I had not realized the lunatics have taken over the asylum in New Hampshire

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/01/gop-candidates-what-do-you-think-about-new-hampshires-bizarre-legislature/251026/

What Do GOP Candidates Think About New Hampshire's Bizarre Legislature?
By Andrew Cohen
Jan 7 2012, 12:05 PM ET

<snip>1. In October, the New Hampshire House of Representatives, led by Republican Rep. Dan Itse, passed a dubious measure "repudiating" a decision by the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. That decision had endorsed the view of the executive branch, which had argued that the legislature could not force the state's attorney general to join a lawsuit against the Obama Administration and the Affordable Care Act. The legislature, in other words, sought to trump both of the other two branches of state government that were each performing core functions.


On this point, my questions for the candidates are: Do they endorse this use of taxpayer time and money by elected officials? If they are elected president, are they going to applaud similar moves by Congress to repudiate those United States Supreme Court decisions with which some lawmakers disagree? Are the candidates, if elected to the White House, going to embrace the notion that national legislators can threaten the Justice Department if federal lawyers choose in the exercise of their discretion not to join certain lawsuits?


2. In November, Republican members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives began screaming at members of the state's executive branch, who had come to the legislative chamber to explain to the elected officials there why they weren't about to take President Barack Obama's name off the 2012 ballot. The request to do so had been made by those elected officials in the Granite State who still believe that the President is a Kenyan. An investigation is still pending, I believe, into whether any laws were broken by the lawmakers.


On this point, my questions for the presidential candidates are: Do they condone the conduct of their fellow Republicans in this instance? Do they believe the "birther" issue is quite literally worth fighting over in the 2012 presidential race? Are they ready now to concede that every second spent arguing over the President's nationality is a second less spent on making life better for the residents of New Hampshire? What is their current position on the "birther" issue and its projected impact upon the national election?

[rurallib]

1. good lord - and we thought the clown car was nuts

[broiles]

3. Obviously there is more than one clown car. n/t

[rurallib]

5. this must be the manure for brains car

[rexcat]

2. They are republicans...

you can't expect much from them. It also seems to be a national problem within the republican party and conseratives in general. The republican primary race looks like the inmates from the asylum are all running for the republican nomination for president.

[asjr]

4. This sort of thing gets more and more frightening.