State representatives threaten a state assistant attorney general for allowing Barack Obama's name to appear on the ballot

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While the Republican candidates for president have been falling over themselves to woo New Hampshire's primary voters, the local politicians elected in 2010 by those very same voters have been acting in the State House like a bunch of thugs. Remember those grainy old video clips we all used to laugh at, the ones where overseas legislators would threaten and fight one another in the well of their chambers? Well, that's essentially what is happening, now, in the Granite State, where a mob mentality has taken hold in the Legislature.

The fight, this fight anyway, is not over immigration or the Affordable Care Act. It is not over measures to bring new jobs to New Hampshire to ease the state's unemployment rate. Instead, some Republican lawmakers are fighting mad that the state's attorney general, and its Ballot Law Commission, won't allow them to take President Obama's name off of state ballots. The antagonists say that this extraordinary measure is necessary because the president is "a treasonous liar" who wasn't born where his birth certificate says he was.