Kentucky's Grand Old Poopyheads Score Again

Yes, we lost last year to Missouri's balance-the-budget-by-buying-lottery-tickets proposal, for which Blue Girl still owes me for the truss I had to buy after the laughter caused major damage, but I knew all you Stupid State Tricks aficionados would appreciate this one:

John Cheves at the Herald:

Kentucky Republicans have two choices in their May 17 primary for the state’s elected Auditor of Public Accounts, but both come with baggage.

State Rep. Addia Wuchner of Florence last year settled a lawsuit against her insurance company in which she claimed to be “permanently and totally disabled” and unable to work more than 15 hours a week because of a car crash that seriously injured her knees, shoulders and back. Wuchner now says she’s capable of working full-time as auditor.

Lexington developer John T. Kemper III, whose campaign slogan is “A Debt-Free Kentucky,” may soon lose his home in a foreclosure auction related to his personal bankruptcy. Kemper used $124 from his campaign fund to pay his vehicle tax in February.

The winning Republican will face Democrat Adam Edelen, former chief of staff to Gov. Steve Beshear, in November. Edelen has no primary opponent.

The current auditor, Crit Luallen, a Democrat, is finishing her second term, the limit allowed by law. Voters have elected state auditors since 1850 to monitor how public money is spent and how public agencies function. Some of Luallen’s high-profile audits have led to criminal convictions.

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Yes, we elect the state auditor. We elect the state treasurer. We elect the state - wait for it - Commissioner of Agriculture. We actually did put an end to the galactic stupidity of electing the Superintendant of Public Instruction - think about your most moronic neighbor being in charge of your child's education - but we still seem to think the solution to every problem is to put the decision in the hands of the same people who still think the Alaska Grifter would be a better president than Lincoln.

Spread the Meme: GOP = Grand Old Poopyheads

Hilzoy pulls out the rhetorical nuclear weapons to meet the repugs on their own level.

WHEREAS the Urban Dictionary defines "Poopyhead" as "The single most offensive thing you can call someone. It's like the atom bomb of arguments. Men fear it's omnipotent and awesome power. It it literally unmatched and all humble themselves in the presence of it's divinity. Few have survived to tell of it..." [sic];

WHEREAS the Republican Party, in its present incarnation, is deserving of any number of schoolyard epithets;

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RESOLVED: that I, the member of me, do call upon the Republican Party to be honest and truthful with the American people by acknowledging that they have devolved into a party of schoolchildren and should, therefore, agree to rename themselves the Grand Old Poopyheads.

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Losing Re-election is the Least of Norm Coleman's Problems

Steve Benen calls our attention to the widely ignored real scandal of the blatantly corrupt Norm Coleman.

Former Sen. Norm Coleman and his team of lawyers are still fighting hard to reverse the outcome of last year's Senate race in Minnesota, but it appears that the Republican may end up in another courtroom for an entirely different set of reasons.

The FBI is investigating allegations that former Senator Norm Coleman had clothing and other items purchased on his behalf by a longtime friend and businessman Nasser Kazeminy, according to a source in Minnesota who was interviewed recently by federal agents. [...]

The FBI has also been conducting interviews in Texas, according to media reports, in regards to different allegations that Kazeminy tried to steer $75,000 to Coleman through his wife's employer. Up to this point, there have not been reports of any FBI work taking place in Coleman's home state.

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I can't help but wonder how the dragged-out process in Minnesota would be perceived if more people -- voters, politicians, political reporters -- realized that the candidate who keeps fighting is the same one who's under an ongoing criminal investigation by the FBI. Perhaps, if this generated even a little attention, the Republican establishment might be a little less enthusiastic about their support for Coleman, and he might be more inclined to quit one legal fight to focus his energies on the other.

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Steve's so sweet; he just can't let go of that last shred of doubt about the utter corruption of the Grand Old Poopyheads.

But I'll make a prediction: If the not-remotely-close-to-liberal-enough media actually picks up this story and runs with it, the gooper babies will scream and stomp their tiny feet demanding Norm be given the Senate seat in apology.