Crashing the “bash”

 

Obama Joker

 

 

NHTPC contributed to this report.

Concord, NH- At one point about 30 protesters gathered outside the Hermanos Cocina Restaurant in Concord NH on Monday night to greet as many partygoers as they arrived for a far left bash with the nutroots blogger Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, better known as the creator of the “Daily Kos”. Additional special guests were our two US House reps– recently the objects of a missing persons "milk carton" campaign— Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes.

While the scarce-pair dined with their fellow ‘Kossacks’, cars drove by and beeped and waved at the sidewalk Tea Partiers in solidarity.

Every so often, one of the attendees would come out and engage us as we walked up and down the sidewalk in protest of present policies and proposals all destined to ruin our market system and economy as we know it. At one point, Skip started to do a video discussion with one, but when pressed with facts, he went away, apparently unwilling to face such things. Early on, to his credit, Hodes came up the sidewalk and had a few polite words with several of the folks lining the path, but nothing prolonged, nor of substance. THAT he no doubt was saving for his comrades at the private party.

Skip and lib

Later on, an apparently clueless/angry woman came out of the restaurant approached Jane and Ann Marie and asked, “Who ARE you?”

Writes Jane:

Being that we are no one special, “just people” was our reply. She then asked where we get our information. “Common sense” we said. She then tried to play the ‘blame Bush’ game so we reminded her that it wasn’t going to work anymore.

After all, Bush had nothing to do with the failed $787B stimulus package, the $181B deficit of July alone, and we also reminded her that what with Medicare, Amtrak and the PO going broke under government management, how could that same government expect to take over everyone’s health care, even if that WAS constitutional, to which she replied emphatically, “YOU MAKE ME SICK”.

Ah yes… typical and predictable. Proof if anything that these people are clueless and don’t have much ammo in their boxes or brains in their heads — and definitely working off pure emotions incited by the Obama media.

When another cranky partygoer walked by me as I was holding the Obama/Joker image, she called me a "racist" and that I "should be thrown in the stockade." I guess she wasn’t feeling very tolerant at that moment. As she got in her car and began to drive away, she stopped in the road, rolled down her window, and started barking at us one last time before finally leaving.

To our surprise, a short while later, she joined us! Having been sufficiently rattled by our presence, and unable to accept the reality that there are people that disagree with the left-wing agenda promoted by loons like her and her comrades partying with Hodes and Shea Porter, she was back toting her own sign and took a position just down from where we were stationed:

 

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Hey Carol, DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS!

Texas 

I got this note from Jim in Texas:

Although not a resident of New Hampshire, I have a very good friend there that keeps me informed of what is going on there and the misinformation that is flowing throughout the country.

I am a resident of Texas and have been for the past 18 years. I am a transplant from the Midwest and it was one of the best moves I have ever made.

Texas is a wonderful state in which to live and work. There is no state income tax here and it is pro business thus pro growth. Texas today is ranked at the top of the country in job creation and currently has a budget surplus even without state income taxes.

Now I have been following, through my friend, the debate in New Hampshire over healthcare reform and it is become obvious to me that your Representatives are doing their best to distort the record of Texas and anyone else opposed to Obamacare.

I read the Shea-Porter comments regarding healthcare and particularly laughed when I heard that Tort reform wasn’t working in Texas. (Click here for audio of CSP’s remark) Obviously right out of the leftwing playbook, Shea-Porter is doing her best to carry Pelosi-Obama water but Shea-Porter like the President is playing loose with the facts.

There is no question that healthcare has to be reformed but you cannot have true healthcare reform without addressing tort reform along with all other issues.

Tort reform in TX was initiated in TX by GW Bush in 1995 and was amended in 2003 by Rick Perry. It capped malpractice claims which affected the amount of insurance a Doctor has to carry thus the cost to doctors. As a result the number of doctors in Texas increased by 57% since 2003 which improved healthcare and reduced medical complaints. Here are excerpts out of an article by Willaim Tate that ran last week at the American Thinker entitled Health care reform that actually works.

Tate links to an op-ed from the San Francisco Examiner:

 

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Instead, we get stuck with clunkers like Hodes & Shea Porter…

If only New Hampshire’s Congressional representatives took this guy’s point of view and understanding of the present attempt at the nationalizing of our health care system. No, instead we get Pelosi automatons…(sigh)     [H/T AMB]

Turn those radios ON. It’s MTNP radio. Can you handle it?

Starting Saturday morning at 9 am! As usual, this week’s broadcast version of GraniteGrok and Now!Hampshire.com brings an array of items and guests for your consideration– ALL STARTING AT 9AM! As always, thanks to the technical wizardry and analytical skills of Skip, if you are beyond the broadcast area of Newstalk 1490 WEMJ, simply click here for … Read more

Hey Granny, Uncle Sam wants YOU!

  No messin’ around. WHERE’S GRANNY? Grandma is quite popular these days. Well, unless we’re talking about Obama and his comrades in the ruling majority down in DC. They’re not so fond of her, apparently. Seems that when you get right down to it, they want granny to take a dirt nap…     [H/T: … Read more

Guinta statement on Shea Porter’s decision to host town hall meeting

  Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta, seeking the Republican nod to take her place in Congress, said the following about Carol Shea Porter’s decision to (finally) hold town hall meetings in a statement: Manchester, NH – Following weeks of intense criticism and negative press coverage, Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter has finally decided to hold a town hall meeting to … Read more

Milk Carton Campaign a Success! Shea Porter to hold town meetings next Saturday

  Multiple sources, including James Pindell at NHPoliticalReport.com, are telling GraniteGrok that our Congresswoman Carol Shea Porter has finally set up some town hall meetings where she will actually meet with real live constituents face to face. And wouldn’t you know it– RIGHT AT THE SAME TIME THE GRASS ROOTS COMMUNITY OF NH IS SCHEDULED TO GATHER … Read more

As bad as Barney Frank is, at least he has the guts to face the people…

Give Barney Frank, the infamous Congressman from Massachusetts, credit– at least he has given his constituents a chance to see him in person and engage in face to face dialogue debate shout-downs. Unlike our own Democratic representatives here in NH, who continue to play whack-a-mole with the people, Frank gets it on. Now, don’t get … Read more

“[W]hile a prominent senator declaring the public “option” dead on arrival in the Senate is certainly good news for the American people, it should be taken with a grain of salt.”

ObamaCare 

The Public Option on the Table

Guest Post by Robert Romano 

The so-called public “option”—no less than a government takeover of the entire health care system—is apparently off the table. Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), appearing on FOX News Sunday, said, “The fact of the matter is there are not the votes in the United States Senate for a public option. There never have been.”

Not that it matters in the great scheme of things. Because the American people’s adamant opposition to ObamaCare does not matter all that much to their representatives. Besides expanding government’s reach to control the lives of the American people, what matters most to Congressmen are their prospects for reelection. They desire nothing more.

And now the American people are learning that, at least in the Senate, they are not willing to lose their seats over this bill.

To put this revelation in perspective, despite having 58 Democrat Senators plus two Independent Senators that caucus with them, and 256 Representatives—more than enough to pass any bill they desire—Congressional Democrats allegedly cannot summon the votes in the Senate to enact their top agenda item: socialized medicine. And why might that be?

The American people have made their voices loud and clear: They do not want a government takeover of their health care. They do not want rationing boards to eliminate “overhead” costs and cut out “unnecessary” tests and procedures that really means less quality care administered to America’s seniors. They do not want the unsustainable debt the program would produce to be passed on to their children and their children’s children.

However, while a prominent senator declaring the public “option” dead on arrival in the Senate is certainly good news for the American people, it should be taken with a grain of salt.

Congressional opposition to this proposal is contingent upon the continued opposition by the American people to a proposal that threatens no less than the quality of health care their families and friends receive.

And if the American people stop making phone calls, writing letters, and visiting with their Congressmen to express their opposition to the takeover, then representatives may start to believe that the coast is clear. That perhaps they can get away with it. And that is when they can and will deliver the deathblow to the nation’s health care system.

 

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Since when has speaking up become “un-American”?

 

Guest Post by Jennifer Horn 

I was in Portsmouth on Tuesday broadcasting “On The Air With Jennifer Horn” live from outside President Barack Obama’s town hall at Portsmouth High School. I had a firsthand view of the protests that took place, and there is no question that there is a certain “Astroturf” sensibility to some of these protests.

But, at least in Portsmouth, it was not the anti-government, health care protest that looked manufactured. With charter buses dropping off crowds of protesters from other states, professionally printed signs and an AFL-CIO banner, it was the smaller group of pro-government health care protesters that had the appearance of corporate organization.

Since when have we, as a nation, demonized the expression of free speech? For the past few weeks, citizens across the country have been attending the town halls of their elected representatives to express their concerns about the massive redefinition of health care delivery contained in H.R. 3200, and they have been excoriated and attacked for doing so.

They have been referred to as mobs by the press, told by the president of the United States to “get out of the way” and were called “un-American” by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer, of Maryland. They have been shouted at, assaulted and, in one case in Michigan, threatened in the dark at their own home after speaking up about their concerns.

In 2003, then-Sen. Hillary Clinton said: “Since when has it been part of American patriotism to keep our mouths shut?” She was right. The cornerstone of our democracy is our First Amendment right to free speech. The First Amendment also guarantees our right to “petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

When the president tells you to get out of the way, the House speaker calls you un-American and your elected representatives refuse to hold town halls for their constituents, public protest becomes the only redress left to you.

 

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You REALLY want to “reform” healthcare in America? Here’s how…

 Democrat Health care

Guest Post by Andrew Hemingway 

There are two things you never talk about at work- politics and religion. This  week John McKay, the CEO of Whole Foods, broke that rule is now paying the price. On Tuesday Mr. Mckay wrote into the Wall Street Journal and editorial about Obamacare–in fact the article is entitled “The Whole Foods Alternative to Obamacare”.

Mr. McKay, the founder and CEO of one of the “greenest” companies in the country, gave a perspective to the healthcare debate that has been sorely missing: that of a business owner.  Mr. McKay lays out 8 things that he would like to see done in regards to healthcare and they are fantastic. In fact I was shocked to read them, as I had wrongly assumed that the owner of such a company would have to be in the bag for Obama and his agenda. Boy was I wrong!

Here are the 8 things that McKay says need to be done:

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HEALING OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

The focus of the national agenda this summer has clearly become reforming America’s health care system. Bring it on! There is no question that our health care system needs to be reformed to squeeze out the much inflated expenses and to assure high quality care. The American healthcare system is the most expensive in the world. And it is clear that, by any statistical measure, we are not getting value for money. Not only do these costs put proper health care out of reach for many middle class Americans, but these inflated costs are also making our products uncompetitive in the world economy, adding to our other economic problems.
 
Unfortunately however, in the proposals that have emerged, we seem to have taken our eye off the ball. The true challenge – the cost vs. quality issue – has become sidetracked. The debate has now become about health insurance, though this is only a part of the problem. Important as it is, insurance coverage is merely a way to pay for medical care. The focus should really be on the actual medical care delivery system, where the costs versus quality problems are to be found. To date, we have not touched those issues.  We are, in effect, putting the cart before the horse. And if the acrimony over insurance is any guide, the storm from that debate will be even more ferocious than today’s.
 
Since the discussion is now centered of insurance, it is worthwhile considering the merit of the existing proposal otherwise knows as HR 3200 Two questions in particular seem to be the most contentious: 1) will such a system lower patient’s medical costs 2) how would the public option impact the existing medical insurance system.  We would, of course, a ll like to see the 47 million currently uninsur ed people have access to quality health care, especially in catastrophic situations. But the stark reality is that suddenly adding such a large block of people in a total spectrum plan will cause a sharp spike in medical costs. It is a simple supply and demand calculation. Add to this the $1 trillion price tag and you get a big new shock to the system – at a time when the system can least absorb it. We should first streamline the system before we add a major new load onto it.
 
But the bigger issue is…

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Look who stopped in at MTNP radio today…

We had a special "guest" today show up in the MTNP studio… "Some men just want to watch capitalism burn"     The proud owners tell us that they owe a tip of the hat for the wording to our buddy John Hawkins of RightWingNews, who has been following the story of this image as it spreads around … Read more

Generation Y. Saving America from the ravages of the Boomers?

 

Guest post by Andrew Hemingway

There is so much happening in our world today that children and teens in the US really have no chance of keeping up. There is every imaginable toy, song, gadget  you can think of to keep them from the reality that is their life, and when they are not listening to headphones, they are texting their friends. I sound like an old man here. I am on the leading edge of what they call Generation  Y. There is in every society cycles, cycles of good (boomers) and cycles of bad (depression era), but not just in our own history, but in the history of civilization this has been true. Some generations ride on the coat tails of others, and some generations wake up to find themselves having to fight to retain their freedom.

Now, before you turn me off and think this is a young man bemoaning his lot in life- Think Again! My generation is the first generation that will not earn enough to pay for our parent’s entitlements. You see we are unfortunate to have parents in the Boomers. It is mathematically impossible for us to pay for them as the entitlements stand today. We can not pay for it! The upside is that like it or not FINALLY some politicians are going to have to acknowledge this and try to address it. I know you are laughing thinking of all the ways politicians over the years have lightly stepped around this issue leaving it for the next guy, as more and more seniors begin drawing on the system. 

As a member of this special generation, the generation that is being robbed blind. Yes we are being robbed blind! The Federal Government has spent all the money that generations before us could ever earn, and with each new “Fantastic” program they are working on spending all of our money. They are taking from us not just our money, but they are taking our ability to start businesses, and our ability to graduate from college and find jobs, they are taking away from us the most important thing to any Liberty loving society- Freedom. Our government, in the name of “humanity”or being “green” or what ever other reason they can possibly think of are, bill by bill, stealing from us our freedom.

My generation is not graduating from college with high hopes, we are not our starting businesses as generations before us have. We as a generation, and as a country are on the path that only leads to one end- Tyranny. Soon we will not choose a college, or a career they will be chosen for us. And if your grades are not that great you will be sent to work with your hands and others will be chosen to go ahead of you. We are very quickly approaching this.

 

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Health Care Compromise a Poison Pill for Small Business

poison pill 

Guest Post by Howie Rich 

Much ado has been made of the tenuous "compromise" between President Barack Obama and "Blue Dog" Democrats in Washington on the issue of government-run health care. Sadly, the reality is that the latest version of "Obamacare" is still a poison pill for America’s small businesses and the millions of workers they employ.

Most small businesses spend between 60 and 80 cents of every dollar they earn on payroll, which is precisely where Obama’s plan would hit them. Not content with simply bleeding "the rich" to pay for the massive up-front costs of his $1.5 trillion socialized medicine proposal, Obama also wants to impose a massive new tax increase on American small businesses – one that will directly impede their ability to create jobs and stimulate economic activity.

In other words, Obama wants to choke off America’s number one job-creating engine in the depths of a recession that has already cost millions of jobs – all so he can create a government health care monopoly that will not only increase costs but also reduce the quality of care.

That’s a recipe for disaster, not real reform, and yet Obama continues to use rhetoric to mask his true intent. For example, in proclaiming a "National Small Business Week" three months ago, Obama touted small businesses as "the lifeblood of cities and towns across the country."

"(Small businesses) help enhance the lives of our citizens by improving our quality of life and creating personal wealth," Obama said. "Small businesses will lead the way to prosperity, particularly in today’s challenging economic environment."

Obama further claimed that he supported "economic policies that encourage enterprise" and "tax policies that promote investment in small businesses."

Unfortunately, Obama’s rhetoric of support for small businesses has been accompanied by policies that threaten to put them "out" of business. For example, while state and local government bureaucracies have been bailed out to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, small businesses remain overtaxed and frozen out of credit markets.

So much for "stimulating Main Street."

 

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Exclusive: Kelly Ayotte’s First Public Speech in NH

  After several weeks of maneuvering and meetings down in Washington, DC, former NH Attorney General Kelly Ayotte has hit the ground here in NH as she starts campaigning for the GOP nomination for the US Senate seat being vacated by Judd Gregg. As reported in this earlier post, GraniteGrok was on the scene when she … Read more

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