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Democrats Shut Down Government to Protect Obamacare Unfairness

September 26, 2018October 8, 2013 Don

The government is closed, but Obamacare is open. President Obama correctly said that defunding Obamacare wouldn’t stop it, so why is the government shut down?

House Republicans funded all the government except for two minor (disputed) Obamacare related items providing fairness to individuals, small businesses and taxpayers. Democrats shut down the government rather than compromise.

Fairness requires that individuals and small businesses get the same one-year reprieve from Obamacare requirements that President Obama gave to big business. This reprieve would allow people to sign up for Obamacare, but not be forced to sign up or pay a penalty.

If the people who sign up for Obamacare get the benefits that President Obama promised, won’t everyone rush to sign up voluntarily? How can disagreement over this justify shutting down the government?

Data Point – Look what Obama’s intransigence on the Shutdown & Debt Ceiling has wrought

September 26, 2018October 8, 2013 Skip

THIS should be absolutely terrifying – any time a bond yield goes asymptotic like this, bad things are ALREADY happening! ” Treasury bills are getting hit hard today as the debt ceiling deadline approaches with little signs of an agreement in Congress to raise it. The chart below shows how the yield on the 1-month … Read more

GrokTALK! October 5th, 2013

September 26, 2018October 8, 2013 Steve MacDonald

This week on GrokTALK! we went remote, recording and live-streaming from the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women event in Concord New Hampshire. The program includes the complete speech and Q&A with Dr. Betsey McCaughey, interviews with Diane Bitter, Karen Testerman, Jeane Coutou, Brian Tilton and Dr. McCaughey.

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More detailed segment descriptions and links to individual segments follow.

GrokTALK! 10-5-2013 The video – Dr. Betsy McCaughey Question and Answers (7, 8, & 9) + data mining from Ann Marie

September 26, 2018October 8, 2013 Skip

And this wraps up the video from the NH Federation Republican Women’s annual meeting with Dr. Betsy McCaughey as the keynote speaker. Here are the last questions of the evening along with a quick commentary from Ann Marie Banfield that intimates the real possibility that the humungous data mining effort from Obamacare will be tied to that of Common Core? If you believe that the first requirement of Freedom is the notion of Privacy from Government, you’ll want to take a quick listen and then listen back to Question #7.

Question #7:

My kids are in middle school and the pediatricians are starting to ask questions I’m not used to like how do you spend your free time, do you have guns in the house, and where do you go on vacation. Is this part of the data mining? Should I be concerned?

Takeaway – Teach your kids about privacy and that some things stay in the family.

Question #8:

I’m having a hard time getting my head around reporting on your tax return. You have to report who you pay, what you pay, and what about all these people who don’t do an income tax return?

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Obama Administration: moving from Innocent until proven Guilty to everything is Proscribed unless

September 26, 2018October 8, 2013 Skip

…specifically allowed. Certainly not by legislation but by fiat by the Executive Branch. It has been said that each of us breaks four or five laws everyday (either statutory or regulatory) without ever knowing it. How can one defend themselves when one, even if trying hard to not, is breaking a law under that condition? The philosophy undergirding our system of jurisprudence is that a law has to be short, clearly stated, and understandable by the average person. Nowadays, just seeing the multitude of just lawyer specialties, how can the ordinary person cope? Or are we already sacrificed on the altar of Legality?

And that sacrifice comes merely because nobody asks “when is Enough, ENOUGH”?

So when I saw this, I went – yup, good start – can we keep this Slimedown (er, can you call it a Shutdown when only 17% of the Fed is actually shut down?) going?:

Regulators and proponents of stronger protections warn that rulemaking delays will jeopardize public safety and health. But some conservatives say the reprieve from red tape is welcome, even if it doesn’t last long.

“We’re very pleased that the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to wreck the U.S. economy with more and more heavy-handed and colossally expensive regulations has been put on hold,” said Myron Ebell, director of the right-leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute’s energy and environment center…

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Speaking of the EPA – Forcing Pennsylvania to downsize

September 26, 2018October 8, 2013 Skip

Really! With their new coal industry killing regulations, and that PA’s electrical generation is heavily skewed to coal,well, the obvious is about to happen. From Junk Science (“Pennsylvania prepares to downsize economy rather than build more power plants“), we see that (with all due respect to Mary Poppins) “money will make the crap go down, the crap go down”:

Using less electricity will become more lucrative for Pennsylvania universities, government agencies and industries when coal-fired power plants close during the next several years.

A regional power-management group is boosting payouts to organizations that conserve voluntarily, offering money if they curtail demand on summer’s hottest days. Maximum payouts will climb about 33 percent by 2017, management group PJM Interconnection told the Tribune-Review.

The move should help contain power prices for residential customers and small businesses by easing pressure on limited supply, industry observers said.

“It really is just supply and demand,” said Stu Bresler, a vice president with Montgomery County-based PJM. “If customers are able to shift their demand, there would be less need for additional capacity for generation or transmission.”

That is, for the replacement capacity, for the current capacity being taken away by bureaucrats.

GrokTALK! 10-5-2013 The video – Keynote Speaker: Dr. Betsy McCaughey (Parts 1 & 2)

September 26, 2018October 7, 2013 Skip

The Keynote Speaker for the NH Federation of Republican Women’s annual meeting was Dr. Betsy McCaughey:

BETSY MCCAUGHEY, PH.D., is a constitutional scholar with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, a patient advocate and health policy expert, and a former Lt. Governor of New York state. In 1993 she read the 1,362-page Clinton health bill, warned the nation what it said, and made history. Today she is doing it again. With a Ph.D. in Constitutional History, she can actually tell us what the Obama health law says.

In 2009 medical excellence and freedom came under assault again, and McCaughey put her skills to work. She was the first to uncover the health provisions slipped into the February, 2009 stimulus bill. Members of Congress were stunned to learn the stimulus bill could limit care for seniors and dictate your doctor’s decisions.

Part 1:

Part 2:

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GrokTALK! 10-5-2013 The video – Dr. Betsy McCaughey Question and Answers (1, 2, & 3)

September 26, 2018October 7, 2013 Skip

Questions? Yes, questions of Dr. McCaughey following her talk about Obamacare and she was happy to take them:

Question #1:

In the bill, so many of the different components say “at the discretion of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. So, if we get a Republican President, are those put in stone now because of Sebelius?

Takaway: Pew – only 38% could name the three branches of Government. That how Obama can say the false things he does and get away with them – the public doesn’t any better.

Question #2: Please talk about the “navigators”?

GrokTALK! 10-5-2013 The video – Dr. Betsy McCaughey Question and Answers (4, 5, & 6)

September 26, 2018October 7, 2013 Skip

And the questions did not stop coming!

Question #4:

Going back to the ACA when it first started: we were told by Pelosi that we would find out what was in it. that should be clue enough to get angry because that is also taking away our Freedom just as much as what Madison said in Federalist #57 – it is just as big!

Takeaway: Comprehensive = unread. Madison had a lot of foresight on a lot of the problems we now see. So what are we doing about Obamacare being changed so often (no longer what was passed)?

Question #5:

I’ll see that song, and raise you a Mark Steyn one

September 26, 2018October 7, 2013 Skip

Heh! Expect to be deluged with songsters coming out of the woods (but not from Obamawoods ringed with National Park Service brownshirts – poor color and attitude choice, IMHO). Steve has one here and this from Mark Steyn will be joined by hundreds, I bet:

This land is our land, it sure ain’t your land
From downtown DC to the Lake Mead shoreland
From the Arctic Refuge to the Gulf Stream waters
This land is closed to you and yours

So don’t go cruisin’ that endless Skyline
And quit your fishin’, put down that fly line
Don’t pay respects to your country’s war heroes
Their land is closed to you and yours

Don’t even look at that view of Rushmore

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GrokTALK! 10-5-13 Guest Speaker the NHFRW Event – Dr. Betsey McCaughey

September 26, 2018October 7, 2013 Steve MacDonald

In this segment we hear the complete speech of Dr. Betsey McCaughey, an expert on Obamacare–and not just becasue she read and researched the bill, from this weekends New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women Event in Concord, NH. BETSY MCCAUGHEY, PH.D., is a constitutional scholar with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, a patient advocate … Read more

Yet another NH Legislator who hates guns and those that own them – and is determined to take them away

September 26, 2018October 7, 2013 Skip

Am reading down through the list of LSRs – thoughts of our legislators for bills for the upcoming session. Well, we see that at least ONE person hates the idea that law abiding Citizens can’t be trusted with firearms without yet one more database kept on its citizens.

014-H-2205-R	title:	banning assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines.
014-H-2205-R	Sponsors:	(Prime)E. Elaine Andrews-Ahearn

2014-H-2206-R	title:	requiring the registration of each firearm a person owns or possesses.
2014-H-2206-R	Sponsors:	(Prime)E. Elaine Andrews-Ahearn

2014-H-2269-R	title:	requiring background checks for firearm sales.
2014-H-2269-R	Sponsors:	(Prime)E. Elaine Andrews-Ahearn

If she can’t take it from you, she certainly wants to know exactly who owns what. And with that last one, if it goes where I think it will, shall forbid any private sale of firearms. Like if one of the other Groksters had a firearm that they no longer wanted but did catch my interest (of which I can think of several)? And WHY is it any of your business, Ms. Andrews-Ahearn? Are you scared of the guns, or the citizens that possess them? Or is this, yet again, the Progressive way – punish the bad folk by punishing all of us? What is it about being a busybody that inserts themselves into everyone else’s lives, stops them from doing what they like (or at least makes it far more difficult), and then feels good about themselves? Were you, in a former life, a National Park Service that enjoyed keeping WW II vets, or Korean War vets, or Viet Name War vets out of their memorials? Does it give you “a thrill up my leg” in determining how others MUST live their lives?

GrokTALK! 10-5-13 – Q&A With Dr. Betsey McCaughey, and ….

September 26, 2018October 7, 2013 Steve MacDonald

In this segment we hear the question and answer session that following the speech by Dr. Betsey McCaughey at this weekends New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women Event in Concord, NH. After that Skip and Mike chat with Jeane Coutou…not Jean Coutu, Jean Coutou, an antendee who has known Dr. McCaughey for, I beleive … Read more

GrokTALK! 10-5-13 Interview – Brian ‘Bulldog’ Tilton & Dr. Betsey McCaughey

September 26, 2018October 7, 2013 Steve MacDonald

In the final segment Skip and Mike sit down with Brain Tilton and Dr. Betsey McCaughey, speaker at this weekends New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women Event in Concord, NH. (pronounced McCoy, by the way–yes I pronounced it wrong in every segment thanks to Skip- Ding!) The focus of the event is healthcare but … Read more

Republican President Blockades Parks and Monuments…

September 26, 2018October 7, 2013 Steve MacDonald

“Republican President Blockades Parks and Monuments… Democrats and the media lose their frikkin minds“; Top story/wall-to-wall/24/7 on the Alphabets, press releases, can’t escape it, Democrats run on it for the next 12 years.

Want more local flavor?

“Yet another out of stater found to have registered to vote from the home of an elected Republican. Voted absentee from who knows where? New Hampshire State Democrat party demands investigation. Charges of vote fraud. Conspiracy. Goes all the way to the top says Harrell Kirstein.” Democrat press-release-palooza, top story in every lefty rag in the state…until someone goes to prison. Then Democrats run on it for the next 12 years.

Obama Spite House Shutters Amber-Alert Site; Michelle-O’s “Let’s Move” Site…up and running.

September 26, 2018October 7, 2013 Steve MacDonald

In their quest to become both the most incompetent and disliked administration in recent history, the Spite House has Barrycaded the Government’s Amber-Alert site because the truth is and always has been that Democrats do not care about the children, before birth, during, or at any point later on should they survive to breathe air. … Read more

The Coalition of the Wild Eyed.

September 26, 2018October 7, 2013 Steve MacDonald

The NRSC has a new video out. I’m no party pulpit-pounder but this does a neat job of encapsulating the uncivil rhetoric from the left with regard to the continuing resolution battle and the Obama shutdown.

Obama Votes ‘Present’ on Debt-Limit Debate – Abdicates All Future Authority to Dirty Harry Reid

September 26, 2018October 7, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Abdicating on the debt-limit debate is an easy move for Obama because it is the only thing he is any good at. He already said he would not negotiate, then he said he would negotiate but only if he got his way first; which is the same thing a saying he wont negotiate. So bowing out of not doing anything is classic Obama.

Officially, Obama can barely negotiate his way through a sandwich and if it weren’t for shadow President Jarret and shadow Vice president Michelle-O, and a trillion Czars (or Tsars), courtiers, hangers-on, rent-seeking lobbyists working the levers in the backrooms, and union bosses, nothing would probably ever get done around the Spite House, although spending other people’s money seems to come as easy as lying to these people.

Mike Barnacle’s Pal

September 26, 2018October 7, 2013

I think it is high time Obama got into the remaking of America in every way he dreamed about in college. Oh he is going to initiate single payer health lines, register and seize private firearms, make the rich pay their fair share, pay reparations to blacks for slavery and all that, but first he … Read more

GrokTALK! 10-5-2013 The video – Announcement on behalf of the SRW: Common Core Panel

September 26, 2018October 7, 2013 Skip

Right after Karen and Ann Marie spoke, Diane Bitter stood up to announce / remind folks that the Seacoast Republican Women is going to have a panel on Common Core: