"Dream" of baseball in DC may die - good riddance

Our mayor is spending a rare day or two in DC to fight for us getting a baseball team (he's usually off flitting around the world on some "important" mission for our illustrious city). You see, Mayor Williams doesn't care a lot about the details of mayoring (kind of like our president). We became the murder capital again. Williams said everything was going great. You get the picture.

Well, now he's decided his "legacy" is going to be bringing a baseball team to DC. Forget about the fact that our education system blows, even though we spend more per capita on education than any other city. Violent crime is still some of the worst in the country, in spite of the fact we spend more on policing than any city in the country. But rather than make a restored education system and police force his legacy, the mayor wants a baseball team. Think: no body armor in Iraq but the president is focusing on tax cuts. Same idea.

Well, our city council, not always known for having any guts at all, actually stood up to the mayor and told him to stick it. They want him to come up with 50% private financing for the over $400m cost of building a ballpark, and the mayor is now all woe-is-me. You see, we pay exorbitant taxes here in DC. Like 8-9% income tax, for starters. We waste money on everything, and the solution to all our problems isn't to finally clean house, it's to spend more money on the problem while failing to admit it really is a problem (again, think Iraq).

So, I for one am happy out little mayor is getting his comeuppance. Everyone knows the stadium is going to end up costing a LOT more than $400 million and we're going to be the ones, again, left paying. Perhaps its time our world-traveling mayor stayed at home awhile and worked on a real legacy for making our city work.