trust that their policies AND their procedures, having been created and deployed by EXPERTS!.  Umm, haven’t we heard this before with respect to Obamacare?

It’s worth revisiting some of the assurances from administration officials over the summer that the technology to support the federal health-care exchanges would be ready for the October rollout:

Despite concerns that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are behind schedule in preparing to implement the Affordable Care Act, leaders from CMS and the Internal Revenue Service testified before Congress on July 17 that their technologies will be ready for the data-sharing that will commence Oct. 1.

“The ACA designates HHS as the conduit for information being shared with the marketplace,” said Daniel Werfel, the principal deputy commissioner of the IRS. “The taxpayer data supplied by the IRS will be transmitted over secure, encrypted channels to the HHS data hub, which was developed to facilitate these data transfers.”

Werfel was emphatic: “We are on target to have these systems ready when open enrollment in the marketplace starts on October 1 of this year.”

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From Big Journalism, the set up graf:

Fox News political analyst Brit Hume conceded that Republicans that grew the federal government while they were in power the last decade may have ultimately been responsible for the recent standoff over the budget because their actions helped create the Tea Party that now stands fiercely opposed to their goals.

…Hume, along with those like Charles Krauthammer and George Will in the veteran punditocracy, has fiercely criticized Cruz during the fight to defund Obamacare. And he acknowledged that though “in conventional terms, it seems inexplicable,” Cruz “and his adherents do not view things in conventional terms.”

Indeed.  And it is, writ small, what my talk at the Merrimack County Republican Committee was about.  It ISN’T about “conventional terms” – and not “conventional politics”.  It is not about “progress”, it isn’t about “moving forward”, it isn’t about “doing something”, and it isn’t certainly NOT about conducting business as usual.  Thus, they (Democrats, Progressives, and Establishment Republicans) just don’t get it.  They don’t understand that what has been the historical process of how things work is not what is important.

The key grafs – glad to see someone gets it right (emphasis mine, reformatting):

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I work in an office littered with highly lettered people. Both men and women with graduate degrees, some simply Masters, mostly Phds. Some are heavily credentialed, garnering more than a few of the creds.

The conceit that accompanies many of them is obvious when speaking with them or casually observing them. The once unceremonials cleaning their noses with pencils, crapping themselves through junior high, and always the last to get a date, grew to see themselves as celebrated geniuses. Because they’re smart and they stayed in an environment that cultivated their mental gifts. And through the cultivation they learned to focus on a narrow field of study like a red laser site on the eye of a target. They learned the field, and extended it by discovering a new rule or law or invention (Okay, I’m talking about the real Phds, not the overly educated on cruft.) So, good for them I say, it’s kind of balances out the early life misery many of them experienced.

That said, something I observed today reminds me of Hayek’s definition of scientism which

“ … describes, of course, an attitude which is decidedly unscientific in the true sense of the word, since it involves a mechanical and uncritical application of habits of thought to fields different from those in which they have been formed.” -F.A. Hayek Counter Revolution of Science, Studies on the Abuse of Reason

Walking back to my office, I overheard one of the several overly educated aver that, “ A country’s finances cannot be compared with those of the person or business because

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A Yale Professor was forced, if only briefly, outside his tiny blue bubble recently.  In the course of analyzing data he made an alarming discovery.  It was alrming to him, at least.

“I’ve got to confess, though, I found this result surprising.  As I pushed the button to run the analysis on my computer, I fully expected I’d be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension,” Kahan wrote.

What did he find?

…those who identified as part of the tea party movement were actually better versed in science than those who didn’t, Kahan found. The findings met the conventional threshold of statistical significance, the professor said.

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If someone in your family passed away how much of their property–what percentage of its total value–would their neighbors be entitled to?

Is it thirty percent?  How about fifty percent?

Do strangers in your neighborhood, people you may not even know casually, have a right to take half your stuff from your family without regard to your wishes?  Do they have that right, even if you are close?  Do they have that right without the consent of the family or the deceased, to just take some of that property as if it were their own?

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From the ACLJ

They lost. But they won’t give up.

Angry atheists claim the mere existence of the Ground Zero Cross is giving them “depression, headaches, anxiety, and mental pain and anguish.”

As ridiculous as it sounds, they are taking this argument to a federal appeals court.

We are preparing a critical amicus brief, due in a matter of weeks, to defend the Cross.

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As I reported from the First Annual Strong New Hampshire Conference, I was not expecting the reaction that the crowd had when Howie Carr asked them what they thought of Kelly Ayotte’s behavior lately.  Go here if you have forgotten.  One of our loyal readers sent this Letter to Ayotte’ s office and gave us permission to post (emphasis mine):

Senator Ayotte:

One of the primary reasons I voted to send you to Washington was to promote fiscal responsibility. Unfortunately, you have failed me on this.

The way I was taught the Constitution, spending originates in the House. Budgets are spending. When was the last time the Senate even had a vote on a budget? Budgets are one of your duties; the House has duly passed a budget every year, yet I have not heard you trying to force Senator Reid to bring one up for a vote.

Not passing a budget that has been negotiated has allowed the Republican caucus to play into the hands of the Democrats, one manufactured crisis to another. The Continuing Resolutions, fake crisis. The only reason they are being used is that the Senate has not even tried to vote and reconcile with the budgets passed by the House.

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There  few words that can describe the sheer madness in that he actually believes that somebody will actually believe this (without violating Rule #1):

McConnell lamented that the agreement would not seriously address ObamaCare, but vowed to keep fighting against the law.

“This is far less than many of us had hoped for, frankly, but it is far better than what some had sought,” he said.

Far Better?  Oh My God – calling nothing “far better”?  You got nothing for passing a Continuing Resolution that does little to advance a Conservative agenda, you got nothing for giving yet ANOTHER blank check to put US further into debt, and a throwaway that Obamacare income verifcation would actually be enforced (Obama must have gone though a box of tissues for all the tears shed laughing his tochkes off).  WHAT WAS “BETTER”?  This was your only chance.

There are very few words that I can use that can adequately express my disgust at these two RINOS (“Republican” Peter King and Aaron Schock) (and shredding Rule #1 altogether):  

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