Wednesday, June 1st, 2005...9:16 am

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Our Republican Friends in the legislature are now threatening to send the governor the exact same “school choice” bill she vetoed. Um…how exactly is that supposed to work? She’s supposed to be all frightened of them? Bear in mind here, this isn’t a veto override, its just them passing the damn bill over and over again until she, I guess, forgets that she’s opposed to it.

I haven’t seen polls yet, but unless there is a major backlash against her for this supposed “lying” that she did, I can’t see them being anywhere close to victorious in this fight. I’m not sure how they can argue that she lied. If she did, it was the exact same lie that they themselves told the press and Democratic legislators.

It’s never stops being funny, these big manly men in the Republican leadership, and Janet always wins the cojones contests.

I work with drop-outs, many of whom are in and out of the juvenile justice system. Its interesting when I ask why they got arrested. The reasons fall into a couple of different categories:

  • Somebody snitched
  • The cop was a jerk
  • My PO “violated me”

Interesting thing is missing in all of those, a reason that goes along the lines of “I messed up…”

I thought of this yesterday when the news of the Supreme Court overturning Arthur Andersen’s conviction hit. Various business publications have been making excuses for these guys, and complaining that the big bad government caused all of this. Um, excuse me? Arthur Andersen destroyed documents to cover up the whole Enron business, no disputing that, but the court found a problem with the jury instructions about who was culpable. No court found them “innocent” or “exhonerated” them. Hey, Wall Street Journal, I don’t remember you ever looking at dropped charges and not guilty verdicts against Bill Clinton’s friends as an “exhoneration.” Maybe it’s time for publications like Forbes and the Wall Street Journal to hold their corporate friends to the same sorts of legal standards that they expect poor people and liberal minded politicians to.

Ah, too much to expect today.

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