Blunt Caught Up In Plagiarism Scandal
When Governor Blunt announced yesterday that he wasn't going to seek reelection I thought his line about not running again because he had accomplished everything in one term sound vaguely familiar.
Here is what Blunt said:
"But after a great deal of thought and prayer, and with the knowledge that we have achieved virtually everything that I set out to accomplish and more, I will not seek a second term in the upcoming election. Because I feel we have changed what I wanted to change in the first term, there is not the same sense of mission for a second."
This morning, a friend reminded me that Blunt's line yesterday was not original. He cribbed it. The biggest day of his life, and he couldn't come up with his own line. Instead, he borrowed it from a Simpson's episode.
Two Bad Neighbors (Season 7, 1996)
Homer goes to war with his new neighbor, George H. W. Bush. The former president steals Homer's title of "King of the Neighborhood," then spanks Bart after the unruly child destroys his memoirs (which conclude, "Since I've achieved all my goals as president in one term, there was no need for a second").
How fitting.
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Mission Accomplished!
I couldn't believe he said he had accomplished everything. Given that the majority of Missourians feel the state is headed in the wrong direction, its amazing to me that he would say, "O.K., all done, everything's good." Its like a paradoy of the Republican Party which is adamantly anti-progress (except for the Ron Paul - Huckabee wing, which wants to go backwards). I kept looking in the background of the video for that big "Mission Accomplished" banner. Wonder what Kinder/Steelman/Jetton/Emerson would have to say about whether State Government has accomplished everything it needs to do?