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Talk About Not Getting It

by: BurtCohen

Fri Jun 05, 2009 at 14:04:04 PM EDT
( - promoted by Dean Barker)

This Just in from the National Organization for Marriage:

It is with great sadness that I have to report that the legislature passed a gay marriage bill in New Hampshire.

Here's the most important thing you need to know about New Hampshire: It's not over.

The political establishment decided to pay attention to a well-financed base and to ignore the priorities of the people of New Hampshire.

As the Baptist Press News reported, "Flipping the governor's office and the legislature from Democrat to Republican in 2010 is a bold goal." But Kevin Smith, the able young activist who heads up the Cornerstone Policy Research, said, "I think we have a good chance of that happening, because I think people are so disgusted with what this legislature has done this year. The goal after that would be to repeal the law."
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Kevin will meet with as much success in this effort... (4.00 / 5)
as he has in the past. Yawn.

Democrats solve problems, Republicans sit and say no.
LOL (4.00 / 1)
Good one.
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Justifying a pay check? (4.00 / 1)
Mr. Smith, some would consider your continued efforts as a form of welfare.

www.KusterforCongress.com  
Mr. Smith should go to Washington (0.00 / 0)
or Timbuktu, just anywhere but leave !

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." Allen Ginsberg
Didn't Mr. Smith want us to get back to the budget? (4.00 / 2)
After all the Right's whining about how the legislature couldn't handle dealing with the budget and other priorities with the big "distraction" caused by the "gay agenda" and all, you think they'd be eager to get back to all those other priorities. I mean, I know that Democrats are confident in the ability of the legislature to tackle multiple issues in one session, but Republicans seem less confident in that ability. One has to wonder, then, that once they take back the entire state government in 2010 and make repealing civil rights their priority, how they will ever find the time to deal with the other issues of running the state. I know their record over the past century doesn't speak well of that ability, so luckily the great backlash against civil unions that will surely repeat itself this time will not afford them that opportunity.
Oh, my. Sounds familiar somehow. (0.00 / 0)
Ah yes, here it is...

Happy Friday.

Thanks for the alert, Burt (4.00 / 1)
We may be victorious, but those bastards will be gunning for us next year.  

Nose to the grindstone. . . .  

Wouldn't it be nice if Cornerstone Policy Research acknowledged in its name that it's an extremely partisan issue advocacy group? (4.00 / 1)

What's in a name? (4.00 / 1)
How About:
The Totally Obsessed With and Deeply Petrified of Homosexuals of America.
Nah, Cornerstone sounds so much nicer.

No'm Sayn?
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To answer your question, (0.00 / 0)
the undue perception of credibility.
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I was very disappointed when Lynch initially vetoed the bill, but was thrilled (0.00 / 0)
that he eventually did sign this into law.  As the  Rethugs are gunning for Lynch, (and every other Dem as they still believe this is  a Rethug state) my husband and I are making monthly donations to NHDP to help build our state Party.  They aren't huge, but every dollar counts.  I have also written Gov. Lynch to thank him for  signing this law.  You can bet he is getting  LOADS of hate mail and threats of electoral disaster as a result of signing this into law,  I just wanted to let him know that as a result of taking this controversial step,  I support him.  
He didn't veto it. (0.00 / 0)
Sorry to nitpick, but you're right to point out that this is going to be an issue, so we need to make sure our facts are straight.

Governor Lynch did not veto marriage equality in any form.  He threatened to veto the original bill as passed by the legislature if further changes were not made.  Those changes were added via amendment to other legislation, while the main bill, HB436, was delayed using an arcane procedural holdup so as to allow the whole package to go to the Governor at the same time--that's why he signed several bills together the other day.

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HA n/t (0.00 / 0)

What I'm not getting is... (4.00 / 1)
how they expect to win when their whole platform is 'anti' something? Anti-government, anti-tax, anti-gay marriage, anti-democrat, anti-Massachusetts, anti-Obama, anti-(insert any productive thing created since 1988 here).  Where are their ideas?!  I cringe when I turn on Fox News, pick up the opinion section of the UL, visit that other blog of NH political 'insiders', even read comments on the Monitor's web site.  The best that those with differing opinions can do is claim half-truths as fact, misremember history, and have a very skewed view of human nature.  I find no new ideas, not to mention good ideas.  

It is a real shame too, because I think that real progress is only made when there is true debate at a high level between well-informed and critically thinking people with different ideas.  That is not what is happening now, especially in New Hampshire.  And I fear it may be our downfall...

"He who loves correction, loves knowledge.  He who hates reproof is stupid." - Proverbs 12:1


I take your point (4.00 / 1)
I absolutely agree with you on this

It is a real shame too, because I think that real progress is only made when there is true debate at a high level between well-informed and critically thinking people with different ideas.

It would be better if both parties acted responsibly, because I don't think for an instant that we have all the answers all the time and having someone saying "wait a minute..." would be healthy. But the reality today is one of the two major parties has chosen to ignore reality, choose faith over intellect, and replace rational arguments with innuendo, fear-based attacks, and demagogy. I can't explain why, but it's the situation. Fot at least the time being, the GOP has collectively checked out, and it is vital they be kept out of power until they re-engage responsibly.

As bad as it is here, it is worse in Congress . There the GOP will appoint a guy like Crazy Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, a vocal science denyer, as head of the Senate Environment committee.

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