We already have three political parties. The Democrats, the Republicans who represent Republican voters, and the Republicans who do NOT represent Republican voters. Last night’s (2/12) Senate vote on “foreign aid” is illustrative of the split: 22 “Republicans” joined with the Democrats to continue funding that kleptocracy called Ukraine:
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VT GOP – Call Me Crazy but….
Saturday afternoon at “the Aud” in Barre I attended the Republican Party of Vermont’s committee meeting. My reasons for attending were twofold, namely to get a sense of the party (I am a lifelong Independent) and listen for their pitch to me as a potential candidate for the Senate or House from my progressive stronghold in Windsor County.
The Republican Party Is on Life Support
Pivotal in remaining a strong and credible party, you need to have the trust of your constituents. Without that trust within the bounds of the law, both the individual and the collective will be stifled, resulting in an enterprise unworthy of the name.
A Few Thoughts on Republican’s Electile Dysfunction
Typically, after an election and the bigger it is, the more likely, things will slow down a bit. I hinted at this here. The days after, win or lose, are for the election hangover, a few days in detox, or a week of me-time.
Not Even Sixty America-First-Republican-Representatives in Congress
Last night the House voted to send $40 billion to Ukraine, on top of the tens of billions already sent … at a time when mothers in the United States are facing shortages of baby formula.
Vote-By-Mail Ballot Request Form Has a Return Address That Does not Even Exist
In the “people send us stuff’ category,” we introduce the following into evidence. It looks like an absentee ballot request form with the wrong town and zip code on it, which makes it a request with a return address that does not exist.
RINOs: The Dilution & Breakdown of the Republican Brand in NH
Dilution is the action of making something weaker in force, content, or value. Have you watched a brand you love just mean less and less? The brand might have gone in a direction you just couldn’t follow, or the quality of their product just kept slipping until their reputation was gone. You are not alone. … Read more
Really New Hampshire GOP? The Life of a Heinous Cop-Killer More Important Than the Lives of Seven, Eight, Nine Month Old Unborn Babies?
This: The last time somebody was executed in New Hampshire was 1939. The only person affected by repealing the statutory death penalty is a convicted cop-killer, whom nobody argues was falsely convicted. Contrast this to the real death penalty that takes place probably daily in New Hampshire. The most permissive abortion laws in the country. … Read more
Election Results Won’t Change If The Faces Don’t
By the mid-term elections how is it possible that Muslim terrorist attacks in the U.S. ceased, the GDP reached 4.1%, wages went up, the stock market went up “bigly”, NATO was induced to pay its way, North Korea stopped launching missiles, bonuses were given out to workers, overall unemployment declined, Hispanic unemployment went down, black … Read more
The Republican Party and Civil Rights in America – The Untold Story
There is no question that the Kansas-Nebraska Act which dissolved the Missouri Compromise was the catalyst for the creation of the Republican Party. But its foundation firmly lays in the opposition of the single most reprehensible act in US history, slavery.
Notable Quote – On “Reorganizing” the Republican Party
“…it is probably enough to observe here that in the nature of things the exercise of personal government, the control of a huge bureaucracy, and the management of an enormous mass of subsidized voting-power, are as agreeable to one stripe of politician as they are another. Presumably they interest a Republican or Progressive as much … Read more
Extreme Pandering – really? Republicans can’t even master level 1 Pandering.
(Image H/T: Powerline)
It is my belief that any movement on making the actions of illegal aliens now legal will not result in a brand new group of voters for the Republican Party no matter how much the R blowhards in the US Senate (McCain, Graham) would have us believe. Even the fresh face of Marco Rubio now has some mud on it as he as alternatively tried to parlay his “newness” in the Senate as being a “third way” on making millions of illegal aliens US Citizens.
Sure, I’ve heard the warbling of “it will take them years!”, and “they will have to prove residency!” and of course, the money issue of “Pay back taxes!”. Eyup! And yes, “we’ll secure the border or start yet another commission” does NOT warm the cockles ANYwhere in the proximate vicinity of my body. Right – I have NO hope that anything other than lip service will back up Marco’s claims that ANY of that will be done. In fact, I posit that our crack TSA security theater workers will catch 100% of all “test contraband” (think: guns, bombs) before these immigration strictures are actually working 100%.
Not my first rodeo here – and I have YET to see My Government keep its promises or properly enforce both the letter and spirit of the Law. Clinton didn’t. Bush didn’t (and we here at GraniteGrok were part of that effort back in 2006/2007 that help to melt the switchboards in DC). Bush II didn’t. And for all of the brouhaha that Obama “raised” deportations, let us not forget three things:
Facebook Doodlings…How To Treat Your “Republicans”
If you are a Republican in New Hampshire the official party response to Stella Tremblay’s “opinion” (regardless of your opinion about her opinion) is a stark reminder of how you will be treated by them, regardless of your value to the parties so-called political goals (the platform).
I mention it only because of a relatively recent Facebook status update posted in the Republican sphere, that said…
Tremblay criticized for comments on bombing victim. NH GOPers like this are giving NH Dems even better odds at retaining the legislative majority…
There were a few comments both ways to varying degrees but I felt compelled to add my thoughts…
GrokTALK! Snippets–Segment Four: Ellen Kolb on Life, Religious Liberty, And The Pursuit of Media Responsibility
In the Fourth and final Segment of this weeks podcast Skip and Steve talk with longtime New Hampshire life Advocate Ellen Kolb about the HHS mandate, the GOP and Social Issues, Kermit the Killer Gosnell, the missing media, Planned Parenthood and more. Due to a technical problem the first few minute of this segment were … Read more
Riffs off Laura Ingraham’s opening monologue – social issues and the Republican Party.
I like Laura Ingraham, a Conservative talk show hostess, and I do listen into The Factor when she guest hosts. I had DVR’d the program for a different segment, but this morning upon playing it back, her opening monologue caught my attention even more:
The question of what sort of culture our children are going to inherit is more important that the results of any one election.
This SHOULD be true: “culture our children are going to inherit is more important that the results of any one election.” The problem for Conservatives, especially Social Conservatives, is that the Progressives ARE making elections all about the culture, that they are playing “Culture Survivor” and we are in the process of getting thrown off the island. I hear calls that “times are changing”, for folks like me to “get over it” or that I am “a Christian bigot”, and that my political Party just wants me to die off (shades of US Rep Grayson of Republicans wanting people to die quickly (although that was in terms of Republicans not wanting Obamacare)) just to take a flock of issues like gay marriage and abortion off the table (or any other issue on which they seemingly can’t articulate a clear message that could persuade even an ant).
The social issues are not merely a political football to be used by grasping politicians seeking to win power.
Yes, but that is how politicians and the rest of the Political Class see it. Power first and then we’ll….do something, sorta. BUT WE HAVE TO WIN! Yeah, winning is nice and winning feels good and winning lets you do things. But THAT is the question! After we pour in all of our money, and all of our effort, and all of our intellectual and spiritual effort, and our votes – what do we get?
Politicians who are already looking for the next election and Republican campaign promises end up having the same expiration dates that Obama’s do. I’ve oft posted about Frank Guinta and his failed votes on the Continuing Resolutions that only spent MORE than before (regardless of promises to cut spending). For a couple of YEARS, I’ve heard the the DC House Republicans say they will cut Obamacare funding – and Constitutionally they CAN as they are the branch of government that starts the appropriation process. Did they cut a DIME out of Obamacare on this last CR? Course not – the Party that proclaims “You can trust us – we’re not Democrats” makes a lie even out of that thin phrase. The very THOUGHT of being blamed for “shutting down government” turns them into statues of stone for a microsecond – my GOSH, I might get booted from office!
They really do establish the framework for the many aspects of American life, from our schools to our churches to our families.
Roll Call Examines Why The NH-GOP is Such a Mess
Roll Call has an article that will be making the rounds. According to some people from around the Republican firmamanet…
The Granite State’s political infrastructure is “a mess,” complain out-of-state GOP consultants, and the state has become an increasingly difficult place to run campaigns.
The article goes on to observe some coincidences with problems in the national party, problems with turnover in the party structure itself, and in the control of the legislature. It then quotes “Tea Party Critic” Fergus Cullen, which I suppose makes sense because he happens to be one of the GOP “experts” at standing idly by while New Hampshire turned Purple, or is it Blue?
A very ugly autopsy on the Romney campaign…
…and a very angry critique of the Republican Party as it exists today, which states in part that…
Notable Quotes: On Current NH-GOP Leadership
In my honest opinion the amalgam of Establishment Republican Leadership in New Hampshire, which includes the shadow party “leadership” that makes the phone calls behind the scenes, decides whose turn it is, puts pressure on people to do their bidding or get out, and claims to control the money, are about as effective politically as … Read more
Talk About Having No Idea What A Conservative Is… (Updated Again & Bumped)
John B. Heroux is reported to be a resident of Bedford, New Hampshire, and a chronic contributor to the Union Leader Editorial page (if Google can be trusted), but he has absolutely no idea what a conservative is. In his recent “Your Turn” contribution to the public discourse (Union Leader) he starts with this:
The first order of business should be to take the party back from the conservatives. Republicans are the minority party, and the party’s success depends on appealing to independent voters and conservative Democrats. The radical Tea Party and the Rush Limbaugh/Ann Coulter faction do not appeal to these voters.
That’s all well and good as opinion–to which he is of course entitled–except that as he proceeds to storm his way down the laundry list of “consevatives” he blames for all that seems to ail him, he fails to name anyone who has actually behaved like a Conservative.