Dangerous Places to Stand
There are patches of ground that are innately dangerous: Edges of cliffs. Rivers of ice. Railroad tracks. No man’s land.
After the State House passed its budget at 1am in the morning, eight hours later up popped an ad on Facebook lambasting Chief House Budget Writer Nelson Dollar for raising spending a billion dollars.
Those were fighting words and by midday Rep. Chuck McGrady was firing back at Americans for Prosperity’s ad, praising House Speaker Tim Moore for ‘leading from the middle’ – which landed Tim Moore (who is nobody’s idea of a moderate) in no man’s land.
Over in the Senate, when it comes to writing a budget, the Old Bull Mooses’ proclivities aren’t exactly a study in Democracy: Last time, they wrote the Senate budget in secret, released it at the crack of dawn and, in the blink of an eye, it had passed and when this session’s version of the Senate budget train pulls out of the station any Senator standing on the railroad tracks will be in a more dangerous place than no man’s land.
Dangerous Places to Stand
There are patches of ground that are innately dangerous: Edges of cliffs. Rivers of ice. Railroad tracks. No man’s land.
After the State House passed its budget at 1am in the morning, eight hours later up popped an ad on Facebook lambasting Chief House Budget Writer Nelson Dollar for raising spending a billion dollars.
Those were fighting words and by midday Rep. Chuck McGrady was firing back at Americans for Prosperity’s ad, praising House Speaker Tim Moore for ‘leading from the middle’ – which landed Tim Moore (who is nobody’s idea of a moderate) in no man’s land.
Over in the Senate, when it comes to writing a budget, the Old Bull Mooses’ proclivities aren’t exactly a study in Democracy: Last time, they wrote the Senate budget in secret, released it at the crack of dawn and, in the blink of an eye, it had passed and when this session’s version of the Senate budget train pulls out of the station any Senator standing on the railroad tracks will be in a more dangerous place than no man’s land.