Proving that the right and the left can sometimes see eye-to-eye, Tammy Hall actually agrees with me about closing Main street for the teabaggers parade on July 4th. (Bozeman Comical, so no link to her column is possible.) She thinks it shouldn't be done, as do I.
Of course, her view is smothered in Wingnut sauce. She feels that because Independence Day is a celebration of democracy, it would be contrary to the purpose for the marchers to block access to the highest expression of democracy, our downtown businesses. I'll let the reader suss out the deeply illogical issues with that claim all on their own; but I will point out that most of the downtown business traffic is foot traffic, and the marchers will do every bit as good a job of blocking those businesses on the sidewalk as they would if the street is closed. Leaving that slightly to the side like, it should be noted that Tammy disagrees with closing Main Street because it would appear to be hypocritical on the part of the protesters. I accept that it would be too much to expect Tammy to recognize that it actually would be hypocrital, so I'll take what agreement I can get.
This morning, there was another letter to the Comical from a local noted right winger. His argument was essentially the same as mine. If government spending is the problem, then requesting more goevrnment spending for the protest is, his analogy, 'cutting a hole in the bottom of a sinking ship'. Tammy's response, and the letter today, actually give me some hope that the City Commission will do the right thing, and deny the protesters their request to close Main Street. We'll just have to see.
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