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Re: Partisan Hypocrisy on Display -- Nov 12, 2003.
So the Republicans are essentially going to have a filibuster in
protest of the Democrats having filibusters. Then, afterward, perhaps
they will protest the meat industry over steak dinners and make a
profound statement against drunken driving by driving home drunk.
But this is par for the course in the alternate GOP universe. It is a
brave new realm where smaller government means a massive big brother
style information awareness apparatus, an entirely new executive
department, and an enormous and unconstrained federal debt. A place
where compassion means de-funding programs that help people, programs
like HeadStart and AmeriCorps (and also gutting veterans' benefits).
The separation between church and state means the immediate merger of
the Department of Justice and the Rev. Jerry Falwell's biblical
interpretations. Clear Skies means deregulation of those polluters
that make the skies dirty. "Healthy forests" means chopping
down trees. Strengthening the Endangered Species Act means killing,
capturing and exploiting endangered species. It is a place where it
makes perfect sense that the president who campaigned against nation
building as some kind of liberal do-gooding gone awry just requested
$87-billion to, yes, build a new nation. Finally, the White House
counsel has informed us, via your letters to the editor forum, that
fully cooperating with the 9/11 commission is entirely consistent
with the practice of withholding vital information from the commission.
Can I go to the other parallel universe where they counted the votes
and Al Gore is the president? I bet in that universe "clear
skies" really means clear skies. Imagine.
-- Jason K. Jolliff, Clearwater
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