Grover Norquist sounds intelligent, but his "pledge" has had its time.
Unions still represent a collective voice, but perhaps they need to be a little less entrenched, a little more awake to the fiscal realities they have helped create.
Maybe even those oil companies, risking their stockholder's profits on tar sands oil, and fracking, and hiding money for those lawsuits down the road - not just from Americans with pollutants in their drinking water, but from banana harvesters and workers in Nigeria.
I do not want my government forcing Catholic charities to buy birth control for their employees. If their employees want birth control let them buy it on their own.
I do not want union dues taken out of my salary anymore as a "fair share". If I want to join the union, let me sign up and be union proud and pay my dues out of free choice.
Yep, everyone will be glad when this election cycle is over. I am a bit nervous. In Oregon we may end up with another 30:30 15:15 split Legislature. Which means nothing will get done (boring to watch, and our PERS-induced problems do not just magically 'poof' go away when the stock market recovers, if it recovers).
Nationally, fascinating races - cspan plays many debates. It is ideology that will be the loser when it comes to passing legislation. No one side has a corner on The Truth. If you force everyone on my block to buy compact fluorescent light bulbs, maybe our energy bill will go down, but the mercury that seeps through the landfill cause everyone doesn't know what to do with the spent bulbs will pollute our water.
Likewise if you force every citizen to "make a choice" on health care, or retirement investment, some of us will chose badly, and suffer for it.
Balance. All voices. Let 2013 see the end of ideology. If not, we have no one but the voters (ourselves) to blame.
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