* Today we mourn the passing of Sargent Shriver, former vice presidential candidate and the first Director of the Peace Corps. I was privileged to attend a rally at the Ohio State Student Union in 1972 to support the McGovern-Shriver Democratic ticket. (Right now on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, former Sen. George McGovern is being interviewed.)
* Republicans who claim that the Health Care Reform Law will destroy jobs must have studied the book, How to Lie With Statistics, by Darrell Huff.
Washington Post:
....A recent report by House GOP leaders says "independent analyses have determined that the health care law will cause significant job losses for the U.S. economy."
It cites the 650,000 lost jobs as Exhibit A, and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office as the source of the original analysis behind that estimate. But the budget office, which referees the costs and consequences of legislation, never produced the number....
The Republicans are clearly lying in order to stop progress. They have no alternatives. They have no ideas to help those of us with pre-existing conditions.
* The Buckeye State Blog has the list of major goofs by Ohio Gov. John Kasich in the first 10 days of his term:
- Accidentally proclaimed St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th, as Martin Luther King day.
- Assembled the first all-white Ohio cabinet since the Civil Rights Act passed.
- Got caught lying through his goddamned teeth by none other than the Dispatch (R-Columbus) who has spent the last few months delivering sloppy wet kisses to his posterior.
- Pissed away $400 Million in Race to the Top funding for no other purpose than to undo Gov. Strickland’s signature legislative accomplishment.
- Proposed opening up Ohio’s state parks to drilling for natural gas using the dangerous “fracking” technology that has been banned in other states due to its contaminating groundwater.
- Proposed privatizing the state’s Department of Liquor Control, ignoring the obvious conflict of interest in that it could reap a huge windfall for his campaign donors.
With only about 1,450 days left in his term, I'm sure that this list of mistakes will get longer.
