This week, a "moderate" Republican governor with national aspirations, Maryland's Robert Ehrlich, vetoed a modest domestic partnership bill and mouthed drivel about protecting the "sanctity of marriage," in an attempt to curry favor with religious conservatives. Meanwhile, the supposed "moderate" bloc of congressional "New Democrats" pledged to oppose a modest free trade expansion with Central America, in deference to big-labor contributors who think the U.S. government can freeze the present manufacturing sector in place by forfeiting the prosperity and growth that freer trade invariable brings.
One party thinks its purpose is to stifle personal liberty and
the familial relationships two life partners can enter into, and
the other thinks its purpose is to stifle economic liberty and the
business relationships that trading partners can enter into. That's
politics, I guess.
P.S. I'll be away for a few days. Catch you later. (Also, new letters in the mailbag)