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It’s Train Wreck Week!

I'm supposed to read what first?

It’s Carol Shea-Porter week over at Boo-Hoo Hampshire. That means quality opinion about the antics of the 1st district congresspersonista from New Hampshire are the order of the day, every day, until next Monday. So the guys at Granite Grok are more than happy to embrace Carol’s stated commitment to bi-partisan support, an angle you are not going to find at Blue Hamster, by providing alternative commentary about her for the duration, in honor of her having voted with her party leadership 98% of the time.

By the way. Do you know why Carol only votes with her party 98% of the time? She’s missed 2% of the votes.

But to be fair, and we know Carol is all about fair, we’ll leave it up to Blue Dumpster to produce Carol’s bi-partisan record in congress.  That’s when she does not vote with the leadership PAC money that keeps coming her way for being such a good little do-bee.  (Remember what Frau Pelosi says..don’t be a "Dont Bee," be a "Do Bee.") So good luck to them.  I don’t think they can pull it off.  Carol is easily one of the most reliable votes for the expansion of the Nancy-State.

I’d also like to see them merge her voting record with the "Independent voice for New Hampshire" rhetoric, an equally challenging effort given the facts. Of course Dean is not looking for facts he’s looking for sympathy. He’s mounting this "give Carol a big ol’ hug" campaign to energize whatever is left of the base or it’s support for Carol Shea-Porter since the independent voice of the independent’s has jumped ship leaving him with his voice, the left wing church choir, and a handful of RINO’s lurking over at Red Hampshire.  So how much you want to bet we get more traffic on ‘CSP Week’ than he does?

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ONE! Singular Deception…

The ONE campaign is back in New Hampshire and looking for fresh souls to trap in its twisted web of deception.  While liberals are always ripe for a sob story, ONE is always looking for unsuspecting so-called conservatives and Republicans to call friends.  And the GOP is easy prey.  After years of being framed by the media as cold-hearted war mongers who spend long days smoking cigars and oppressing the world’s poor for the gain of their corporate paymasters, nothing looks better to them than being seen with a group like ONE campaign.

Unless of course you’ve seen the Black Widow waiting at the center of the ONE web.

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You tell me…

That was then, this is now, right? But are they not really talking about the Free State of New Hampshire? The last best chance for people who believe in individual freedom, in a world dominated by Obama-type apparatchiks? A world where America itself has gone down the socialist rat hole planned for it by today’s Democrats? … Read more

Killing Prosperity

The total incompetence in Washington-unless of course they are in fact a super villain like Moriarty hell bent on the economic destruction of the country–is fully on display.  We have people taking profits in 2010 without hiring, giving the impression of a recovery when in fact they are simply storing their nuts for the long … Read more

No Lessons Learned

Representative Shea-Porter, when given a simple solution invariably chooses the more complex one because it does a better job of hiding the true costs and intentions of any given legislative endeavor.  Insurance reform is the fine example, but a more obvious choice is Cap and Trade.  A basic sin-tax on carbon, like those on tobacco, would … Read more

Socialized Education

  The federal college-loan money-grab was crammed into the Health Insurance boondoggle like the last blue frosted donut testing the frontiers of elasticity on our now calorically challenged, spandex wearing constitution.  And unlike the obvious fascism of the bank takeovers and auto industry takeovers–and of course the health industry takeover, this one was not over advertised. While … Read more

Smart Meters courtesy of Big Bro’

In their 1975 album, “Wish You Were Here,” Pink Floyd sang of an all-knowing machine: “Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. Where have you been? It’s alright we know where you’ve been. You’ve been in the pipeline, filling in time…” More recently, the band Velvet Revolver (featuring Slash of Guns n Roses fame on … Read more

Obama’s great middle class betrayal: It’s the taxes, stupid!

 Obama taxes middle class

Guest Post by Howard Rich 

As much as the Beltway chattering class refuses to admit it, Barack Obama’s electoral victory last year had nothing to do with his oft-repeated, generic pledge to bring “hope and change” to Washington, D.C. Sure it sounded good at the time, but Americans have always voted based on their wallets and pocketbooks – not lofty-sounding campaign promises or rhetorical flourishes.

The real key to Obama’s victory a year ago – indeed his “signature” issue – was his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class.

“You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime,” Obama promised tens of millions of Americans making $250,000 or less. In fact, candidate Obama promised the middle class billions of dollars in tax cuts, part of his whole “spread the wealth around” plan.

“If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year or less, you will see no increase in your taxes,” Obama promised. “Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your personal gains tax, not any of your taxes.”

Never mind the fact that Obama’s plan would have hit income and payroll providers especially hard, rendering “middle class tax relief” irrelevant to the millions of workers heading toward already-crowded unemployment lines.

No matter how you look at it, though, what a difference a year makes.

 

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Report: Democrat Health Plan to Cost NH Businesses Hundreds of Millions

  STEWARD STUDY: HEALTH CARE OVERHAUL PLANS INCLUDE HIDDEN COSTS FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE’S BUSINESS COMMUNITY Economists’ Report Tells Granite State Businesses to Brace for Hundreds of Millions in New Taxes CONCORD, NH – New Hampshire businesses would have to pay as much as $229 million to comply with Democrat plans to overhaul America’s health care … Read more

“One day we shall see the tragedy of it all”

  Guest Post by Robert Romano  Today, the Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote on the mark-up of the Senate version of ObamaCare, which would create the equivalent of a public-private partnership like Fannie Mae, the Federal Reserve, or Amtrak to “compete” with private sector health insurance. And, as Woodrow Wilson opined upon the … Read more

Red Light District

This is but one of the many beloved "non-profit" groups that will thrive [and spend taxpayer dollars] under Obama’s vision for a socialistic utopian America. No thanks. From ALG:

Hodes: I believe it’s important to be open and accessible”

  Here’s a video showing NH’s 2nd Congressional District representative Paul Hodes taking heat before and after press conference for not allowing constituents accessibility in an open town hall style meeting. With the canned response obviously stuck in his head, the hard to find Democratic Congressman claims he has "spoken to thousands of constituents in … Read more

Paid Activism. It’s good work, I guess, if you can get it. “Let’s Do a Chant!”

So I’m at the Carol Shea Porter town hall style meeting in Portsmouth last Saturday, and, while watching the passing scene, I started to notice a few people that appeared to be "working" the crowd pretty heavily. Following the event, there was quite a spectacle out front that made for some interesting political street theater. Many … Read more

You’d think a public servant would be more inclined to “hear” from the people. Not Carol Shea Porter

 Yesterday I attended the so called "town hall meeting" with our Congresswoman, Carol Shea Porter in Manchester.  Let me first start off by saying, the venue she chose could only hold 100 people.  While there were two scheduled "town hall meetings" Saturday, both had a limited capacity.

Knowing that town hall meetings have been packed across this country over this issue, it was disappointing that she chose a venue that held such a small amount of her constituents.  It left many wondering if she simply wanted to make the argument that she had a town hall without really giving her constituents the opportunity to voice their questions/concerns.
 
This was proven again once the town hall meeting began.  Ms. Shea Porter began by asking two individuals to tell their personal stories of how they felt disenfranchised by the health care or insurance industry.  This took a valuable 20 minutes in a ONE hour town hall meeting. 
 
We were given tickets and those who were able to ask a question did so if they were chosen in a lottery type of system.  I felt this was a fair way to draw questions.  Each person was given 2 minutes to ask their question and/or voice their concerns.  Again, I felt that was a fair amount of time. 
 
About 20 minutes after the meeting began and after listening to her chosen speakers, people were allowed to ask their questions if their number was drawn.  One thing I observed throughout this meeting was, how much Carol Shea Porter loves to hear herself speak.  With a limited amount of time, I would have thought a public servant would be more inclined to "HEAR" from the people, rather than sell us this legislation.  That was not the case.  It was her opportunity to sell this legislation to the people rather than hear from her constituents.
 
AS the questions FINALLY began, I noticed people had 2 minutes to ask the question, but Carol Shea Porter took several minutes to answer them.   Because she rambled on with each answer, only a precious few questions were asked.  Some of the people attending were clearly getting irritated by her long-winded answers, knowing they had little chance of speaking .
 
While a few of those chosen to speak seemed to favor a govt. run option, the majority appeared to be in opposition. At one point, the lady sitting next to me, having worked in the health care industry asked what was being done to bring down costs, for instance, by addressing things like Tort Reform.

Ms. Shea Porter’s answer seemed to imply that while Tort Reform is not included in the bill, it wasn’t that important, either.  She referred to Texas and quoted stats that made it "APPEAR" as if Tort Reform wasn’t working in Texas. 

AS I sat there with my information in hand on how Tort Reform WAS working in Texas, I could clearly see she was not giving people all of the facts.  A few minutes later, I was one of the rare few to be called upon.

Standing up and referring to her misleading statements on Texas Tort Reform, I read from the post I wrote last week here on GraniteGrok, Hey Carol, DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS and quoted the excellent op-ed from the San Francisco Examiner:

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Carol Shea Porter: “Not going back and forth on the Constitution”

Here is 1st CD Congresswoman Carol Shea Porter –in response to a question at Saturday’s Portsmouth, NH town hall meeting– reading a prepared statement provided for her as to why nationalizing the health care system and mandating insurance is, in fact, Constitutional. This comes days after a blunder in which she took heat for claiming the Constitution … Read more

VIDEO: Carol Shea Porter on socialism: We are not going in that direction

During Carol Shea Porter’s town hall meeting today in Portsmouth, one questioner asked about the corrupt government in Washington run by unelected czars and what she was going to do about the loss of liberty. I guess Congresswoman Shea-Porter doesn’t see much news, being so busy travelling the state and meeting with constituents, because she … Read more

Look who stopped in at MTNP radio today…

We had a special "guest" today show up in the MTNP studio… "Some men just want to watch capitalism burn"     The proud owners tell us that they owe a tip of the hat for the wording to our buddy John Hawkins of RightWingNews, who has been following the story of this image as it spreads around … Read more

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