San Francisco, Haul Up Your Golden Drawbridge
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 21st, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
San Francisco, Haul Up Your Golden Drawbridge
Debra Saunders, RealClearPolitics
“San Francisco, open your Golden Gate. You’ll let nobody wait outside your door.” Those are the lyrics of the city’s signature song, but now somebody should call “rewrite.” On Tuesday, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency voted to bar nonresidents’ cars from the crooked part of Lombard Street on Saturday and Sunday afternoons between June 21 and July 13. Last year, the agency banned tour buses from driving by the iconic Painted Ladies on Alamo Square. Thanks to well-heeled city residents who can afford to live in these world-famous properties, San Francisco is hoisting a Golden…
GOP Establishment Reigns; Upstart Dems Shake Up Primaries
Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
They call themselves the Tea Party, but for the loosely associated small-government groups that have upended Republican politics during the last five years, there was no cause for celebration when the results of Tuesday’s primaries came in. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — who began this election cycle as a slow-moving target for grassroots conservatives — highlighted the GOP establishment’s biggest round of victories yet during a primary season in which the Tea Party has repeatedly fallen short. McConnell’s win was expected, but his 60 percent-35 percent thrashing of…
