http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/15/new-hampshire-legislator-apologizes-for-taunting-speaker-with-sieg-heil/
The uproar began when Rep. Steve Vaillancourt was ruled out of order during debate on a Voter ID bill and was told by Speaker Bill O’Brien that it was impermissible to discuss committee deliberations during debate on the House floor.
Vaillancourt responded by calling out “Sieg Heil!” and was ordered removed from the chamber by O’Brien. He left the chamber for a few seconds, then returned to his seat.
Perhaps not the smartest of moves, but...
Both men involved in the incident are Republicans, but there are indications that even members of his own party consider O’Brien something of a bully. Rep. Dick Drisko told the Nashua Telegraph, “Vaillancourt was definitely out of line when he walked out and said ‘Sieg Heil,’ but it was a good commentary on the dictatorial style of Bill O’Brien.”
O’Brien has also come under attack for his support of partisan right-wing interests, particularly after he wrote a letter to the Nashua Telegraph in April supporting the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has been promoting legislation similar to the Voter ID bill that set off the current uproar.
:: cue right-wing talking points calling Vaillancourt a commie pinko socialist Dem-in-wolf's-clothing RINO
In the letter, O’Brien claimed that ALEC has been “the target of a special-interest intimidation campaign … by the same people who continually advocate for big-government policies that will keep us mired in slow growth.”
“This entire campaign is an attempt to silence conservatives,” O’Brien claimed, “and it has been going on for more than a year. Free-market, open-government legislators who are members of ALEC are tired of it and fighting back.”
In response, one blogger at the progressive “Blue Hampshire” website commented, “Well, at least he’s coming out as the corporate lickspittle we all knew he was. It doesn’t occur to him that it goes against the spirit of ‘live free or die’ to have corporations write the laws of our state.”
Yeah, that would be the same ALEC that writes up the model legislation on behalf of its corporate and special interest members and hands it off to the legislators bought by those same corporations and special interests to be enacted into law. If you are against special interests, you cannot be for anyone supporting ALEC.
Liberalism is a mental disorder. If the folks behind the DSM-V had any guts they would recognize this. Your post provides clear evidence of diagnostic symptoms.
Whew. You scared me for a minute. I thought that maybe somebody had taken part in a historical re-enactment, which would have been an outrage. Historical re-enactments are verboten.
Historical re-enactments are verboten
Historical re-enactments are great, you just can't go on CNN and say Nazis 'shouldn't be judged'...
Star56 posted at 05:24:08 AM on May 16, 2012:Liberalism is a mental disorder. If the folks behind the DSM-V had any guts they would recognize this. Your post provides clear evidence of diagnostic symptoms.
See, here's the Official ToledoTalk TeaTard Ad Hominem Talking Point again: AC is a liberal and he is mental.
(Now cue the outrage from me using the dreaded phrase "TeaTard".)
SensorG posted at 08:13:31 AM on May 16, 2012:Historical re-enactments are verboten
Historical re-enactments are great, you just can't go on CNN and say Nazis 'shouldn't be judged'...
Historical re-enactments are great, you just shouldn't pick certain emotionally-charged people or groups to re-enact and then run for office thinking it wouldn't be a problem. Particularly if you re-enact a discriminatory, authoritarian regime and you're running for office as part of a party that looks an awful lot like a discriminatory, authoritarian regime.