The Blogging Congresswoman
Posted by Moonage on 29 Sep 2005 | Tagged as: National Politics
I have been waiting for this to happen. Now that it is, not sure what I think of it. Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is blogging to some degree at Redstate.org. In this particular thread she is discussing ideas to save federal money to be spent for Katrina/Rita relief. Her idea primarily attacks:
- Earned Income Tax Credit abuse. Nothing terribly exciting.
- ..reform of the Department of Defense’s military exchange system
- what Medicare paid for 16 medical equipment and supply items with the prices paid by the Veterans Affairs Administration.
Everything was going fine until she mentioned one of the taboo topics: Veterans. You don’t mention Veterans unless you’re wanting to give them more. Of course, the comments go flying off the deep end for the most part. She could have done this as a post on her web page, I don’t see what her point in making it a blog entry was. She hasn’t responded to any comments so far, so the true nature of blogging has not been fulfilled. I don’t know her intent to continue blogging. But, if all she’s going to do is use blogs as a forum, I’m not happy with that. What makes blogs unique is their seperation from everything that ruined news media. I don’t want the blogosphere to turn into CNN lite.
From now on, politicians who have a message need to just put it on their web page. Pretend bloggers look bad.
Answer the comments Ms. Blackburn and that will shut me up. Otherwise, don’t fake it.
( BTW, the ideas are good, not good, and horrible. I don’t mind explaining why, here. )
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2 Comments »
on 29 Sep 2005 at 5:17 pm 1.Bryan Kerwick
said …
The real simple solution to pay for the hurricanes is to cut off aid to the rest of the world. Simply tell them that we have catastrophies in our country that will leave them no extra money. Suggest they call France, Germany and Russia for some cash because we have none to spare for a while. We continue to give aid to all sorts of people, including those who despise us, on both governmental and private levels. The amount of aid globally is monumental and will be required here for a change. We do enough for everyone else, it’s time we take care of ourselves and let the rest of the world pick up the slack for a while. We owe it to ourselves because no one else is sending us massive aid as everyone else expects us to do for them. We need to send aid to ourselves at the moment and everyone else will just have to wait.
on 29 Sep 2005 at 9:40 pm 2.Moonage
said …
I’m so game for that I’m going to blog it.