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April 27th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – NH House Rep Bill O’Brien

September 26, 2018April 29, 2013 Steve MacDonald

This week on GrokTALk! New Hampshire House Republican, and former Speaker of the NH House, Rep Bill O’Brien talks to Skip and Steve about budgets, deficits, dishonest accounting gymnastics, devolving power from Concord and returning it to the towns and the people, and how his exploration of a potential congressional run is going. To download … Read more

Is The NH House Ready for More Darth Norelli?

September 26, 2018December 15, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Democrat NH House speaker Norelli - Darth Norelli — What? This isn’t the bipartisanship you were looking for?

Lord Vader brooked no failure and punishment was swift and final. New Hampshire Democrat Terie Norelli, as either Majority or Minority leader, has never been one to tolerate dissent either. And while she’s not (to our knowledge) ever strangled anyone with the force, she has strangled their careers, used inter-caucus bullying and intimidation to bring them around or shut them down, ignored their ideas, refused to teach them, and even driven them from office…and that’s just the Democrats.

So anyone who ever thought Democrat leadership–all the way up to Maggie Hassan–was serious about this “can’t we all get along” here’s a smile and a coke crap the minute the microphones are turned off, has another thing coming.

Maybe the House Got the Message

September 26, 2018June 3, 2011 Don

Perhaps the House of Representatives did get the message from last November‘s election and from polls indicating that Americans are serious about cutting deficit spending. On Tuesday, in a bi-partisan vote (82 Democrats, 236 Republicans) the House overwhelmingly rejected President Obama’s request to unconditionally increase the debt ceiling. Only 97 Democrats voted to continue reckless spending.

Despite alarmist claims about not raising the debt ceiling, the Secretary of the Treasury can dispense its approximately $2 trillion revenues on a priority basis. Our country need not default on our debt or fail to pay the military, seniors, the poor, or other critical obligations UNLESS OBAMA’s administration CHOOSES NOT TO MAKE THOSE PAYMENTS.

Promises made , Promises Kept

September 26, 2018April 5, 2011 Steve MacDonald

NH House Republican Press conference on the Budget and their legislative accomplishments this year.

NH House Republican Legislative Progress Report

September 26, 2018March 2, 2011 Steve MacDonald

The House Republicans, today, issued the following legislative progress report.

Guns vs Progressives

September 26, 2018January 27, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Gun%20Free%20Zone%20Poll.gif After 12 more hours the Londonderry News on-line polling percentages tell the same story. People who vote on polls at the Londonderry news would (so far) overwhelmingly allow their fourth grader into the New Hampshire State House even though it is not a Gun Free Zone.

For those reading this from police states like Massachusetts, New York or New Jersey…Venezuela, Cuba and so on, you might be asking what the hell am I talking about? Allow me to review.

Is Leadership Opposing The Recall Bill? (HB 73)

September 26, 2018January 21, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Sources in the State House have suggested to me that Dan Itse’s HB 73, ‘An Act establishing a process for recall of US Senators from New Hampshire, may be opposed by the Republican House leadership.

This information comes quickly after an article in the Union Leader yesterday in which the usual suspects on the left assumed that the bill was meant as an attack on Jeanne Shaheen. That thinking stems from the root of evil that is in side the Lefts party leadership. If the democrats had proposed it, it would be to unseat a Republican Senator so they naturally assume that this is the intention.

Sorry. We really do not think that way.

I am not Senator Shaheen’s biggest fan, but I agree with Dan Itse whose response to that was no. It is not to unseat anyone. Six years is simply too long for any elected representative to be in office without any real sense of accountability and US senators, be they Shaheen, Gregg, Ayotte, or whomever, have far too much time to exercise far too much power without any regard for its actual relevance or effect on the state they are meant to represent in that body. The history of the Senate since the institution of direct election is one of corruption, self enrichment, and political fiefdoms.

Brunelle Is A Distraction

September 26, 2018January 10, 2011 Steve MacDonald

My previous post on the pending investigation of Mike Brunelle was to poke fun at the lefts hypocrisy on the influence of money, anticipate the caterwauling, and suggest a course for clarifying the meaning of the text. In the intervening days, it seems obvious that I left some points out, some made by democrats.

Mike Earmark Brunelle To Be Investigated

September 26, 2018January 6, 2011 Steve MacDonald

The democrats are probably already crying like a toddler who just lost their balloon. (Ironic that they wont have to pay a fine.) But we should look at this seriously and in a context that the progressives understand.