Last night I read the Abramoff article in Vanity Fair. A news release details some of the information contained in the article. Abramoff reveals a lot of details about the movers and shakers of the Republican Party. Republican Rep. Bob Ney was a "fixer" for Abramoff and a "sushiholic." I wonder how Ney's constituents in St. Clairsville, New Philadelphia, Chillicothe, Jacksonson, and Zanesville feel about their sushi-eating congressman. While he is eating sushi and golfing, the people in Ney's district are trying to put food on the table and pay high energy/gasoline costs.
* There are plenty of nervous nellies in the GOP. Here is an excerpt from an article in the Frankfort Times:
...With the continued bad news from Iraq, that makes Republican lawmakers extremely nervous.
An AP-Ipsos poll conducted this week showed Bush's approval rating at 37 percent. The same poll showed approval for the GOP-led Congress at just 31 percent.
Nearly 70 percent of those surveyed said the nation was on the wrong track, a 6-point jump since last month...
By the way, if you are interested in some real propaganda, you need to visit Kenneth Blackwell's website. It is bizarro. Hasn't he been part of the Republican control of the state government for the last umpteen years? The man has been an elected official and now he is distancing himself from the Ohio government and corruption he helped to create. (After viewing the site, you may actually think he is running for some religious office.)
Consumers in the rest of the country are catching up to Ohioans with consumer confidence dropping.