Dave Burris (for his myriad of faults and just wrong-ass shit that he believes) is a credit to his party. The open government movement has taken a huge leap forward this week and he needs, not only congratulations but support.
Having said that – he is still a partisan hack when it comes to pointing the finger of blame for the sorry mess that we are in. Like me, he tends to view the sins of his fellow party members as lesser sins.
He seems willing to give Charlie Copeland and Terry Spence a pass when it comes to being on the take with regard to wind power – just I tend to shrug off McDowell and Thurman Adams’ opposition to open government. [For the record, I once dismissed “open government” something that is important to bloggers but does not resonate much outside of the blogs.]
So where does that leave us? My feeling is that if you pull the lens back on both issues a the truth that comes into focus is that these issues are not so much Repub vs. Dem issues but are “power fossils” vs. everyone else issues.