Credit Due?
Jim Waters of the Bluegrass Beacon re-inaugurates a column of liberty "lovers and losers" where he aims to provide credit where it is due to public figures acting in the public interest. He states:
"Just because a public official makes a boneheaded move should not relegate them forever to the equivalent of carrying the mark of Cain by wearing the label of a foe of freedom."
In it he recognizes Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice Menton's laudable review of $880 million in spending on 65 new judicial centers throughout the state.
He also rightly recognizes Governor Beshear's decision to put the state's checkbook online. But he goes perhaps too far to describe this draggingly-slow decision as appreciating "Governors who lead."
Beshear may have gotten one thing right, but his real leadership still seems to be in signing the most indebted budget in state history, taxpayer-funded plane rides to political events, creating task forces, expensive horse regulations, and trying to convince the legislature to raise taxes.
