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Saturday, December 24, 2005
Local favs: the week that was
Lots of good stuff you might've missed in the Minnesota blog-arium. MN Publius walks us through Smilin' Norm Coleman's budget priorities: "Smilin' Norm Coleman, made sure that the rich get the cake and the poor don't get any scraps." Smartie sorts through the numbers and comes up with this: "They're not just looting the treasury here, they're selling the bank vaults for scrap."
Spotty, meanwhile, walks us through the consequences of being taken literally. When a tax is a tax but you call it a fee, can you be upset when the courts treat your tax as a fee? Republicans: they get screwed when the courts take their spin seriously. They also get screwed when the courts sort through the spin. Maybe the GOP should try a slice of honesty after the Christmas ham.
Finally, the Sponge is trying really hard to find a good argument for unlimited Presidential powers. Checks and balances are so 20th century, don't you think? The Constitution might have had it's place between 1941 and 2001, but a there's an organized group of murderous zealots out to kill Americans now. Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, and Reagan didn't have to worry about serious threats to security, so it's fine if they observed the quaint limitations on power expressed in the Constitution. Now, though, we need a strong President to protect us from dangers that have clearly never existed before.
