Bad Day at Black Rock
It sure is tough to be a palaeo-Republican this week. On June 22, the Senate ruled that towns really don't have any say in whether they get an LNG terminal. Hmm, do they get to levy property taxes on it, or is that verboten also? The next day, the Supreme Court ruled that a town can exercise eminent domain for pretty much any damn reason it chooses. I've been closely involved in some of the idiotic projects that struggling small cities get into in the name of improvement, and I wouldn't trust any of them to go to the corner store for a bottle of milk. I have no problem believing the city fathers of New London, or any other beleaguered city, would gun down their own residents to kiss corporate asses. We'll see how far they mean to push it.
DAYYUM! I am so relieved that we don't have those big-government Democrats throwing their weight around, and I'm proud to know that the most important thing on Congress' mind this week is a Constitutional amendment against flag-burning.
At the Court, it's amusing to see O'Connor and Scalia on the same side of a bitter dissent against a pet project of Republican corporate backers. Sort of makes you wonder what will happen if Dubya gets all his hand-picked judges on the Court, doesn't it?
(All that and FEMA doesn't buy Mitt's pitch for disaster aid for the shellfish industry. That's an encouraging sign of how much political muscle our wannabe presidential candidate can wield, isn't it?)
The last time corporate power called the shots so blatantly, the media called them "the Robber Barons:" that was when the media had balls.
This is why you love your country and fear your government.
DAYYUM! I am so relieved that we don't have those big-government Democrats throwing their weight around, and I'm proud to know that the most important thing on Congress' mind this week is a Constitutional amendment against flag-burning.
At the Court, it's amusing to see O'Connor and Scalia on the same side of a bitter dissent against a pet project of Republican corporate backers. Sort of makes you wonder what will happen if Dubya gets all his hand-picked judges on the Court, doesn't it?
(All that and FEMA doesn't buy Mitt's pitch for disaster aid for the shellfish industry. That's an encouraging sign of how much political muscle our wannabe presidential candidate can wield, isn't it?)
The last time corporate power called the shots so blatantly, the media called them "the Robber Barons:" that was when the media had balls.
This is why you love your country and fear your government.
posted by Uncle | 21:47
1 Comments:
Well, this size and role of government issue is one my mother and I could volley for many, many shots. We are looking at the party elected since Ronald McDonald Reagan on the pledge of small government, lower taxes, balanced budget, and less government intrusion into our rights.
What I see as a result is:
1) The largest government, per capita or any other measure, we have ever had.
2) Vastly expanded police and agency powers to spy on and control us, even before 9/11.
3) Such obscenely large borrowing that we are in effect paying more taxes that anyone, even in most of those Scandinavian nations with higher nominal rates. Our grandchildren and beyond will pay and pay for these economic blunders.
My mother, may God rest her ashes, which are on my desk, wouldn't have a credit card because of the immorality of borrowing. Yet, she thinks Shrub was okay for running an alcoholic’s government, always borrowing for the current high.
As Thomas Jefferson so astutely wrote, " I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep forever."
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