Where to govern.

I've been thinking maybe there really isn't enough political will to change things from a national level. Maybe Arnie from the state level and Bloomberg from the NYC level really governing makes more sense. Arnie gets stem cells could save lives and drive science. He sort of gets global warming (lose the Hummer's dude. even if they're tricked out.) and he's trying to do some good on the health care front. Bloomberg's running his own radical little experiments with hybrid taxis and what not. Going local means smaller resources, but less institutional inertia to deal with. I'm not sure why the federal government can't even attempt to govern like this. All they do is start wars they don't know how to finish.

Just today the Senate shot down an alternative energy bill because of a proposed $30 billion tax on oil companies. The naysayers says it will raise prices for all of us. I know $30 billion looks like a big number, but oil companies will pull down over 1 trillion in the next ten years. They could pay it and they should.