Like I said.. I will vote against this bill because I refuse to change the name of Mondale National Airport, a respected politician among liberals, to that of a moderate hero who has long since been involved in Atlasia or the Atlas forum.
Props to HappyWarrior for doing this. It's ridiculous and pathetic the first bill ever even passed. I actually wouldn't mind changing it back to what they were named before.
My commitment against frivolous bills is because the queue is backloaded until August 2012 at the rate we're going and frivolous bills sit and sit and sit on the senate floor because nobody is interested enough to push them through or get rid of them... thus reducing senate activity greatly.
If things are running smoothly and people are proposing frivolous bills to honor certain people or whatever, then I'm okay with that... but things aren't running smoothly at the moment (though at least some new bills have been put up for consideration now).
And yes, renaming the airports was partisan hackery. I'd expect no less from the right if they had a super majority in the senate and held the presidency.
Remember it wasn't the left who engaged in hackery on this issue in the first place. Washington/Nyman National Airport was just as good a name as any for the airport serving our nation's capital. Naming it after the godman of the right was nothing more than an exercise of hackery at its greatest level... and renaming it Mondale National Airport, after a man who lost spectacularly to Reagan, was a hackish jibe at the right. I won't apologize for it.
But in balance, I am a liberal. I try to be a pragmatic, common sense liberal and I have no problem working with the right to achieve common goals. But don't pretend I'm some moderate hero who will champion partisan conservative causes in order to appear "cool" and "moderate".
As for this bill in particular: I already stated I am voting no for partisan reasons even if it is quite frivolous.
