NEITHER TOO FAR NOR TOO FAST FERGUS

Posted on June 23, 2007

NH GOP chair Fergus Cullen takes the Democrats to task for their extreme left wing votes both in Congress and in Concord. He says that they have gone “too far, too fast” on their fiscal and social agendas.

Too far implies that they should have gone to the left but that they went further than is prudent and too fast again implies they should have gone but did it too quickly. But judging from some of their critics - on the left - it seems that maybe they have not gone far enough nor fast enough to please the kooky radical left. Certainly the letter writer in today’s Concord Monitor criticizing Paul Hodes for not yet signing onto a socialized medicine bill thinks he has not gone the whole distance.

In the New Hampshire legislature the new Democrat majority has gone places that they should not have trod, like criminalizing a child’s helium balloon. Like voting for radical increases in spending and taxes. Like repealing the parental notification law. They created homosexual civil unions (heterosexual couples are discriminated against by it). These are all examples of where the Democrats should not have gone at all - so “too far” is inappropriate.

So, I disagree with Fergus. It is not that they have not gone too far or too fast - but that they went at all!

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