June 28, 2005

Eminent Domain

Columnist Howard Troxler doesn't have much hope that local and state governments are going to be able to resist their new Supreme Court-given powers:

"The U.S. Supreme Court has basically handed a big pile of crack cocaine to every state and local government in America and said, 'Try not to get addicted.'"

Meanwhile, President Bush's silence on the subject is coming through loud and clear.

Posted by floridacracker at June 28, 2005 09:44 AM

   



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I hate to say it, but GWB is reminding me more and more of Nixon. Not the paranoid Nixon who sent out Liddy and the plumbers or plotted to use the CIA and FBI against each other, but the Nixon who passed the Endangered Species Act and enacted wage and price controls.

Posted by: Juan Paxety at June 28, 2005 12:45 PM

Between this and his immigration policy, I'm rapidly falling out of love with him. Other things I can overlook -- these are dealbreakers.

Posted by: Donnah at June 28, 2005 12:50 PM

I agree - immigration and no response after the Supreme Court's totalitarian decision - it's a good thing he ain't running again, because I wouldn't give him a second look. Typical. He got his 2nd 4 years - and he's sitting on his hands....

Posted by: suzeisnotfooledbyislam at June 28, 2005 01:11 PM

The theory is that GWBush doesn't want any distractions off solving Iraq and Getting people in line on his Social Security reform, hence ignoring a lot of other stuff flopping around at his feet.

I have no idea if it's true. It'd be good if some reporter (or whomever) could nail the guy down on these things - - I'd rather get the story straight from the horses mouth, as it were, versus conjecturing all these guesses to explain silence from the White house.

Posted by: erik at June 28, 2005 02:31 PM

Well, you have to consider -

1. I understand the hesitance to comment on specific judicial decisions. His job is to appoint the judges while whining about broad "judicial activism," not as much to offer political pronouncements that attack the specific blunders of the judiciary. I don't think it's really a Presidential job, sort of like how other administration proxies take care of nasty hits so it doesn't rub off on the office.

2. He was involved in an eminent domain situation in order to get a baseball stadium back in Texas. Thus, specifically speaking out on this would come off as pretty hypocritical. And it very well might be.

A couple of caveats.

Posted by: Bill from INDC at June 28, 2005 05:11 PM

And when's he gonna do something about abortion? For all his "pro-life" talk, he's done absolutely nothing so far. Now everyone's talking McCain-Rudy in '08...think they'll do anything about it?

If the game now is to soak up the center-left as the DNC goes further off the deep end, no Republican would ever campaign for the presidency as a pro-life candidate again.

I believe we've missed the boat.

Posted by: ArklahomBoy at June 29, 2005 09:00 PM