Tea time! (Sir John Tenniel)
Welcome to New Hampshire: land of mountains, maple syrup, the first in the nation presidential primary, and, these days, totally batshit Republican electeds. Preventing students from
voting isn't all the state's Republicans are up to.
They've changed a proposed birther law so that it wouldn't take effect until after the 2012 elections. They claim this way it won't look like it's aimed at President Obama. It's just, you know, a coincidence, something that occurred to them to do on principle. No intention to validate birtherism.
Meanwhile, state House Speaker Bill O'Brien is speaking at a Tenther rally, in addition to the state Republican party chair and another state representative.
O'Brien, at least, has been a tenther for a while now, having in a previous legislative session:
voted for a states' rights bill that attempted to nullify the U.S. Constitution if the federal government exceeded its constitutional authority by actions such as limiting the right to bear arms or limiting the right to free speech.
To reiterate, this man is the House Speaker in a state won by both Barack Obama and John Kerry. That is all.