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Bill O'Brien Questions the Validity of Veto Power

by: Dean Barker

Tue May 10, 2011 at 21:00:13 PM EDT

(O'Brien questions Constitutional separation of powers? Seriously? - promoted by William Tucker)

House Speaker Bill O'Brien is nervous that he can't override Lynch's inevitable veto for Right to Work for Less.

And so he betrays his incapacity to comprehend the basics of our system of government:

"My caucus members are concerned that they are united that the Governor cannot function as a third branch of the legislature. The senate and the house have spoken with very strong majorities that right to work is what the people of NH want."

You know what the people of New Hampshire wanted, Mr. Speaker?

John Lynch 52.6%
John Stephen 45.1%

Perhaps some day Mr. O'Brien's megalomania will subside and he will understand and respect the constitution and our three branches of government. Not today.

h/t Rep. Serlin
(birched; on Twitter @deanbarker)

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Bill O'Brien Questions the Validity of Veto Power | 15 comments

Not Him (0.00 / 0)

I have come to believe he sees it as a dictatorship. Really. Government=him ruling.
Seriously.

No'm Sayn?

by: BurtCohen @ Wed May 11, 2011 at 01:59:18 AM UTC

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O'Brien obviously does not understand the separation of powers (4.00 / 1)

Neither do most of the citizens of this country.

I read an article this week (sorry, I can't find it) that mentioned that the overwhelming majority of voters in the US do not understand this concept.

I can rationalize the 'average Joe' having problems with this concept.

O'Brien has zero excuses.

by: Putney Swope @ Wed May 11, 2011 at 02:33:06 AM UTC

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apparently (4.00 / 9)

Legendary Constitutional Scholar Dan Itse hasn't explained it to him.

by: susanthe @ Wed May 11, 2011 at 02:47:02 AM UTC

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You should have accompanied that post with a warning... (0.00 / 0)

...I had a mouth full of coffee as I was leaning over my laptop...

by: Tully Fitzsimmons @ Wed May 11, 2011 at 11:00:56 AM UTC

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Sorry Thom ! n/t (0.00 / 0)

by: susanthe @ Wed May 11, 2011 at 12:33:59 PM UTC

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my response (0.00 / 0)

{self-censored and deleted in order to maintain the decorum of this discussion and prevent me from being permanently banned}

laughter makes you live longer

by: truebluedan @ Thu May 12, 2011 at 12:32:29 PM UTC

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Tell me (4.00 / 2)

how this guy continues to be a member of the Bar? Or better yet, how the heck did he pass the Bar in the first place???

Have you told a stranger today about Bill O'Brien and his Tea Party agenda? The people of NH deserve to hear about O'Brien and his majority committed to destroying New Hampshire and remaking it into a armed survivalist preserve.

by: Ray Buckley @ Wed May 11, 2011 at 02:46:23 AM UTC

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Probably didn't pass the bar, (4.00 / 4)

just walked right in, and has been drunk with power ever since. Or something like that.

They. Don't. Care.
We do.
Rinse, repeat.

by: GreyMike @ Wed May 11, 2011 at 03:32:32 AM UTC

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Wrong, Mr. O'Brien (4.00 / 3)

This is not what the majority of NH residents want. This is what your right-wing extremist caucus wants. Let's get the facts straight. BTW, where are the jobs you were going to create? other than for lawyers?

by: mevansnh @ Wed May 11, 2011 at 10:28:40 AM UTC

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Animus (4.00 / 4)

I guess we now know why he dislikes teachers so much: he apparently didn't pass 8th grade history.

by: dooper @ Wed May 11, 2011 at 11:24:41 AM UTC

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Hopefully he'll have a lower profile come fall when the world is watching us (0.00 / 0)

What an embarrassment.

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Wed May 11, 2011 at 13:02:14 PM UTC

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If wishes were horses... n/t (0.00 / 0)

"We start working to beat these guys right now." -Jed Bartlet

by: cblodg @ Wed May 11, 2011 at 14:10:24 PM UTC

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We deserve (4.00 / 1)

to be embarrassed for electing these dreadful and stupid people to be our law-makers. Sorry, but I don't buy that we should somehow hide him in the closet when the "relatives", being the Republican presidential hopefuls, come to visit. If they avoid him, it will send a message, and if they embrace him, that will send a message too. If we pretend he isn't there, how will we ever get rid of him?

by: Lucy Edwards @ Wed May 11, 2011 at 15:57:41 PM UTC

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Undermining the citizen legislature as well (4.00 / 1)

NH's House is the most unique legislature in the country - a citizen legislature, a volunteer legislature, whose members typically go their own way. Its members typically have not taken kindly to being told what to do by anyone. They make their own minds up.

Not with O'Brien as speaker.

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." Franklin D. Roosevelt

by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Wed May 11, 2011 at 13:26:10 PM UTC

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The Governor proved him wrong. (4.00 / 2)

Now we'll see how tight the reins on Boss O'Brien's members really is.

Something like 35 House members were not present for the vote last time. This should be interesting.

Will common sense win out, or will the strong-arming of members continue? Buckle up boys and girls, this is gonna be interesting.

"We start working to beat these guys right now." -Jed Bartlet

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