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Entries from May 2011

Papaw Beshear Is Up On The Teevee Already

May 23rd, 2011 · 4 Comments

All right. Too many of you are writing in to ask how to find Steve Beshear’s first campaign ad (google, kids, it’s helpful). So here it is:

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Tags: Election 2011 · Steve Beshear

This Is The Talk Of Frankfort Today…

May 23rd, 2011 · 4 Comments

Or it will be in about five minutes. We hear through the law enforcement grapevine that a well-known political consultant/placement agent is under the watchful eye of the Federal Bureau of Investigation over some fancy retirement fund shenanigans. Wonder what the heck is going down? Seems like KRS and Kentucky Teachers, specifically, could have some [...]

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Tags: Investigation · Law Enforcement · Rumor

WTF? Did The Rapture Actually Happen Or What?

May 23rd, 2011 · No Comments

What the hell is Joe Gerth going on about? The Beshear campaign is trying to do a couple of things with the ad. First of all, in states like Kentucky, it’s said that Democrats have a problem with the “three Gs,” — God, guns and gays. That’s exacerbated for Beshear, who chose Abramson for his [...]

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Tags: Election 2011 · Mainstream · Steve Beshear · The Gays

President Obama’s Weekly Video Address

May 23rd, 2011 · No Comments

This week President Barack Obama discussed reforming No Child Left Behind:

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Tags: Barack Obama · Education

Oh Snap Monday! Rapture Didn’t Come Saturday

May 23rd, 2011 · 2 Comments

Former foes are joining forces for education reform in Washington. [NY Times] Take a look at this: the Bush tax cuts projected as the largest contributor to public debt. [HuffPo] How insane is it that David Williams says he would have gone to hang with President Barack Obama at Ft. Campbell had he been governor? [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama · Campaign Finance · Corruption · David L. Williams · Economy · Education · Election 2011 · George W. Bush · Humor · Labor · Mitch McConnell · Taxes

Where The Rapture Party At? Bourbon Involved?

May 20th, 2011 · 12 Comments

This is an actual headline: Schickel ‘Pickle & Wiener Feast’ May 27. [Amanda Van Benschoten] Republican Party of Kentucky Chairman Steve Robertson questioned Attorney General Jack Conway for the 17th Day: “If Jack Conway intervened in an investigation of his brother during a time when his political career was on the line…he is not fit [...]

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Tags: Budget · Campaign Finance · Corruption · David L. Williams · Election 2011 · Environment · FEAR! · Humor · Hypocrisy · Jack Conway · Mainstream · Polling · RPK · The Gays

Poor Hilda Legg – A Moment Of Silence, Please

May 20th, 2011 · No Comments

Poor Hilda Legg, as you likely now know, has requested a recanvass in the Republican Primary for Secretary of State. It’ll take place next Thursday at 9:00 A.M. Let us all hang our heads in prayer. Let us all remember the flag pin. Amen.

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Tags: Election 2011

Is This Gas Tax Holiday Idea Crazy Sauce?

May 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Here’s Rand Paul on the gas tax holiday: Good idear? Bad idear?

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Tags: Rand Paul · Taxes

Most Hilarious Newspaper Reaction Ever Ever Ever

May 20th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Have you seen this story where A Kentucky Newspaper melts completely down because that Williams-Farmer video attributes two quotes that appeared in its pages to – get this – that very paper? They contend that since John David Dyche said the words, they weren’t from the paper. So now the paper must not be responsible [...]

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Tags: David L. Williams · Election 2011 · Humor · Mainstream · Richie Farmer

The KDP Loves Making It Rain All Over Us

May 20th, 2011 · No Comments

Not a day goes by that Matt Erwin or someone at the Kentucky Republican Democratic Party complains about us or makes bogus claims. We can’t even count the number of times Jake has been called irrelevant. So imagine our surprise when we learned that KDP just loves throwing money at us: CLICK TO ENLARGE Thought [...]

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Tags: Humor · Hypocrisy · KDP · Spotted