Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Arkansas Politics Jason Rapert forms another caucus
Posted by Max Brantley on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:59 AM
Rapert is one of those conservatives who doesn't demonstrate much reverence for conservation. I'm speaking here of the natural resource despoilers of the Fayetteville shale whom Rapert protects almost to a fault. (OK, he is a little concerned about generator noise.) You-break-you-buy-it, another hallowed conservative principle? Not for Rapert. Drillers destroy roads and don't pay enough to fix them. Government usurpation of human rights, another conservative no-no? Forget it. Rapert wants to use the law to restrict medical choices of women and punish people of sexual orientation other than his own. 1st Amendment establishment clause? Count on Rapert opening the government door wide to religion, particularly of the inerrantist Christian persuasion. Federal supremacy? Rapert spits on it, insisting that the state interpose itself against health care law. It goes on. It's just the straight Republican platform by another name, with hopes to peel off a few Democratic allies and ripen them for crossover come the hoped-for red tide.
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Term limits was a nuisance up til now. Now it is becoming dangerous. But, it goes with the times (no pun intended.)
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"I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside." --Former Rep. Morris Udall
It would be nice if they learned the facts before taking action. Seems more like a shoot from the hip kind of situation and if you disagree with them then you are deemed to be satan incarnate.
Oh Max... your liberal principles excrete from your thin skin. Liberalism was not what this country was founded on my fellow American. I'm just thankful that some people such as Rapert have woken up and are trying to help this country return to its original principles.
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