Saturday short takes
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An ignition lock for distracted drivers
Ever since man plopped down the first bag phone on the console next to the driver’s seat, society has searched for an effective means to save him from the distraction. Sadly, laws forbidding phoning or texting while driving are not all that effective when the offense is so ubiquitous. …
A blue summer in the Blue Ridge
Virginia’s Blue Ridge will fade a bit because of automatic federal budget cuts, and that should have residents in and around the Roanoke Valley singing the blues. …
Letting the big ones get away
Fallout continues from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s suggestion last week that despite the post-meltdown Dodd-Frank financial reform law, some banks remain “too big to fail” – or rather, “too big to jail” the officers responsible for getting institutions mired in money laundering and other financial crimes. …
March 16, 2013 - 1:10 PM
On this sequestration thing, the people responsible for such a evil plot should be held accountable. I want the person responsible to be impeached or recalled! Those people are President Obama and his administration. Sequestration was their idea.
That is a lot of people to “impeach” (which is not an option) or to “recall” (which is also not an option).
“Party leaders, the White House and most members of Congress supported the debt-ceiling deal: The BCA passed on a 268-161 vote in the House, with about one-third of House Republicans and half of House Democrats opposing it. It passed in the Senate, 74-26, with six Democratic senators and 19 Republican senators opposing it.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/14/the-sequester-explained/
Good point Sandi…then the left should be quite when talking about the Iraq War. Afterall, Bush went before congress and asked them to vote. They voted yes…even the dems! So it is the Congress War.