The ‘Grok interviews Bill O’Brien – Part 4

This is Part 4 of GraniteGrok’s interview with Bill O’Brien who is running for Speaker of the NH House of Representatives from the "Liberty and Freedom" wing of the NH GOP. Question asked: How is standing on Principles being divisive?  You are for "The People" or the "Political Class"? Previously: Part 1, Part 2, Part … Read more

“Republicans Against Parental Rights”

There’s no point in denying it.  If you are a republican for Lynch, you might as well just call yourself the ‘Republicans Against Parental Rights.’  It’s a hallmark of the Lynch legacy and one which cannot be properly corrected for as long as he sits in the Governor’s chair.  By supporting him you are stating … Read more

I say Go Ahead–Run on that.

Democrats are trying to frighten people by insisting that we can’t go back to how things were when Republicans were running things.  And I can see their point.  They will certainly need to do better. But how wise is it to frighten people with the risk of 5% unemployment and budget deficits under 500 Billion … Read more

Smaller, fiscally responsible government, the rule of law not men, and greater economic freedom – that’s extremist?

To the Editor:

The media and some political pundits describe Tea Party people as  “extremists” and “out of the mainstream”.  While each Tea Partier has his or her own views, most want smaller, fiscally responsible government, the rule of law not men, and greater economic freedom.  Does that sound extreme to you?  As a Tea Partier, I wonder which of my views, which I think are shared by most Tea Partiers, are so different from yours?

Both Republicans and Democrats have failed to keep their promises to the American people.  Both have over promised and overspent.  Both extended government services without ensuring adequate funding and too often into areas of questionable constitutionality.  Neither party has the courage to eliminate programs that don’t work, are counter-productive, or are not worth the cost, and both have put our country onto a collision path with bankruptcy and a dramatic loss in our standard of living.

The sad thing is that we, the people, allowed our politicians to do this to us, to our Country, and to subsequent generations when we accepted their promises of “free stuff“ (or more than we pay for).  Tea Partiers say…

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Hodespocrisy Flashback- Why I Call Him Paul “Sugar Daddy” Hodes

Photo Credit 'TopNews.in'A few months back I discovered that Paul Hodes had received a one time $10,000.00 donation from American Crystal Sugar (A major US Sugar conglomerate), at about the same time as the 288 billion dollar 2007/2008 Farm bill was being pushed through congress, and vetoes overrode.  US Sugar is a protected industry with a good amount of political influence.  American Crystal Sugar wanted to get into the ethanol industry but could not justify the up front costs.  Hodes and the farm billed solved that problem with your money. 

Here’s the original piece I wrote on the relationship.

 

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2010

Paul Hodes has a dirty little secret.  His ‘commitment’ to green energy has strings attached that lead directly to the sugar industry and a significant campaign cash “Thank You.” 

Back in 2007 and 2008 Congress waged an epic battle over the Farm Bill.  They didn’t call it the farm bill they called it the Food Nutrition and Bio-Energy Act.  What it was (or became) was a 288 billion dollar sop to the agriculture industry with a focus on approving billions into ethanol subsidies for the farm belt before the 2008 elections. 

To muddy up the real purpose the democrat majority in congress tossed in money for food stamps and school lunches so that any effort to kill it could be spun as evil Republicans starving the poor and denying underprivileged students a hot nutritious lunch.   When some republicans balked, the left jumped.  And when George Bush, who was still friendly to the idea of ethanol mandates, vetoed both the bill (HR 2419) and the supplement that added in some items left out of the original (HR 6124) the democrat majority House overturned both vetoes. (Both henceforth to be referred to simply as the “farm bill”) 

So Paul Hodes not only voted for the hand outs, he voted for them four times: twice to pass the original bills and twice to overturn the vetoes. Does that show commitment?  I think it does.

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Obama and the SEIU

This Jan Brewer campaign video reminds us of the relationship between Obama and SEIU, and what their plan is.  To convert millions of illegal immigrants into dues paying pro democrat union voters. It is instructive.  (And Union meat-puppet Carol Seiu-Porter has to support this.)      

Will You Kneel Before The Government?

Kneel Before Zod!I was watching the online web cast of Hillsdale College’s commemoration of the Kirby Center (on Constitution Day) in Washington DC, and Dr. Charles Kessler of Claremont McKenna College.  Dr. Kessler is a constitutional scholar and early on in his speech he makes the following observation about the current clash between the government and the people, and the rise of the Tea Party

‘Either the government will have to kneel to the people….or the people will have to kneel to the government.’

We should think about that because Dr. Kessler is correct.

 

 

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Hey, Did He Learn This From Carol Seiu-Porter? Runaway!

Keeping with the promise of Obama and the congress for openness and transparency, Human Events (HE) brings us Donald Berwick.  Berwick is Mr. Obama’s recess appointment to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and according to Jason Mattera at HE he’s been less than accessible, refusing interviews and avoiding public comment in the three months since his ascension to the office, despite claims that he would address concerns that would have derailed any effort to get him there through the usual Senate confirmation process.

Derailed indeed.

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Obama’s Big Boehner

There are very few people who still believe the House will not flip–it is mostly a matter of how many seats. But the people who will make this shift possible are not entirely enamored of Boehner who is a career politician and whom many suspect will sell them out to make deals if given the opportunity. If the latter is accurate, given the odds that the new wave of Republicans will be less inclined to make deals, Boehner is the best hope Obama has, given a bad situation, of having any leverage whatsoever with that caucus.

Housing Bubble Comes Home To Roost

I’m not sure why there is still any debate about who is responsible for the housing bubble and the ensuing crisis–which includes the recession that followed and the stagnation we are in now.  The Democrats new bill of rights, going all the way back to FDR, includes the right to own a home.  Since that … Read more

Reid Wasn’t Looking To Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Yahoo! News has a morning headline titled "How Democrats Lost ‘Don’t Ask’ Repeal."  (You can read it here).  It focuses almost entirely on the "Don’t Ask" repeal provision and to some degree on the tactics that epitomize Ried’s Senate antics.  He takes a defense authorization bill, adds Don’t ask don’t tell, then stuffs amnesty for illegal immigrants into it, and then refuses to allow Republican amendments.

The article,  and most of those that I have seen on the subject, all focus on the failure to repeal "Don’t Ask" as if that were actually the point.  But this had nothing to with that. It was a tactical political media ploy.  Think about it.

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Email Doodlings – Part 5: The Right should not cede the Social Issues to the Left as they end up being Fiscal Issues and Public Morality

"…We are entering the Third Stage of Liberalism – freedom from responsibility…"

I gotta hand it to him, he keeps on trying.  Not sure he succeeded – certainly not with me – he decided to go almost full frontal Libertarian, problem is, I’m not a Libertarian.  While I wrote a reaction already, let me switch to fisking mode here:

Skip, bad decisions that harm no one but oneself should not land someone in jail. Why should (example) cocaine or heroin be illegal when you can get a legal prescription for oxycotton?

Let’s try the fact that we are back to the Rule of Law no longer applies here?  This is often why Libertarians just don’t get elected to anything – it is just too far outside the norm for most that this question just gets the rolled eye looks.

Why should we be putting pot users in jail for something that grows freely in the wild? Nor should I have to foot the bill for it either. This is a conservative pro-liberty group right?

You don’t want to pay for the jail time for dope smokers?  Simple – instead of merely pouting – do the hard work and change the law.  Simple.

As a libertarian, I don’t believe in democracy. This country was founded as a Constitutionally-limited Republic and people were recognized as having inalienable rights – that which they don’t have to ask permission of the state to exercise. A democracy is 50% plus 1 voting to deny said rights to those in the minority. I referred the 9th Amendment to you and you must have totally overlooked it. One’s right to privacy, drug use or any other harmless, voluntary act is covered there by default.

While I will admit that there are a lot of freedoms that have been curtailed, he just destroys his own argument by invoking Godwin’s Law with the start of his following paragraph.  There is just so much with this paragraph that is just plain awful:

Regarding this being a nation of laws: Nazi Germany was a nation of laws so was it ok to…

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Hodes Dogs of Hypocrisy

For 2010, before "discovering" that he was against earmarks in an election year, Paul Hodes, democrat congressman and candidate for the US Senate requested over 51,000,000.00 million in appropriations.  That earned him the distinction of being ranked the 45th highest earmarker in the entire House of Representatives for 2010. That’s 45 out of 435 in … Read more

Has Hodes Joined The Party Of No?

Have you noticed that Paul Hodes is running on the things he voted against?  It’s a very short list and represents less than a fraction of 1% of his votes, but wouldn’t that mean he’s running as the party of no? I thought no was bad.  In fact, for the past two years, "no" has … Read more

Smacking Hodes On The Wiener

I Scooped this up from Matt over at Red Hampshire. American Crossroads is hitting Paul Hodes right in the…well… wiener.  Using the now laughably famous Hodes"Hot Dog" ad for context, they point out just a sliver of the waste Hodes voted for from a fraction of one spending bill out of many–the Porkulus. Give it … Read more

(D)i Fruscia Takes His Toys And Goes…

With any luck this will be the last time Tony (D)iFruscia leaves the republican party.  Kevin Landrigan reported yesterday that (D)iFrusica, who lost his seat in the primary last Tuesday has officially declared himself an independent.  Mr. (D)iFruscia–and oddly enough Harrel Kirkstein (spokesman for the New Hampshire democrat party) agree that this is another example … Read more

Email Doodlings – Part 3: The Right should not cede the Social Issues to the Left as they end up being Fiscal Issues and Public Morality

Like I said, there was a response – that the Republicans have social costs too:

Skip,

GOP social issues cost me money too you know… Like the drug war for instance. 1st I have to pay to incarcerate people with personal problems which diverts money from policing real crimes, then they have records which prevent them from getting good jobs when they get out for the rest of their lives – causing lots of recidivism. Then, I have to pay again for them violating probation/parole and/or finance them on welfare and other state programs like healthcare. I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but I’m sure the GOP social issues are pretty steep. I say this as a BA in criminal justice and private investigator. Are we still the live free or die state? It’s not fiscally conservative in the least to blow money left and right on the drug war – which has been the biggest failure in recent history. Let’s put the 9th Amendment in perspective and legalize all drugs – thus driving down the price of said drugs so users wouldn’t have to steal and break into cars to pay the highly inflated prices. The economics of the drug war tells the big picture. Oh, and Jesus said that he who is w/o sin may cast the 1st stone. If you agree with these sentiments, then I have nothing further to say.

Read that again, and see if you picked up what I did; the reasons why Progressives spend other people’s money is FAR different than what the Republicans do – and what he was decrying.  

I decided to enlighten the fellow – especially on the Biblical reference:

The "Live Free or Die" State motto pretty much depends on a couple of things:

  • people acting responsibly, and when they don’t,
  • THEY solely bear the consequences.

I no longer believe that the population percentage of the first and the actions of the State in the second, allow this to be a truism.  Proof?  Look at the budget – not even legislators are responsible enough with other people’s money.

Here’s the problem –

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Mustache Love

Lyndon LaRouche democrats have been showing up at tea party events with the Obama Hilter-mustache signs and posters, and now we have Obama For America democrats–now Organizing For America–waving pictures of Republican candidates, or pundits like Glen Beck and Sarah Palin, with Hitler mustaches painted on them.

Do they have special markers for that at the DNC headquarters?

What is up with democrats and their obsession with Hitler? Methinks they doth protest to much.

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Email Doodlings – Part 4: The Right should not cede the Social Issues to the Left as they end up being Fiscal Issues and Public Morality

People haven’t learned that I am usually, along with Rush Limbaugh (heh!), just a loveable little fuzzball.  Sure, I love to discuss candidates and issues and policies with vigor, but when someone crosses the line and decides to make it personal, well, I generally don’t much take kindly to that, and he did:

Well Skip, I hope to God that you never have a kid that makes a mistake by getting involved with drugs, then goes to jail and has a record that follows him for life. It’s pretty cold that you’re so pompous as to endorse putting people in jail that have problems and not allowing them to sort themselves out. Likely, you’re ignorant of what it’s like to get yourself of drugs and surely you must know that jail won’t help.. In jail, people brush elbows with violent people and thus they aren’t rehabilitated for the outside. They just become worse. Jesus had love and compassion for problematic people and he wouldn’t throw them to the wolves like you apparently…

Sigh….you can imagine the response:

  • You sound like Obama: "I don’t want my daughters punished with a baby" if they were to make a conscious decision to have unprotected sex.  Decisions have consequences.
  • You sound like a Liberal who believes that bad decisions should not have consequences – breaking that natural feedback that teaches people "don’t do that". Decisions have consequences.
  • You sound like an anarchist who does not believe in one of the Pillars of Democracy – The Rule of Law. Decisions have consequences.

Actions and decisions have consequences whether you like it or not – sometimes, 

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