I must have read the same article in the Post. Interesting that some of his activity is directed against genuine bullshit. Programs are duplicative and dysfunctional. A lot of them -- though a minor Federal expense in the grand scheme of things -- are the sort of stuff that looks good to the uninformed parochial mindset. Or as the Gene Wilder character says in Blazing SAddles, "These are simple farmers . . . you know. Morons."
The bullet you really have to bite in a social dem or I suspect any democratic context is that a lot of what the public wants or can be convinced to support is crap. Crap is the price you pay for the important stuff. >Subject: [Pen-l] Tom Coburn >The New York Times has an article today about Tom >Coburn, a right-wing, antiabortionist, >ultraconservative, probably wingnut. > >Coburn makes a practice of putting folds on >legislation techniques that needs with this >disapproval. Where was the Democratic senator who >hold the spying bill or war funding? > >I do not know if he has strong principles or if he is >just playing to his conservative constituency, but I >wish that the Democrats have somebody with a tenacity >to do something other than to cower before the >right-wing. > > >-- >Michael Perelman >Economics Department >California State University >Chico, CA 95929 > >Tel. 530-898-5321 >E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu >michaelperelman.wordpress.com >_______________________________________________ >pen-l mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
