Posted on 09/18/2008 11:36:00 AM PDT by bestintxas
One item which I just thought of is the highlighting that has been made on the need to support the drilling ban every year. It is a fact that, if not renewed, the ban will expire Sept 30 and it will be back to before the ban was in place
Wouldn't it be great if ALL laws made by Congress were forced to be reexamined every year to ensure they still made sense?
Just think how delightful it would be for liberals who support big government to try to justify many of the things that have never made any sense like the EPA and the Energy Dept?
Recall Gingrich tried to do this by establishing a bottoms-up budget review by Congress (i.e. - justify everything), which would have been a real change from the current way they do it (only need to justify increased spending).
Maybe I am in wonderland here, but does anyone else see this as something of value in the control of federal spending and initiatives?
I’m reminded of the light rail boondoggle in Austin. Maybe it’s an inherent problem with democracy: Yes means Yes forever; No only means No until the next election.
They have the same thing here in Houston.
Besides the miserable thing created by the light rail here (reduced street by two driving lanes and stops at every RR crossing now as well as the fact that it KILLS people unheeding the warnings), IKE just proved another thing wrong: it is electric and does not run when the power is out. What was the fix? Running buses to parallel the routes. Could have done that without all the money needlessly spent on rail.
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