It started to feel like the political class was going to do anything to drag this out until the spending resolution that cost McCarthy his gavel became a Republican problem. No Speaker. No control. Disorganized. Country in danger. Blah Blah Blah.
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Speaker of the House
Great Job, Matt. What Is Your Next Irrational Move You Petulant Child
by Ray Cardello
Great job, Matt Gaetz. You threw a temper tantrum and have no plan for your next move. When everything favors the GOP, you pulled the fire alarm and made it personal.
Speaker Maxwell Re-names Herself Miss America
by Op-Ed
Ahem. On November 17, GraniteGrok published two articles of mine. The one on Karoline Leavitt has got all the attention, while the hotter-than-hot one slipped away. Here it is, it’s about me trying to become Speaker of the US House.
One Way To De-Westminsterize Congress: A Layperson Speaker of the House
by Op-Ed
On January 3, 2023, the 535 members of the 118th Congress will show up for duty on Capitol Hill. They owe nothing to any previous Congress. They can repeal or amend any law that was ever passed, going back to 1789.
2022 NH Elections – Not All the NH House Results Are in or “Officialized” but One Thing Is for Sure: Speaker Who?
by Skip
The smoke is still in the air from the NH House elections yesterday. While a number of Districts have been 100% counted, not all of those candidates with the most votes in those Districts have been “blessed” yet with the “Winner’s Checkmark”. There are still a number of Districts for which NO results have yet … Read more
Well, This Will Be Interesting to Watch: NH Speaker of the House Race
by Skip
Landrigan’s State House Dome (reformatted, emphasis his AND mine): AFTER THE VOTES are counted Nov. 8, there will be another election at the State House. The race for speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives is heating up. …Many observers figured House Speaker and 18-term state Rep. Sherman Packard, R-Londonderry, would have a clear … Read more
Imagine Speaker Donald Trump Sitting Behind Biden as He Stumbles Through the State of the Union Address.
by Skip
Imagine how much fun it would be to see Speaker of the House Donald Trump sitting behind Biden as he stumbles through the State of the Union address?
Breaking News – Dems DO nominate Pelosi for yet another term
by Skip
As the US House election results were coming in, the knives within the Democrat House Caucus were coming out – for her. Expected to steal more seats from the Republicans and head closer to a supermajority, under Nancy Pelosi’s tutelage, they lost seats – perhaps as many as 13 when all is said and done. … Read more
Trump: Pelosi No Longer Speaker of the House
Ah, President Trump. The man knows how to push buttons, how to drive a news cycle, and certainly how to get the left worked into a tizzy fit over, well, nothing. At the UN, while meeting with the President of Ukraine, he claimed that “as far as [he’s] concerned, she’s no longer Speaker of the … Read more
Marshall ‘Lee’ Quandt Want’s To Be The Next Republican Speaker of the NH House…
Rumor has it that Marshall ‘Lee’ Quandt want’s to be the next Republican Speaker of the New Hampshire House……which is a huge problem, because Lee Quandt is not exactly a Republican to begin with.
Despite that barrier, and a public opposition to liberty, the scuttlebutt is that RINO Marshall ‘Lee’ Quandt still thinks he’d make a great speaker of the House, and he is already trying to build a coalition, and publicly endorsing other House Republican candidates who have told him they would back his move once the House meets to choose the next Speaker.
This is disturbing for several reasons.
Somebody gave me this email that Speaker of the House Bill O’Brien sent out yesterday…
by Tim Condon
It went out to all the Republican State House members. It is about the defeat of CACR-12, the school funding constitutional amendment. It shows, in part, why O’Brien is so good at his job. He may be the best, most principled Speaker the New Hampshire State House of Representatives has had in the past 100 years or more. Read on….
From: O’Brien, William
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 4:56 PM
To: Republican House Members
Subject: CACR 12 and House Republicans
Dear Republican colleagues,
Last March, House leadership held a press conference in which we announced that we would work with the Governor in an effort to craft a compromise education funding amendment. We said then, and still believe, that having the Governor’s support would be critical to achieving 2/3rd of the popular vote in November. That said, we also pointed out that if we were going to compromise with the Governor on passing an amendment, it would be critical that the Governor…
New Hampshire vs. European Union: We win.
by Tim Condon
Damn. I can’t resist sending this article along. Forbes magazine is just too good. The quote that follows is from “”Let’s Face the Facts: Greece is Cooked, Along With Merkel.” Interestingly, it explains why New Hampshire—with the GOP super-majorities under the extraordinary effective leadership of Speaker Bill O’Brien—is going to become “the little state that can…be … Read more
Vote – Sould Speaker O’Brien Get a Second Term as NH House Speaker?
Amherst Patch has an unscientific poll up asking if you think current NH House Speaker William O’Brien should be reelected as Speaker of the House. Vote here
Breaking News: RLCNH Forum to feature Speaker O’Brien
by Tim Condon
The Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire (RLCNH) has just confirmed that it will hold an RLCNH Forum featuring Speaker of the House Bill O’Brien at St. Anselm College’s Institute of Politics on Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. If you want to know how the New Hampshire Republicans rescued the state from the $1 billion budget … Read more
JOHN LYNCH: A STEADY LEADER…WHEN?
by Rick Olson
“Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.” —Bo Bennett
In a letter to French Scientist Jean-Baptiste Le Roy in November of 1789, Benjamin Franklin quipped those ever long-enduring and famous words, “[B]ut in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes … ” It would appear Franklin had not contemplated the certainty of blow-hard political hacks and self-aggrandizing opportunists.
Upon Seeing the Union Leader Headline Tuesday, “Gov. Lynch will leave office very popular, and for good reason“, and who the author was, predictable is the litany and diatribe that follows. And, with the whole and complete certainty of death and taxes, the “Shrill Kathy” hath delivered. In the 779-word bloviation, the “Shrill Kathy” delivered a mere 199 words extolling Lynch’s virtues and reserved the remaining 580 words for her usual and expected attack on Republicans, checkered with a contrast and comparison-like tone…Make no mistake about it…Lynch’s announcement, as with most other political events, is a mere pretext for her visera.
Teri Norelli Cries Foul on the Budget: Insert Yawn Here
by Rick Olson
“If you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.” ~Milton Friedman, Economist Democratic leader Terri Norelli takes pen to the Union Leader this morning to decry the Republican budget. Norelli does a masterful work in her use of descriptors and categorizations demagoguing the Republicans … Read more
It didn’t happen that way! MacDonald’s video was doctored!
by Tim Condon
There’s a picture below of Nancy Pelosi showing her with a bottle of Tabasco after she gave up the power she wielded on behalf of the political/government/ruling classes for the past four years. That picture is a true depiction of the former-Spaaker. But immediatley below that is a video clip that Steve MacDonald put in, and it was doctored! John Boehner never whacked Pelosi with the gavel in the way the video shows. No! It was subtly changed to make Boehner look more modereate! Watch MacDonald’s video two posts below…and then watch this one, and you’ll see what really happened at the gavel-passing ceremony. The difference is subtle, but important. To find out what really happened, watch this….
Bill O’Brien and Gene Chandler put New Hampshire first
by Tim Condon
It is gratifying to see Speaker-designate Bill O’Brien and Speaker Pro Tempore to-be Gene Chandler working together for New Hampshire. Although I intensively supported O’Brien in the race for the Speakership, I also noted that Gene Chandler "led his party honorably in the past" and as the last "real" Republican Speaker of the House, "served his State and his party … Read more
Elephant Innards
Any migration of Republicans away from a vote for “Speaker O’Brien” might say more about Gene Chandler than it does Bill. It might mean that Gene was either insincere in his request for unity–and I am on the record both commending him and taking him at his word for that stance–or it demonstrates his inability to control even those who would have chosen him as their House Speaker.
Oh REALLY. Some of the losing, Old Boy Network, GOP state reps want to work with the Democrats to elect a Speaker?
by Tim Condon
Up to 60 turncoat Republicans, it is rumored? And they’ll vote for a Democrat or "consensus RINO candidate" for Speaker of the House on December 1st? Well, well, well…. I say…please do it! Why? Because I know of nothing in the law that says a roll-call vote can’t be called for the Speakership vote in the House. It may … Read more