Well … not quite yet … but that’s clearly where “conservatism” in New Hampshire is headed … because “conservatism” in New Hampshire, to paraphrase The Princess Bride, does not mean what you think it means. I have been posting lately about how New Hampshire’s “fiscal conservatives” rail against commuter rail, while at the same time turning a blind-eye to the FACT that we have no idea how the majority of “education funding” is being spent … EXCEPT we know it is NOT being spent in the classroom.
Here is another example that New Hampshire is the land of the faux-fiscal-conservative, a “Republican” State Senator making the case for OBAMACARE Medicaid Expansion:
A couple of points … This is what passes for “conservatism” in New Hampshire: tweaking big-government Democrat programs and claiming that the tweaks have transformed these big-government Democrat programs into the New Hampshire Advantage, the 603-Way, blah, blah, blah.
Do you know why Obamacare Medicaid Expansion is praised by the faux-fiscal-conservatives, while the choo-choo to Boston is condemned … even though the former costs far, far more than the latter? Because the real beneficiaries of Medicaid Expansion … Health-Care, Inc., i.e., the big hospitals … are more powerful than the people who would benefit from commuter rail. That’s all that “conservatism” means in New Hampshire.
Yes … New Hampshire is truly a magical place … a place where big-government solutions aren’t big-government solutions when the “Republicans” do them.
