“Gag” Picture of the Day
Here is Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted hugging Ted Strickland after the budget was passed with 0 dissenting votes. Good grief:
A massive increase in spending in health care for people who aren’t needy, massive increases in spending for higher education, plenty of pork projects, and vetoing some school choice provisions for children with special needs. All this mushy bipartisanship makes me want to puke, and I hope some Republican uses this picture in a primary election campaign against Jon Husted.
However, liberal-Republican-turned-Democrat-fundraiser and crony of the Cuyahoga County Dem Commissioners Jim Petro loves it:
“I think it’s about the best I’ve ever seen government function,” said Jim Petro, a moderate Republican who formerly served as state auditor, attorney general and legislator.
Ms. Begorrah said,
Wrote on June 29, 2007 @ 8:11 pm
First time in what - 84 years since there was such agreement on the budget? Must everything be an adversarial confrontation?
Bear Claw said,
Wrote on June 30, 2007 @ 11:05 am
Looks like it is becoming party A and B.
kingfish said,
Wrote on July 2, 2007 @ 3:56 am
Sadly, Bob Bennett’s final (and for him unsuccessful) attempt to make the ORP playing field un-level has made Kevin DeWine the likely Chairman of the future, and DeWine’s only reason for being in that position is so he can screw John Kasich and Bill Batchelder, the only two guys who could put this ship back on the right course again.