Gorge Commission funding closes in on needed level: zero. Where's the rag's outrage? More democratian double standard.

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It's entirely different when the left is running things... into the ground, as it turns out.

But I was on staff when State Representative Marc Boldt and Don Benton combined to play whack-a-mole on the Gorge Commission budget, sending a badly needed message that there's a huge difference between administering a blatantly unconstitutional law like the Gorge Act and administering it like you answered to Heinrich Himmler, the preferred way of the late, unlamented, Tommy Koenninger.

Oh, man, the outrage.  Koenninger in particular threw a snit, demanding that Boldt RESIGN over budget cuts to his favorite reichsprotektor zone.

But like everything else... that was different.  Boldt was a member of the hated "Republicans," so anything could be said to trash him, as moronic as Koenninger got or even more so, if that's possible.

Which brings us to today's snivel-fest.

Oppression-Act supporters (Leftists all) react as you might expect:  From the idiotic:

Michael Lang, conservation director for Portland-based Friends of the Columbia Gorge, said his organization hired former House Speaker Joe King to lobby on the commission’s behalf in Olympia this year and has been actively working to support the commission’s budget in both states.

‘This has caught us off guard,” he said.

Yeah... we had no IDEA that unimportant garbage like the Gorge Commission budget was going to get whacked in the midst of this horrific economic downturn.

To the ridiculous and typically unrealistic:

State Sen. Craig Pridemore, D-Vancouver, said he is working hard to get the Gorge Commission funding restored and expects to be successful.

Yeah, well, this clown actually expected to get elected to Congress as well.  How's that working our for him?

Well, here's an inspirational thought for the FOG types:  Why don't YOU fund the Gorge Commission?

After all, you wrote Joe King a rather large check to get ignored on the issue up in Olympia, didn't you?  And you and your sort, who wouldn't be caught dead actually LIVING under the restrictions you so eagerly advocate to oppress others, could easily afford it, couldn't you?  I mean, if it's so important and all...

 The democratian, of course, resorts to the typically leftist scare tactics:

On a more serious note, she said, “The litigation this would spawn would be a lot more expensive than the savings.”

Congress could sue the states, which are required under the act to fund the commission “to adequately carry out the responsibilities of the act,” she said. ”The counties could sue. They’re left holding the bag” for enforcing the act’s provisions.

There is no way.... NO WAY the Fed or the counties would ever sue over this, because, as I stated, the Gorge Commission Act, adopted in the late of night without even a hearing, is unconstitutional on it's face in so many ways...

So, I, for one, want this funding cut. I want their budget zero'd out. I want them perp-walked out of the Scenic area.  I want the people of the Columbia River Gorge to have the same rights that you or I, as I realized that the borders of the Scenic Area should never represent any kind of impediment to the Constitution of the United States, as it does so frequently now.

No outrage though, now, from the local stain on the science to journalism.  No bogus demands that anyone resign.  No outrage.

Why?

Well, I think we KNOW why.

So, by all means, cut the budget... and then cut it again.  We'll live.

"Let my people go."
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