Monday, May 21, 2007

Another Tough Monday

-->Working for farmers:
(Dayton Daily News)

...U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., joined forces this last to introduce a bill aimed at making it easier for fruit and vegetable farmers to bring their product to market....

-->Ohio Republicans and their leader in the legislature, Jon Husted, are just plain pathetic.

In yesterday's Columbus Dispatch, Republican Jon Husted and his GOP buddies in the Ohio legislature, were taken to task for spending too much time on a bill on lap dancing at strip clubs. Here is an excerpt:

How comical that House Speaker Jon A. Husted would chide reporters for paying too much attention to a bill regulating strip clubs....

...lawmakers didn't have to spend hours and hours debating how far a stripper must stay from a patron. They could have ignored the issue and left the group to seek about 120,000 signatures to put the issue on a statewide ballot.

With Ohio struggling economically, you'd hope our elected leaders would put their priorities where the voters' are. Is the existence of nudie bars what Ohioans are worried about these days?

Gov. Ted Strickland made the point a couple of times recently.

"We've got health-care and school-funding and crime-and-punishment and environmental issues and a lack of jobs and all of these things that I think are much more deserving of time and attention," he said....

Ohio Republicans just don't get it! Instead of trying to help kids and bring jobs to Ohio, they have to waste time on their stripper bill!

--->What is Republican Deborah Pryce (OH-15) doing to bring our troops home from Iraq? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

According to ICasualties, 145 Ohioans have been killed in Iraq, and 23 of them are from central Ohio. Why is Deborah Pryce so afraid to speak out against the war? Oh, I forgot. She said the war in Iraq has nothing to do with her.