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Partisan Hackery Mea Culpa

Posted in all growd'sd up, ohio, politics on October 26th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
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Good news: with a week to go until what really ought to be a Republican landslide, I believe I’ve got this election-year bout of partisan hackery out of my system. Back to writing boring things about politics and boring things about other topics at a roughly 1:1 ratio!

To recap, nobody should vote for Maryellen O’Shaughnessy. Unless you’re a public union member, in which case go for it; after all, your dues are paying for her campaign! If possible, even fewer than zero people should vote for Mary Jo Kilroy, a socialist who has no business telling businesses what to do. OH-15 and America in general are better off without her, however much the leeches at the AFSCME might disagree. Noticing a pattern here?

Outside of Ohio, one of my satirical Bob Etheridge (D-NC) ads was picked up by his opponent Renee Ellmers’s attack site, which is just dandy as far as I’m concerned. Ellmers – like John Kasich, Steve Stivers, and most of Ohio’s GOP ticket – seems like an incredibly easy choice given the alternative.

As President Obama would say, let me be clear: I am not a party guy. I worked a couple of trivial events for Congressman Boehner during high school, volunteered when Dubya visited Troy in 2004, and put in a few hours at Ken Blackwell’s headquarters in 2006. But, despite all my transparently racist fear-mongering, I have little love for the Ohio GOP. Bob Taft? Mike DeWine? George Voinovich? These are hardly the sort of steely conservatives we can count on to do what’s politically difficult and economically necessary, and the state party has no shortage of their kind.

If being the grandson of a county commissioner is good for anything, it’s b.s. detection. From a young age I got to see that some of the movers & shakers in my own party are miserable human beings, and that most of the folks in the other party are not. As final reminders to vote, you should read this piece by Frank at IMAO and check out this video!

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Letting Lying Kilroys Lie

Posted in ohio, politics on October 5th, 2010 at 6:55 pm
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The Ohio Democratic Party really likes this “Mary Jo voted against the Wall Street bailout” line – you can tell, because they keep printing it although it keeps not being true:

ODP mailer for Mary Jo Kilroy, received 10/05/2010

Like the ODP mailer I received 09/24, this one again cites a 01/22/2009 House vote that took place well after TARP had passed, with the knowledge that it would have no impact. This isn’t a minor typo or a case of questionable wording that takes liberties with the facts. Kilroy’s ads from the Ohio Democratic Party are consistently, prominently bragging about something that did not happen.

Moe Lane covered this in a post way back on June 17th. FactCheck.org dissected it at the beginning of September, and so did The Columbus Dispatch (which you’d think one or two ODP strategists might skim):

The most dubious claim in the ad is that Kilroy voted “against the bank bailout.” She was not yet in Congress when the Troubled Assets Recovery Program, championed by President Bush, was enacted. It is widely seen as the “bank bailout.” Kilroy’s campaign says the ad refers to her vote in January 2009 against releasing $350 billion in additional funds from the Troubled Assets Recovery Program. Kilroy was one of 99 Democrats who joined 171 Republicans in opposing the additional funds.

The vote, however, was regarded as symbolic rather than substantive. The Senate had already agreed to release the additional $350 billion, and both chambers would have had to vote against it to block the release.

In addition to the Stivers-as-fat-cat-lobbyist business you’d expect from a socialist, the Kilroy campaign is leaning on a lie that was discredited a month ago by blogs and mainstream sources alike. Guess all that money from George Soros, the abortion lobby, and the usual assortment of unions has to go somewhere!

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Mary Jo Kilroy Lies Like a Dog

Posted in ohio, politics on September 24th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
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The only fun thing about receiving campaign mailers is that brief second when your brain is processing whether it’s a promotional or a smear piece. So, I hope Chris Redfern won’t hold it against me that I smirked when I opened my mailbox to an ad featuring this graphic:


Reading from left to right, I expected the caption under my congresswoman’s face to say “Mad Dog,” but since this is a pro-Kilroy mailer it instead reinforces the image of Representative Kilroy swatting Wall Street’s behind with a newspaper. No, bad Wall Street! Bad! Stop providing ways for the corporations that employ millions of Americans to expand and conduct research! Stop allowing Americans to grow the money that we, the government let them keep!

Mary Jo Kilroy isn’t courting the votes of people who invest in the stock market. She’s not interested in anyone who understands that, even when they make stupid or selfish decisions, Wall Street firms create more jobs and opportunities than Kilroy ever has or ever will. Mary Jo Kilroy is a socialist, and I say that knowing it’s worse for me to call a duck a duck than it is for Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern to call me a f***er.

The highlight of the Kilroy piece, once you get past that fleeting moment of first-glance entertainment? It repeats a falsehood that was thrashed a full three weeks ago by FactCheck.org:


Representative Kilroy was not in Congress when TARP passed. She voted “Yea” on a much later House disapproval resolution, knowing that a previous Senate decision guaranteed her vote would have no impact. We get it, Mary Jo! You only like businesses that produce union bosses and Democrat campaign contributions! There’s no need to lie about your awful record to drive home that point.

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