Chris Weaver's blog
Well the Transit Tax for Orange may have some added poison. I say poison as for the Proponents of the Transit Tax for the Light Rail will not want an added sales tax Governor Bev Purdue has cast into the political winds this year. Outside the overwhelming distaste for more taxes by District Two, the poison for D1 is not notion of paying more tax for their costly train, it is the added threat to fuel to the fire in the pockets of D2 Citizens who have no use for a Choo Choo in a huge election year.
President
Obama’s power is growing.
Today’s’ presidential
appointment of Richard Cordray to head the CFPB breaks the traditional recess
appointment process. Generally the congress must be in recess for 3 days before
the President can do this. This was even the administration position in an
argument before the Supreme Court in 2010 to reaffirm the three day window the Clinton shortened from
the historical ten day window. Interesting how things change….
And speaking of change…the complete silence from the Democrat party on the signing
of the National Defense Authorization Act and the potential of indefinite detainment
of citizens is a real change from the howling we heard under Bush…much less the “audacity” of the Patriot act. The really
interesting part is the absurdity of the president signing statement as a ruse
to “protect” US
citizens.
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