Friday, September 09, 2005
Oh really?
The Republican team keeps excusing Bush's failure by saying that a President can't federalize the Guard. That may be the law, but it didn't stop Eisenhower. When Ike sent in the Guard to force school integration in Arkansas, he didn't negotiate with Orval Faubus first. When Kennedy did the same in Alabama, he didn't negotiate with George Wallace first. And those two acts had nothing to do with saving thousands of lives or quelling riots; they were only about forcing people to associate with each other.
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Also: Brit Hume mentioned the organization that sponsored the Blanco & Mr. Bill commercial seen below. "America's Wetlands" sued the Corps to stop rebuilding of levees. I no longer feel even the tiniest pang of guilt for using that picture!
I googled the subject, and found a tangled swamp of lawsuits from all sides coming at the Corps. Envirotyrants suing to prevent dams, mining companies suing to prevent wetland preservation..... It's no wonder the Corps is paralyzed.
This would be easy to cure. As it now stands, the federal gov't actually pays the legal fees of Commie organizations. We must stop this, institute Loser Pays for all federal civil suits, and raise the threshold for "standing" to sue in the first place. This wouldn't automatically make all bureaucracies competent, but it would allow the competent ones (like the Engineers) to make rational decisions, and it would force organizations on all sides to work through the legislature, not the court. ¶ 9:45 AM
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Also: Brit Hume mentioned the organization that sponsored the Blanco & Mr. Bill commercial seen below. "America's Wetlands" sued the Corps to stop rebuilding of levees. I no longer feel even the tiniest pang of guilt for using that picture!
I googled the subject, and found a tangled swamp of lawsuits from all sides coming at the Corps. Envirotyrants suing to prevent dams, mining companies suing to prevent wetland preservation..... It's no wonder the Corps is paralyzed.
This would be easy to cure. As it now stands, the federal gov't actually pays the legal fees of Commie organizations. We must stop this, institute Loser Pays for all federal civil suits, and raise the threshold for "standing" to sue in the first place. This wouldn't automatically make all bureaucracies competent, but it would allow the competent ones (like the Engineers) to make rational decisions, and it would force organizations on all sides to work through the legislature, not the court. ¶ 9:45 AM
