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| More from Ed Crane's CATO Memorandum | | Date Created: Oct 14, 2005, 10:44 PM |
 From the July/August 2005 Report (Sept. 9, 2005) by Ed Crane, President of CATO
"So there's this long letter in the 'Close to Home' section of the Washington Post the other day lamenting the sad state of the FDR Memorial here in town. It is written by a true-believing New Dealer who fondly remembers FDR as a 'great liberal leader.' It turns out that the $48 million FDR Memorial is an awful mess. It's full of browned-out junipers, weeds, overhanging shrubbery and 'conspicuously dead trees.' Further, 'the washrooms at the FDR Memorial [are] dirty and smelly, with empty soap dispensers and stained mirrors.' Hmmm. Discerning Bimonthly Memo aficionados will note the irony here. The memorial to the man who more than anyone else eviscerated the enumerated powers doctrine, thereby empowering the federal government to do just about anything it wants, is a disaster area because it is run by, well, the federal government.
Which brings me, of course, to the Mississippi Delta disaster..."
Luckily Ed is preaching to the choir, "Bimonthly Memo aficionados" indeed. Liberals have an easy answer to this type of obvious logical contradiction. It doesn't matter that it's both wrong and they wouldn't see it if John Kerry were President. They are sure it's Bush's fault. |
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