Well, other than the magnum load of gloating and condescension from local Dems resulting from their wins at the polls on Tuesday, life is returning to its normal slog here in the Seattle/King County area.
Listen carefully and you can hear the sound of change whistling through Washington politics. The anti-government, anti-community principle that dominated our state since the passage of the car-tab initiative in 1999 is taking a notable break or becoming passé.
Passé would be good. We have much to do if we are to keep our state livable.
The effect of the initiative’s defeat, a measure that served as a ratings gimmick for two yappety talk-radio hosts, is obvious and novel all at once.
The failure of Initiative 912, which would have repealed a 9.5-cent gas-tax increase approved by the Legislature, means the angry, populist uprising dominant in recent years can be pushed back if surpassed by voters’ self-interest to accomplish something. The money is designed to pay for badly needed road and bridge projects throughout the state.
And now we’re back to the leftist lie from the beginning of the passage of the tax that said new gas tax is going to fix things. After all, the new tax was passed with the ‘Emergency Clause’, so it must be badly needed, right?
What this giddy biddy doesn’t realize is that she has been lied to.
Well, not actually lied to. It is hard to lie to someone so ignorant of the facts and hard up for a reason to hate those who feel they’re being taxed too much already and that said heavy taxes are being wasted by the state.
Maybe, just maybe, she should also read her own damn paper once in a while.
The defeat of Initiative 912 unlocks an $8.5 billion tax package and clears the way for hundreds of transportation projects around the state. But don’t expect work to start soon on the Alaskan Way Viaduct or other multibillion-dollar projects in the Seattle area.
The state and city are still arguing over whether to rebuild the viaduct or replace it with a tunnel. And even with the gas-tax increase, there’s not enough money to replace the Highway 520 floating bridge or fix all the congestion problems on Interstate 405. The central Puget Sound region will eventually have to come up with extra cash.
I guess that Ms. Balter likes to be ignorant of what is really happening. But then again, she’s one of those ‘progressives’ and we all know that they like to feel informed and intelligent, but are afraid of actually being informed and intelligent.
And in a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I was actually able to vote on a regular ballot that I was able to put directly into the ballot box once I got inside. Although while I was filling out my ballot I had to listen to a college age moonbat who was working the F-M names book whine about Iraq as a European Theater Cold War Era Air Force Interceptor Pilot who was working the A-E names book tried to keep her in line with polling place conversation rules.
I guess I should have clarified that my precinct is pretty middle of the road as King County voting trends go. Lots of golden year asians, including some former WWII internees in the neighborhood. Most of them have worked hard for what they’ve got but still tend to vote against themselves at times.
I don’t think the demolition of my polling place without notification was deliberate. I am just chalking it up as one more piece of proof of the incompetence in my County Election Office.
And HL, you bet that I’d like to do paired ‘recommend posts’ with you next time around. Although I’m thinking the discussions would be pretty boring since they’d probably be along the lines of
“Yep”.
“Yep”.
You’re Heartless. I’m Unapologetic. Tomato/Tomahto