tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post253019255026827149..comments2023-10-24T08:13:45.842-06:00Comments on Only in New Mexico: The Domenici InstituteJim Bacahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14019944863771287149noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post-1005285831243640282011-11-19T14:51:45.531-07:002011-11-19T14:51:45.531-07:00Interesting how the Republicans and their mascot i...Interesting how the Republicans and their mascot in the White House have no problem spending $10 million of the taxpayers money as long as it's to give a leg up to their Capitalist funders.<br /><br />And as long as it's done to honor a conservative Republican's name.<br /><br />While we witness the ongoing destruction of everything that is good about this country, let us examine this insidious practice of naming buildings and institutes and bridges and overpasses after people, by people who owe that person a favor. <br /><br />The idea is that this will rehabilitate the person's reputation. Long after they are gone and what they did is forgotten, the building or the bridge or the Little League baseball field will be there perpetuating their name.<br /><br />But let us not forget that Pete Domenici had possibly the most terrible environmental voting record in US legislative history. Even Republican environmental groups gave him bad marks.<br /><br />Let us not forget how corrupt he was, as in when he tried to throw the 2006 elections here in New Mexico in the Republican's favor by pressuring US District Attorney David Iglesias to issue indictments against prominent Democrats just before the election. He and Heather Wilson.<br /><br />To those of us who remember people like him the way he was, and not the way those who owe their careers to him want us to, the stench they leave behind will also hover over everything named after them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com