Thursday, June 12, 2008
"[D]o your level best to convince me that the Democratic Party should continue to run the U.S. Senate ..."
A lot of Democrats have a fetish for subsidizing businesses that continually lose money (Amtrak, for example). Right now, a big bunch of Dems in the U.S. Senate are resisting efforts to privatize the annually unprofitable Senate cafeterias because a handful of union workers might - might - be put out of work.
I want you to read this Jonah Goldberg column and then, if you're so inclined, do your level best to convince me that the Democratic Party should continue to run the U.S. Senate.
A sample from Goldberg's column:
"As befits a government-run commissary, the Senate cafeteria has a decidedly Soviet attitude toward variety. It has averaged only two new menu items a year over the last decade. The food is so bad, every lunch hour Senate staffers rush to the House side of the Capitol like starving New Yorkers of the future storming the last Soylent Green vendor.
"According to auditors, the chain of restaurants run by the Senate food service, including the snooty Senate Dining Room, has almost never been in the black. It's lost more than $18 million since 1993 and dropped about $2 million this year alone. ...
"[A]ll augurs point to a tsunami of government ambition in the years ahead, particularly if Barack Obama wins in November. Obama promises a national health-insurance plan overseen by the kith and kin who serve the Senate its navy bean soup."
I want you to read this Jonah Goldberg column and then, if you're so inclined, do your level best to convince me that the Democratic Party should continue to run the U.S. Senate.
A sample from Goldberg's column:
"As befits a government-run commissary, the Senate cafeteria has a decidedly Soviet attitude toward variety. It has averaged only two new menu items a year over the last decade. The food is so bad, every lunch hour Senate staffers rush to the House side of the Capitol like starving New Yorkers of the future storming the last Soylent Green vendor.
"According to auditors, the chain of restaurants run by the Senate food service, including the snooty Senate Dining Room, has almost never been in the black. It's lost more than $18 million since 1993 and dropped about $2 million this year alone. ...
"[A]ll augurs point to a tsunami of government ambition in the years ahead, particularly if Barack Obama wins in November. Obama promises a national health-insurance plan overseen by the kith and kin who serve the Senate its navy bean soup."
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, June 12, 2008 
