• DeLay cartoon • Ka Leo O Kaua‘i DeLay cartoon I want to thank The Garden Island for running the cartoons showing the true face of Tom DeLay and the Washington Republican Party. It’s an important way for people who
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DeLay cartoon
I want to thank The Garden Island for running the cartoons showing the true face of Tom DeLay and the Washington Republican Party. It’s an important way for people who rarely dig deeply into national politics to get a glimpse of what kind of people are running our country.
Some claim Tom DeLay is an effective conservative. Hardly. He’s at best a radical evangelical/fundamentalist Republican with one hand on the levers of power and the other in the pockets of special interests . No real conservative could have overseen four budgets so deep in the red that now every child born has a Birth Tax of $40,000 as their share of the national debt.
Does a real conservative take $15,000/day trips to Europe to play golf with his entourage paid for by special interests? So much for bringing honesty back to government – a key component of his and Newt’s battle cry for power a decade ago.
In Tom DeLay’s republican party, if you don’t agree with the rule of law you try to over rule dozens of Judges with an unconstitutional Bill of Attainder. If that fails, you threaten those Judges and another two dozen all the way up to the Supremes (7 of the 9 appointed by Republican Presidents) with impeachment or stand by and nod your head when fellow Texans like Sen. Cornyn rationalize violence against them. This is extremism at its ugliest.
Ka Leo O Kaua‘i
Last Wednesday I attended a Ka Leo O Kaua‘i community meeting in Koloa for the first time. I really didn’t know what to expect from it.
I had just finished reading Marianne Williamson’s “The Healing of America,” where she speaks about community meetings and getting together to share our dream visions of the world and working together to make them come true.
As I tried to apply the “dream vision of my world” theory at the meeting, several ideas came to mind. I look at the beautiful nature surrounding me – the mountains, valleys, the many reservoirs hidden in paradise-like settings sprinkled all over the area. How wonderful if some of these reservoirs were to become user-friendly to the neighborhoods around them! What a revival for the oh, so necessary and health enhancing art of walking, coming together with the neighbor to share conversation, mothers could stroll with their infants, children could come along to play, elders could gather to talk story, play dominoes or chess…all in a beautiful, natural setting right at our doorsteps. So little would be needed to make these areas accessible…or are the consequences of doing this so much more important? What are we really afraid of?
But where are the sidewalks in Koloa? Could we walk our babies, children, elders and handicapped to these neighborhood dream parks without some improvements to our “sidewalks” or paths? Centrally, Koloa town could definitely add to its charm and warmth if it were more pedestrian-friendly. This could be a good starting point. And when the new shopping area comes into being, what a nice thought if those involved in its planning could include a natural setting park area with benches, trees, flowers, picnic tables!
After having expressed my dreams at the community meeting, the members will look into the possibility of materializing these ideas at the next Koloa, ‘Oma‘o, Po‘ipu Ka Leo O Kaua‘i meeting on Wednesday, April 20, 7 p.m., at the Koloa Neighborhood Center.
