John Micek points out that our Democratic leaders suck at politics:
You’d Think He’d Have Figured That Out The First Time.
Just below you’ll find the text of a letter from House Minority Leader Frank Dermody, D-Allegheny, to Judge Steve McEwen, the chair of the Legislative Reapportionment Commission.
More astute readers will recall that Dermody broke with Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa, D-Allegheny, to vote with Republicans to pass the map. This was because, we were told at the time, the GOP had more or less complied with his requests not to totally out House Dems into the minority for the next 10 years. The same could not be said of Senate Democrats.
In the letter, attentive readers will also note that Dermody is asking McEwen for a thoughtful and deliberative process for creating a constitutional legislative map. All the better, one supposes, to comply with the Margarita-stained opinion on redistricting that the state Supreme Court is supposed to issue just any day now.
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Seeing we have Democrats who are ok with doing away with the PlCB stores, renting out the PA Turnpike, and other dumb privatization schemes, or forget working people by endorsing anti-labor positions, then we're going to have problems with our Democratic Party as more politicians turn away from progressive values and more towards the mushy center that helps the right win at our expense as a nation.
I don't see how PLCB privatization is inconsistent with progressive politics. I want to see public services well-funded and well-staffed. But Iiquor sales is not a public service. It's something the market economy is quite capable of providing. If anything, the existenc of the state stores undermines the case for well-funded public services by giving the right a powerful and popular example of a thing the government shouldn't be doing. In reality, the number of public services that would benefit from privatization is very very low, but this particular example of rent-seeking bloat makes it seem like there must be much more that can be privatized. I support unions, but they're wrong on this issue.