Posts here have been in short supply as I have been living life and trying to get a campaign off the ground. But "11 questions to see if Libertarians are hypocrites" by R. J. Eskrow, picked up at Salon , was just so freaking lame that I spent half an hour answering them. In the end (but I'll leave it to your judgment), it is not that Libertarians or Libertarian theory looks hypocritical, but that the best that can be said for Mr. Eskrow is that he doesn't have the faintest clue what he's talking about. That's ok, because even ill-informed attacks by people like this make an important point: Libertarian ideas (as opposed to Conservative ideas, which are completely different) are making a comeback as the dynamic counterpoint to "politics as usual," and so every hack you can imagine must be dragged out to refute them. Ergo: Mr. Eskrow's 11 questions, with answers: 1. Are unions, political parties, elections, and ...
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No one can truely get a sense of this 1,600 page bill in less than 24 hours.
What the heck are they thinking?
I was able to e-mail Castle, but couldn't get through to our Senators because I think everyone is downloading the PDF from Pelosi's site. The IT dudes and dudettes must be going wild !
Shirley, nonsense! The essence of this bill has been around for over a week. And the focus of the entire Congress has been on it. It was also published on-line as you yourself noted.
As far as the final changes, the House-Senate resolution conferees know exactly what has changed and have certainly communicated these changes to their party members.
Perry Hood
The public and Congress should have plenty of time to study it, analyze it, and weigh-in especially because it is so ginormous and unprecedented.
To spend nearly a trillion dollars with a matter of hours to even just read, much less understand, the detail is absolutely reckless beyond belief.
The Congressional Democrats may as well be running the Politburo.