Author: Jonathan
A letter in yesterday’s Leesburg Today exposes Congressman Frank Wolf’s complicity in Loudoun’s reprehensible land use and transportation planning. I firmly believe that the people responsible for these planning fiascos should be held accountable and would like to see a civil penalty for “design abomination”. Here’s part of what Nancy Stoepker of Sterling observed.
Try driving anywhere, especially during rush hour, and you quickly realize we’ve outgrown our roads. They don’t fit us or our economy anymore. They’re inefficient and poorly laid out. It takes too long to get to work. It seems to take even longer to get home to our families.
And yet, Frank Wolf keeps trying to squeeze us in. His solution is to just keep widening roads. It doesn’t work anymore. Our area has grown too massively and is still growing, adding more and more pressure to an already over-burdened system.
So Frank Wolf is now running on his newest attempt to patch his previous transportation failures, the Dulles Metrorail project. But look at the mess that has become. Not only should there have been a rail system to Dulles decades ago, but back in 1998, Frank Wolf derided those who wanted to build the rail…
Actually, Frank Wolf has served as the leader of the “no know-how” party that delegated the design of our transportation network to roadbuilding interests. That left us with a frail comprehensive planning function that has been attacked by the local Republican party at every turn. In effect, our County’s planning function was subsumed by transportation planning leaving us with un-networked cul-de-sac communities attached to major roadways.
When you drive through Loudoun and find yourself in sprawling McMansion ugliness and gridlock, remember that the unsustainable ugliness you experience is a window into Frank Wolf’s soul.
Tags: Frank Wolf, Loudoun, sustainability, transportation
October 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Author: Jonathan
There is a fantastic pilot project in India called pointReturn that demonstrates how we on our own can practice sustainability. I love the article called Falling in love with swales and would like to understand why Loudoun’s Republican party is so full of swaleophobia. If anybody has an opinion, I’d love to hear it.
Tags: Astroturf, CBPO, Loudoun
September 27th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Author: Jonathan
Don Feder said it.
Memo to conservative defeatists: Surrender on gay marriage is surrender on marriage – which is surrender on the family and, ultimately, surrender on civilization.
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Unfortunately, many conservative intellectuals have lost sight of a crucial fact: American exceptionalism rests on three pillars – faith, family and freedom. Remove any one, and the entire structure collapses.
It must be tough to be a “real” (anti-gay) conservative.
Tags: anti-gay, Astroturf, conservative, culture, marriage
August 31st, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Author: Jonathan
I wonder about Congressman Wolf’s relationship to the hard right because his instinct when challenged by new information isn’t to be thoughtful. It’s to throw out a conservative meme. On ideological matters great and small, he’s made up his mind. He’ll promote the hard right line and is unwilling to incorporate new information, even if that information is factual.
Think Progress demonstrated this behavior at yesterday’s job fair. Here’s what Think Progress reported.
‘Earlier this week, two leading economists released a study that “empirically proved” that the government’s response to the Great Recession, including the stimulus bill, prevented the loss of “some 8½ million jobs.” The study’s authors — former McCain economic adviser Mark Zandi and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Blinder — concluded that “there is little doubt that in total, the policy response was highly effective.”’
Wolf Palinesque response centered on a well-known William F. Buckley quote.
“And of course you remember Bill Buckley said he would rather be governed by the first 500 people in the Boston telephone book than 500 economists from Harvard. So, I don’t know who they are or what they are but I would think those numbers — 8 million — would be highly inflated.”
Think Progress also reports that Wolf wants to repeal the stimulus money, but stumbled over the fact that the hiring companies at his own job fair received a total of $420 million in stimulus contracts.
Tags: Frank Wolf, politics, stimulus
August 1st, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Author: Jonathan
This isn’t news for people who find themselves continuously awe-stricken by the antics of Loudoun’s hard right. But it is refreshing to see other people observe what we know so well – the rightward march of the hard right in our beloved Loudoun County. In his local opinion piece, Peter Galuszka compares the former governor Harry Flood Byrd (D) regime to “a communist party cadre” and observes “how the tables have turned”. Galuszka identifies Loudoun, Fairfax and Prince William as the nexus of the Republican version of the same.
How the tables have turned. Cuccinelli, an aggressive social conservative, is from Fairfax County and graduated from Gonzaga, an elite Jesuit high school in the District. Stewart, champion of anti-immigration laws, is from Prince William. McDonnell hails from Alexandria, although he moved to Virginia Beach and went to grad school at Robertson’s Regent University, where he wrote his notorious anti-gay and anti-female graduate thesis.
Add to this mix people like Michael Farris, a home schooling advocate who is founder and chancellor of arch-conservative Patrick Henry University in Purcellville, and Eugene Delgaudio, the gay-baiting supervisor from Loudoun County. All feed off the outer, white Republican suburbs of Washington.
I found Galuszka’s piece to be rather humorous in light of Eugene Delgaudio’s grandstanding call for “persecuted Christians” to wage their 24/7/365 Christmas offensive. The question for people is whether Congressman Frank Wolf, member of “The Family” and recipient of electioneering-like accolades from uber-hard right icon, Chuck Colson of Loudoun’s taxpayer-funded Prison Fellowship Ministries has anything to do with the rightward shift.
July 30th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
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