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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 20:45:35
Enter the Senate
They'll vote Wednesday on a financial bailout package. It will include some business taxbreaks as a sop to some House members.
Take it away
Or better yet, sit outside and have a drink. It's fall at last.
But wait .... hat tip to Ms. Bates for an early link to yet another excerpt from the Couric interviews with Sarah Palin.
Care to discuss any significant Supreme Court decisions in your lifetime, Miz Palin?
Roe v. Wade, naturally, but any others?
Er, nope.
I can think of one. I think the names Gore and Bush figure in it somewhere. She'll be prepped on that school prayer decision by Thursday. Count on it. And the one that said Bill Clinton had to testify in Jones v. Clinton.
ALSO: Couric also asked Palin to name a newspaper she read. Palin either couldn't or wouldn't name one. See below.
Vote 'No' on Act 1
A news conference is set tomorrow to announce a "major development" in the campaign to defeat initiated Act 1, which will put up more barriers to adoption and foster parenting for the abundance of kids in need.
Hey, here's an idea. Gov. Mike Beebe could drop by and add his voice against this mean-spirited legislation. He managed to find time today for rice farmers who need more irrigation water. How about the kids who need homes tomorrow?
Beebe for bonds
Gov. Mike Beebe today reiterated his support for the ballot measure to allow issuance of $300 million in water bonds. Good for economic development, he said, and, he added for fun, that might mean a tax cut someday. Yeah, right.
Anyway, this measure is, first of all, a bailout for farmers who've wantonly plundered Arkansas's water resources. It's brought to you through the good offices of the amusingly named Natural Resources Commission, once even more laughingly known as the Soil and Water Conservation Commission. You can thank them for decades of effective work in draining aquifers and silting bodies of water all over Arkansas. And for their recent defense of those who dump chicken crap on the land to the detriment of water supplies.
PS for some angry commenters -- I love farmers. I love food. But the record is clear that they have not always been good stewards of water and have contributed to the depletion of underground water supplies and pollution of flowing streams. And they are ever ready to seek handouts for irrigation, channelization and other means to increase their profitability with taxpayer subsidies. These bonds obligate general revenues of the state to improve irrigation supplies for rice farmers. We all have a stake in how wisely resources are used.
This is not Tina Fey
And with a one-in-four chance McCain wouldn't last two full terms, best pay her some mind.
The common Bush thread
Gene Robinson of the Washington Post wrote today about yesterday's overlooked story on how White House politics took over U.S. attorney selections, including the sacking of Bud Cummins in Little Rock so Karl Rove could create a job for Tim Griffin.
The people who have been running our government for the past eight years have nothing but contempt for government. They believe only in politics and ideology, in that order. First, win elections by any means necessary. Second, once in a position to act in the public good, govern with the ideological conviction that government is either irrelevant or harmful to the public interest.
You can draw a straight line between firing U.S. attorneys for political reasons and turning a blind eye to the ruinous excesses of Wall Street. What's impartial justice against the possibility of gaining political advantage? Why shackle the hallowed free market with government oversight?
And, if you want to draw the line a little further, who cares if the prospective vice president appears to know nothing about anything?