GOP Disgraceful Attack Continues

Let us not forget (0.00 / 0)

Rep. Comerford is a member of NH House Republican Leadership.  He is Vice-Chairman of the Legislative Administration Committee.  

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by: Alexandra the Great @ Wed Apr 06, 2011 at 09:17:57 AM CDT

In the bi-polar world of the conservative mind, not only are (4.00 / 1)

private corporations in a contest with public corporations (the success of one registers as the demise of the other), but church and state are in a contest for control of the human moral sense. So, presumably, the denigration of religion elevates the status of the representatives of the secular state.  This would explain the otherwise irrational antagonism towards Islam and the overt antagonism towards religious prelates whenever the opportunity presents itself. Our conservative legislators obviously perceive themselves as the secular standard bearers of moral expression (though not necessarily behavior).

The politics of personal destruction is attended by the politics of personal adulation (again) because in the bi-polar or bi-lateral world, success and admiration are achieved by beating someone else down.

It is this "agency by indirection" which also accounts, for example, the argument that reducing the drop-out age will create young people's jobs.
After all, if people lose jobs, then they are, obviously, also able to find them and all they are lacking is the motivation and the laws which order them to be in school.

I realize it's tedious of me to keep harping on the accurate assignment of agency (who's actually doing what) and it's true that "losing a job" is a figure of speech that everyone is supposed to know is not to be taken on its face. But then how do you explain the argument that people should be encouraged to find jobs by cutting their food stamps off? It seems obvious to me that some people, people whom we have elected to legislatures all around the country (a Rep. Davis from Missouri comes to mind), do not know that a figure of speech does not mean what it says. Of course, expecting such people to create jobs is also expecting the impossible.

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by: hannah @ Wed Apr 06, 2011 at 09:36:15 AM CDT

Social Darwinism or Christian Belief (4.00 / 3)

To me the problem is that these people believe in the concept of "Social Darwinism," that is the concept society is a game of survival of the fittest.  In this concept anyone can find a job and succeed and if they don't it is their own fault.  They think that if you are poor it is your fault and you have no business asking the government for help nor organizing to bargin with your employer.  For them money is good, property is good and people without either are bad and a disgrace.

Bishop McCormick in preaching the Christian concept of loving your neighbor and the duty to help the poor is a threat to their beliefs and so must be attacked.  The question for the voters is do you support the Bishop and a basic tenet of Christian belief or do you support the outmoded and corrupt concept of "Social Darwinism" as taught by the NH GOP leadership?  I can only hope that they make the right choice.  

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by: ProfessorMike @ Wed Apr 06, 2011 at 10:45:41 AM CDT

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Where (4.00 / 6)

were these attacks when the Bishop was transferred to NH? Or when the Bishop was speaking out against gay marriage? I guess he wasn't such a scumbag when he was supporting their agenda.

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by: ecorbett78 @ Wed Apr 06, 2011 at 09:53:42 AM CDT

Where?? (4.00 / 2)

When the bishop arrived in NH he was greeted with bipartisan scorn by a majority of private citizens. With that said, these republican members criticizing the bishop now in a political setting must pay the piper.

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by: dtturner24 @ Wed Apr 06, 2011 at 10:23:00 AM CDT

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As a person who is extremely (0.00 / 0)

hostile to the religious establishment, I find it...interesting...that this "attack of convenience" appears to have people rushing to this man's defense that ordinarily would not. They have the unfortunate effect of insulating him from righteous criticism.

Although I strongly condemn the MOTIVATIONS and TIMING of these criticisms as, to put it mildly, opportunistic... taken out of that context, I agree with the remarks themselves.

This doesn't make me a Republican or Republican sympathizer.

It makes me a person who stands in general condemnation of the Catholic Church as an international ring of pedophiles and enablers that is permitted to operate elementary schools in my country.

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by: kestrel9000 @ Wed Apr 06, 2011 at 10:58:39 AM CDT

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Sorry (4.00 / 1)

but criticism is not righteous when it is made only after a falling out.  Had Bettencourt, Comerford et al distanced themselves from the bishop when they were on the same side, they would now be able to claim righteousness in their current criticism of him.

I'd also like to point out that, to the best of my knowledge, no major Democrats or progressives used such disrespectful (not to the position of bishop specifically but to any person) language in stating their disagreement with him and criticism of his stand on various issues.

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by: FrankLloydMike @ Wed Apr 06, 2011 at 13:08:35 PM CDT

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The Bishop disses their budget (4.00 / 4)

And the bullies respond like this.

They could have made their comments at any time.

The lesson here: cross us and we'll get even.

Wasn't this a scene from The Godfather?

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by: Putney Swope @ Wed Apr 06, 2011 at 10:44:11 AM CDT

Al Baldasarro (0.00 / 0)

told us at the hearing on "Right to Work for Less" the other morning that labor union dues reminded him of his childhood when people paid "protection money" to the mob.  It was a statement that caught my ear.

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Wed Apr 06, 2011 at 14:30:28 PM CDT

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Baldasarro (0.00 / 0)

Yes I did hear that. I wonder if Baldassaro collects protection money. Baldasarro is an arrogant jerk.

Another thing I heard which completely amazed me was Senator Prescott saying to Baldasarro upon finishing his rant was "Thank you Representative Baldasarro for your support."

So much for an impartial hearing.  

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by: dtturner24 @ Wed Apr 06, 2011 at 15:27:44 PM CDT

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This is getting pretty ridiculous. (0.00 / 0)

Unless the allegations are true. Then it's not quite as ridiculous. But still, very unprofessional.

Progressive-ish Free Stater Democrat, Free Keene blogger

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by: Will May @ Wed Apr 06, 2011 at 22:56:54 PM CDT