Who “Gotcha” Who?

We’re trying to figure out what happened to State Sen. Ray Cleary.

We were always under the impression that he occasionally got within the vicinity of being a “Republican,” you know, as opposed to those bureaucrat apologists whose job in Columbia is to fan the altar of Mini-Marx (a.k.a. Little Lenin, Huge Government, The Godfather of Pork, State Sen. Hugh Leatherman).

Lately, though, Cleary is giving us cause for pause … and it’s not just his crazy “our schools suck because of toothaches” legislation.

For example, Sen. Cleary “took to the airwaves” today to discuss what he calls “gotcha votes.”

Except he didn’t really “take to the airwaves,” he appeared on the S.C. Senate’s mind-numbingly boring YouTube channel, which let’s face it – absolutely no one watches unless we link to it.

Seriously, Cleary’s video had been watched less than three dozen times before we published this post – by thirty-five people who probably had to watch it because they work for him.

But hey, Senate Republicans are “reaching the masses with new technology,” right? Riiiiiiiiight …

Anyway, like we said Cleary’s video is about “gotcha” votes – or votes that apparently stress lawmakers’ limited capacity for linear thought.

Frankly, it’s the the dullest four minutes of footage that’s ever been recorded anywhere. By anyone. Talking about anything.

We could have filmed a white wall for four minutes and it would have felt like you were watching Bohemian Rhapsody by comparison (which has 25,175,306 more hits than Cleary’s video, in case you were wondering).

Cleary even has the nerve at the 3:30 mark to say “I thought this would be interesting,” but you probably won’t see that part because you will have shot yourself in the face (or ripped your speakers from the wall) long before then.

What would have been interesting? Cleary explaining why he voted to fund a security detail for Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, or provide taxpayer funding to protect the Hunley submarine, or sustain the boondoggle competitive grants program that funded things like balloon festivals, Elvis impersonators and deep fryers.

Because the only people “gotcha’d” by those votes were the taxpayers.

Oh well, we better not get too worked up. We’d hate to offend anyone who holds such sway with “the masses.”