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Wednesday, March 24, 2004 np: footsteps in the hallway. it's been a little over a week since my last post. since then, i've begun my new teaching position. i'm currently working two jobs (the job at western and at a sylvan learning center in burlington) which is a bit draining to be sure. needless to say i'm not always excited to be up at 6:45am for school and then immediately driving the 30-40 minutes to burlington immediately after school for another three hours of work. on mondays, this more or less puts me starting work at 8am and not being done until 7:30pm. i do the same on fridays (only working until 6:30) and then get up saturday mornings to go back to sylvan from 9am to 1pm. sundays are my only true day off. but, seeing as i only have to (at worst, side story that's not worth relating) keep this up until june 2nd, i think i'm willing to tough it out. the extra money i earn per month at sylvan isn't a lot, but it's enough to cover my rent, and that's a sizeable chunk of money to be able to save. especially when you have idears. i have idears. meanwhile, i've been pondering a lot about the new richard clarke book. the bush administration was able to dodge the initial bullet of the paul o'neill book with relative ease. the richard clarke revelations are proving themselves a little bit harder to take. both atrios and daily kos have been all over this stuff. and if you have some time today, tune into your local npr affiliate. they're broadcasting the live 9/11 commission hearings. today is when richard clarke and george tenet (head of the CIA) make their testimony. yesterday tweedledum and tweedledee (secretary of state powell and secretary of defense rumsfeld) gave their testimony and it was interesting to watch them dance. the 9/11 report is due in june, which could (and will) make it entirely important to this election cycle. if the report should show that the bush administration in any way ignored or sat on information leading up to the attacks or that they were immediately pounding the pavement for iraq as opposed to dealing with al-qaeda, then we are going to be in for one hell of a november. speaking of people who deserve to be ousted in november.. my old arch-nemesis, howard coble, is back with a delightful house bill that atrios discusses here. if you're more dedicated, you can go read the text of the proposed bill. in it, coble (along with several other house members) propose that congress be allowed to review and overturn rulings by the supreme court. honestly, i don't know where to start with this, so i won't. but seriously. maybe the morons we elect don't understand the workings of our government very well (or maybe they understand it far better than i do, and i'm just naive), but i distinctly remember a song on a tape that came in a book about our beautiful country when i was a kid, outlining the system of checks and balances. those convincing, white-bread singers sure had me believing in the importance of a system of internal government review. but let us not be mistaken...  as you can clearly see, the legislative branch already has a check in place over both the executive and judicial branches; namely, they can overturn appointments made by the executive branch to executive and judicial positions. so they can toss judges out. that's a mighty large check. not to mention that, with the proper amount of votes, they can overturn an executive veto also. the bottom line: the framers understood that, in essence, you can't trust one group of people with both the power to create laws and the power to interpret laws. to do so would ensure corruption on a level that would make our current state of affairs look like a church social. so if you are concerned, locate your house representative, email or call them (make sure you state very clearly that you are a constituent), and in a very loving and polite fashion, tell them to take HR 3920 and tell howard coble and his ilk exactly what they can do with it. then in november, go tell them to get their hat, their coat and to not let the door hit them in the ass on the way out of the capitol. posted by J. Neas | 3/24/2004 09:24:00 AM
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