This week in politics: Republican Senator Jim DeMint
announces his resignation, about a hundred people congregate outside of Seattle’s
Space needle to break the law, and same-sex marriage licenses begin to be
passed out.
Senator Jim DeMint, Republican Senator for South Carolina,
announced yesterday that he would be stepping down as Senator to head the
Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. DeMint said of his resignation,
“I honestly believe that I can do a lot more on the outside than I can on the
inside.” Although DeMint had always said that he would leave after two terms in
the senate, this move comes especially as a surprise since his second term wasn’t
up for another two years. Even stranger, for a TEA Party supporter, this move
comes after the crushing loss the Republicans experienced on election night and
the discussion of changing the GOP’s image began.
In Seattle, close to a hundred people came out to celebrate
the passing of a law that allowed recreational marijuana use. Of course this
law only makes it legal to possess an ounce of the drug and its use is only
legal in the privacy of your own home. So, that means when the demonstrators
started sparking up pipes and joints, they were in fact breaking the law. No
one was arrested as police looked the other way, but it’s still funny in a sad
way.
Finally, yesterday was the first day for same sex marriage licenses
to be obtained in Maryland, who recently passed the law after much controversy
and debate. The law passed by a narrow
margin in November, and hopefully the trend will continue through more states
throughout the years.
This is our last beat assignment for the semester and I just
want to thank you all for listening to my liberal leaning lectures, have a
great winter break and I’ll see some of you back in the spring.
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