Message to Washington: You can go home again. . .please
Quin Hillyer on the difference between local and national politics at The American Spectator:
"Look, I lived in Washington, D.C. for five years in the 1980s...and five years in the '90s....and yet in my adult lifetime I have never seen things as bad in Washington as they are today. The politics is meaner, less principled, less public-spirited, less conscientious, less honest, and also far more flat-out incompetent and clueless than I have ever seen it.
And it's not like the Republicans are free from blame. Look, the Republicans in Congress have been screwing up lots of things since 1998. And the Bush White House has just as often been a hindrance as a help since Day One of its existence. It still stuns me that a Republican president and Republican Congress could have overseen domestic discretionary spending rising at more than double the inflation rate for six straight years...and a reckless expansion of Medicare...and a vast expansion of the bureaucratic, regulatory state -- all without, for six years at least, a single presidential veto."
More:
"I HAVE BEEN particularly critical of McCain on judicial issues, but the simple fact is that McCain's instincts, even if not deep interests, are on the correct side on judges, whereas every single judge nominated by Barack Obama would make O'Connor and Kennedy look like bastions of originalism and strict construction."
Well said here.
"Look, I lived in Washington, D.C. for five years in the 1980s...and five years in the '90s....and yet in my adult lifetime I have never seen things as bad in Washington as they are today. The politics is meaner, less principled, less public-spirited, less conscientious, less honest, and also far more flat-out incompetent and clueless than I have ever seen it.
And it's not like the Republicans are free from blame. Look, the Republicans in Congress have been screwing up lots of things since 1998. And the Bush White House has just as often been a hindrance as a help since Day One of its existence. It still stuns me that a Republican president and Republican Congress could have overseen domestic discretionary spending rising at more than double the inflation rate for six straight years...and a reckless expansion of Medicare...and a vast expansion of the bureaucratic, regulatory state -- all without, for six years at least, a single presidential veto."
More:
"I HAVE BEEN particularly critical of McCain on judicial issues, but the simple fact is that McCain's instincts, even if not deep interests, are on the correct side on judges, whereas every single judge nominated by Barack Obama would make O'Connor and Kennedy look like bastions of originalism and strict construction."
Well said here.
Posted by Cultural Offering at 7/10/2008 10:24 PM 
Categories: Republicans, Politics, Democrats, McCain
Categories: Republicans, Politics, Democrats, McCain
"whereas every single judge nominated by Barack Obama would make O'Connor and Kennedy look like bastions of originalism and strict construction."
That sends shivers up my spine.
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