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Problem is, Obama wishes to put everyone on the Government teat

You know, Grokster Tim is gonna give me SUCH a hard time over this image – time after time I have repeated my one inviolate rule for Groksters about strictures in posts (“Adult themes, kid friendly”) when he (deliberately, and with a smirk on his face – heh!) puts up something that pushes my buttons.  And while he claims some ulterior reason, I know he likes to push my prudish (in his eyes) buttons – and then all the other Groksters smile in that he’s giving me a hard time.  Again. So, it’s after the jump.

The cover of Time magazine is that of a Mom that believes in extended nursing – her three year old son is “latched on” and she defends her decision for delaying the  weaning process.  Fine.  Her decision and that is up to her an her family.  Our two sons were also breast fed but for a far less period of time than this “cover model” has already done.

Well, there are parallels in the political world and Rush has it dead nuts right – Obama believes that Govt is that Mom and we all are that kid.  The message is from Obama is that hanging onto Govt for your daily sustenance is a good thing:

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Heh! I’ve been saying the same thing to TMEW this whole week….

Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals #5:

RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon

I also ran across this:

“Our job is a much simpler one: Point and laugh at all of it. The contortions, the spins, the lies — they’re all so pathetically and rib-achingly funny. In three-plus decades of watching politics, I’ve never witnessed anything so desperately, hysterically funny.”

TMEW (The Most Esteemed Wife) has had to put up with peals of hilarity all week long as I have watched one attempt after another by the Obama campaign to gain traction.  My take has been “This isn’t even the Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight”, these guys are the “Guys Who Can’t Even Pick Up the Gun”.

At every turn of trying to demonize Romney and the Right (after all, that is what Community Organizers do – they can’t build themselves up, they can only tear down others) with what Romney may have done wrong, the Right has been able to rebut the argument with something even worse (e.g., Romney cut some kid’s hair in high school – Obama admits do doing cocaine).  Set up a Twitter hashtag?  Watch conservatives hijack it.  Watch the political event like North Carolina voting for a Constitutional amendment affirming traditional marriage?  Just hold up a mirror to the real haters on the Left as they drop their “tolerance” masks.

As good as the Obama campaign was in 2008 with him as the unpainted canvas on which to be painted everybody’s Hope, this one is as bad.  This is the result of when you outsource your own Presidency actions to others (i.e., let Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the other Democrat Socialists put together Obamacare for universal healthcare, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd to hamstring the financial sector, and the Green Environmentalists who wish to destroy the US Energy industry).

The other part of that above quote is after the jump:

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GrokTV Special Interview: Rep. John Hikel for NH Senate – Question 8 – Created in the House but what happened in the Senate?

One of the very puzzling (and often, very frustating) things that has happened this session between the NH House and the NH Senate is the amount of bills passed by overwhelmingly by the supermajority of Republican in the House getting tabled or voted down by the supermajority of Republicans in the NH Senate.  GraniteGrok asked … Read more

2012 Presidential Campaign: Buddy has the right idea – will Paul or Johnson?

We interviewed Buddy Roemer a lot during this primary season; he was a hoot to talk to and did have some interesting ideas.  But given that he is the former Governor of LA as well as one of its former Congressman (and building a billion dollar bank is no small feat), I always scratched my head wondering why he didn’t get even a wee bit more traction in the Republican field.  Then he decided to switch to that online “Party”, Americans Elect, and he kinda dropped off the radar screen.  But apparently, he kept us on his email list (emphasis mine):

Roemer Refuses to Play Spoiler

Baton Rouge, LA – Governor Buddy Roemer issued the following statement in regard to speculation of him being a “spoiler” for Governor Romney and/or President Obama:

…I run to win. I am not a single-issue candidate or someone who is merely trying to make a statement. I am not Ralph Nader. I am a former Governor of a corrupt state that I helped clean up; I am former four-term Congressman who worked closely with President Reagan to help our country; and for the last twenty years I have been a successful businessman creating jobs.

I am currently polling at 7% in the most recent national survey and I am confident once I receive the Americans Elect nomination that I can attain 15% standing which will then qualify me to participate in the national debates this fall. Obama, Romney and Roemer. Again, I run to win.

If, during the last month of the campaign I discover I have no realistic chance of winning, I will ask my supporters to vote their conscience or for their second choice so the issue of spoiler can be dropped once and for all.

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GrokTV Event: Rye RepublicanTown Committee Gala Reception for 2012 GOP Candidates – Ovide Lamontagne, Kevin Smith

Political event?  Politicians!  And politicians generally mean elections which means candidates – and from the Rye Republican Town Committee event that we live streamed, we had two more we wish to bring to your attention: Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith – both are running to become the NH GOP’s nominee for NH Governor.  Each has their own style and stances.  Take a listen, ya hear?

Ovide Lamontagne:

Kevin Smith:

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GrokTV Special Interview: Rep. John Hikel for NH Senate – Question 7 – Contrast the Occupy Wall Street movement with the TEA Party movement

Certainly two of the most talked about political movements of the last three years are Occupy Wall Street and TEA Party.  Pretty much the only thing that they agree upon is that the conflation of Big Government and Big Business has resulted is Crony Capitalism / State Corporatism – and vehemently disagree with the remedy.  … Read more

Yawn – Mainstream Media Reporter(s) lazily gets it wrong

Updated and bumped:  Well, another loyal reader caught another Union Leader reporter, Paul Feely, making the same lazy mistake (emphasis mine): The video shows what appears to be New Hampshire election officials handing ballots to unidentified men, who videotaped the exchanges with hidden cameras at polls in Manchester and Nashua. Plural: ballots, men.  I watched … Read more

GrokTV Event: Rye RepublicanTown Committee Gala Reception for 2012 GOP Candidates – Dennis Lamare, Nancy Stiles, Chris Sununu

Continuing on with our coverage of the Sunday afternoon event that the Rye Republican Town Committee (holding their “Gala Reception for 2012 GOP Candidates” at the Abenaqui Country Club in Rye, NH) let’s go to the next set of videos:  As I wrote in the last post (“Intro Ceremonies“) “Given such a name for an event, a number of NH GOP candidates vying for seats in 2012 did attend the sold-out crowd”; here are the first three that spoke to the crowd (appearing in order of speaking during the event):

  • Dennis Lamare – Candidate, looking to unseat Charlie Bass in NH’s Second Congressional District
  • Executive Councilor Chris Sununu – running for re-election for the Council in District 3 (video after the jump)
  • NH State Senator Nancy Stiles – running for re-election for the Council (video after the jump)

Dennis Lamare:

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GrokTV Event: NHCC’s seminar on NH Constitution-Article 73A “Judicial Tyranny?” – Rep. Gregory Sorg & Rep. Paul Ingbretson

National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies on the NH Constitution:

Seminar and Panel Discussion on “Coming to terms with the rulemaking power of the Judicial Branch and its impact on personal liberty: Article 73-A.

And!  Continuing with our coverage of this event (Intro, Hon. Dan Itse & Hon. Paul Mirski), we had two more NH State Representatives speak to different aspects of this issue: is the NH Judiciary out of control, and if so, is there a remedy, and what can the Citizens do about it?

NH State Rep. Gregory Sorg:

NH State Rep. Paul Ingbretson:

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Observation of the Day – DaTechGuy

In his post on the TEA Party vs Occupy, DaTechGuy has it pretty well nailed down: OK you got one side cold cocking cops and the other side [is] beating sitting senators at the polls. Tell me which movement has a future again? Let’s also add in all the violence, the lawbreaking, and the defecating … Read more

Data Point – Long term unemployment

President Obama has blamed his predecessor, President Bush, for three and a half years on the economy “we inherited”.  Thoughts: I don’t remember President Reagan complaining suchly about his predecessor, President Jimmy Carter And for such a brilliant man (Punahoe, Columbia, Harvard), is this an admission that he is not a sufficiently good enough manager … Read more

GrokTV Event: NHCC’s seminar on NH Constitution-Article 73A “Judicial Tyranny?” – Question and Answer

At the end of the event sponsored by the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies on the NH Constitution:

Seminar and Panel Discussion on “Coming to terms with the rulemaking power of the Judicial Branch and its impact on personal liberty: Article 73-A.

was a Question and Answer period moderated by the M.C. for the evening, Patriot Pastor Garrett Lear.  Questions were taken from the well attended crowd and it lasted about 45 minutes (which I have split into 3 parts, with parts 2 & 3 after the jump).

Part 1:

Previous posts:

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GrokTV Event: NHCC’s seminar on NH Constitution-Article 73A “Judicial Tyranny?” – Rep. Dan Itse & Rep. Paul Mirski

National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies on the NH Constitution:

Seminar and Panel Discussion on “Coming to terms with the rulemaking power of the Judicial Branch and its impact on personal liberty: Article 73-A.

After the Intro Ceremonies conducted by M.C. Patriot Pastor Garrett Lear, NH State Representative Dan Itse took the podium to give his take on the NH Constitution, a history lesson, some comparisons with other state constitutions, and his general take on the relationship of the people to those that are stewards of the peoples’ power by election and appointment:

After the jump, NH State Rep. Paul Mirski continues the discussion:

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