Quentin mentions just below the Daily Kos and some comments on Ellsworth posted Tuesday. KOS's comment on today's news is priceless.
Someone took pity on poor Sen. Thune and spared SD's base from closure.
The commission is voting on which bases to close and which to spare in a marathon session today. Google news is a good resource to catch the latest news.
Regardless of what gets cut and what doesn't, Republican lawmakers are feeling betrayed the Bush Administration even put their bases on the chopping block.
Of course it was "bush league". That's what happens when you have an incompetent running the joint.
Well, yeah they are. Almost everyone agrees that the military keeps too many bases open. No one at all (at least no one in Congress) wants bases cut in his or her own districts. So what exactly would the non-Bush league, competent policy have been? I suppose Bush could have cut bases only in districts controlled by Democrats. That would not have left any Republicans feeling betrayed. But he did it in a more fair and square way.
I confess I find this whole affair deliciously ironic. The Democratic regional blogosphere spent months blasting Thune because he did not have the power to corrupt the process in our favor. Now we Republican bloggers are beating our chests because it looks like he did have such power. This is not to say that the arguments in favor of saving Ellsworth were not sound. But that wasn't the issue in the blog wars. It was whether Thune or Daschle would have had more power to "influence" the process, and I take influence to be a euphemism for corruption.
Alexander Hamilton once observed that the British government was corrupt, but that that was a good thing. Otherwise, it would not work. The same is no doubt true for any political system operated by modified chimpanzees. I'm just glad my group of chimps got what we wanted.
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