Friday Wrapup: The Good, Bad and Ugly
Submitted by General Content on February 27, 2009 - 3:40pm
Good: Economic recovery money started to flow.
- Federal economic recovery money is on its way.
- The Governor launched a new website to collect economic recovery ideas -- 1,357 have been submitted to http://transform.mo.gov at last check.
Bad: Republicans stuck it to Missouri's kids and the unemployed, but fought to keep a fat advertising budget for Chicagoans.
- Peter Kinder called new federal money to help the unemployed a "bribe." Fear not: Kinder has assured us that he has no interest in helping the record number of jobless.
- Republicans on the House Budget committee refused to fund $939k for children's health care. Budget chair Alan Icet cited remarkably unconvincing "protocols" that limit what can be done in a supplemental budget request.
- Then, the GOP stood up for $900k in advertising for the Chicagoland area. No, these backwards priorities don't make any sense to us either.
Ugly: Blunt continued to re-imagine the world around him, Steelman continued to fuel the speculation that she'll join the race soon.
- Roy Blunt is now a transparent budget hawk who has always worked in a bipartisan manner. Please update your files.
- In a remarkably dumb move, Roy voted against a Congressional pay freeze. Days earlier, he called for a federal spending freeze. Oops!
- Republican insiders listed 3,234 reasons why Blunt will have a tough row to hoe, but still believe he's a better choice that Sarah Steelman.
- Blunt surrogates fired back at Steelman, attacking Steelman's professed status as an outsider.
- Steelman was a jerk. And then she wasn't.
- Only 521 days to go.
Other Notes:
- Bill O'Reilly told Ed Martin to stop wasting people's time and money.
- Cynthia Davis said that fathers aren't natural nurturers. No she didn't! Yes, she did.
- The Tour de Missouri shall henceforth be referred to "My [Peter Kinder's] Bicycle Race"
- The noodlers are back.
- Speaker Ron Richard still hasn't given the public a good reason for kicking Rep. Jeanette Mott Oxford off the House Children and Families Committee.
- Nathan Cooper is back at home.
- Mizzou is the #8 team in the land.
