Thursday, November 13, 2008

Obamamessiah to disappoint Ky. House Dems

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Regular readers of the Bluegrass Policy Blog learned back in June that Barack Obama had no plans to help Frankfort by nationalizing the mass...

That's another half-million, Governor

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Every day that Gov. Steve Beshear stonewalls on his $180 million efficiency study , Kentucky taxpayers lose another $493,150.69. Better talk...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Which gang is Mayor Jim Newberry's favorite?

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If you go down to Garden Springs Park next to Garden Springs Elementary School in Lexington, you will see evidence that Lexington does indee...

Don't bail out Big Momma

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Kentucky legislators are responding to a March of Dimes study about pregnant women who smoke. Before we start blindly writing more checks, w...

More people are catching on to Beshear

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WHAS reporter Mark Hebert is asking Gov. Steve Beshear where our $180 million from the last year went. This time next year, will we be aski...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Let's be clear: auto bailout is a union bailout

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One of the talking points du jour is that gas-guzzling SUVs caused the domestic auto companies' current woes when people stopped buying ...

Think tank tells states to raise taxes

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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has built a reputation as a reliable, if not always coherent, provider of talking points for big-...

President Obama loves his people

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Just discovered the election of Barack Obama has so terrified the gouging gougers in the produce industry that they have dropped the price o...
Monday, November 10, 2008

Gotta stop welfare abuse somehow

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Michigan is trying again to limit how much of their welfare budget goes to buying illicit drugs. A new bill would require drug testing of w...

Tax increases won't get it done in Kentucky

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President-elect Barack Obama and Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear have all kinds of tax increase plans for you. You won't read about it in T...

Who needs pickpockets? We have Jack Conway

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Attorney General Jack Conway is supposed to be the top law enforcement officer in the state. That's not working out so well for taxpayer...

A moment in the reinvention of the GOP

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Just saw native Kentuckian Diane Sawyer go blank when Bill O'Reilly asked her on Good Morning America who the head of the Republican Nat...
Sunday, November 09, 2008

"Catastrophic circumstance," Senator Williams?

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Just as national Republicans have had their heads handed to them two elections in a row for playing footsie with big spenders, Senate Presid...
Saturday, November 08, 2008

HELL NO!

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Apparently Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid want to expand the banking bailout to the car industry : "It is our hope that the actions that C...
Friday, November 07, 2008

Obama's specifics: I liked the fluff better

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Now that he has been elected president, Barack Obama can't get away with just promising to make the sky blue and to make his wife proud ...

Don't leave town yet, Gov. Beshear

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Gov. Steve Beshear is heading out for a vacation next week just as a transitioning President-elect Barack Obama goes to work on pushing thro...

In the early stages of Obama letdown syndrome

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Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
Thursday, November 06, 2008

Did you get the late-breaking memo?

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A friend just pointed out ridiculously coordinated media coverage about the dramatic drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average since Barack O...

Now there's a great plan

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California is back in the news with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to raise taxes by $4.7 billion "to get our budget back o...

Stopping government takeover of private sector

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Lexington's Warren Rogers went to bat a few years ago to stop the government takeover of Kentucky American Water Company. Now he is back...