The fate of Obama-Care and the Holder Contempt vote , and all the discussion and speculation that follows, will probably wash out everything 
else today. Before that happens I want to take a few minutes to comment briefly on yesterday’s veto overrides.
I have written at great length on all these subjects and you can search the Grok for more detail than I’ll provide here, but for now I will speak again briefly on the Veto overrides of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, Education scholarships (school choice) and Voter Photo ID…
On the jump.
Partial Birth Abortion Ban
[Correction] I have been informed that a quote was improperly attributed to Marilinda Garcia in The Union Leader. My apologies to Marilinda whom I have emailed for her actual remarks, which I will report separately. I have removed the incorrect reference and changed the text accordingly.
First, someone (not Rep. Marilinda Garcia of Salem) is quoted in the Union Leader as suggesting we simply did not need the bill. That the Federal protections were more than adequate. (I am told it was a female Democrat rep though I have not yet looked to see who.)
While no bill is ever perfect, New Hampshire’s partial birth abortion ban is not unnecessary. No state should ever (that’s ever) rely on standing federal law to define its morality because federal law is not just fleeting, (and often unconstitutional) its enforcement and application–as we have learned from Arizona–is unreliable. Partial birth abortion is abhorrent to all but a few left wingers and Democrat State Senators (past and present) who tap EMILY’s list for campaign donations. If the Feds nixed the law tomorrow, we’d be left with no safety net.
To the people on the the left who support partial birth abortion? Killing babies (particularly at birth) is disgusting. You are killing people based on matters of convenience. Most American’s believe this. But you still defend it. You defend it the way dictators defend killing political opponents. The way socialist regimes make dissidents disappear in the middle of the night. These are human beings whom you have marked as an obstacle to your political agenda and who must be exterminated to protect that agenda. And you are incapable of seeing how grotesque you have become.
Carol Shea-Porter, Ann McKluster, Jeanne Shaheen and every democrat woman in our State Seante since at least 2006 has supported Partial Birth Abortion. Tell me ladies, women, even mothers, where is your much acclaimed beloved bi-partisan compromise on this issue? Almost no one agrees with you on this and yet you persist in defending it. That just makes you nothing more than sick, heartless, partisan bastards, beholden to the black sacrificial arts of the monolithic abortion lobby; useful idiots with giant holes in whatever it is you have that passes for a soul.
Yes- You may quote me.
School Choice
Next, Scholarships. The left hates this because is threatens their public school union monopoly, but education is like energy. We need an all of the above approach that does not put all our rotten eggs in a one size fits all public education establishment basket. The tax cuts will not damage, hamper, hurt, or end public education–though I wish that they would. Most districts collect significantly more per student in actual taxes than the scholarship would extract leaving all the remaining taxes collected in the hands of so-called educators and administrators without a student to spend them on. There is no downshifting of costs in real terms. Not that Democrats are truly concerned with cramming costs down on towns–they voted to do that repeatedly during their majority rule to hide their billion dollar deficit.
They don’t give one damn about downshifting costs. They are only concerned with declining enrollment, which equals fewer union teachers, less dues collected by their union surrogates, and the smaller pool of useful idiots to help them use that money to intimidate state and local government into bending to their every whim. As we’ve seen with the AFT survey, it is all about money and power.
Voter ID.
Not only is there voter fraud in New Hampshire, it has lived in then Democrat State Chairman Kathy Sullivan’s House*. If you think that does not reflect on the culture and will of that party to engage in Vote fraud, and their desire to denounce its existence at all cost and defend their ability to engage in it, then you are kidding yourself. Democrats steal votes any way they can. While in power they tried to legislate voter fraud out of existence by making it almost impossible to detect. This is no different than their endless efforts to legalize theft through taxation. They simply tried to legalize the crime of voter fraud. The phot ID requirement is constitutional, it is effective, and they object only becasue it sets them back, restores some hope for protecting your vote, and the millions or billions in state or local spending that it has the power to approve or deny.
Let them chatter. The only ones disenfranchised by this are Democrat party leaders and the candidates who can no longer rely on stealing elections to win them.
*Here, here,and here for starters.
