Mike Lofgren is a former Republican congressional staff member who served on both the House and Senate budget committees. His books include: 'The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government' (2016) and 'The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted' (2013).
It seems as if there is nothing but bad news these days, from the butchery in the Middle East and Ukraine to the constitutional butchery in the Supreme Court. All the more reason to celebrate an uncommon triumph: Somehow, the citizens and taxpayers of Virginia handed an ignominious defeat to the combined forces of corporate bread-and-circuses and the real estate-development complex. The $2-billion Potomac Yard arena boondoggle is dead. In December, Virginia Gov.
It took Louise Lucas, an 80-year-old Black state senator and chair of the Senate appropriations committee, to bring the plan to a halt. Flipping the script on Republicans who hypocritically tout their fiscal conservatism, she said that the deal could endanger Virginia’s AAA bond rating. The entire fiasco was an example of the American ethos at its worst.
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