People Died. Obama Lied.

  Why am I not surprised? From the Yid With Lid: Do you remember how the US had a fit when Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, the terrorist responsible for the Lockerbie bomber was released? Well apparently the POTUS knew all along, and the British government is not playing along.  They have told Obama to quit bitching … Read more

Pulling the trigger on socilaized healthcare: “If Olympia falls for the Snowe-job, she will do so knowing full well that her sell-out is a charade.”

  Olympia Snowe-job
Guest Post by Robert Romano

As bipartisan negotiations in the Senate have failed to trick Republicans into supporting a vigorous government-run takeover of the entire health care system, Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are making a last ditch effort to sway at least one Republican member: Olympia Snowe of Maine.

Reports CNN Politics,

“For the past months, Snowe has been pushing the idea of a safety net plan, or ‘trigger,’ for a public health care option as part of a key compromise. A source familiar with her negotiations with Obama said that’s one of the things they’re talking about…The idea would give insurance companies a defined period to make changes in order to help cover more people and drive down long-term costs. But if those changes failed to occur within the defined period, a trigger would provide for creating a public option to force change on the insurance companies.”

Concern over a government-run medical system has galvanized citizens nationwide in opposition to let their voices be heard in town halls. And they’ve left the members of Congress ducking for cover. The political damage has been so extensive that Barack Obama is preparing an address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday to in yet another attempt to sell his latest scheme for ObamaCare.

According to FOX News, White House aides have said that Obama

“will deliver the message that Democrats are willing to go it alone if it cannot get Republicans behind it.”

The joke is that he does not actually need a single Republican vote to pass what he wants if his own party would just rally behind him.

The true trouble that ObamaCare faces is that Democrats believe that they are on a political Titanic—and vulnerable members in both chambers are stampeding to get to the lifeboats.

The reason Democrats want Snowe—or somebody like her—is so they can parade her around as the token Republican brokering a grand compromise, thus providing what they believe is political cover. And so, now they are ready to give Snowe what she has been asking for: a delayed implementation of the government takeover of the health care system in exchange for selling out her own party.

And if Olympia falls for the Snowe-job, she will do so knowing full well that her sell-out is a charade. After all, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has already played the socialist hand.

 

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Paid Activism. It’s good work, I guess, if you can get it. “Let’s Do a Chant!”

So I’m at the Carol Shea Porter town hall style meeting in Portsmouth last Saturday, and, while watching the passing scene, I started to notice a few people that appeared to be "working" the crowd pretty heavily. Following the event, there was quite a spectacle out front that made for some interesting political street theater. Many … Read more

Hodes: I believe it’s important to be open and accessible”

  Here’s a video showing NH’s 2nd Congressional District representative Paul Hodes taking heat before and after press conference for not allowing constituents accessibility in an open town hall style meeting. With the canned response obviously stuck in his head, the hard to find Democratic Congressman claims he has "spoken to thousands of constituents in … Read more

Gang of Six, ObamaCare DOA?

Obama Health Care 

Guest Post by Robert Romano 

The wheels have come off the wagon.

As reported by the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein, “The Gang of Six Appears to be Dead,” and the overall death of ObamaCare cannot be far behind.

If one recalls, the Gang of Six was the posse that had strolled through the dusty streets of the District of Columbia, promising a so-called “bipartisan” plan on health care. It was one of those grand compromises that feels just like a knife in the backs of the American people. But now the Gang has turned in their spurs—and the members have returned to their formative partisan camps.

The Gang had included Senators Max Baucus (D-MT), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Kent Conrad (D-ND), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Mike Enzi (R-WY). Said the Baucus Kid on Monday, “I talked to them, and they all want to do health care reform. But the sad part is a lot politics have crept in. They are being told by the Republican Party not to participate.”

But really, there’s a lot more to it than that. The lack of compromise in the Senate in particular is the end result of an overall public backlash to Barack Obama’s government-run health care scheme—and the “politics that crept in was the grassroots variety in total opposition to the Administration’s plans for no less than a complete takeover of the nation’s entire health system.

Remember, it was not so long ago that Barack Obama and his own grizzly gang were demanding that Congress pass socialized medicine into law before the August recess. Before anyone even had the chance to read it (including members of Congress).

Nancy Pelosi was just sure of it. “We will be on schedule to do as we have planned to vote for this legislation before we leave for the August recess,” she proclaimed breathlessly.

So was Harry Reid. “We are going to do health care before we leave,” he pronounced after being kicked in the guts by Obama at a Capitol Hill meeting.

When questioned about the rush, Obama said it was “because if you don’t set a deadline in this town, nothing happens.” This from a man who had barely been in town long enough to find his way to the Capitol men’s room.

 

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Playing Congressional Whack-A-Mole. Hard to catch Hodes eludes NH players…

2nd CongressionalDistrict Representative (and aspiring US Senator) Democrat Paul Hodes continues his elusive ways as he seeks to avoid getting "whacked" by angry constituents. From the NHGOP: HODES LETS DOWN NEW HAMPSHIRE, WON’T HOLD TOWN HALL MEETINGS Embattled Congressman Won’t Hold Traditional, Face-To-Face Meeting With Voters CONCORD – The Union Leader (9/2) reports that Paul Hodes announced … Read more

Breaking News: About that “big” Move-On.org rally… er, never mind!

  The email breathlessly announced the big happening scheduled for today: We Can’t Afford to Wait Vigil We’re organizing "We can’t afford to wait" vigils nationwide just days before members of Congress return to Washington, to make sure they know that an overwhelming majority of voters are counting on them to act quickly to pass health care reform. … Read more

Man ejected from Town Hall forum by Shea Porter gets chance to speak at Guinta event

Carl Tomanelli, the retired veteran and NYC policeman from Londonderry who Congresswoman Carol Shea Porter had removed from her Manchester Town Hall meeting on Saturday finally got to speak his mind without disruption Monday evening in a forum hosted by Mayor Frank Guinta. First, the Shea-Porter fiasco:      What a difference a couple days makes. … Read more

You’d think a public servant would be more inclined to “hear” from the people. Not Carol Shea Porter

 Yesterday I attended the so called "town hall meeting" with our Congresswoman, Carol Shea Porter in Manchester.  Let me first start off by saying, the venue she chose could only hold 100 people.  While there were two scheduled "town hall meetings" Saturday, both had a limited capacity.

Knowing that town hall meetings have been packed across this country over this issue, it was disappointing that she chose a venue that held such a small amount of her constituents.  It left many wondering if she simply wanted to make the argument that she had a town hall without really giving her constituents the opportunity to voice their questions/concerns.
 
This was proven again once the town hall meeting began.  Ms. Shea Porter began by asking two individuals to tell their personal stories of how they felt disenfranchised by the health care or insurance industry.  This took a valuable 20 minutes in a ONE hour town hall meeting. 
 
We were given tickets and those who were able to ask a question did so if they were chosen in a lottery type of system.  I felt this was a fair way to draw questions.  Each person was given 2 minutes to ask their question and/or voice their concerns.  Again, I felt that was a fair amount of time. 
 
About 20 minutes after the meeting began and after listening to her chosen speakers, people were allowed to ask their questions if their number was drawn.  One thing I observed throughout this meeting was, how much Carol Shea Porter loves to hear herself speak.  With a limited amount of time, I would have thought a public servant would be more inclined to "HEAR" from the people, rather than sell us this legislation.  That was not the case.  It was her opportunity to sell this legislation to the people rather than hear from her constituents.
 
AS the questions FINALLY began, I noticed people had 2 minutes to ask the question, but Carol Shea Porter took several minutes to answer them.   Because she rambled on with each answer, only a precious few questions were asked.  Some of the people attending were clearly getting irritated by her long-winded answers, knowing they had little chance of speaking .
 
While a few of those chosen to speak seemed to favor a govt. run option, the majority appeared to be in opposition. At one point, the lady sitting next to me, having worked in the health care industry asked what was being done to bring down costs, for instance, by addressing things like Tort Reform.

Ms. Shea Porter’s answer seemed to imply that while Tort Reform is not included in the bill, it wasn’t that important, either.  She referred to Texas and quoted stats that made it "APPEAR" as if Tort Reform wasn’t working in Texas. 

AS I sat there with my information in hand on how Tort Reform WAS working in Texas, I could clearly see she was not giving people all of the facts.  A few minutes later, I was one of the rare few to be called upon.

Standing up and referring to her misleading statements on Texas Tort Reform, I read from the post I wrote last week here on GraniteGrok, Hey Carol, DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS and quoted the excellent op-ed from the San Francisco Examiner:

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Carol Shea Porter: “Not going back and forth on the Constitution”

Here is 1st CD Congresswoman Carol Shea Porter –in response to a question at Saturday’s Portsmouth, NH town hall meeting– reading a prepared statement provided for her as to why nationalizing the health care system and mandating insurance is, in fact, Constitutional. This comes days after a blunder in which she took heat for claiming the Constitution … Read more

VIDEO: Carol Shea Porter on socialism: We are not going in that direction

During Carol Shea Porter’s town hall meeting today in Portsmouth, one questioner asked about the corrupt government in Washington run by unelected czars and what she was going to do about the loss of liberty. I guess Congresswoman Shea-Porter doesn’t see much news, being so busy travelling the state and meeting with constituents, because she … Read more

Perhaps they should just have a big cup full?

Congresswoman Shea Porter calls attendees at Seacoast GOP gathering "teabaggers." Buckles the Clown, AKA Dem Party Chair Ray Buckley calls Jack Kimball, who will be announcing a bid for the GOP nomination for Governor, part of the "radical fringe." Both know NOTHING about the people they criticize. It’s no surprise Ms. Che Porter would say such a thing, … Read more

Framed!

From our friends at Americans for Limited Government…  

Add a new book to the shelf…

Leslie Carbone’s book, Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case for Tax Reform has just been released. In Slaying Leviathan, Carbone argues that since the early twentieth century, U.S. tax policy has been designed to mitigate the natural economic results of both virtue and vice. When the government disrupts the natural order through taxation by creating incentives … Read more

Summer Reading Assignment

Hodes Shea Porter

Pulp?  

From the NRCC: 

Washington- With two weeks left in the summer recess and one step closer to the possibility of a government- run healthcare system, has Carol Shea-Porter read the monstrosity that is the Democrats 1,018- page healthcare bill? Has she read about the job-killing, tax-hiking, and government-run mess that is HR 3200? Well, for New Hampshire residents’ sake, they better hope so.

HR 3200: printed BOTH sides

“If Democrats like Carol Shea-Porter have yet to read the writing on the wall that Americans are opposed to government-run healthcare, the least they can do is promise to read their party’s unpopular bill,” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain. “Given the Democrats’ track record, a bill that large could have anything in it. Shea-Porter has a responsibility to hold her party bosses accountable for the content.  After blindly supporting a wasteful $1 trillion stimulus package, Shea-Porter owes it to her constituents to demand that Nancy Pelosi doesn’t strong-arm a massive healthcare takeover through Congress without giving lawmakers the chance to read it in its entirety.”

In one the worst recessions in history, the Democrats’ healthcare takeover could lead to even higher unemployment rates:

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Bagged! Carol Shea Porter adopts apparent strategy to stack town hall meeting

  Guilty! So I’m reading Leslie Carbone’s blog post about a Howard Dean Town Hall event where local members of the DNC’s Organizing For America group were encouraged to attend in an email note. Included was  the information regarding where it was and what time to be there. "Please arrive as early as possible to … Read more

Just a minor point on health care “reform”…

Nothing big, really. Just that the proposal might be unconstitutional. Other than that, though, it’s an AWESOME idea! Kudos to O’Reilly and the gals. Stay tuned… [H/T Kevin N]

Souter’s unsettling move

  Guest Post By Jeff Woodburn Why does the news of David Souter’s move from his rustic, old homestead on a dirt road in Weare to an upscale new house in a pricey subdivision in Hopkinton trouble me so?  At 69, the recently retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice deserved a comfortable place sturdy enough to … Read more

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