Thursday, April 26, 2012

Did you know.....????


----*  Which Columbus Police officer was one of the first responders on the scene when Gov. John Kasich's (Republican) car was in a fender bender????????

Columbus Dispatch:

The state vehicle carrying Gov. John Kasich was crunched in the middle of a minor four-vehicle accident near Downtown yesterday.

The responding Columbus police officer? None other than Officer Robert Barrett — the same Officer Barrett whom Kasich called “an idiot” last year.....

......Barrett, who’s assigned to work second shift for the Columbus Police Division’s freeway division, arrived on the scene to investigate. He spoke with members of the State Highway Patrol assigned to Kasich’s detail but not to the governor himself, according to both the patrol and Columbus police.....

Thank you, Officer Barrett, for your continuing professional manner! I don't know if I would have been as nice if I had been the first on the scene.


*  John Boehner will keep the low interest rates of college student loans, if he can destroy parts of the health care bill, such as coverage for students, preventive care (mammograms, cancer screenings, HIV tests, blood pressure monitoring, etc.), coverage for children, etc.

 I have some advice for President Obama and the Democrats:

Don't surrender to the tea party pandering, anti-woman, anti-voting rights, anti-immigrant, anti-Medicare, anti-public education, anti-student loans, anti-medical care, anti-middle class, anti-public school teacher, anti-poor, Republicans.  I'm sick of these Republicans and their arrogant party that continues to worship at the altar of Ayn Rand and their millionaire/billionaire supporters.
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Speaking of student loans and student loan PACs......
According to Campaignmoney.com, John Boehner has received money from the Sallie Mae Inc. PAC:
BOEHNER, JOHN A House of RepsRepublicanOH 08P$1,25005/05/2011
STIVERS, STEVE MR. House of RepsRepublicanOH 15P$1,00002/02/2011 


***** Republican Josh Mandel, the regularly absent Ohio Treasurer, hasn't made up his mind on the Violence Against Women Act, and the legislation to keep college student loan rates low.  According to various new items (see Plain Dealer and , Mandel sees problems with parts of these bills. All the students at Ohio State (more than 50,000), it is apparent that Josh Mandel doesn't really support keeping your college loans low.

Is it possible that---
1. the right wing puppet masters behind Mandel haven't told him what to say so he has his "handlers" speak for him.

2. Mandel doesn't care how college students or middle class families have to struggle to pay for college.  He just cares about those payday lenders, rich Republicans, and corporate polluters that keep writing contributions for his campaigns.

3. Mandel hasn't formed an opinion about the Violence Against Women Act because
   (a) he doesn't know what it is
    (b) it wasn't in the talking points he was given by Republicans.

4. This is just another piece of evidence that Josh Mandel is really an empty suit.

* How many veterans that you know talk about their service as soon as you meet them?
Ohio Daily Blog has some great observations about Josh Mandel: OhioDaily.
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The Hill has noticed Josh Mandel's lack of frankness:

...The state treasurer in Ohio, Mandel has given little indication about how he would vote on a range of issues, a luxury that his opponent, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), doesn’t have. When The Hill asked Mandel in March whether he would support Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) budget and its Medicaid provisions, Mandel pivoted to an attack on Brown and gave no direct answer.

 Asked about sanctions on China for currency manipulation — a major issue in manufacturing-heavy Ohio — Mandel’s spokesman, Joe Aquilino, told Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer in December not to expect detailed answers.

“For the next year, we’re not going to pretend like he’s there [in the Senate] and voting on every bill that’s introduced or that’s on the floor,” Aquilino said....

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Did you know that Mitt Romney's poor father had his own pony?