Political events after all

Like son, like father: you can call me "foot-in-mouth" after my last post; I guess idiots don't take breaks.

The DNC is trashing Bush's exercise routine and apparent contradiction with federal funding for exercise projects. In this memo the DNC laments cuts to PE grants and a weakening of Title IX, then implicitly concludes that these are causing the recent spike in childhood obesity. Is there any possible way for them to defend all of their jumps in logic?

Again, it may come down to basic philosophy. Is government spending truly the only the only answer to all of America's problems? I would hope that a large majority of the population would still answer an emphatic 'no.'

But Howard Dean just must not be so sure (I know they are upset with the Constitution, I realize it doesn't encompass everyhting they wish that it would). First off- can any serious economist really imagine a doubling of PE funding doing anything to reduce childhood obesity?

And I'm not totally up to date on the proposed changes to Title IX, but according to the DNC's own press release, it allows colleges to give surveys to females to determine if their athletic needs are being met. If women answer that they have ample opportunities, schools would not be forced to cut athletic programs for men to stay in compliance with the 30-year-old law. Does this strike anyone else as contradictory to the DNC's original complaint about having to cut programs for lack of funding? If the needs of women are being met, isn't it a no-brainer *not* to cut baseball programs-- or add popular things like ice hockey programs-- if they fill a need?

What a crock of shit.

More funding isn't the answer. I'm not saying good public policy cannot give incentives to fix our problems, but that's certainly a different argument than democrats have ever cared to make. I know I've said it a lot, but the democrats don't lose elections because Republicans are playing mean (as Michael Moore complains) and I'm pretty thoroughly convinced that they get as much support from the anti-religious zealots and NARAL as the Republicans get from churches and single-issue pro-lifers. Democrats lose, and will lose, because their ideas suck and they can do nothing but oppose.