Either I am crazy, or I’ve been blogging for so long that I just automatically think this way, which means I’m crazy.
A letter to editor in yesterday’s N&R carries the hed North Carolinians need more federal spending. I was going to blow it off, figuring it was just another statist diatribe, but I decided to read it anyway and discovered the writer was going off on Sen. Kay Hagan:
When Hagan insists that agricultural and military spending should be increased but other domestic programs should be cut, I hear Jesse Helms, Elizabeth Dole and the status quo, not a modern Democrat who recognizes we are living in a time of financial crisis caused in large part by such poor priorities. The people who voted for Hagan and all North Carolina citizens need expanded and cheaper basic health care coverage. We need jobs. We need expanded aid to homeless shelters and food banks. Our schools need more and better teachers who are compensated at the high level their work deserves. Hagan needs to drop the political power play and stop opposing the new government’s efforts to help average folks.
You’d think the hed would more accurately reflect the true subject of the letter. I can’t help but think — as Kachina and I briefly discussed—- that the N&R editorial page has certain rules in place, and one of them is protect Kay Hagan.
Update: On another front, Hagan says the votes aren’t there to pass card-check, but she still supports it.
