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As long as most members of the House State Affairs Committee agree to indulge St. Maries Republican Dick Harwood in mulish braying at Uncle Sam, why be so timid? Instead of sending meaningless junk mail to Congress asserting Idaho’s purported “sovereignty,” why not tell the federal government to keep its money and leave the state the hell alone? If legislators are going to embrace a crackpot nostrum, let them really get their arms around it. Then let the committee turn to Harwood for another bright idea: how to replace the nearly $2 billion in cash the government sends Idaho’s way each year to help it provide services from education to health care/Jim Fisher, Lewiston Tribune. More here.
Question: Is there a toothless type of resolution that you’d like your representative to present to fellow legislators, just for the heck of it?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Laughing on March 05 at 11:52 a.m.
As long as one thinks small, like the fisher-man, one will remain small. Continue drinking at the trough and one will become fat, lazy, and dependent—but able to still complain about such things as taxes and spending. Should legislators bury their heads in the sand and take the position that whatever the Uncle says goes?
toadman on March 05 at 11:56 a.m.
Where do I sign the petition to make Idaho a sovereign nation? We need another third world country in the northern hemisphere to send our manufacturing jobs for $2 an hour.
BlueinIdaho on March 05 at 12:21 p.m.
Nuff said, Toadman, nuff said.
toadman on March 05 at 12:56 p.m.
blue - ;-)
misc on March 05 at 3:28 p.m.
If Harwood feels so strongly about this issue, he should write a bill and put it through the process. This ‘joint memorial’ isn’t worth toilet paper and he knows it.