Diane Schneider fired the money shot heard ’round the world’ when she asked how we can teach sex education (in public schools) without terms such as orgasm, oral sex, and masturbation.
“I was sent to Washington to restrain spending and exert some fiscal discipline.”
Yes, those were Congressman Frank Guinta’s words as Fox News Shannon Bream paraphrased his campaign words as "When you get to washington, you’re going to cut and then cut some more."
Yes, you were. The TEA Party types, like GraniteGrok, expected you to lead – not follow.
And not be told where to go, either.
You said, over and over, that Federal spending was unsustainable (about the only word from the greenies that seems to actually be applicable right now).
We expected Congressional life in DC to be hard. We expected it to be a pressure cooker for you like most of us cannot imagine (with all those hands and pleas and yells to give people money that used to be other peoples’). We expect that you would be surrounded not only by the Progressives (typified here in NH by Zandra Rice-Hawkins). We expected, being a TEA Party backed candidate, that the DC Establishment (especially the Repub kind) were going to rub their hands in glee as they joyfully said "ah, new red meat to grind up and mold OUR way."
We expected you to lead. Really, we did. And do. We sent you because of your fiscal promises to cut the spending and cut the size of government. And to it quickly. We believed you.
I have said since Nov 2 that we had to watch your backside and protect it from the Progressives and Establishment types, with pikes. Like these guys (<—-).
I also said that we would hold you accountable – that those pikes might be pointed at your backside. You said "Please do".
So, when I heard that the second short term Continuing Resolution was being voted on (because the Democrats in the last Congress couldn’t even vcarry out their basic reason for being there – passing a budget), I decided to look who was leading to cut government and Federal spending. I looked at the list of Republicans that decided enough of this fiscal tomfoolery and decided to lead: GOP Reps. Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Justin Amash (Mich.), Jeff Duncan (S.C.), John Fleming (La.), Tim Huelskamp (Kan.) and Allen West (Fla.) have all said they will vote against the new measure.
Oh wait – a name was missing!
Obama – kinky
Obama’s energy policy: After all, he declares that it is GOOD for us! While Rahm may now be ensconced at another money loosing proposition (new mayor, Chicago), will his words "Never waste a crisis" ever leave the Obama Administration? (H/T: Michael Ramirez)
The Presidents of the Past…and the state of our country today
This is fascinating. After you’ve watched it, take a look at THIS…also fascinating.
It’s The Christian Thing To Do.
Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson’s remarks, as expressed in a Sunday Union Leader staff editorial, suggest that it is immoral to reduce what the government spends on health and social programs.
As quoted, "When sacrifice is perpetrated on the vulnerable and weak by the strong and prosperous, it is social abuse."
He goes on to include the poor, the disabled, the blind, the unemployed, the impoverished elderly, the uninsured and children living in poverty.
His point (one of them at least) is that by reducing government’s fiscal contribution to bureaucracies established to manage such things, that governor John Lynch and the New Hampshire legislature are considering immoral choices to balance the state budget.
So where do I begin?
GrokTALK! – Podcast page for 03/12/11
Podcast – week of 03/12/11 GrokTALK! Streaming Live! from GraniteGrok To play (or "stream") a clip now, just click on it. To download it to your PC, right click on it and tell the process where to save the file for you. When we are live – join in at either GrokTALK@GraniteGrok.com or call us … Read more
Boehner is not listening
The republican House leadership seems to too timid to actually do what they promised and defund Obamacare. So, I sent a letter to the leadership telling them they are not doing job one.
The most leverage they will ever have to take away funding is by tieing it to the continuing resolution. They are letting a rule they created get in the way of ending Obamacare funding.
If you are as concerned as I am, you may wish to write a letter as well as make some phone calls. Perhaps my letter which I will put below will give you ideas. If it helps in anyway, that is fine with me. Yes, I cc’d Guinta.
Following the letter will be the addresses.
March 11, 2011
Dear Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Congressman McCarthy, Congressman Price, and Congressman Sessions:
YOU ARE NOT LISTENING!!
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Jenn Coffey, NH state House representative and vice chairman of the Commerce and Consumer Affairs committee.
Tom Woods— yes, that Tom Woods; best selling author, and senior fellow at the Ludwig con Mises Institute…
And, House Rep’s George Lambert and Andrew Manuse of our very own New Hampshire Natural Rights Caucus. Plus (perhaps) a special guest co-host or two.
(More about some of our guests on the jump)
US House kills TARP
I’d be interested to hear the rhetoric from Political consultant and former congressman Paul Hodes who claimed he was against TARP but voted to spend paid back TARP funds on other left-wing stimuli.
What Changed For State Workers In Wisconsin?
If we ignore the change in national perception based on weeks of evidence that public union employees (and democrats) are selfish, angry, violent, children what actually changed when the Wisconsin legislature and Governor Walker succeeded in passing changes to collective bargaining?
The Lie That Persists: Guns and the State House in Concord
It’s unrelenting. Never ending. With the seating of the New Hampshire Legislature, house rules were returned to where guns were allowed in the state house. And oh how 
the liars and demagogues lined up to have their say. The pablum-puking hoplophobic liberals don’t like it. We get that already. Repeating it, “ad nauseum,” ain’t going to change a thing, folks.
This past Wednesday Concord Businessman Glen Currie opined in the Concord Monitor, “Unfortunately, the new folks in town seem to want us to become the place where Little House on the Prairie hosts the Gunfight at O.K. Corral,” conjuring television and movie images of Tom Mix or John Wayne facing off with some cowboy in a tumbleweed street. Mr. Currie, however, is little more than full of crap…and himself, irrespective of whether he thinks the legislature is a bunch of “wing nuts“[sic].
The unending plethora of references to the New Hampshire Statehouse becoming analogous to the Wild West, the O.K. Coral, Wyatt Earp, and Billy the Kid has now become an annoying cacophony to those of us who have spent considerable time, energy and academic capital studying American History. Despite the multi-disciplinary and long-existing peer-reviewed, scholarly works of contemporary academia, these references manage to hang on like herpes…or a bad penny.
The overlying thesis of Wild West narratives and presentations is that, without government, society becomes disordered and out of control. We need only look to early television shows like Wagon train, Have Gun will Travel, Cheyenne, Bonanza, and the Lone Ranger to see Hollywood’s consistency in their liberal advocacy of a government solution through the lens of television. [insert picture of Mr. Currie in a cowboy suit sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of a 60’s vintage tube TV eating a Swanson Frozen Dinner watching, “The Big Valley.”]
Michael Moore Is A Dumb Ass
Michael Moore is a dumb add, and in case you don’t want to just take my word for it…let’s go to the video.
Maryland Can’t Pass Same Sex Marriage
Tim Gill won’t be happy. He and Political Outgiving have been pouring money into Maryland and the pockets of its governor, Martin O’Malley, O’Malley was one of Tim Gill’s special guests at last years secret gathering along with our own governor John Lynch. The goal was, as it was in New Hampshire, to buy up local politicians at the state house level and ensure the governor of finanaical support to pass same sex marriage.
Ruger Introduces New Pistol In Honor Of Obama
Ruger is coming out with a new pistol in honor of Obama.
NPR Video Sting 2.0
James O’Keefe has released a second video on NPR. In this latest installment NPR exec Betsy Liley discusses with someone she believes is with the Muslim Brotherhood front group, how he might best hide a 5 million dollar donation to NPR from the federal government.
Dear New Hampshire Democrat Party…
Given you gentle spleens when it comes to matters of incivility, we on the right would like you to comment on this email, sent by pro union left wing forces, to elected Republican legislators in Wisconsin.
“My toilets don’t work in my house and I blame you…”
US Senator Rand Paul continues to blaze an exciting yet "down to earth" path in that so-called "august" body. Here, during an Energy Committee hearing on consumer choice, he hoists an Obama Administration apparatchik on her own "pro choice" petard: "You restrict my purchases. You don’t care about MY choices… You don’t … Read more