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Kevin Smith Already Misinterpreting the Election Results

by: Dean Barker

Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 19:41:05 PM EDT
To push his radical social agenda onto the rest of us, of course.

The Lee Atwater of New Hampshire politics declares his intentions:

"Number one: gay marriage, which will be pushing for its repeal; And number 2, is a parental notification law, and we think the majority of people like the parental notification law and never wanted that repealed, so maybe we can get that passed."
Do make sure to click the link and read the grafs above it too. House Speaker wannabe Bill O'Brien is all for this game plan as well.

Welcome to the New Reality, where the first order of business is to strip you of your rights.

Adding: Wannabe House Speaker Bill O'Brien heads up the House Republican Alliance.  It's well worth your time getting acquainted with HRA's legislative to-do list.
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Kevin Smith Already Misinterpreting the Election Results | 9 comments
Kevin Smith should go back to making movies with Chris Rock. (4.00 / 1)
When 2012 comes, many of our Democratic leaders will be back.

In the meantime, Democratic voters need to get better at actually voting every time.

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@DougLindner

Where are the jobs? n/t (0.00 / 0)


Whack-a-mole, anyone?
Let's be fair. (0.00 / 0)
Kelly Ayotte created $300,000 worth of private sector jobs* when she pursued her case against reproductive rights to the US Supreme Court.

* $300K of lawyer jobs, paid with NH tax dollars.

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but you can't put a price on a life n/t (0.00 / 0)


Annie 2012!
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Cornerstone and NOM spent hundreds of thousands of dollars (0.00 / 0)
...to defeat Lynch.

He failed - why would the press give him any credence or s soapbox to stand on?

It's incredible (0.00 / 0)
that "conservatives" who claim to be "traditionalist" and who label progressives, liberals and Democrats are extremists are the ones immediately jumping to alter the founding documents.  This kills me more than anything else--you can't both claim to be supporting founding principles (a stupid claim to begin with) while also attempting to alter the documents in which those principles are supposedly based.  I thought the focus was supposed to be o the economy?  I guess the party of limited government has deemed the need to entrench more government control of personal behavior in the founding document.  My mistake.  I really hope people quickly realize the radicals they've elected.
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Conservatives perceive government as a godless moral force. (0.00 / 0)
That's why, given their druthers, they opt for religious rule.  The rule of law is both less forgiving than the father in heaven and involves more immediate punishment than the after-life.

When one perceives government as a punitive system, one wants it to be minimized and hopes that the punishments will be applied to the other guy.

That governments are organized to deal with the vagaries of man AND nature just doesn't occur to them.  They're used to being governed by their appointed rulers.  Government BY the people is a foreign concept, especially to people who have been schooled to perceive themselves as flawed and in need of correction.

On the other hand, impossible tasks are the hallmark of an agenda that's designed to fail.  If one perceives government as personally coercive, then it is natural to aim for failure.
It's my sense that the "mandatory" aspect of HCR was the poison pill, designed to validate the perception of government as personally coercive and, thus, a justification for rejecting the whole program.  That there is no actual enforcement mechanism in the legislation didn't matter once the concept was introduced.  Democrats should have known better.  After all, it was GWB's claim to have a mandate which deep-sixed the privatization agenda.

The rule of law is an implacable tyrant, if it is employed to coerce "good" behavior, rather than punish malefactors, after the fact.  Conservatives perceive the rule of law as an improvement over the whim of capricious rulers, if only because the law leaves no fingerprints or bruises.

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because the NH media (0.00 / 0)
is the ventriloquist's dummy that speaks for the NH GOP.  

member of the professional left  
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Because political advertising fattens the media's bottom (0.00 / 0)
line.  Political advertising is pure profit.  Pre-packaged and formatted so there's no editorial or technical input required.
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