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EDITOR
Louis Black
SENIOR EDITORS
MANAGING EDITOR Cindy Widner FILM Marjorie Baumgarten
ARTS Robert Faires MUSIC Raoul Hernandez
NEWS Michael King NEWS MANAGING EDITOR Amy Smith
FOOD Virginia B. Wood SCREENS, BOOKS Kimberley Jones
2010-2011 SPECIAL ISSUES, GUIDES, INTERNS Kate Messer
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MUSIC POLL BALLOT on p.42 NEWS Nora Ankrum MUSIC Audra Schroeder
CALENDAR
ARTS LISTINGS Wayne Alan Brenner COMMUNITY LISTINGS James Renovitch
ASST. LISTINGS Anne Harris
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Wells Dunbar, Margaret Moser, Lee Nichols, Marc Savlov, Jordan Smith
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Eyes Wide Open
political communities in this country are lined was an open and largely successful assault
up against the president. on the two-party system, accompanied by
Obama supporters aren’t as disillusioned
The consistent certainty with which admin- an attempt to thwart the balance of power in
as polls and pundits would have you believe istration critics describe the feelings of Obama favor of an imperial presidency. There was,
supporters has almost bizarrely come to be of course, a major shift in the agenda toward
the accepted take – that the voters who serving extremely conservative and even reac-
BY LOUIS BLACK
swept him into office were expecting a tionary politics. It was not simply
completely unique and enlightened a move to the right, however,
It has been happening with some regularity Many who dislike the president delight in term, that he would walk on water but an attempt to restructure
now. In the past year or so, I’ve encountered offering poll numbers to show how dissatis- like a biblical saint rather than page the government in service of a
it all over Austin but also on both coasts. Most fied the electorate is with his performance. a human president. The critics dominant party system.
often it happens when I’m visiting friends, They nearly swoon when reporting on how treat his supporters like recov- two It seems that the achieve-
sometimes with family, and even a few times many of these are former supporters who ering addicts, since they can’t ment of substantial and pro-
with people with whom I’m really not that voted for him. Although many tend to endorse imagine anyone approves of this found liberal changes in poli-
close. We’ll be talking politics. There will be a or damn local, regional, and national opinion/ presidency, saying: “We told you tics and governance by a suc-
pause in the conversation, and right after that political polling (usually based on whether or so! Why didn’t you listen?” Much of cessful candidate from the left
they will say, almost always in two sentences: not they agree with the content), poll results the time, this lament is delivered with would more than likely be accompa-
“I like President Obama.” And then, “I actu- seem accurate, especially when indicating the sneering contempt and a certain satisfaction nied by a similar constitutional assault.
ally think he is doing a very good job.” At that percentages of support for or hostility toward that these Obama supporters have now gotten (cid:116)(cid:1)(cid:53)(cid:83)(cid:66)(cid:69)(cid:74)(cid:85)(cid:74)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:66)(cid:77)(cid:1)(cid:78)(cid:66)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:84)(cid:85)(cid:83)(cid:70)(cid:66)(cid:78)(cid:1)(cid:87)(cid:80)(cid:85)(cid:70)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:70)(cid:89)(cid:81)(cid:70)(cid:68)(cid:85)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:1)
point, I usually offer some variant on “a very candidates and issues. Obviously, the way poll their comeuppance for their ill-informed and (cid:67)(cid:83)(cid:74)(cid:72)(cid:73)(cid:85)(cid:1)(cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:88)(cid:1)(cid:69)(cid:66)(cid:90)(cid:1)(cid:85)(cid:80)(cid:1)(cid:69)(cid:66)(cid:88)(cid:79)(cid:13)(cid:1)(cid:85)(cid:73)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:83)(cid:70)(cid:68)(cid:70)(cid:84)(cid:84)(cid:74)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:1)(cid:85)(cid:80)(cid:1)(cid:70)(cid:79)(cid:69)(cid:13)(cid:1)
good job – actually an unusually good job.” questions are phrased and grouped, as well as utopian expectations. (cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:85)(cid:73)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:70)(cid:68)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:80)(cid:78)(cid:90)(cid:1)(cid:85)(cid:80)(cid:1)(cid:83)(cid:70)(cid:87)(cid:74)(cid:87)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:1)(cid:68)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:70)(cid:89)(cid:85)(cid:1)(cid:80)(cid:71)(cid:1)(cid:83)(cid:66)(cid:68)(cid:74)(cid:66)(cid:77)(cid:1)
After that, the conversation takes off. who is asked, affects the results. This is all based on the assumption that (cid:73)(cid:66)(cid:83)(cid:78)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:90)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:68)(cid:80)(cid:78)(cid:78)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:1)(cid:69)(cid:70)(cid:68)(cid:70)(cid:79)(cid:68)(cid:90)(cid:15)(cid:1)They wanted the
The tone in which these statements are There are those who try to legislate by poll there is an obvious and generally shared belief government to shrink, legislative inaction to
made is interesting. The speakers are never – but, of course, only when the numbers go that Obama has turned out to be a bad presi- end, and a return to traditional bipartisanship.
embarrassed and usually seem quite sure of their way. Right-wing talking heads constantly dent, heading up a confused and ineffectual Although the elected opposition absolutely
themselves. Their opinions are offered, how- bring up polls that show the public differs administration. refused to cooperate, abandoning even their
ever, as though they were unpopular – ones with Obama’s policy. They accuse him of own initiatives rather than pass legislation for
with which they don’t expect you to agree – near-treason for not doing what the people There is little obvious public support for the which Obama might get credit, they some-
but neither tentatively nor apologetically. want. They make the preposterous argument administration, and it is being attacked for its how escaped most blame for their continued
that the job of the president is to indulge the many failures from a wide range of ideological extreme political polarization.
whims of the people. positions. (cid:116)(cid:1)(cid:48)(cid:67)(cid:66)(cid:78)(cid:66)(cid:1)(cid:84)(cid:86)(cid:81)(cid:81)(cid:80)(cid:83)(cid:85)(cid:70)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:74)(cid:78)(cid:66)(cid:72)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:69)(cid:70)(cid:71)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:1)
Oops!
As is all too often, this belief is the result of (cid:116)(cid:1)(cid:48)(cid:86)(cid:83)(cid:1)(cid:81)(cid:83)(cid:80)(cid:72)(cid:83)(cid:70)(cid:84)(cid:84)(cid:74)(cid:87)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:77)(cid:70)(cid:71)(cid:85)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:85)(cid:1)(cid:67)(cid:83)(cid:80)(cid:85)(cid:73)(cid:70)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:84)(cid:74)(cid:84)- (cid:67)(cid:90)(cid:1)(cid:79)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:14)(cid:48)(cid:67)(cid:66)(cid:78)(cid:66)(cid:1)(cid:84)(cid:86)(cid:81)(cid:81)(cid:80)(cid:83)(cid:85)(cid:70)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:27) Essentially, though
Clarification: In the Jan. 14 News lazy, divisive demagoguery rather than having (cid:85)(cid:70)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:85)(cid:86)(cid:83)(cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:1)(cid:48)(cid:67)(cid:66)(cid:78)(cid:66)(cid:1)(cid:70)(cid:87)(cid:70)(cid:79)(cid:1)(cid:67)(cid:70)(cid:71)(cid:80)(cid:83)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:73)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:88)(cid:66)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:70)(cid:77)(cid:70)(cid:68)(cid:85)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:15) metaphorically, it was claimed that the expec-
story about Senate Criminal Justice anything to do with the Constitution. Actually, They feel a certain satisfaction that the presi- tation was that Obama would walk on water,
Committee recommendations to reform one of the main ambitions of the constitu- dent has proven to be just as much another which he failed to do. Then, in service of the
Texas’ sex offender laws and registry tional government was to isolate elected legis- run-of-the-mill centrist as they predicted he most ambitious agenda, the new administra-
(“Will Texas Be Safe for Romeos and lators from the mood of the public. The idea would be well before the election. tion would pursue magnificently irrational
Juliets?”), we reported that Dallas Dem was that elected officials would, in accordance What concerns me here is that there are and realistically unachievable goals. These
Sen. Royce West’s bill on the topic with their principles, do what they thought principles and there are policies; there are ide- would include making everything better.
(Senate Bill 198) would update state
was best for the country. ologies, and then there are processes. There Crucial to this vision was the expectation that
law to comply with the Adam Walsh
Polls offer scientific and empirical data is a desire from both the left and the right to Democratic legislators could be made to act
Act. What we inadvertently omitted was
rather than merely anecdotal information. In see the government diverted from business as like their Republican counterparts, working in
that the primary purpose of the bill is to
that light, one would believe that President usual because that kind of government has lockstep, unanimous compliance in obedience
exempt from registration so-called
Obama has not only lost much of his support become so corrupted and morally bankrupt. to both party leaders and the president.
“Romeo and Juliet” offenders – to
but that many feel that he has been a disap- Real change, therefore, would mean a major (cid:116)(cid:1)(cid:46)(cid:70)(cid:78)(cid:67)(cid:70)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:80)(cid:71)(cid:1)(cid:85)(cid:73)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:71)(cid:66)(cid:83)(cid:1)(cid:83)(cid:74)(cid:72)(cid:73)(cid:85)(cid:13)(cid:1)(cid:78)(cid:70)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:88)(cid:73)(cid:74)(cid:77)(cid:70)(cid:13)(cid:1)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:84)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:85)(cid:1)
provide certain offenders a way to avoid
pointing president. This has been further and disruption in the operations and goals of (cid:85)(cid:73)(cid:66)(cid:85)(cid:1)(cid:79)(cid:80)(cid:85)(cid:1)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:77)(cid:90)(cid:1)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:1)(cid:48)(cid:67)(cid:66)(cid:78)(cid:66)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:1)(cid:46)(cid:66)(cid:83)(cid:89)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:85)(cid:13)(cid:1)(cid:46)(cid:86)(cid:84)(cid:77)(cid:74)(cid:78)(cid:1)(cid:68)(cid:80)(cid:78)-
registration. We regret the oversight.
In the Jan. 14 print edition, there freely interpreted by pundits to mean the the government. Although along very differ- (cid:78)(cid:86)(cid:79)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:85)(cid:1)(cid:67)(cid:86)(cid:85)(cid:1)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:84)(cid:70)(cid:83)(cid:87)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:72)(cid:1)(cid:66)(cid:79)(cid:1)(cid:86)(cid:79)(cid:81)(cid:83)(cid:70)(cid:68)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:70)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:83)(cid:66)(cid:69)(cid:74)(cid:68)(cid:66)(cid:77)(cid:1)
was a mistaken subhead for the country has turned on him and his party. ent lines, it would have to be significantly (cid:66)(cid:72)(cid:70)(cid:79)(cid:69)(cid:66)(cid:15) That agenda, moreover, is designed
transportation section of the legislative Certainly some of that is right, but maybe re-created, using radically different priorities not only to forever change but to actually
preview; it should have read, “Where’s not as much of it as we are being sold. There in pursuit of dramatically reimagined goals. destroy this country. They are well aware that
the Road Fairy?” are many of those wise, nodding heads on TV The most radical administration of my life-
that would have us believe that all the diverse time was George W. Bush’s. Early on, there CONTINUED ON P.6
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PAGE TW0 CONTINUED FROM P.4
We’re celebrating our 30th year with
random delights from the past three
decades, all posted on one handy page
(austinchronicle.com/year30). Here’s
what’s up this week:
All new!: Nora Ankrum looks back at
the heady days of Save Our Springs,
Freeport McMoRan, the South Texas
(Nuclear) Project (also in our News
section this week, by the way: plus ça
change …), and more fierce, green
politicians with ideologies and priorities whatever we want them to be, while pagan, After eight years of the failed Bush admin- battles in “30 Essential Environmental
different from their own are corrupt, ill- ideologically stunted Visigoths and Huns istration, one would have had to be crazy Stories,” plus the latest Find the Vintage
intentioned, demonic emissaries. ransack our present. to think a simple change in the party in Ad Contest results and newly posted
Denying history and ignoring reality Within this latter grouping are a number power would lead us into Oz – that govern- PDFs of Issues From Our First Year.
While you’re there, check out the
are both crucial to this view of the devil’s of subgroups, including: ment performed badly in almost every area
ever-changing 30 Things list, which
administration. The argument goes some- Conspiracy theorists: Obama is just a of its function. Tragically, this was not just
includes such fan favorites as “30
thing like this: pawn in the New World Order’s game. He because ideology paved over common sense or
Personals/Messages/Shots in the
Many would claim that over the decades is a willing, knowing, corrupt pawn, but still that extreme arrogance resulted in consistent
Dark,” “30 Crazy Carole Moments,” and
this country has developed regulations he is a pawn. ineptitude, but often because of deliberate,
“30 Clooneys” (trust us).
designed to protect the public while also cre- Racists: It would seem that racism is not destructive decisions.
And best keep up. We’ll be 40 before
ating a substantial social safety net in order just rampant but way out in the open, but We knew for whom we were voting, and we
you know it.
to serve the common good. The effort was simply saying “I’m not a racist” makes one knew the kind of president we’d be getting. (cid:78)
protracted, with different parties pushing ini- not a racist. By adding “it’s his ideas and
tiatives at different points. Social Security and policies that are the problem,” one ups his
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Medicare were essentially necessary govern- or her status to being on the mountain with
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unsolvable social problems. Although ours is
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faces a challenging objective. Clearly the option of We can allow diverse schools with unique com- mine the unique strengths of Austin culture stitutes a marriage is thus left to the churches
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After a late meeting last week sorting through the
Park PUD, a pulled music permit for Lustre Pearl,
and more, City Council’s off this week, returning
Jan. 27. For more, see “City Hall Hustle,” p.12,
and “The Park Is in the PUD-ing,” p.14.
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Place 4 Council Member Laura Morrison kicked
off her campaign Tuesday night at Nuevo León;
see “The Daily Hustle: 1/19/11” online for the
full rundown. Meanwhile, fellow incumbent
Randi Shade drew a challenger this week in
Place 3 – Chris Nielsen, proprietor of Down town
golf cart shuttle service Capital Cruisers.
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members of the district’s Facility Master Plan OH
Task Force have split over how they should pro- J
ceed, with several appointees calling for a shift Members of the Heritage Council and other organizations walked the dream Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., crossing the
to administrative cuts before classroom clo- bridge at I-35 and MLK Boulevard that was dedicated Monday in honor of J.J. Seabrook, former president of Huston-Tillotson University.
sures. See “Closing Schools Won’t Fix AISD See “Naked City,” p.12, for more info.
Budget,” p.18.
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Under a gloomy sky and an Aggie-maroon tent,
Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst Budgets Are Moral Documents QUOTE
were sworn in to office on the Capitol steps Jan.
18; while both cheered Texas’ so-called econom-
ic miracle, lawmakers were filing a first draft of
of the
the budget that will slice billions of dollars from When the rulers call for sacrifice, who do they mean?
health care, universities, and public schools. WEEK
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Downballot races can often be the most brutal; BY MICHAEL KING
one could be the 2012 Travis County constable
contest where Precinct 4 incumbent Maria Unsurprisingly, there was plenty of triumphalism legislative agenda: to “balance the budget without rais-
Canchola will be challenged in the Democratic in the air at Tuesday’s inauguration festivities, though ing taxes,” according to Dewhurst. That was the drum-
primary by Ernest Pedraza – an Austin Police one could be forgiven for thinking we were celebrat- beat, although Perry did nod briefly in the direction of
commander backed by former City Council
ing V-E Day rather than the Texas Republicans’ crush- the larger obligations of community and government:
Member Betty Dunkerley and other old
hands. Pedraza announced Wed nes day, while ing of the Democrats last November. Both Lite “As Texans, we always take care of the least
Canchola has already starting sending out Guv David Dewhurst and Gov. Rick Perry among us. The frail, the young, the elderly
campaign mailers. featured plenty of saber-rattling bluster, on fixed incomes, those in situations of
› With Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison bowing out of which Dewhurst kicked off with a reflex- point abuse and neglect, people whose needs
a 2012 re-election run, there’s no shortage of ive citation of the “greatest generation.” are greater than the resources at their R
GOP wannabe replacements: So far, former Before long he was bombing Europe and austin disposal – they can count on the people AKE
Secretary of State Roger Williams and former visiting the beaches at Normandy and of Texas to be there for them. We will HITT
Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz have entered W
the race, along with Railroad Commissioners evoking a spirit of “sacrifice” on the part protect them, support them, and RD
Michael Williams and Elizabeth Ames Jones. of “all of American society.” empower them, but cannot risk the future HA
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› A federal appeals court has backflipped on its Perry wrapped himself in the bloody flag of millions of taxpayers in the process.” RI
1996 decision banning the University of Texas as well, although both speakers were more eager “Sometimes they
Hard Numbers
from using affirmative action in student admis- to recall the Last Good War than dwell on the pro-
sions, aligning itself with a 2003 Supreme Court tracted quagmires of the last decade, whence neither Neither Perry nor Dewhurst even tried to explain forget they are part
ruling favoring affirmative action at the University of the United States.”
the news coverage nor the film elegies are sufficient- just how the state will both “take care of the least
of Michigan. Undaunted, opponents vow to take
the UT case to the Supremes. ly obscured by nostalgia. Why all this ceremonial among us” and simultaneously avoid raising taxes – Living historian and
› Can’t get enough of the Longhorns? The Univer- breast-beating? In the service of “sacrifice,” of course, on “the people of Texas [who will] be there for Buffalo Soldier expert
sity of Texas has officially inked a 20-year deal which for the greatest gener ation (in Dewhurst’s them.” (Not even a patriotic peep about the contri- Nat Booker on the
with ESPN to provide round-the-clock Longhorn nod) meant buying war bonds, paying taxes (!), and, bution expected of those doing well?) That elabora- anti-Washington rhetoric
sports, an agreement that’s expected to net if necessary (in Perry’s phrase), making “sacrifices tion was left to House Appropriations Chair Jim during Tuesday’s
enough revenue over time to help some nonath-
that no man or woman should ever endure.” Pitts on Wednesday morning, who was charged with inaugural speeches
letic programs stay afloat in spite of legislative
As for contemporary Texans? Our great sacrifice will defending the draft state budget that landed with a by Gov. Rick Perry and
budget-slashing. The network debut will coincide
with the kickoff of the fall football season. assuredly be the highest priority on both men’s 2011 CONTINUED ON P.13 Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst
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