by Sunnyjane
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| Don't Re-elect -- Instead, Reject! |
Of the twenty-nine Republican governors currently in office, thirteen are either embroiled in scandals, being investigate for corruption, or have recently been indicted. Of these thirteen, three have presidential aspirations: Chris Christie, Rick Perry, and Scott Walker, who is currently up for re-election. And some of these governors are simply in deep doo-doo for being lousy executives of their states, but expect their constituents to re-elect them anyhow so they can complete the job of totally ruining their respective states. Is this a great country or WHAT?
-- Kansas, possibly the reddest of the red states, seems to be in an unstoppable swirl down the political toilet. Sam Brownback's hyper-conservative tax-cutting policies have brought down the state's credit rating from both Moody's and Standard & Poor's, and risks running a deficit through 2019. In an effort to stem that particular tide, he then cut the tax rate on the top tax bracket even more, which reduced revenue by forty-five percent -- or $93 million in 2013. Hail, austerity! But that's not all, folks: Brownback's former chief of staff and current campaign adviser is being investigated by the FBI for influence peddling operations in Kansas government and privatization of the state's Medicaid program. (The FBI's a bit touchy about things like corrupt government. Think McDonnell, Bob.) Latest poll numbers suggest that Brownback's Democratic opponent, Paul Davis, could win with fifty-seven percent of the vote. (Heh)
-- Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett is currently having a close encounter of the porn kind. It seems that eight former employees of Corbett's while he was Attorney General had sent and received hundreds of pornographic images or videos in emails that his office received during the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case. Two of these guys who had gone to work for Corbett when he was elected governor in 2010 during the Tea Party wave resigned last week.
In touting his new jobs plan during recent debates, Gov. Corbett urged Pennsylvania to check out the new website and see the 250,000 jobs that were waiting breathlessly to be filled. However, a check of this shiny new jobs website revealed that some of these dandy job opportunities were hardly what one might call viable career prospects. Two examples:
- VIP Hostess – I have two visiting VIP gentlemen coming to town. Need a couple of female hostesses to join them for cocktailing, dinner and clubbing. Send me a couple of pictures of yourself – under 30 please, if you are highly attractive and in need of $$...
- Casting Couch – Looking for M.I.L.F.S…hot mom & daughter combos!!! Young busty females between 18-45. Please attach pic. Thank you ladies!!!
Pennsylvanians have been suffering voters' remorse for four years. The Corbett that looked like a moderately conservative candidate turned into a Tea Partier and the voters have had it with that particular deal; a late-August poll showed his Democratic opponent, Tom Wolf, leading by twenty-five points.
-- Maine's governor, Paul LePage, is a skank of the first order, and God only knows what possessed the people of that good state to elect him -- temporary insanity, perhaps. Not only has LePage met several times with a group of conspiracy theorists (a polite term for them) calling themselves Sovereign Citizens -- the FBI considers them domestic terrorists -- but it was recently revealed by one member of the group that in those meetings they discussed hanging the members of the Democratic legislature. LePage, of course, denies that.
LePage will say anything and doesn't care that it may anger or appall people. Last year he ranted to two reporters how irritated he was with a Democratic state senator, saying, Sen. Jackson claims to be for the people, but he's the first one to give it to the people without providing Vaseline. Such class!
Hardly had he gotten into office that he told the NAACP it could kiss my butt because he refused to attend an event honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. His reasoning went something like this: the NAACP is a special interest group and he doesn't do special interest groups. (Yeah, like the Tea Party isn't a special interest group.) And taking a cue from Mitt Romney, LePage announced that 47% of able-bodied Maine residents don't work. That went over particularly well, as you can imagine, particularly when Politifact gave the remark a Pants on Fire award.
If the current polls hold, there's a very good chance that Mike Michaud, his Democratic opponent, may very well become the first openly gay governor in the U.S.
If you're not super-weary of these three, check out the ten most vulnerable governors in this election.
And Speaking of Governors...
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| It would be a very good idea if Romney would just bite his tongue. |
Perhaps Mr. Romney is just too busy to find out the price of gas because he's been out campaigning for a bunch of losers. You can tell they're losers because they're desperate enough to reach out to Mitt Romney. Perhaps the will-never-be-anything-but-a-former-governor is doing this to take the opportunity to spew his unhappiness that he lost in 2012. In a recent event for Terri Lynn Land, a U.S. Senate hopeful in Michigan, he said that it’s time for the president to apologize to Americans for so many failures. Uh huh. Well, Mitt, do you mean like ten million Americans now having affordable health care? Or, the unemployment rate dropping below six percent? Or, growing jobs in America -- versus jobs in China -- continuously for the past fifty-four months? Please explain. We'll be anxiously awaiting your response. Any time you're ready.
Romney's really getting tiresome.
End Note
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| You're welcome, Patriots! |
(Next post we will talk about the House and Senate races. Hoo boy!)
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