Wednesday, 15 April 2009

Hope And Change We Can Believe In

Remember back a couple of years ago when Louisville had the big tax battle over funding for the library? Proponents of the library wanted to increase the occupational tax to fund new buildings for the library. The tax went down to defeat and so did the funding for a new library.

Remember a few months ago when the Democrats passed the 800 Billion dollar stimulus boondoggle? Remember how it was going to stimulate the economy and how they were going to rebuild our infrastructure with it. At least that is what we were told. I remember both Yarmuth! and Chandler both echoing those sentiments.

Well guess what? It looks like Louisville's shovel ready library expansion doesn't qualify for stimulus funds.

Library Director Craig Buthod said yesterday that rules governing the federal stimulus program were changed to exclude using the money for library construction.
Buthod and city officials had identified $8.6 million in projects that would have qualified for stimulus funding before the change, and the money was seen as the best chance to get a jump on a proposed $120 million library-system expansion over the next 12 years.
"Unfortunately, there are no federal programs in place for funding library construction," Buthod told members of the Louisville Metro Council's Parks, Libraries and Arts Committee.

I guess this is hope and change we can believe in. I mean you have got to be kidding me. Where the heck is the 800,000,000,000 dollars in stimulus going if a small piece of it isn't going to be used on constructing libraries? Better yet what the hell is Yarmuth! doing as a representative? Sen Reid gets his monorail project from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and Yarmuth! can't get funding for either the library expansion or the bridge project? Those are two of the three biggest government projects in Louisville and both are "shovel ready". Yet Yarmuth! can't get a few of the 800 billion dollars for either of them. What is Yarmuth! doing in D.C. other than voting to endebt future generations? I am sure that will be one of many questions Yarmuth! will face next year on the campaign trail.

Posted by brians at 7:27 AM in Louisville Politics

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What Is It With Dems And Their Unexperienced Candidates

When Obama was elected, I pointed out that he had no executive experience and that he would struggle with on the job training. He hasn't disappointed. He has had one gaffe after another as his incompetence as a CEO becomes more apparent every day. So what happens in Kentucky? Last week, Conway announced that he will challenge Mongiardo for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate.

A number of people have already stepped forward to endorse him. Yarmuth!, Abramson, Stumbo, Chandler, and Luallen have all stated they favor his campaign. The only question I can ask is why? Conway has absolutely no experience for the position. Let's look at his resume.

Worked in the Patton Administration
Worked a few years in a private law practice
Spent the last two years as AG

That is it. He has a few years in government, a few years in private practice, and all of two years as an elected official. A position he won on the coat tails of Beshear. It is striking that he has zero experience as a legislator yet he wants to be one of Kentucky's two senators. As much as I am not a fan of Mongiardo, at least he has spent time in the state legislature and understands the legislative process. The only reason I can think that anyone would support Conway is that he looks good in front of a camera. He is Kentucky's American Idol candidate. I seriously can't point to anything else that qualifies him to sit in the US Senate. Haven't we learned enough from Obama's first 100 days to avoid electing people who are unqualified for the position?