Rep. Sam Hunt and the Democrats are seeking to unilaterally cancel the 2008 Presidential Primary. (because they prefer smoke-filled rooms, or something)
Rep. Eileen Cody and the Democrats are trying to impose Soviet-style healthcare and eliminate market choices (silly me, I thought Cody was pro-choice!)
The Senate Democrats are still trying to force the Secretary of State to toss valid signatures on initiative petitions into the trash.
The House voted to eliminate the super-majority requirement for school levy votes (because it's good to live in a Marxist kleptocracy where a vote to confiscate somebody else's property is morally equivalent to a vote to keep ones own property)
The Democrats are moving the income tax through the Senate.
And the Democrats aren't satisfied with existing vote fraud. The Senate just passed election-day voter registration!
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at March 13, 2007 05:29 PM | Email ThisIf an otherwise legal vote is incorrectly tabulated, it is an "illegal vote". But if an otherwise legal petition signature is incorrectly filed, it is a "valid signature".
If a vote on the viaduct is advisory, it's a waste of valuable tax dollars. But if a presidential primary is advisory, someone who wants to cancel it must favor smoke-filled rooms.
Taxes for the Iraq war are spreading democracy. But taxes for schools are Marxist confiscation.
I must just be missing something.
Posted by: Bruce on March 13, 2007 06:33 PMand there's more...Jacobsen and other Dems in the legislature also would like to do away with the Initiative process, so they can do their business without intervention by the people who elected them. People clearly don't want the Income Tax, yet it is moving through the Senate ?? That is the height of arrogance and smacks of old Soviet style politics. All of this is documented.
Posted by: KS on March 13, 2007 06:55 PMI agree that an education tax should not have a higher bar than other taxes. Every tax should require a supermajority.
Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on March 13, 2007 06:55 PMStefan is right....Marxist Kleptocracy.
Perfect description.
I third your motion katamor
Posted by: GS on March 13, 2007 09:02 PM
I'm really disappointed in our dear Democrats in Olympia.
To be corrupt and idiotic is expected. But to be corrupt, idiotic, timid and incompetent is just sad.
They've got bloody near a supermajority -- why piddle around? Why simply make more exceptions to the Public Disclosure Act when you can outlaw news coverage? Why require 50% for a school levy when it's *for the children*? Why not just require 25% of the people to care about investing in the future of our state with a program of modest contributions from those who have been luckiest in life's lottery? Why pass an income tax legislatively when they could simply have their friends among the Supremes, while ruling on a completely unrelated case, happen to drop a phrase into the versict about the unconstitutionality of *not* having an income tax? Why set up the budget to run a huge deficit in two years when they could just rig the budget numbers today? And why simply edge up taxes when you can just confiscate 100% of the wealth of people you don't like? Why bother rigging elections when you can just cancel them?
No imagination. No guts. Makes for a poor movie script, I'm afraid.
Posted by: TB on March 13, 2007 09:38 PM1. Soviet-style health care plan
(pick one)
Just like Soviet citizens could "vote" in elections. Never mind you only had one "choice".
Posted by: Interested Observer on March 15, 2007 11:35 AM