Steven L. Goldstein The Sun-Sentinel

November 5, 2010

Steven L. Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel
200 E. Las Olas Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301

RE: If ever a “shovel ready” job existed today’s column described it.

My dear Professor,

Baker v Carr notwithstanding, the reason why Congressman Kendrick Meek was able to give such a gracious concession speech Tuesday last is what has your knickers in such a knot. By your words that knot – Dare I say Herculean? – was done in by the passage of Amendments 5 & 6.

The first sentence of both amendments says that legislative and Congressional districts shall be drawn with lines so straight that Euclid would be proud. The second sentence of each of them contradicts the first. That is of no import to mush brained modern American Liberals who revel in the parabolic curves of political cognitive dissonance. I suggest the mantra of bad Bush deficits as opposed to good Obama deficits becomes res ipso loquitur.

The second sentence says that no one will be disenfranchised by the first.

The reality, the way things work in a world where “rocks are hard and water is wet”, a world where gravity is defied at your own peril, is that Congressman Meek’s mother was elected to Congress in a district that would have sent OJ Simpson or Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson alive or dead, to Washington with a majority vote approaching those found in Havana.

Can you think of any reason how an impeached and convicted Federal Judge could have been elected and reelected to Congress like he was a member in good standing of the old line Stalinist Politburo? Alcee Hastings, having lost his law license, would have spent the last 18 years working at the Swap Shop save for the fact that he was Black.

I can’t think of any other reason either.

Perhaps presaging Amendment 5 & 6 Colonel Alan West tiptoed into my Congressional district and gave the incumbent Ron Klein, the local paradgimatic template of modern American Liberalism, a big time ass whipping.

I can still say “ass”, can’t I?

Anyway, Congresswoman Meek really beat the death tax by willing her seat to her son Kendrick while she was living. The last I heard she is still living. I think it would be fair to say that she is living large what with a free Cadillac Escalade that she uses on her trips to Publix.

I don’t think her grandchildren are old enough to flip a coin to see who gets to be a member of Congress. I’m sure that when an Appeals Court tosses out the two amendments, and the old way becomes the norm again, they’ll start jockeying to see who gets to reclaim the “rotten boro”. Yet another legacy from the Kennedys!

Looking at the calendar I am reminded that today is Guy Fawkes’ Day. You have
two years to conjure up another “Gunpowder Plot”.

“Rainbow stew” plots. “Balloon juice” conspiracies. The morons in the mob labeled modern American Liberals are good at that.

I’ll keep you posted on how Senator Rubio and Congressman West are doing.





Kevin Smith