Senate Sockpuppets, and how to deal with them...

pettyfog · Sep 26, 2005

Democrats' special interest problem

....This was no right-wing talk show host commentator or Republican Party operative accusing the Senate Democratic leader, on the solemn choice of a chief justice of the Supreme Court, of cravenly caving to organized pressure groups. It was an ostensible ally telling the world that when Democratic pressure groups yell, 'Jump!' the only question Democratic politicians ask is, 'How high?'

If Democratic Party leaders have any functioning brain cells and the remnants of a vertebrae, they will let it be known to Gandy and the entire political world that she will attend no more private meetings, but that like every other constituent she is free to communicate her views by phone, letter or e-mail.....
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- better read ALL of it.

And, speaking of sockpuppets, pressure groups and 'never-mind politics:
The Lawsuit That Sank New Orleans

After Hurricane Betsy swamped New Orleans in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson stroked its citizens ("this nation grieves for its neighbors") and pledged federal protection. The Army Corps of Engineers designed a Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane Barrier to shield the city with flood gates like those that protect the Netherlands from the North Sea. Congress provided funding and construction began. But work stopped in 1977 when a federal judge ruled, in a suit brought by Save Our Wetlands, that the Corps' environmental impact statement was deficient. Joannes Westerink, a professor of civil engineering at Notre Dame, believes the barrier would have been an "effective barrier" against Katrina's fury.

All this was reported in the Los Angeles Times on Sept. 9. The reactions of environmental advocates and federal agencies show why we would be a lot safer if the federal government did a lot less.

Speaking for environmentalists, the Center for Progressive Reform called the charges in the Los Angeles Times "pure fiction" because the judge stopped construction only until the Corps prepared a satisfactory environmental analysis. The Corps instead dropped the barrier in favor of levees that were less controversial, but which failed. So, the Center argues, fault lies with the Corps' bumbling rather than with the environmentalist lawsuit.
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- Now, mind the 'key words' "satisfactory environmental analysis".

Satisfactory to WHOM? Sorry, I remember the snail darter debacle... unless they get their way, it is NEVER 'satisfactory'. Th ecase keeps on GOING AND GOING AND GOING... the Energizer Bunny should last so long!

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