As you might have suspected, Summit County's two Republican congressmen voted against the debt ceiling increase while the county's two Democrats supported the clean bill offered by House Speaker John Boehner. The nays were Rep. Jim Renacci and Rep. David Joyce; the yeas, Rep. Tim Ryan and Rep. Marcia Fudge.
About Joyce: Wasn't he the guy who succeeded Steve LaTourette and billed as a moderate in the mode of his predecessor? We're still waiting, folks. Renacci, meanwhile, has been a perfect fit for the Tea Party.
Since the congressional districts were mercilessly gerrymandered by Republicans, Summit County's bizarre carving have left us with four congressmen who don't have homes in the county. (For comparison's sake, Gaul had only three parts.) Religious scholars might call it penance for the sin for long harboring the late John Seiberling back when the liberal Democrat represented the entire county.
Today, Renacci calls Wadsworth home; Fudge, Warrensville Hgts; Joyce, Russell Townshp in Geauga County, and Ryan, Howland ( near Warren).
On the map, the four new districts are virtually indescribable, appearing as though they fell off a truck. Look for yourself.
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Sen. Rob Portman can't be feeling too chipper these days. The latest Public Policy Poll revealed the Ohio Republican is taking a heavy shelling from voters for his vote against extending unemployment insurance. The PPP figures say 51 pct. of the Buckeye voters are now less likely to vote for him; only 27 pct. more likely.
According to the pollster, Portman, a passive sort of pol, is "pretty undefined with voters right now. 36 pct. have no opinion one way or the other, with only 28 pct. approving of him to 35 pct. who disapprove. He doesnt have the kind of politlcal capital stored up that lets you vote against something more than 60 pct. of your constituents support."
As I've mentioned before, one of Portman's favorite responses when the other side doesn't agree with his position is that he's disappointed. In the wake of the PPP poll, he has a lot to be disappointed about.
UPDATE: Portman voted NO on cutting off debate to raise debt limit, defying Senate minority leader McConnell; Ohio's Democratic senator, Sherrod Brown voted yea. Measure passed handily. If it had failed, it could have led to another government shutdown. Way to go, Rob!
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
From today's news heap, Kasich pleads ignorance
Today's latest news, Hot off the Mess:
Leave it to our governor to produce another Kasich Kerfuffle in response to a question following his speech to the Cleveland City Club on Wednesday. It occurred when a woman in the audience asked him whether he agreed with fellow-Republican Ohio Atty. Gen. Mike Dewine's fellowship with some other Republican AG's in a lawsuit involving employers and contraceptives insurance.
Dewine has never let anybody forget since the day he ran for the office that he wants to slay the Obamacare dragon and has channeled it with religious fervor into an assault on the legality of whether employers should include contraceptives in their employes' insurance coverage.
It's been in all of the papers. The governor, however, batted away the issue by saying he had not heard of the Dewine gambit and ducked the question. Besides, as the governor has boasted, he never reads newspapers because sometimes they leave him unhappy.
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Is it just me, or do you find it a bit odd that two obstinate anti-gun control congressmen will be the featured guests at a dinner celebrating an historic Republican icon?
Yep, that's a reference, folks, to the annual Summit County Republican Lincoln Day dinner. L-I-N-C-O-L-N. The anointed guests are Ohio Reps. Jim Renacci and Dave Joyce, sworn opponents of restrictions on guns.
Is this Lincolnian crowd, who will be dining quite well the night of the repast, April 27, aware of how Lincoln's life was abruptly ended? Was it from the gun of John Wilkes Boothe, the Confederacy sympathizer?
Oh, to be fair, maybe they missed the movie.
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We close with this bit of gloomy insight into the American Century:
According to the respected Public Policy Polling (PPP), 20 pct. of registered Republicans believe President Obama is the Antichrist. ( 6 pct. of Democrats agree!) 37 pct. of Republicans believe global warming is a hoax; 7 pct. says the moon landing was a hoax.
In my poll of today's Plain Dealer op-ed page, one right-wing columnist (Kevin O'Brien), wrote that the Connecticut gun-control law was"ridiculously restrictive" because nothing could have prevented the Newtown massacre. He also threw in the notion that "teaching children is a side job for public schools".
On the other hand, the Beacon Journal reported that charter schools - the answer by the governor and his ilk to creating an enlightened nation - can expect a dismal report card from the Ohio Department of Education's new grading standards next year. Get this: 89 pct. of tax-supported charter schools will get an"F" for their graduation rate; public schools, 7 pct. would receive an "F". Who knew?
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Leave it to our governor to produce another Kasich Kerfuffle in response to a question following his speech to the Cleveland City Club on Wednesday. It occurred when a woman in the audience asked him whether he agreed with fellow-Republican Ohio Atty. Gen. Mike Dewine's fellowship with some other Republican AG's in a lawsuit involving employers and contraceptives insurance.
Dewine has never let anybody forget since the day he ran for the office that he wants to slay the Obamacare dragon and has channeled it with religious fervor into an assault on the legality of whether employers should include contraceptives in their employes' insurance coverage.
It's been in all of the papers. The governor, however, batted away the issue by saying he had not heard of the Dewine gambit and ducked the question. Besides, as the governor has boasted, he never reads newspapers because sometimes they leave him unhappy.
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Is it just me, or do you find it a bit odd that two obstinate anti-gun control congressmen will be the featured guests at a dinner celebrating an historic Republican icon?Yep, that's a reference, folks, to the annual Summit County Republican Lincoln Day dinner. L-I-N-C-O-L-N. The anointed guests are Ohio Reps. Jim Renacci and Dave Joyce, sworn opponents of restrictions on guns.
Is this Lincolnian crowd, who will be dining quite well the night of the repast, April 27, aware of how Lincoln's life was abruptly ended? Was it from the gun of John Wilkes Boothe, the Confederacy sympathizer?
Oh, to be fair, maybe they missed the movie.
* * * * *
We close with this bit of gloomy insight into the American Century:
According to the respected Public Policy Polling (PPP), 20 pct. of registered Republicans believe President Obama is the Antichrist. ( 6 pct. of Democrats agree!) 37 pct. of Republicans believe global warming is a hoax; 7 pct. says the moon landing was a hoax.
In my poll of today's Plain Dealer op-ed page, one right-wing columnist (Kevin O'Brien), wrote that the Connecticut gun-control law was"ridiculously restrictive" because nothing could have prevented the Newtown massacre. He also threw in the notion that "teaching children is a side job for public schools".
On the other hand, the Beacon Journal reported that charter schools - the answer by the governor and his ilk to creating an enlightened nation - can expect a dismal report card from the Ohio Department of Education's new grading standards next year. Get this: 89 pct. of tax-supported charter schools will get an"F" for their graduation rate; public schools, 7 pct. would receive an "F". Who knew?
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Are schools ready for the Armies of the Right?
Let me see if I follow this:
Wayne LaPierre, the near-million-dollar a year megaphone for the NRA, first says schools should be armed against crazy gunmen.Then the NRA puts up another million for a task force headed by former Arkansas Republican congressman Asa Hutchinson to recommend ways to confront the monstrous problem. Then Hutchinson appears at the National Press Club to declare, "Eureka, we think we've found the answer!"
The envelope, please. And the winner is...the NRA, which sponsored the study in the first place. As Hutchinson went on to assert, every school should have gun toters on the staff - the modern version, I assume, of the well-regulated militia. But couldn't the NRA have saved its million instead of purchasing an echo of its original idea?
When Hutchinson turned up on Lawrence O'Donnell's show Tuesday night, he dodged a number of questions embedded in the larger gun issues: less lethal weapons and magazines, mass killings beyond America's classrooms, background checks et al.
He repeatedly reminded O'Donnell that his mission as the NRA's rising star was limited to school safety. When O'Donnell asked him how much he was paid to produce an overlay on the NRA's position, Hutchinson snipped: "It's none of your business."
Nor, it's beginning to seem more likely every day, is the business of blood control that a great majority of Americans want.
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Speaking of the Armies of the Right, Summit County Republicans will be able to greet two of Ohio's staunch opponents of gun control at the party's Lincoln (!) Day dinner on April 27 in Quaker Square: Reps. Jim Renacci and Dave Joyce, neither of whom have yet qualified as rising stars in the increasingly crowded firmament.
Renacci, in particular, has been singled out as a leading recipient of NRA money, and both guys arrive in County Chairman's Alex Arshinkoff's circle with the authorized version of the Party of No: Whether it be Obamacare, gun control, abortion rights, gay marriage or a lot of other right-wing guff, you can guess the drill.
As for Arshinkoff, the message in the party invitation was customarily over-the-top with his well-recorded hyperbole - even for the political world. His two honored guests, he promised, would help lead Obamacare into the "dustbin of history", guarantee that America would again "Stand tall" in the world and join in other fights on Capitol hill, including sending Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to the shadows of the unemployed. (The "stand tall" thing is worrisome. Is he referring to a new invasion of Iraq?)
There was a time when Hillary Clinton, not Nancy Pelosi, was the Dragon Lady at these affairs. Now she is leading all Republicans in the 2016 presidential sweeps. Does that speak of a revival of Jane Fonda in these GOP klatches. And , by the way, whatever happened to Jane?
Wayne LaPierre, the near-million-dollar a year megaphone for the NRA, first says schools should be armed against crazy gunmen.Then the NRA puts up another million for a task force headed by former Arkansas Republican congressman Asa Hutchinson to recommend ways to confront the monstrous problem. Then Hutchinson appears at the National Press Club to declare, "Eureka, we think we've found the answer!"
The envelope, please. And the winner is...the NRA, which sponsored the study in the first place. As Hutchinson went on to assert, every school should have gun toters on the staff - the modern version, I assume, of the well-regulated militia. But couldn't the NRA have saved its million instead of purchasing an echo of its original idea?
When Hutchinson turned up on Lawrence O'Donnell's show Tuesday night, he dodged a number of questions embedded in the larger gun issues: less lethal weapons and magazines, mass killings beyond America's classrooms, background checks et al.
He repeatedly reminded O'Donnell that his mission as the NRA's rising star was limited to school safety. When O'Donnell asked him how much he was paid to produce an overlay on the NRA's position, Hutchinson snipped: "It's none of your business."
Nor, it's beginning to seem more likely every day, is the business of blood control that a great majority of Americans want.
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Speaking of the Armies of the Right, Summit County Republicans will be able to greet two of Ohio's staunch opponents of gun control at the party's Lincoln (!) Day dinner on April 27 in Quaker Square: Reps. Jim Renacci and Dave Joyce, neither of whom have yet qualified as rising stars in the increasingly crowded firmament.
Renacci, in particular, has been singled out as a leading recipient of NRA money, and both guys arrive in County Chairman's Alex Arshinkoff's circle with the authorized version of the Party of No: Whether it be Obamacare, gun control, abortion rights, gay marriage or a lot of other right-wing guff, you can guess the drill.
As for Arshinkoff, the message in the party invitation was customarily over-the-top with his well-recorded hyperbole - even for the political world. His two honored guests, he promised, would help lead Obamacare into the "dustbin of history", guarantee that America would again "Stand tall" in the world and join in other fights on Capitol hill, including sending Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to the shadows of the unemployed. (The "stand tall" thing is worrisome. Is he referring to a new invasion of Iraq?)
There was a time when Hillary Clinton, not Nancy Pelosi, was the Dragon Lady at these affairs. Now she is leading all Republicans in the 2016 presidential sweeps. Does that speak of a revival of Jane Fonda in these GOP klatches. And , by the way, whatever happened to Jane?
Friday, March 22, 2013
Can county GOP April Lincoln Day dinner bring May flowers?
This year's celebrated Republican speakers will be Ohio Reps. Dave Joyce and Jim Renacci, both of whom just voted for Paul Ryan's mystical budget, a dead-end document whose theme and slight variations have included the repeal of ObamaCare - a stunt that has been defeated more than 30 times. Obviously, for the GOP, it's the thought that continues to count.
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