The Secret thoughts of Ted the Teabagger
Oliver Surden 
installment #1
by Doktor Barkey
October 2009
“build (a new) events center right the first time.”
l3wis Another great letter (response) about the Event’s Center.
I wholeheartedly agree with John Mimmack’s call to “Build events center ‘right the first time,’ ” as his My Voice column in the Oct. 15 Argus Leader was headlined. Mimmack needs to pursue due diligence, however, if he wishes to insinuate that I support a downtown site for the events center out of personal gain.
Public records will show that I own no property in Sioux Falls, let alone downtown. I believe I sufficiently addressed the most salient reasons why an events center should not be built next to the Sioux Falls Convention Center in my Oct. 8 My Voice column. As an urban planner, I cannot in good conscience support a proposal that falls short in terms of fiscal sustainability and community enrichment.
A cost-benefit analysis would show that a downtown events center would be the most financially viable location, especially when considering the current economic malaise. If critics of a downtown site wish to debate the issue, they need to use facts to support their case rather than conjecture.
Furthermore, it’s become all too cliché to claim that anyone who supports a downtown events center has something to personally gain from it. Like Mimmack, I prefer Sioux Falls “build (a new) events center right the first time.”
That’s what bothers me the most about the EC arena location supporters. They seem to think that if you don’t support their flawed decision to build the EC by the Arena, they think you don’t support an EC at all. Not the case, I think we should build an Events Center, I just think the location and funding is extremely flawed and there is still time to fix it, we haven’t even voted on it yet. Joe is right, do it right the first time.
Obama’s public-trigger-opt-out-coop-option
So now all of sudden, Obama cares what a Republican thinks? That’s why I call Dems the wuss party. TO HELL WITH THEM! YOU OWN THE WHITE HOUSE AND BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS! WE DO NOT NEED THEM. THEY SHOULD JUST GO ON A PERMANENT VACATION.
Pass a public option NOW with NO state opt-outs or triggers! Obviously the campaign donations are more important then the American people.
Multiple sources tell TPMDC that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is very close to rounding up 60 members in support of a public option with an opt out clause, and are continuing to push skeptical members. But they also say that the White House is pushing back against the idea, in a bid to retain the support of Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME).
“They’re skeptical of opt out and are generally deferential to the Snowe strategy that involves the trigger,” said one source close to negotiations between the Senate and the White House. “They’re certainly not calming moderate’s concerns on opt-out.”
This new development, which casts the White House as an opponent of all but the most watered down form of public option, is likely to yield backlash from progressives, especially those in the House who have been pushing for a more maximal version of reform.
It also suggests for perhaps the first time that the White House’s supposed hands off approach that ostensibly allowed the two chambers in Congress to craft their own bill has been discarded.
High level White House officials have floated the trigger idea a number of times, and it seems they continue to do so, even at this, crucial stage of the health care reform process, when their involvement is greatest. That has senators who support the public option concerned.
FAUX News wonders why Obama won’t appear on their network (H/T – Helga)
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