July 28, 2005


Running Scared in Ohio

Hey! This is encouraging. The Ohio GOP is getting their talking points out there, and continuing to lie to their own base while doing it:

The chairman of the Ohio Republican Party insisted Monday that GOP state officials will find and punish those responsible for the political scandals engulfing Columbus - no matter where the investigations lead.
...
"We will ferret out the wrongdoers," he said. "Republicans will clean out any bad apples in their own house."

Bennett blamed the scandal involving the loss of $200 million in investments at the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation on both Democrats and Republicans.

Two of the members of the bureau's nine-member advisory board are Democrats, he said.

"It's a bipartisan scandal, and there ought to be a bipartisan solution," Bennett said. emphasis added

Hey how about that? The problems on a nine-member board where only two of the seats were held by Democrats was bi-partisan. There's an argument that doesn't even pass the smell test, but surely must make the kool-aid taste better for the faithful.

If the republicans lose Ohio next year, will they find some small (or large) town in their stronghold in southern Ohio and rename it, oh, I don't know, Jonestown?
posted by Jo Fish on 07.28.05 at 05:59 PM





Comments:

Why did they even bother to put two Democrats on a "bipartisan" board of nine? I haven't kept great track of the all the Ohio electoral problems....but Kenneth Blackwell, coingate, balloting irregularities. I thought Ohio was the quintessential great middle American state. What happened?

 posted by: Deborah White on 07.28.05 at 08:59 PM [permalink]

So what party do the other SEVEN belong to? He left that part out.

 posted by: gus on 07.29.05 at 12:29 AM [permalink]

Gus,

Since he failed to mention the party affiliation of the other seven, and since Ohio is a Red State, I'd guess that the other seven must be Communist.

Of course, shouldn't Ohio change it's state name to NOE-HIO??

I mean, with all the taxpayer money that Mr. Noe is accused of ripping off and then donating to his Republican cronies in NOE-HIO, changing the state's name to NOE-HIO would be a fitting tribute for a man with the moral equivalence of George W. Bush.

Hey, privatization schemes involving public monies are all the same. Rip off the taxpayers, then redirect taxpayer money to the corporate cronies who, through their lobbyists, bought the politicians who pass the laws that rip off the taxpayers for the benefit of the corporate cronies who, through their lobbyists, bought the...ad nauseum.

Think Halliburton, Cheney and the Iraq War. Perfect example. Or Noe and Coingate in NOE-HIO. Or any of the other Republican con games going on around the country at present.

 posted by: The Oracle on 07.30.05 at 06:57 AM [permalink]

Fuzzy math at work.

Is our children learning?

 posted by: Mr.Murder on 07.31.05 at 12:35 PM [permalink]


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