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Entries from July 2011

Shocker: McConnell Blames Obama For Debt Mess

July 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Here’s a video of Mitch McConnell complaining about President Barack Obama: Maybe if Mitch actually did anything other than complain like us… he wouldn’t have this to complain about? Never mind that Mitch is directly responsible for this debt problem. No wonder he’s so focused on Bush-style revisionist history.

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Tags: Barack Obama · Budget · Economy · Mitch McConnell

Damon Thayer Should Pay The Taxpayers Back

July 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Yesterday marked the 84th day Republican Party of Kentucky Chairman Steve Robertson questioned Jack Conway: “Does Jack Conway think he doesn’t have to be accountable to anyone?,” said Robertson. “Kentuckians are offended when the officials who are supposed to serve them refuse to answer their questions. Conway will have a lot of explaining to do…now, [...]

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Tags: Economy · Education · Giving Back · Greg Fischer · Health Care · Jack Conway · Kentucky Business · Mainstream Mistake · Military · Mitch McConnell · RPK · Stats · UofL · Wasted Money

We’re Really All Gonna Die Of The Poverty Soon

July 26th, 2011 · No Comments

You should consider voting for Wellspring in the 100 Cars for Good contest on Facebook. [Just Do It] Hal Rogers won’t be happy until he has killed 100% of the environment and left ever Eastern Kentuckian to starve or get hooked on the pills. [Seattle Times] Today Todd P’Pool sent out a ridiculous fundraising email [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama · Ben Chandler · Corruption · Eastern Kentucky · Economy · Election 2011 · Environment · Giving Back · Hal Rogers · Health Care · Jack Conway · Jobs · Polling · Presidential Race · Wasted Money

P’Pool Hits Conway On UofL Hospital Merger

July 26th, 2011 · No Comments

Republican candidate for Attorney General Todd P’Pool just hit Jack Conway in a press release: P’Pool says that Conway’s obsession with abortion and other issues misses a much larger point, that of the state’s century-long investment in a public University Hospital. “As Attorney General, I’ll be on the lookout for our taxpayers to make sure [...]

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Tags: Election 2011 · Health Care · Jack Conway · UofL

Well, THAT Didn’t Take Long From Jack Conway

July 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment

If you didn’t think all this posturing from Jack Conway trying to take credit for the Passport situation was political? Here’s your proof: CLICK TO ENLARGE SCREENSHOT Is NOTHING sacred? Not even health care? Not our tax dollars? Now just doing your damn job – or the very minimum of what you’re paid mountains of [...]

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Tags: Campaign Finance · Election 2011 · Health Care · Hypocrisy · Jack Conway

The Silly Bluegrass Institute Goes Full Teabagger

July 26th, 2011 · No Comments

Screw embargoes from ignorant teabaggers. Here’s what Jim Waters of the Bluegrass Institute for Utter Teabagger Bullshit just tried to “embargo” (there is no embargo until I agree to the deal – that’s the way everyone has operated in our experience the past six or seven years) until August 1 (really? a week? the White [...]

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Tags: Election 2011 · Flashback · Humor

State Senate Wasting Taxpayer Dollars Galore

July 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Today at 1:00 P.M. the State Senate will hold a hearing on – yep – homeless voting. Because homeless voting is clearly a dire problem in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It’s an issue so important that we should be wasting thousands of taxpayer dollars. See for yourself: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:00pm, Annex Room 171 [...]

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Tags: Election 2011 · FEAR! · Senate · Takin yer guns! · Wasted Money

RGA Appeals To Meemaw & Poppop In New Ad

July 26th, 2011 · No Comments

As you’ve likely already seen on your teevee, the Republican Governors Association is appealing to meemaw and poppop with its latest ad for David Williams and Reeeechie Farmer: We hear others like this are in the pipeline. Which means the ads this year won’t suck as badly as the campaigns.

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Tags: David L. Williams · Election 2011

John Yarmuth On Screwing This Country Up

July 26th, 2011 · 2 Comments

John Yarmuth says it best – ideology does not pay the bills:

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Tags: Congress · Economy · John Yarmuth

Eastern Kentucky Is Making Us Quite Proud Today

July 26th, 2011 · 4 Comments

Yesterday marked the 83rd day Republican Party of Kentucky Chairman Steve Robertson questioned Jack Conway: “Jack Conway has fumbled this matter completely,” said Robertson. “The people of Kentucky are tired of politicians affording to their family and friends benefits and special treatment that the rest of us would never see. That old school style of [...]

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Tags: Corruption · Eastern Kentucky · Economy · Election 2011 · Greg Fischer · Greg Stumbo · Health Care · Jack Conway · John Yarmuth · Mainstream · Rand Paul · Robert Felner · RPK · UofL