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For my Gilford readers – a request for your vote!

Checkmark RedOne of the things that I am proud about the folks that opine here at GraniteGrok is not just that they spend their free time writing here, not just that when they write but that they write well, but that they all DO and not just write.  Each of the authors here get off their butts and go and actively do the politics that they advocate for here on the ‘Grok.  I am no different, as I actively engage at my local level.  For those of you living in Gilford, I ask that you would please vote for Barbara Aichinger, Stuart Savage, and me when you vote next month in our SB-2 sanctioned secret ballot vote.

The following is the Letter that I have submitted to local media outlets:

My name is Skip Murphy and I am running for re-election for the Gilford Budget Committee. I am also endorsing Barbara Aichinger and Stuart Savage for the BudComm and for the following reasons.

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Tyranny of the Pen – but in spinning, Obama’s Jack Lew leaves a glaring and obvious hole

Jack Lew used to be Obama’s Budget Director – well, given that the Democrat controlled Senate has now gone 1,100 days since passing a budget (as the law requires), methinks he has had little to do.  Now given that Daley didn’t make nice (or couldn’t) with Jarrett or Michelle, he was elevated to The One’s Chief of Staff and he made the rounds of all of the major Sunday talking head shows.  Pretty much, same speech, same words…

… and each and every time, Sherlock’s dog wasn’t barking.  Good thing he wasn’t testifying in court, as he would have been held in contempt for not “telling the whole truth”.  Just like Jeanne Shaheen, it is obvious that the values we hold dear and can plainly read in the Constitution are not those of Lew or Obama. In this, Lew is helping Obama to “…fundamentally transforming the United States of America” in arguing for Obama’s HHS rule to establish primacy of Government to determine what is a religious organization or not (and therefore, which falls under First Amendment protection or not).

He pretty much made the same argument using pretty much the same words on each and every one of the Sunday talking head shows.  The only one that tried to challenge him was Fox News Sunday (and even at that, I think that Chris Wallace did not have his finest game on tap).  It was obvious that Lew was spinning as fast as a windmill in a hurricane – and it was obvious as he tried to defend Obama’s “conciliatory” redo of the religious exemption of institutions being force to provide employees with contraception services (including sterilization, abortifacients, and abortion) and thus, violating their core theological tenets and morality.  Simply stated, he would not allow that this is a Government overreach into the heart of religious theology and governance – simply “why can’t you morons understand this is ‘for the women’ with our revised policy?”

“The President has a very deep belief that every  woman right to all forms of preventive healthcare including contraception. He also has a very deep belief that it is one of our core principles of our country that we have to respect the religious liberties of this country is built on.  The solution we have reach is consistent with those core principles.”

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AttackWatch – reborn?

So sorry, Steve – your post about the demise of Obama’s campaign AttackWatch may have been premature.  Or, did it just go all “ZombieWatch”?  Careful  all you anti-Big Government, gun-totin’, Bible thumpin’, Constitution lovin’ conservatives and libertarians – Obama’s crack webmavens have brought it back from the dead (gee, just like Dark Shadows?)!  Prepare for … Read more

Ted Nugent visits Piers Morgan – Piers makes a really bad mistake

Morgan should have looked to see that his magazine was loaded.  Ted had such a grin on his face and Piers’s definitely showed that he was forced to suck on a lime as Ted just kept progressing forward. I just love these kinds of interviews…and I could listen to Ted all day long doing them. … Read more

Both President Obama (D-Chicago) and Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) have not problem in throwing the Constitution under the bus.

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”
– President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

That would be the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution for the clueless (or graduates of the Government school system).  Alternative titles:

  • “Both President Obama and Senator Jeanne Shaheen both agree with only half of “The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen”.

Obvious, both of them believe that Government is not big enough!

Jeanne Shaheen Wicked WitchWe have certainly seen lately that Shaheen decided to shred the idea of Federalism when she used the force of The Feds to override the NH elected Executive Councilors in funding Planned Parenthood.  And now, it seems, she not only has joined and gone all in with Obama with his assault on religious Liberty (Liberty – you know, the foundational philosophy of our country in all things personal, economic, and religious?).  It seems that as well sneering at the five Republicans on the Exec Council (“Look at me, you puny people – *I* can use the force of Bigger Government to tell NH how it will be run!”), she’s also been in forefront of getting Obama to throw Catholics onto the tracks as the Progressive train runs the US away from the idea of individual Liberty to that vaunted goal of

“we’re all in this together – whether or not you want to!“

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And if you think that I am misquoting Senator Jeanne Shaheen and saying she cherishes abortion over Liberty, read her own words

“…a power grab as Government is reaching into yet another part of our private lives to force us to fulfill the selfishness of Progressive politicians such as yourself, putting your ideology ahead of our freedoms”.

From her own official US Senator website and the transcript of her Senate floor address from Feb 7.  Read through it – how often do you read the words “freedom” or “liberty”?  Does she quote one of the Founders?  Does she reference the Constitution?  Does she talk about Government overreach?  Does she talk about freedom of choice for all people, regardless of any special identity group?

What is her highest value?

…I also commend the President for standing up for women’s health and reaffirming the recommendation of the Institute of Medicine to protect access to affordable birth control for all women.  The decision to require health plans’ coverage of contraception with no copays or deductibles will change the lives of millions of women and their families for the better.

Ah yes, the Institute of Medicine – this batch of unelected bureaucrats have decided, in all of their fantabulous wisdom, that their pronouncement of a “want” (or even a “maybe should have”).  Look, in terms of actual medical advice, they certainly should give it.  But the United States is neither a hospital or an academic Ivory Tower.  Instead, this is a political matter, a cultural matter, and one that should be rightly measured against the timeless principles of the Constitution.

What Jeanne has shown us, however, the game plan is plain from a Progressive’s standpoint: consult “the experts”, do not question them, and immediately put their expert recommendations into policy.  After all, they know better what we need than we do.

My questions is,  how long do the Progressives think that they can play King Canute and believe they can tell the Laws of Economics to suspend themselves (“with no copays or deductibles”).

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NRA – a very timid step, but are they finally getting the big picture??

NRA grassroots email alertsAs an former NRA member, I still get their NRA-ILA alerts and I am always figuring that this is the indication of what they are thinking concerning the “big” picture.  After all, a couple of years now when the Dems were pushing the DISCLOSE act that would have restricted Free Speech, the NRA was silent.  Absolutely silent – and that in and of itself created a fire storm from both conservative grassroots and from their own membership akin to “Are you guys flippin’ morons??  You CANNOT just concentrate on protecting just the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms) if they take away your First!”

The NRA kept saying that they were a one issue group (as if that was a sufficient), so that’s why they wouldn’t be speaking out on that issue.  Period – and in my mind, given what they could have brought to bear, a cop-out of the first degree.  That is also why I am an ex-NRA member, because unless you are willing to protect it all, you will lose your one issue.  A particular section of a wall cannot stand on its own and be effective if the rest of the wall has been knocked down by incoming enemy fire – and make no mistake, the entire founding philosophy of the Constitution is under heavy attack from Progressives. Yes, concentrate on your single issue, but there are times we all have to be voluntarily interlocked to protect the freedoms that are trying to be wrenched from us under the guise of the Marxist “greater good” collective group-think.  This is, again, one of those times.

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CPAC: Chair, National Organization for Marriage, John Eastman

He reads some of the explicit testimony from Prop 8 proponents in how achieving gay marriage will radically change the institution of marriage to simply being a sexual choice between adults. Kids?  Not so much…. (H/T:  The Corner)

The Obligatory “.45 ACP beats laptop / Facebook”

What parent hasn’t been so upset with their spoiled brat of a whelp that they didn’t want to do something like this?  And the guy is right – ya don’t try to do this with an IT dude for a Dad.  The only thing better would have been to have heard the screams of potty-mouth ungrateful offspring when she started to hear from her friends of what they had just seen.

(H/T: The Blaze)

You go, Dad!  Full transcript after the jump.

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