Well, here's your handbasket.
Feb. 2nd, 2007 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkMaybe it's just something about being Texan, but the Governor of Texas is taking a page from Bush, looks like. And what makes it even more disturbing to me is that he's doing this for a fairly liberal cause. So it's not just more nutjob conservatives here.
Whatever you may think about cervical cancer, (and I personally can see the point of view of those who don't want mandatory innoculations, but I'm not sure I agree with it,) the founding principle of this country is in checks, balances, branches, voting, and other such things that come attached to a democracy. Getting elected to a position of power in this country is NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE YOU A DICTATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quit it with the signing statments already! I had so little faith in politicians before this it was hard to measure, but some how this has managed to reduce it even more.
Even if cervical cancer vaccines really are a gift from the gods to save humanity, right now those who believe so can go and flipping get them, and can then go and start a bill to make them mandatory if they really think it's that important that every single human being get vaccinated. *growls* Bypassing the legislature is NOT what governors are supposed to do. And presidents aren't supposed to do it either.
Whatever you may think about cervical cancer, (and I personally can see the point of view of those who don't want mandatory innoculations, but I'm not sure I agree with it,) the founding principle of this country is in checks, balances, branches, voting, and other such things that come attached to a democracy. Getting elected to a position of power in this country is NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE YOU A DICTATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quit it with the signing statments already! I had so little faith in politicians before this it was hard to measure, but some how this has managed to reduce it even more.
Even if cervical cancer vaccines really are a gift from the gods to save humanity, right now those who believe so can go and flipping get them, and can then go and start a bill to make them mandatory if they really think it's that important that every single human being get vaccinated. *growls* Bypassing the legislature is NOT what governors are supposed to do. And presidents aren't supposed to do it either.