Terri Whitehouse July 24th, 2008
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao is pushing to loosen occupational health and safety regulations. Quoth Adam Finkel, a former health standards director OSHA:
It’s an insult to America’s workers for the Department of Labor to be spending its time in the last year of this administration allegedly fine-tuning the details of how to do these regulations when, other than the one ordered by a court, they have issued no major worker-health regulations…there’s a great need to light a fire under this moribund agency to do something — anything — to protect workers.
U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford has unveiled a plan, and it involves more than beating on his chest and saying, “DRILL!”
Jim Pence July 15th, 2008
Have you ever been in a rural Kentucky church or restaurant and hear folks wailing about all those "Baby Mommas" on welfare? Well I have and I hear it all the time and it’s coming out of the mouths of those receiving more money than you can imagine, what a bunch of hypocrites!!!!!!
Recipients of USDA Subsidies in Kentucky’s 1st Congressional District (Rep. Ed Whitfield ) totaled $1.253 billion , with a "B", from 1995-2006, that’s a lot of dough and, in my opinion, it’s nothing more than welfare!!!! It sure as hell ain’t the free market.
Meanwhile food prices are skyrocketing and some farmers are being paid not to grow crops !!!
It seems to me if you want a government hand out your best bets are:
- Get into the, "Baby Momma ", oil business.
- Put on your bib overalls and become a, " Baby Momma ", farmer.
- Put on your shirt, tie and Armani suit and become a, "Baby Momma ", banker.
I suggest your chance for a government hand is not so good if you own a small business or you’re a regular guy/gal with 1,2 or 3 jobs and don’t even think about asking the government to help with healthcare.
Terri Whitehouse June 19th, 2008
I guess some people think that if you repeat a lie long enough, it becomes magically true. Click here to learn why the Bush/McCain/McConnell energy “plan” is a great big FAIL!
UPDATE: And Krugman for the TKO:
Mr. McCain has now aligned himself with an administration that, even aside from its blame-the-environmental-movement tendencies, has established an extensive track record as the gang that couldn’t think straight about energy policy.
Remember, they didn’t just insist that the Iraqis would welcome us as liberators; on the eve of the Iraq war, administration officials were also adamant that regime change in Iraq would add millions of barrels a day to the world oil supply, driving oil prices way down. (In fact, Iraq’s oil output took five years just to recover to preinvasion levels.)
So why would Mr. McCain associate himself with these characters? The answer, presumably, is that it’s a cynical political calculation.
How can anyone really delude themselves into trusting Bush/McCain/McConnell/and the ever-desperate Northup on energy policy? All the sugar in the world wouldn’t make that snake oil go down!
Terri Whitehouse June 18th, 2008
QuickHit: “Dubya Campaigns for McConnell Tonight” at PageOne, because I just don’t have any snark left in me right now. Wonder if the oil men will be wearing their tuxedos.
Terri Whitehouse June 18th, 2008
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s official campaign blog is the first result when querying OIL MAN MITCH on Yahoo. Drink it up, oil man!
Terri Whitehouse June 17th, 2008
Page One and some other self-aggrandizing bloggers have noted Sen. Mitch McConnell’s shaky poll numbers, and I wanted to expound on that a little.
Career beltway-ist McConnell has done his best to paint incumbent candidate Bruce Lunsford as an incompetent status-seeking businessman. Funny, then, that Lunsford is leading among low-to-middle-income Kentuckians without college educations. Now, I hold nothing against people who make more than I do, and I certainly wouldn’t go hurling “college-educated” around as an insult, but given that Kentucky ranks near the bottom in terms of education and income, McConnell is going to have a heck of a time positioning himself as someone who is really in touch with the “average” Kentucky voter.
Being that McConnell’s campaign site has been redesigned to showcase his ability to roll up the sleeves on his tastefully casual shirt rather than sit around pushing papers in a suit and tie, I’d guess that he’s more than a little worried. Over half of Mitch’s twenty most-recent blog posts urge readers to sign a petition for a bill designed to do exactly nothing about our petroleum dependence, so I’d urge you to try something different instead. Why, it seems like it was only yesterday when McConnell thought it’d be enough that he brought home the pork-barrel projects. I guess he’s getting wise that Kentuckians need someone with a little more substance than that.
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Terri Whitehouse June 5th, 2008
Reading more national coverage about the posts below, it is clear that it’s not just us Kentuckians that are sick and tired of Sen. Mitch McConnell and his shenanigans. So I’d like to issue a little challenge for those of us who truly want to Ditch Mitch this November.
For every minute (~ 510) that it took a clerk to read the bipartisan climate change bill aloud, I’d like to urge you to to donate to campaign of Bruce Lunsford. At a rate of penny per minute, that would total a mere $5.10 donation. A nickel per minute would total $25.50. You get the picture. I know it’s not a great deal of money. But I think it would be a powerful gesture, regardless.
The people of Kentucky and of America are not pawns in Mitch McConnell’s political power games, and before we hit him at the polls, we must hit him where it *really* hurts - his pockets. The government’s business should never be political strategy. Not on my dollar. Not on my penny.
If you agree with me, please repost this blog entry wherever you think it may be welcome, and urge like-minded people to do the same. When a person such as Mitch McConnell makes it so crystal-clear that he has zero interest in representing the people of the Commonwealth, then we have no choice but to elect a person who does. And that person is Bruce Lunsford.
UPDATE: You can also sign up to volunteer for Lunsford’s campaign here. DO IT!
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