“The American public understands something must be askew if every single Republican votes against something.”
— Minority Whip Eric Cantor, when asked by reporters why Republicans have said “no” to nearly everything the Democrats have proposed.
Yes, Rep. Cantor, there’s definitely something askew, but not what you’re thinking.
I am really getting tired of all the obstructionism on Capitol Hill as related to the stimulus bill, et al. Why are there so many agnotological politicians? Don’t they have anything better to do, like run the country? Oh, and the media isn’t helping.
Well, not exactly. This written by Ken Layne, editor at Wonkette, at an AOL News editorial:
What should emerge from this [election] wreckage is a major conservative party that acknowledges the idiocy of acquiescing to dumb mobs, a liberal party that realizes its future lies with inspiring centrists like Obama and not fringe-identity politics, and a lot of tiny angry splinter groups filled with nuts dedicated to one extremist cause or another.
I would really, really, appreciate a political future like this. What a refreshing future. An optimistic, and, dare I say it, hopeful future.
Hilzoy in Washington Monthly makes the good point that besides endorsing a right to privacy in the Constitution (heretical among those who oppose Roe v. Wade), she endorsed states protecting that right:
If there is a right to privacy in the US Constitution, then protecting it is a federal issue. It has to be. You just cannot say that there is a right to privacy in the US Constitution, but that what to do about that fact should be up to the states. Not if you understand what the Constitution is, and how our system of government works.