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I Get Tired

Posted on by arlen

I get tired of a lot of things, but right now I’m just tired of all the clueless bozos jumping up and down on Sensenbrenner for his vote. Now, I’m one of the first to say I don’t agree with many, if not most of his political stands, under normal circumstances. But this time he’s got a point. Even a stopped clock is right, twice a day.

He voted against a bill that shovels $50 billion in tax dollars hopefully at the aftermath of Katrina. On the surface, yes, the “no” vote doesn’t look good. But I’ve never been comfortable with superficial judgements, so let’s dig a little deeper. And when we do, we find it’s not a case of Mean Republican vs Needy People. For example, Henry Waxman (D-California) voiced similar concerns about the bill, so there’s defects in it that are visible to both parties.

What’s the problem? It authorizes a $250K spending limit on single purchases made by governmental employes using government issued credit cards, without oversight. One wonders how many brand new plasma TVs are going to show up. Government audits have already shown the current system (with its $15K limit) is subject to abuse; how many more millions are not going to make it to the people who actually need it now?

It’s axiomatic: “Act in haste, repent at leisure.” It’s exactly this kind of shoot-from-the-hip legislation that brought us the PATRIOT Act and the accompanying loss of liberty. Yes, the legislators meant well with this aid bill. But it needed a few more minutes thought before handing every bureaucrat with a chunk of plastic in his wallet a blank check to draw on my money.

My political leanings definitely aren’t with the current administration, but this frenzy of demonizing everything remotely conected with them is brainless, idiotic, and unproductive. I find nothing more comforting about yellow-dog Democrats than about yellow-dog Republicans. Both attitudes should be stomped out.

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