Will the real nincompoop please stand!!!

*  Well, that didn't take long.

The Republicans have started to look for someone to blame because they didn't win control of the U.S. Senate.  Some members of the GOP are pointing fingers at half-Gov. Sarah Palin and the group of candidates that she endorsed.   

The First Post (from the United Kingdom) has some of the bickering:

...Reagan's former speechwriter Peggy Noonan took umbrage with Palin's description of Reagan as "an actor" and described her as a "nincompoop" for the comments made during a Fox News appearance. 

Palin was defending her new TV show, Sarah Palin's Alaska, which debuts on The Learning Channel next week, when she said: "Wasn't Ronald Reagan an actor? Wasn't he in Bedtimes for Bonzo, bozo or something? Ronald Reagan was an actor." 

However, her off-hand characterisation has infuriated Noonan, who was special assistant to Reagan and wrote many of his most famous speeches during his time in the White House. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Noonan described the comment as "ignorant even for Mrs Palin" and said it illustrated one of the fundamental problems with the Tea Party movement, which needs to field candidates with "dignity and stature".

Don't you just love it????? 

* If your state needs an extra $400 million for a rail project, you might want to check with the new Ohio Governor in January.  John Kasich, who will become governor in January, has decided not to go ahead with a rail project that would create thousands of jobs in Ohio. Even though Kasich wanted Gov. Strickland to stop the project now, Strickland won't budge.

Cleveland.com:
Gov.-elect John Kasich is imploring outgoing Gov. Ted Strickland to halt spending on a passenger train project that Kasich said he will kill when he takes the governor's seat. 

Kasich is also asking President Barack Obama if the $400 million in federal stimulus money for the Cleveland-Columbus-Cincinnati passenger rail can be used for other infrastructure needs....

Here was the reply from the office of Gov. Ted Strickland:

"If governor-elect Kasich wants to return the funds for rail startup and send 16,000 jobs to another state, that will be his decision to make when he becomes governor," said Strickland spokeswoman Amanda Wurst....

Kasich is already killing jobs and he hasn't even been sworn in yet.


* This morning when I noticed that George W. Bush was going to be interviewed on the Today Show, I had to change the channel.  It was just too much to watch.  I guess I had forgotten that the big interview was going to be on this morning.