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Lynch Poised to Veto Medical Marijuana

by: BurtCohen

Thu May 14, 2009 at 14:11:29 PM EDT
According to a report by Laura Dorgan in today's Concord Monitor, our governor has said he will veto HB 648, passed by solid votes in both the House and Senate.

It's clear to all who've followed the bill, AG Ayotte has no problem sweeping aside science.
And unfortunately, the governor appears to accept her word.

The weight of evidence is overwhelming. People with cancer and other serious illnesses can get the healing they would not get without medical marijuana.

Now would be a good time to call Governor Lynch's office (271-2121) and let him know that Kelly Ayotte doesn't know what she's talking about when the subject is medical marijuana.  We need to keep generating calls and emails to the Governor's office in support of HB 648 until this bill's fate is ultimately decided.

And letters to the editor help a lot too.

And I thought since we got rid of Bush/Cheney, science was back.

Patients are not criminals! Please call the governor.
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Curses. Can't get through. (0.00 / 0)

No doubt, the bigots are whining about their loss on HB436, and tying up all the phone lines.

Regards,
Corporate Dog

Back in 1989, just before H.W.Bush picked him to be his (0.00 / 0)
Secretary of Defense, Dick Cheney had an essay published by the American Enterprise Institute under his name, though it may have been written in whole or in part by one Michael J. Malbin, an academic.  In other words, the perspective in the essay was perhaps not entirely his own.
In any case, although the essay, entitled "Congressional Overreaching in Foreign Policy," seems to be focused on just one aspect of the relationship between the executive and the legislative branch, there's a characterization of the role of Congress that's telling, in light of what has happened since.
Cheney opines:
Broadly speaking, the Congress was intended to be a collective, deliberative body. When working at its best, it would slow down decisions, improve their substantive content, subject them to compromise, and help build a consensus behind general rules before they were to be applied to the citizenry

Note that final phrase, "rules ...that were to be applied to the citizenry."  There you have it--the essence of authoritarian rule in which citizens are subjects to be told what to do.

When John Lynch is concerned about not telling religious entities what to do, isn't he simply granting an exemption from his general attitude that the behavior of the citizenry is his to direct?

Frankly, if people are convinced that the purpose of public officials is to tell them what to do, I don't blame them for being resentful.  How do we convince them that the people are in charge?

That's nice. (0.00 / 0)
I don't buy arguments as to the limitations of our Constitutional system that imply power is vested in the head of state to operate outside the confines of law when he decides it's important.

The Constitution governs everything in the United States and every action taken by or on behalf of them.  Nobody is empowered to name mitigating circumstances.

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I should clarify. (0.00 / 0)
My point is: Dick Cheney has no business opining on the way our system of checks and balances is supposed to work.
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Opining is one thing. "Fixing" the system to satisfy the figment (0.00 / 0)
of his imagination is another.

Speaker Pelosi is being pilloried for playing mother confessor to the CIA after the Congress had effectively been stripped of even the power of the purse by an executive that routinely moved money around from approved functions to secret accounts.

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What bothers me is that her accusations are being dismissed at face value. (0.00 / 0)
You can't just say it's outrageous; what if the accusations are true?  Senator Graham's meticulous notes of every day of his life also contradict with the CIA's accounts of what happened.
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Thanks For Your Work, Burt... (4.00 / 1)
...on this issue for a long time, dating back to your years in the State Senate.  This is a cause that affects lives and the comfort of so many who are experiencing great pain, and this legislation is so important for them.  

I'm optimistic that the Committee of Conference on the bill will find an acceptable way to word some of the language so that it will become law this year.  Let's hope, so others can hope.  

Cheney? the CIA? Pelosi? (4.00 / 1)
Who's smoking what??
Somebody please get back to the subject!

No'm Sayn?
Well, Burt (0.00 / 0)
You did kinda bring it up.

And I thought since we got rid of Bush/Cheney, science was back.

 

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So, Still waiting.. (0.00 / 0)
What's going on with the HB 648?

We haven't reached 5 days yet?

"We Demand Rigidly Defined Areas of Doubt and Uncertainty" D. Adams

It's going to a (0.00 / 0)
Committee of Conference, I believe. The House and Senate will come up with some new language that perhaps the Governor will agree with.
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