Quick! Call the Unnatural History Museum! The Tea Party is still around!
Most cities have regulations on residential properties that are designed to protect residents. Louisville has regulations to fight lead hazards and to maintain a list of residential property owners. This isn't to pick on owners, but to help make sure they maintain safe properties. Everybody has to follow rules. I do too. That's part of living in a society.
But now city council - led by Democrats - has gutted most of the city's regulations, not because of any new laws, but because of a bill that hasn't even become law. A bill in the Kentucky legislature called H.B. 173 was introduced a couple months ago by a Tea Party Republican but has been languishing in committee ever since because it's so unpopular. This bill would ban local governments from creating such regulations.
Gee, what a big lesson in courage by Louisville Democrats!
The bill itself defies the principles of local control, but the main point here is that the so-called Democrats who run our cities cave at the snap of a finger. That's because they actually support the Republican bill and just won't admit it and care only about raising money off the issue. The Democrats are in power in Louisville and still do what the Republicans want. They can't say they don't have the power to do any better.
Someone on Twitter posted today, "The same Democrats who spent their Obama & Biden admin majorities crying about all the reasons why a majority isn't enough to pass legislation people want now want us to believe they're powerless to stop Republicans because they're out of power." But the Democrats still have a majority in Louisville and are using it to do what Tea Party Republicans want.
Both major parties use executive orders to enact bad ideas at the stroke of a pen, yet they always complain that they don't have the power to enact good ideas. The reality is that they don't want to enact good ideas. The parties have different priorities, but have become practically identical in their policy stances.
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