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Last week, after the Senate had dismissed numerous House bills seeking to advance its radical social agenda, Speaker Bill O'Brien and his minions retaliated. The response was to table six Senate bills the House had just passed, and to attach the defeated House bills as non-germane amendments to Senate legislation under consideration.
In a letter to the editor, Portsmouth state Rep. Rich DiPentima reviews this obstructionist warfare and declares, "The people of New Hampshire deserve and should demand much better."
The Senate Republicans understand that the House Republicans are fixated on a radical social and anti-labor agenda that is straight out of the American Legislative Exchange Council playbook. ... The Senate Republicans also understand that the public has a very negative opinion of the House, and they are trying to distance themselves from the House Republicans as much as possible to save their political hides come November.
Unfortunately, the big losers in this Republican in-fighting are the people of New Hampshire. Instead of spending the time and energy to create jobs and strengthen education and the economy of our state, they are playing ideological games of chicken. If Republicans cannot even work among themselves, how can we expect them to govern the state? This is government at its worst, and they should be ashamed.
