Show us the way, Joe
Saturday, May 30th, 2009It’s time for the Speaker of the House and his team to stand up and do the right thing on the state budget
It’s one of the great philosophical questions of democratic government and college political science classes. It goes something like this: To what should elected officials look when staking out their positions on the issues they confront - the desires of their constituents or the dictates of their own consciences? Is it better to do what one knows will please a majority of the voters tomorrow (or in the next election) or what one knows in one’s heart is “the right thing?”
