NewMass

---by Dave Buhlman

A pack of cigs over five bucks, a budget increase of over 17 percent, increased fees to register vehicles, mandated kindergarten, a planned 83 percent increase in the gas tax, additional tax payer funds to support abortion, gay marriage (Note: I cosponsored a bill a few years ago to get the government completely out of marriage, and end these battles, but it was killed quickly.), and men allowed to use the ladies rooms.

This is a partial litany of what rule of the State House by Democrats has brought, or will bring, to the former Live Free or Die state. The Democrats did not do it on their own, of course. They had help from many pretend Republicans to turn the granite hard island of sanity of New England into the mushy state of NewMass.

And what brought us to this deplorable condition? Republican President George Bush singlehandedly ruined the Republican party by lying us into wars, running up massive deficits, creating the unconstitutional offense of adding signing statements to many of the bills that came to his desk, signing the Patriot Acts, and being just plain smugly arrogant. Do blame me. I voted for him twice. The alternatives the Democrats put forth, however - the Goracle and the Golddigger from OldMass - gave me and millions of others no choice. Maybe Pat Buchanan was right - the two parties have become two wings of the same bird of prey.

So in 2006 the voters of New Hampshire handed the reins to the Democrats, in both the State and federal legislatures, due in part to their disgust with Bush. We are now reaping what we sowed.

It felt good when we moved here from OldMass over ten years ago. We left behind state income taxes and sales taxes, a one-party kleptocracy run by the Democrats, gun laws that would please Stalin and Mao, and higher costs for almost all goods and services. Now, all of that is in the process of changing as the Democrats and the Republican quislings turn the governing philosophy of this state upside down. I don’t think this is what most voters wanted, but it’s what we got.

When the socialist philosophy is creeping in everywhere, I guess you can run, but you can’t hide.

Lets’ turn it around in 2010 by sending legislators to the State House to support the many brave souls now there who are upholding Republican principles of small government and low taxes, and trying to hold in place the granite-hard principles that made New Hampshire the best state in the country.


Dave Buhlman is a former two-term New Hampshire State Representative.
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