Not a Problem
This gets more and more hilarious with each day ... Ted Stevens, yesterday, delivered the ultimate proof that no Republican was reponsible for the Istook Amendment. How so? He provided evidence of a handwritten note from an IRS employee with the legislative proposal. End of story, right?
Yeah, so long as you don't think a random handwritten note ending up as potential law of the land is a problem ... whether it violates fundamental privacy issues or not.
The Fairbanks article has more:
Stevens said the IRS provision had been cleared by senior Democratic staff members, along with Republican staff. He has the e-mails to prove it, he said. So when other senators criticized him for sneaking it into the bill, even after he explained what happened, he blew up, he said."God that made me mad," Stevens said Monday.
Funny, whenever the Senate GOP snoops in on Democratic emails involving judicial nominations, they've had no problem in publically releasing them (well, to friendly media outlets at least). But now? Where are the emails, Ted? Let's see them.
Furthermore, add two more names to the Kevin Whited standard for liberalism:
I'll be curious to see how many "liberals" end up supporting Cochran's reform measures.
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Now that the expert of broken systems, John McCain, has reformed campaign finance, I presume you think it's no longer broken, right?
Wait, no, he didn't anticipate the rise of 527s, so I guess it's still broken.
But hey, one more reform and we'll be there, right?
And I'm sure when he gets busy reforming his latest broken system -- appropriations procedures -- it will no longer be broken.
Perfection is just around the corner! Wooo!
Or maybe not. Maybe that's unrealistic.
And maybe there's a fundamental difference in those competing worldviews, with some very real implications for both tiny politics and political institutions.
See, THAT is the conversation I had hoped to engage at Charles' place. But instead, here comes Greg, bounding in like a good partisan who's active in precinct politics to create straw men and call one of the few Republican commenters on that blog stupid.
Bravo Greg! You da man! Mission accomplished! If I were a Dem, I'd smother you in smooches and cheer you on in your quest to be Party Chair!
But that comment wasn't ABOUT partisan TINY politics. It was about an interesting (to me) tangent raised by, frankly, an indefensible aspect of TINY politics (the legislative provision in question).
But no, Greg wanted to win partisan points. Great! You win! Atmosphere for conversation poisoned! We can now all call each other names. Stupid. Brown eyes. And the like.
Thanks, Greg, for your part in that. Well done. Give yourself a pat on the back.