Quote of the Day: Hostility to Representative Govt.

[T]he decision of the supreme court in Opinion of the Justices, 162 N.H. 160 (2011) is incorrect and a further manifestation of the court’s demonstrated hostility to representative government and its propensity unconstitutionally to interfere with the political process, and should be and hereby is repudiated and utterly rejected.

— House Resolution 13, sponsored by House Speaker Bill O’Brien and seven Republican House members, responding to the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruling that a House bill requiring the attorney general to join the lawsuit challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.