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Some NH Legislators "Crazier Than a State House Rat"

by: Kathy Sullivan 2

Thu Jan 05, 2012 at 16:40:01 PM EST


(Those rats aren't crazy - they're just nervous with all those well-armed nutcases in the building - promoted by elwood)

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. The NH legislature has been written up on Comedy Central's Indecision 2012 web site:

With the Iowa Caucuses behind us, attention now turns to the other handful of white people who will choose Barack Obama's general election opponent - the citizens of New Hampshire. Just who are these gatekeepers of retail democracy?

As luck would have it, New Hampshire's constitutional makeup offers unique insight into the id of its citizenry. With 400 severely underpaid Members of the House representing 1.3 million residents, the state relies on citizen legislators rather than professional politicians for much of its policy-making. Unfortunately, some of these citizen legislators are crazier than a Statehouse rat...

http://www.indecisionforever.c...

Kathy Sullivan 2 :: Some NH Legislators "Crazier Than a State House Rat"
The piece goes on to talk about Bergevin's evolution bill, and the Magna Carta bill.

They also have the following, which sounds familiar to me - perhaps I missed my calling and should go to work in comedy:

But why stop at the 13th century? Where in Hammurabi's Code does it say New Hampshire has to participate in a health insurance exchange? Checkmate, Obama.

Bill O'Brien, turning NH's legislature into a national laughing stock.

To all you sane legislators who have been working hard to stop really bad things happening in Concord, thank you, I know you are not part of the insanity.  
   

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Speaking of crazy (4.00 / 1)

CNN covered the Nashua Republicans pre election meeting. I felt like a fly on the wall. They had various local speakers giving endorsement speeches for their favorite candidate.

Pete Silva spoke in behalf of Rick Perry. And he did it wearing a ten gallon hat signed by Perry. I'd never seen Silva's act.

Wow, he's got a pretty good dose of Obama paranoia. When asked why the "media" tore down Rick Perry's debate performance he claimed that the press was in Obama's pocket.

He also has a big burr under his saddle about political correctness. That's our major problem and that's why American's love Sarah Palin.

Zany guy.  


I was there in birddog capacity (0.00 / 0)
C-SPAN had it live.

There were a number of other memorable moments.

The only candidate to appear in person was Gov. Buddy Roemer.  He gave a speech about getting money out of politics and returning politics to the people that would make any Occupy participant proud.

Someone asked him a question about Sharia law.  His response was "don't be ridiculous, we have a Constitution, that's unconstitutional."

Sen. Lambert spoke on behalf of Gov. Romney.  His pitch was, we need the candidate who can beat Obama, and that's obviously Romney, and he's obviously going to be the nominee, so why waste all this energy having a primary.  Which caused some in the audience to leap up and clarify how offended they were at this.

After the event, I had a great time talking politics with several of the Paul supporters.

For the record the surrogates were
Huntsman (daughter and son-in-law)
Gingrich (Streeter former Nashua mayor)
Roemer (present in person)
Paul (not-an-elected-official supporter)
Perry (Silva state rep leadership)
Santorum (Hogan county attorney)
Romney (Lambert state senate)


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Rachel Maddow quoted some choice Magna Carta bits tonight, too. n/t (0.00 / 0)



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