Morning Bland(er) February 21, 2008
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SO MANY TIDBITS, SO LITTLE TIME
FITSNews - February 21, 2008 - You know, our PR girl keeps telling us we should do segments like these every morning, to which we can only say a) shut up, b) we’re lazy, and c) if you like ‘em so damn much, why don’t you get your happy ass up at the ass-crack of dawn and write them yourself?
Geez, sorry … is it obvious we haven’t had any coffee yet this morning or what? Of course our PR girl is incredibly hot, so she’s forgiven. Anyway, here’s a random morning smattering of random SC political stuff …
EGG-TOOTH, THE MAGICIAN - It’s funny that a guy who’s made billions of your tax dollars disappear since becoming House Ways & Means Chairman three years ago would dare to claim he’s ”not a magician,” but that’s exactly what The Egg-Tooth told the Associated Press yesterday in this article. It’s also ironic that the same morons who blew a billion dollars in new money over the last four years to preserve the nation’s worst education system are the only people getting more money in this year’s budget - $182 million, to be precise. Of course it is South Carolina, where rewarding incompetence for decades on end is pretty much par for the course.
WHIPPER-SNAPPER - Let’s be honest, S.C. Rep. Seth Whipper isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. In fact, we spent about an hour listening to him talk yesterday and our IQ dropped 40 points - and that was just in the five minutes we were actually paying attention to what he was saying. Anyway, despite being about as intelligent as a street sign, Whipper had no problem cutting to the chase over a new voting bill that could affect the number of political parties individual office-seekers can represent on the ballot. When confronted with the possibility that running on 800 different tickets might keep certain straight-ticket voters from punching his number, Whipper offered this mathematically-sophisticated statesmanship:
“Well, that means I lose a vote, and I need to not lose a vote,” he said. “I’m just concerned that I’d lose a vote. That’s all I’m really concerned about.” (more…)
