I haa an animated discussion early today with several members of the State House of Representatives. They will be called upon to vote for or against the awful CACR-12 proposed state constitutional amendment. CACR-12 will essentially do the bidding of the five policy activists in black robes on the state supreme court. But they are NOT superior to the state legislature. So on CACR-12…DON’T DO IT, REPUBLICANS! As I said this morning, here’s why:
“Today’s New Hampshire politics are not in any wise the politics of 2007, or the politics of any time in the past half century…or century, for that matter. It doesn’t take a Weatherman to see which way the wind is blowing. The GOP supermajority of 2010 is only the first gust of a gathering anti-statist storm. In the future there will be libertarians and other anti-statist activists on both sides of the aisle fighting over issues far more liberty-oriented than what we are looking at today. As Rep. Manuse says, now is not the time to give up and surrender by installing an automatic government-growth escalator into our state constitution…at the very moment momentum is historically shifting in our direction.