Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
Posted on 02/01/2011 4:25:42 AM PST by Jim Noble
New Hampshire Democrats conceded a dramatic loss of power to a Republican insurgency last November. Now another group is coming to terms with its sidelining.
Moderate Republicans, the practical-minded mainstay of the state’s venerable GOP, have watched in dismay as conservative legislators have proposed restricting state education funding to English, math, science, social studies, and physical education and urged that officials no longer “bear faith and true allegiance’’ to the United States and New Hampshire, but rather, only to New Hampshire.
With the recent ascension of Tea Party activist Jack Kimball to head the state Republican Party, many moderates now say they are resigned to having little sway in shaping the state’s agenda.
“We know we don’t have much of a chance of convincing anybody of anything,’’ said Representative Priscilla Lockwood, a moderate Republican, who said she fears that abortion will be restrict ed and gay marriage banned...
The 2010 election produced Republican supermajorities in the Legislature, but with many new members leaning further right than their predecessors; in the House an estimated 100 of the 400 members are Tea Party-affiliated. The election also yielded a Republican US Senator, Kelly Ayotte, backed by Sarah Palin, and two Republican US representatives...
The impact of the conservative sweep has been evident in the Legislature where conservatives’ first order of business, with the backing of William O’Brien, the new speaker of the House, was to change rules on weapons in the Statehouse, making them explicitly welcome rather than tacitly permitted. A string of proposals followed, including those on restricting school funding and the oath of office...
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
The Boston Globe writing about the goings-on in New Hampshire is kind of like me writing an article for the American Journal of Medicine.
Neither article would be used for anything other than bird cage liner...
There's your problem...wonder if she is a SEIU member?
A lot of people from New York and Connecticut stinking up New Hampshire, as well...people native to NH are now a MINORITY in their own state; based on 2010 Census figures...
Don't sweat it, Prissy...the new 'Republican' legislature has already announced that they have no intention of trying to overturn NH's new 'gay marriage' law.
Several ‘Free Staters’ ran as ‘Republicans’ and were elected to the State Legislature...couldn’t get elected as Libertarians, I guess...
Are teachers members of the SEIU?
I haven’t seen their membership cards, but I have seen them wearing the purple shirts...maybe it’s a ‘solidarity’ thing...
Could be.
Can you explain “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” to me?
The train is a common metaphor for life’s journey, which I take it to be also in that song. The low, distant sound of a train whistle at night, when you’re staying alone in strange place makes you feel... how?
As the late mystery writer Earl Stanley Gardner's greatest fictional lawyer was fond of saying: “You have assumed a fact not in evidence.”
RINOs are never going to understand because to do so would mean they'd have to be capable of analytic thought. They cannot, will not do that because it isn't part of their DNA. RINOs are liberals first and always; liberalism trumps all.
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