Steve has the audio up already here.  Tough week for video – sure, we have it but with all of our guests coming in on the phone, it’s just us Groksters in the room with the only exception of an extended Pre-Show with Chair Ed Naile of the Coalition of NH Taxpayers as yak a bit as Steve and I prep to start the show.

Pre-Show

• Segment 1 – Groksters Steve, Mike, and Skip yak about the news of the Day, Week, and whatever else amuses us
• Segment 2 – Leighton Steward from PlantsNeedCO2.org comes on to make the case that heightened levels of atmospheric CO2 has positive effects, too
• Segment 3 – Tony DeMott of Campaign for Liberty joins us to talk about activism
• Segment 4 – Andrew Hemingway, candidate for the Republican nomination for NH Governor gives us an update on his campaign.  

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Like Dodd-Frank.

This backs up what I wrote here (H/T: You know who you are).  BTW, the info that is coming our way are NOT from “Democrat trackers” or even folks that are connected with other US Senate (or otherwise) Republican campaigns.  You know, sometimes bloggers are looked up as “the enemies”.  The truth is, something has to get our dander up for us to write about something or someone – something that violates our sense of cultural or political right-and-wrong.  Or in the case of Scott Brown, not saying much at all – he and his staff (that would be Andy Leach) might just listen a bit to our free advice and that of Grok friend DaTechGuy, a Republican that has to live the agony of being a Conservative in MA but takes interest in NH politics (emphasis mine, reformatted):

…Last week Senator Brown took my advice appearing in Hollis NH at the home of Granite Grok’s Mike Rogers with his lovely wife Gail to meet with a group of voters and make the case for him as the next Senator GOP senator from NH.  Mike regularly hosts candidates so people can meet and engage them and I’m often there to cover them. I missed this one but I commend Senator Brown for making the trip, but after reading the accounts of the event from Skip & Mike it seems that in giving said advice I left out an important point, something that is inherent to NH GOP politics that doesn’t come into play very often in Massachusetts.

In Massachusetts the GOP is so weak that

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Can’t you all even get the narrative right?

The Left is trying to redefine the language again so that OTHERS must supply another’s needs (classic “according to their needs” mantra) – this translates into “I demand that you pay for me”.  Once again, the Progressives are all willing to minimize the Constitutional meaning and power and replace it with their ideological Dystopia.  Which is shone by the folks in the video – watch especially for the lady in the blue jacket who is against the Green’s First Amendment Rights but argues for her own First Amendment Right without recognizing her hypocrisy.

Again, this is about Obama trashing the First Amendment Right of the individuals that own and run a company. It is the Left “progressing”

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Update: Ted Cruz is speaking.  I’ve put the video after the jump because it auto-plays and I can’t turn it off – but his is talking about Marxism and Leninism….

Methinks one Party won’t be too happy over this….

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The full line from the US Declaration of Independence is: “That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”  Meaning that the American philosophy that we allow ourselves (we give our consent) to be governed by our elected Representatives.  Which also means that there can be a time where that consent, if given in the past, can be withdrawn in the current period or some time in the future?  Are we starting to see a tipping point where that consent is starting to be withdrawn?  We have already heard from Connecticut and have commented on the situation there that it seems that the vast majority of gun owners have decided that they do not consent to the odious firearm statutes that have turned law abiding citizens into Class D felons simply for having purchase something that was legal in the past and are now illegal.  And that has declared them to be on the same moral level as sex offenders (for having to register with the State).

We heard that in NY that other gun owners are in non-compliance with the hastily passed SAFE Act that equals the regulations in Connecticut and those in NJ are starting to do the same:  

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I just thought “My, the Democrats think the same way – just in reverse on this! – and this from the religion hating, Republican hating Bill Maher.  But what gets me is that he laid down THE marker question to his panel of Lefties:  Why won’t the Democrats just come out, be brace, and be against the Second Amendment? And then you see US Senator Keith Ellison (D-MN) start to panic and try to defend the standard “incrementalist” strategy – because he KNOWS that if Democrats really said what they wanted, they’d never hold office again.  And he basically admits it, too.  As the Youngest would say “Political Cowardness”.

Note: I just put it after the jump – it’s auto playing and real annoying if on the front page – and I don’t see any switches to turn it off.

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