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Watching the opinion writers at The State vie to see who can manufacture the most hideous inanities, transparent lies, and self-righteous twaddle is like watching a particularly close Kentucky Derby. As the riders bunch up, their horses galloping furiously, you can see that one jockey's whip is hitting another's animals haunches. You wonder how the beasts of burden don't fall over each other and tumble to the ground, what with all the speed and the thicket of moving hooves. You imagine that any horse stuck in the middle of that crowd would almost be carried along by the sheer velocity of the tumult around it.
[I]n the South Carolina General Assembly, bills don’t actually get killed. They get sent back to committee...The implication, of course, is that this time the General Assembly actually took a stand rather than adopting their usual course gaseous posturing and flaccid symbolism. Scoppe makes it clear that she's no fan of the Governor's "pet plan" and that she's ecstatic and grateful that the reform measure was defeated after their "straightforward and courageous vote."
But not this time. This time, the House, apparently understanding that a powerful message needed to be sent, actually voted to table Gov. Mark Sanford’s pet plan to pay parents to withdraw their children from the public schools. There could be no confusion about how House members stood on this divisive measure.
Debate Wednesday was expected to take hours. Instead, three quick procedural votes to kill the bill took just 10 minutes.It ought to be shocking that a writer for South Carolina's largest newspaper can't tell the difference between a full and fair debate and procedural legerdemain. If you ran a daycare center the way that Brad Warthen runs his newspaper, it would be staffed almost exclusively with pedophiles.
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