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TEA Party Presidential candidate Picnic WHEN: Saturday, August 6, 2011 TIME: 11:30am WHERE: Dante’s Pasta & Vino / Soccer Field 320 Route 125, Barrington, NH Live music, burgers, hot dogs, chicken, software drinks, and speakers! ================================================== Personal Note: The organizer has told me that Dante’s … Read more
To the Editor:
It is too bad that Rob Azevedo’s entertaining article in The Citizen on June 29th, “Getting it straight on Right to Work” misrepresents the proposed New Hampshire Right to Work law and vilifies the TEA Party people who support it.
Right to Work (RTW) is not about union busting, not about lowering wages, not about working hard, not about keeping people from forming or joining unions. RTW is about the same thing Americans fought the Revolutionary War for, Liberty.
From Townhall (emphasis mine):
One of the administration’s programs helps distressed homeowners avoid foreclosure by providing permanent loan modifications.
Yeah, this is going to work out well. Doesn’t the Administration remember Rick Santelli’s rant on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade where he and the traders railed against the idea that they (and us) should be responsible for paying other peoples’ mortgages? The TEA Party movement it helped to spawn has become the biggest political movement in recent history – and no friend of the ever-expanding-government policies of Obama!
Another program, now ramping up, gives states that have been the hardest hit by falling home prices funding to help reduce the principal of a borrower’s loan, among other things.
Heck, why can’t *I* get my principal reduced? After all, I’m current on my loan – why should I be discriminated against? I’ve played by the rules – not buying more house than I could afford (in fact, bought far less), haven’t remortgaged a whole bunch of times, and blown the cash on toys and vacations, or redone the house well above my pay grade. Heck, who WOULDN’T want to chop off 10%, 20%, or even more from their mortgage? Hey, MY house has fallen in market price too (and selling is about 196 days in my town to boot!).
"I think those will make a big difference in terms of the problems of unemployed homeowners and falling house prices," said Massad. But he added the process was tricky.
"There are issues of how you do it, making sure it’s fair, making sure you don’t create the wrong incentives," Massad said.
Fair? Are you kidding? NOTHING about taking taxpayer monies and just giving it…
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.
Still have a bunch of frequent flier miles (just not enough for, you know, flying) that seem to be getting turned into magazines. One of them that comes in for free is The Economist – based in Britain, not exactly a magazine that I would say that extolls the ideals that most Conservatives here hold … Read more
…I have the feeling that a number of Republicans are going to now be on the hot seat. And they will have no one to blame but themselves: …The Tea Parties in Illinois are watching and waiting for leadership to emerge in Springfield. It is well passed the time for some adults in Springfield to … Read more
Ovide Lamontagne ran to be the Republican nominee to be the US Senator from NH during this last cycle. He, like Rich Ashooh, is staying politically active and has formed the Granite Oath PAC. There are also rumblings for the next cycle for him – Governor? Time will tell…
Former PA Senator Rick Santorum also spoke Saturday at the Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC’s TEA Party. As Jeff notes in his remarks, he had not been scheduled to speak originally; heck, he wasn’t even scheduled to be in State. Already up is the GrokTV Special Interview with the Senator.
Bumped: Isn’t this wonderful! YouTube is accusing this video of violating someone else’s copyright! Now, I know that the Happy Birthday song is no longer sung in restaurants because of the copyright on that song, but for OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM??? Stay tuned to this fiasco… ————————————————————————————– Last Saturday the Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC held … Read more
Karen Testerman founded Cornerstone and also ran to be the Republican nominee for NH Governor this past election cycle. She is now founding a new family oriented advocacy group – First Principles:
The Patriot Pastor – just in his colonial garb topped by his tri-cornered hat, he’s a head turner. Add in his height (6’7") and his personna (just as large), you cannot miss this gentleman in any room. And yes, once he begins to speak, he gets your attention in his Black Robed Regiment style! Garrett … Read more
At Saturday’s TEA Party sponsored by the Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC in Rochester, Jeff Chidester served as the Master of Ceremonies. Here are his opening remarks before getting the show on the road:
If it is your organization throwing a TEA Party, one would expect that you would be speaking! And yes, he did. Jerry is quite the character – a former Marine, there is no misunderstanding where he stands on anything. You WILL understand, quickly, what his principles and more importantly, if you violate them. Loud and … Read more
"Gentleman" Rich vied, on the Republican side, to be the candidate to run for Congress from NH’s First Congressional District this past cycle. Although he did not gain the nomination in the primary, he always had a ready smile and a friendly demeanor. Make no mistake, he campaigned on the facts that the State and … Read more
Many folks out there are disgusted with the results of public education – overpriced and underdelivering. Scores are tailing downward, students aren’t well prepared for higher education or industry, and parents are noticing the emphasis on social issues over academic excellence; zooming growth rates in new charter schools, private schools, and homeschooling are the results … Read more
Jeff Chidester has often called NH House Representative Dan Itse, not a Founding Father (being a few years down the line, now) but a "Defending Father" – one who having (and continuing to) actively studying the NH and US Constitutions, is putting that actively into practice in the NH Legislature. Here he talks about his … Read more
We are live at the Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC’s TEA Party Event in Rochester, NH (at the Rochester Community Center if you are in the area and want to stop by). Live streaming video as we can and will be commenting on things as they happen – fellow Grokster Mike Rogers will my wingman … Read more
AFP/NH is helping to sponsor a TEA Party event on Friday, April 15, at the State Capital in Concord. Am hoping that a lot of folks will be going and attending. Speakers for that event, I understand, include Tim Pawlenty and Rick Santorum. Unfortunately, for many off us, it is a day of work (AHgain). … Read more
Seated is Bill O’Brien – Speaker of the NH House – signing the first bill of this session (and the first bill as Speaker). Mazel Tov!
But what was more interesting was the picture Gadsden Flag (the adopted icon of the TEA Party movement) behind him. According to Seth Cohn, the signatures are of those new folks from the Liberty & Freedom wing of the Republican Party (among others) that helped to vote him into the Speakership.
I’ve listened to the jounalist based pundits here in NH that stated that most people here in NH voted for anyone with an R after their name (as opposed to D in 2006 & 2008), yet, they admit that these "less conservative voters" certainly did vote for candidates that espoused much more conservative (and in many cases, much more libertarian) than themselves. I wondered about that statement – was it true? Or whether this was part of the TEA Party movement ramifications that has, in part, caught up the general public?
No, not in the overall fervor and sturm und drang, but more in the question of "where is this country and state headed?". Is this our heritage – what ARE our founding principles?
And a backlash NOT just against Democrats, but the overall sliding of the Dems to the Left (aka, Progressive socialism) even as many Republicans didn’t move to the Right but burrowed down to bedrock fundamentals like archeologists seeking buried truths (or miners, seeking that shiny gold and sparkling diamonds of limited govt, individual freedom, and self-reliance)?