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Inflating the Bubble

by: Dean Barker

Wed Jun 01, 2011 at 05:26:09 AM EDT

( - promoted by William Tucker)

Nullification is an unpatriotic, radical concept that leads ultimately to secession and civil war. When House Speaker Bill O'Brien's featured attendance at the NullifyNow event was made more widely known back in March, he backed out of it with no explanation.

But yesterday he and self-styled constitutional expert Dan Itse soaked up attention from Michelle Bachmann on the same topic.

The story contained in this tweet is a prime example of how the POTUS primary circus keeps the bubble inflated for the radical right-wingers in control of the New Hampshire House.

It will become ever harder for the House of O'Brien to realize it has an Bill O'Brien problem when the more demagogic of the presidential hopefuls come by to flatter them for support. This, in turn, will ensconce them even deeper in the bunker of their "Rightness" when it comes time to work with the Senate or Governor. Which, in turn, means that future policy battles will make the Right-to-Work fiasco look like a preview before the main event.

(find me > 140 on birch paper; on Twitter < 140)

Dean Barker :: Inflating the Bubble

Tags: Bill O'Brien, Michelle Bachmann, Dan Itse, NH-Primary, NH-House, nullification, (All Tags)

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Inflating the Bubble | 4 comments

I am reminded of "too many notes" (4.00 / 1)

by: hannah @ Wed Jun 01, 2011 at 10:22:42 AM UTC

Too bad (4.00 / 3)

New Hampshire hadn't asserted its sovereignty and closed its border before Bill O'Brien made his northward trek.

by: FrankLloydMike @ Wed Jun 01, 2011 at 14:41:06 PM UTC

Case in point (0.00 / 0)

A meeting of the minds:

Bachmann: "We have to remember what government is and what it isn't. It's not a philanthropy, it's not the family, it's not the church...
O'Brien: "Right."

Bachmann: "...it is government. People want government to be everything."

O'Brien: "Absolutely."

Bachmann: "So you are leading the pack on the right thing to do."

O'Brien: "That's well-stated. Thank you."

"Politics ain't beanbag" - Finley Peter Dunne

by: William Tucker @ Wed Jun 01, 2011 at 17:05:27 PM UTC

Good Catch Dean (0.00 / 0)

I know it's going to be head banging time--but we owe it to ourselves to remind the Main Stream Media just how crazy NH has become in three short years.

So let's all put on our helmets and a smile and bang away from now until election day.

by: Chaz Proulx @ Wed Jun 01, 2011 at 17:24:20 PM UTC

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