Ole Man Frist has set the (likely to fail) cloture vote on the estate tax as the second order of business when the Senate returns from their month-long respite, spent lazily wiling the days away making nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life back in their home districts, rather than doing the same here in the Beltway.
Wally Olson reminds us what's on tap as the first order of business.
Personally, I find myself split three ways on the issue of Hawaii'an nationhood. The idealistic AnCap in me wants to find a silver lining in the notion of multiple orders of sovereignty competing for citizens within the same geographic zone, proceeding from the principle that extending choice is likely to spur both the Hawaii'an and plain old American governments to be more responsive.
But the naive integrationist in me wishes that such a choice could be extended to all, and not just those who fit some arbitrary racial phenotype.
And the pragmatic tax dodger in me realizes this really has nothing to do with either choice or race, but is instead primarily motivated by a desire to install a new South Pacific feeding trough at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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