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Remember how Shaheen didn’t have the sense to use her own parties partisan influence buying combine to turn her rubber-stamp vote for Trotsky care into a complete 12 lane rebuild of I-93 from Salem all the way to Hudson bay?  Well there is subterfuge afoot again in the White House and as usual New Hampshire’s left wing wall flowers either can’t get into the dance, or don’t have their figurative political bra stuffed enough to attract the eye of the people with any real influence. 

This Wednesday the New Hampshire House may get the opportunity to vote on HB 1343, AN ACT establishing a joint committee on the constitutionality of acts, orders, laws, statutes, regulations, and rules of the government of the United States of America in order to protect state sovereignty.

The default response by the Liberty-deniers on the left to the suggestion that we need to cut taxes is that education and public safety will be hurt by any effort to return the peoples money to the people.  It is chapter and verse for liberals to pry at the soft edges of the electorate with words of warning about how Republican efforts to shrink government will hurt their children, the elderly, or the disadvantaged.  And if you happen to disagree, they treat you like idiots for failing to be as smart as they think they are.  Just look at Chairman Buckley's response to the public beating taken by Jeff Goley yesterday.

In a district that is 36% Republican, 32% Democrat, and 32% Independent, Jeff Goley and the NH Democrat party, if I'm reading this right, spent close to $60K (maybe more by the final report) to turn a 4% registration deficit into a 16% loss.  Talk about bad ROI. 

Dave Boutin took every town, and every Ward, including Jeff Goley’s own Ward in a 58% to 42% sweep.  Boutin collected 3796 to Goley’s 2756 with what looks like less than 17% of registered voters casting a ballot. 

Senator Evan Bayh has announced he will not run again.  His public reasoning is partisanship.  He’s grown weary of all the bickering, and is disenfranchised by the inability of the Senate to get anything done.  Has it occurred to the Senator that his parties blind and senseless partisanship (and his blind support of it) is the root of the evil of his undoing?  One also has to wonder, though not terribly long,  if he’d feel the same way if it were a Republican majority pushing an agenda public opinion objected to?

In one of those eponymous political moments we all cherish, the NH House Education subcommittee, charged with reviewing legislation to retool the states Bullying Laws, says it was bullied itself.

Rep Judith Reever (D-Laconia) Vice Chair on the Education Committee does not disagree with the idea that the subcommittee bowed to prejudice, this quoted from the Sunday Union leader. 

Rep Rachel Burke (D-Strafford Dist # 3) also on the committee, is reported by the UL to have been crying during a phone interview as she claimed to have been intimidated by the idea that opponents would defeat the bill if controversial language was not removed.