Sunday, March 25, 2012
The Blower’s Week in Review
OUR NUMBER ONE LOCAL STORY THIS WEEK was when everybody reported that Friday marked the two-year anniversary of Obama’s so-called national health care law, and Republicans, unable to push repeal through the DemocRAT-controlled Senate, are now looking to the U.S. Supreme Court for relief. The high court will hold hearings this coming week on a multi-state challenge of the law’s constitutionality.
Newt Gingrich says, “Next week, the Supreme Court opens its historic arguments to decide whether the Congress overstepped its constitutional bounds. I strongly support the 26 states that will argue that the Congress had no legitimate authority to pass Obamacare. If this law is allowed to stand, there will be no end to the power of government. The government will ultimately control very personal decisions over life and death.
Maybe that’s why even Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWhine says he’ll also be in Washington to hear the arguments on Monday. Americans overwhelmingly oppose Obamacare, and DeWhiner is anxious for the high court to hear Ohio’s case next week so he can send out more e-mails at over-taxed paper expense keeping his constituents updated on the progress, if only as another excuse to ask for donations.
OUR NUMBER TWO LOCAL STORY THIS WEEK was when Obama’s used all that jet fuel to fly around the country on Air Force One this week campaigning at over-taxed payers’ expense so he could claim those $4-per-gallon gasoline prices are “not his fault.”
Obama was on a 5,000-mile, four-state, two-day trip on Air Force One to blame Republicans for high gasoline prices. Flying Wednesday to camera-ready podiums in Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Colorado, he touted his efforts to reduce the nation’s use of gasoline. Obama’s 5,000-mile trip will consume roughly 25,000 gallons of jet fuel, according to Boeing. That adds up to a fuel bill of $80,000 assuming the Air Force buys jet fuel at the cheapest cost, now estimated at $3.20 a gallon by the U.S. Energy Administration. The retail price for jet-fuel at local airports is just over $6 a gallon, including taxes
Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich continued to keep Obama on defense over energy policy. The issue is not going away, and during his damage control tour this week, he’s done a rhetorical 180 on drilling for oil and Keystone XL, both of which he now says he’s eager to facilitate—even though his destructive policies haven’t changed.
AND OUR NUMBER THREE LOCAL STORY THIS WEEK was in Columbus, when Buckeye Bureau Chief Gerry Manders said it was just as The Blower had predicted: the struggle for the soul of the Ohio RINO Party may be coming to a head soon. This week we saw brackets for the State Party Shootout, when GOP Chairmen from Ohio’s seven largest counties signed a letter to overthrow Ohio RINO Boss Kevin DeWhine. They represent 51% of the vote.
The big problem after the 2010 Elections was (as The Blower attempted to point out on numerous occasions), was that at the time, our Tea Partiers and Social Conservatives just didn’t have enough votes. Now it would appear as if they do.
MONDAY in our Official “Let’s All Go on Spring Break” E-dition, The Blower was looking for some major yabbos:
This year for Spring Break, The Blower is working on a list of guys who took their wives and families to the Redneck Riviera, Naples, Destin, or Key Largo, just so they could spend all day on the beach ogling young girls’ breasts. You’ll never guess whose names are on that list.
We asked an aging attorney acquaintance why he always goes down to Naples on Spring Break, and he told us, “Because I can.”
At least this year the Reds’ Spring Training games won’t be a distraction, like they always used to be in Sarasota. But Tri-staters down here on Siesta Key can still keep up on what’s happening in Washington and the ‘Nati by checking out The Blower. And even with only 64 more days till the May 22 Primary Elections in Kentucky, using this internet thingy, we can be anywhere instantly.
Did you see what happened when Fox News producer Jesse Watters went down to Panama City, FL to interview college students on spring break about Barack Obama? [WATCH IT HERE]
TUESDAY in our Special “BB&BJ Day” E-dition, The Blower urged ladies to give their guys what they really wanted and our “Real E-Mails from Real Subscribers” included:
On this date in 1854, the Republican Party was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories, and his year Obama celebrated the event working on his brackets for the 2012 NCAA Basketball Tournament. —Hurley the Historian
Now that I’ve won the 2012 Presidential Primary in Puerto Rico, does that mean all Latinos will be voting Republican this year in only “230” more days? —Mitt Romney
Not everybody at that St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Pittsburgh booed me. —Joe Biden
We’re accomplishing so little in Congress these days, maybe we should all be on Spring Break. —John Boehner and Harry Reid
Elected Officials say they want to get all that big money out of politics and back into their pockets where it belongs. —Buckeye Bureau Chief Gerry Manders
WEDNESDAY in our Special “Are You Sure It’s Really Spring?” E-dition, The Blower asked, “How do you know your Equinox is really Vernal?” and we wished everybody a “Happy Springtime.”
Or so they say. No wonder our Quote for Today Committee chose Mark Twain’s “In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.”
And with travel restrictions to Mexico still in effect, where else would Obama’s teen-age daughter Malia be spending her Spring Break? In Mexico, of course. But not to worry. Malia Obama and her friend were being guarded by 25 U.S. Secret Service agents as well as Mexican police, courtesy of We the Over-Taxed Payers.
THURSDAY, in our Special “March Madness” E-dition, The Blower published more sports clichés:
Whistleblower Senior Spoiled Sports Editor Andy FurBall says today is one of the biggest days ever for local basketball fans, what with six Tri-State teams making it to the Sweet 16 of the 2012 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament— UC, Xavier, Ohio State, Ohio University, Louisville, and Kentucky. Now let’s see how make it to the Elite Eight.
March Madness showcases the best of college sports. Unfortunately, this year’s installment of the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament also highlights the worst in wasteful government spending, according to the Taxpayers Protection Alliance. The $2.7 billion price tag associated with the arenas used during the NCAA tournament may give March Madness a maddening new meaning for over-taxed payers, whose March Madness Brackets look something like this.
In Washington, our DC Newsbreaker Obama Supporters in the Press are all wondering how our Bracketologist–In-Chief (make that Baracketologist) is doing with his predictions. Obama now ranks in the 98th percentile in ESPN’s “Tournament Challenge,” with 460 out of a possible 640 points. That was good for a rank of No. 131,052 out of the millions submitted on the network’s website.
FRIDAY in our Special “Disgraced RINO Party Chairman” E-dition, The Blower said some disgraced RINO Party Chairmen just couldn’t take a hint:
Today it’s the Top Ten Excuses Ohio RINO Party Boss Kevin DeWhine got caught squandering Republican Party resources to defeat fellow Republicans in the March 6 primaries:
10. I forgot 9. The dog ate it 8. She told me she loved me 7. I did it to help the homeless 6. The Devil made me do it 5. I just wanted to be loved–is there anything wrong with that? 4. I’m Mike DeWhine’s cousin 3. I was framed 2. This whole thing is just one big terrible mistake
…and the Number One Reason Ohio RINO Party Boss Kevin DeWhine got caught squandering Republican Party resources to defeat fellow Republicans in the March 6 primaries is… Ohio Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted said nobody would ever find out.
SATURDAY in our Special “High Gasoline Prices,” The Blower reported Obama was still claiming It was not how fault:
With only “226” more days until the Presidential Elections in November, Obama’s still using all that jet fuel to fly around the country on Air Force One campaigning over-taxed payers expense so he can claim those $4-per-gallon gasoline prices are “not his fault.”
Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich continued to keep Obama on defense over energy policy. The issue is not going away, and during his damage control tour this week, he’s done a rhetorical 180 on drilling for oil and Keystone XL, both of which he now says he’s eager to facilitate—even though his destructive policies haven’t changed.
And in another energy-related item, let’s now forget to mention how Obama takes credit, then shifts blame on Solyndra.
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REPUBLICANS IN 2012: Whistleblower Senior National Political Affairs Analyst Britt Humus says the race continues to be a long, hard slog, with a decreasing likelihood that things will be settled before June 26 (the date of the last election Mitt Romney has 552 of the 1,144 delegates he needs for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination in Tampa. Rick Santorum is a distant second with 249. Newt Gingrich is trailing badly with 135, and Ron Paul is still out of luck and out of money with 71. - VOTER FRAUD: According to the Dissociated Press, Ohio’s top elections official has referred a case of potential voter fraud to the state’s attorney general for investigation. Republican Jon Husted said Friday that an initial review by the Fulton County Board of Elections revealed that an individual appeared to have voted in both northwest Ohio and South Carolina in the 2008 and 2010 general elections. Husted asked Attorney General Mike DeWine to investigate. Is this a big deal or what?!
OBAMA 2012: Obsessive Obama Supporters Tom and Rose say the Obama re-election Campaigners at the White House are spam-gramming their e-mail list asking for people to say “Hell yeah, I’m for Obamacare.” No kidding.
DIRT-DIGGING DEMOCRATS: while “Bronze Star Brad” Wenstrup’s Press Office may not have found time yet to send out any news releases since his surprise victory over “Mean Jean” Schmidt, Devious DemocRATS say he did find time to attend a lunch for Clermont County 20/20. Since Bronze Star ran on a platform of promising to be the most ethical Congressman ever, The Blower is certain he did not improperly accept a ticket to that luncheon from someone that was in excess of the limitations now placed upon him as a party’s nominee for Congress. That’s why we’ll be scrutinizing every line of his expense reports from now on.- OUR LATE NIGHT JOKEWATCHER liked Jay Leno’s “According to a new book, President Obama blames Fox News for his political problems and losing voters. How could Fox News lose him voters? If you’re watching Fox News, you’re probably not voting for him in the first place.”
- THE LATEST POLLS: Whistleblower Pollster Ron Rasmussen says only 31% of Likely U.S. Voters say the country is heading in the right direction. That doesn’t sound very optimistic, does it?
MEDIA MENDACITY: Speaking of stories The Fishwrap has spun for “Mean Jean,” did you see where they reported that she dropped her $6.8 million defamation lawsuit against David Kevorkian on Thursday because “it was time to move on?” OMG! How will COAST’s Mercenary Attorney Chris Finney ever get his name in the newspaper again?
In a related item, “Mean Jean’s” News Flack Barrett Brunsman says he wishes he could keep his boss’ name out of the news as successfully as her opponent Bronze Star Brad Wenstrup’s Press Office has done ever since his surprise win on March 6.
OHIO RINO PARTY: In Columbus, Buckeye Bureau Chief Gerry Manders wonders if the date scheduled next month for the Ohio Republican Party to banish Disgraced Party Boss Kevin DeWhine is really Friday the Thirteenth. How would that be for an omen?- LIBERAL LUNACY: In Human Events’ “365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy,” #77 says: Instead of “Progressive,” always use the words “Oppressive” or “Regressive.” When called on this, feign puzzlement. “But how is it progress to steal free citizens’ liberties, money, and hope, and hand it all over to government bureaucrats?”
FOOLS IN SCHOOLS: Failed CPS school administrators have one question for Newtown, OH resident and FCPS school superintendent, “Money Bags Mary” Ronan: when will she give back her over-taxed payer supported Lexus R330 and start flying around town on this custom made golden broom?- MORE FECKLESS FISHWRAPPERY: Metro Mole says both the sports editor and deputy sports editor have resigned. NOBODY can stand Wedgie Washburn, as her slaves call her. Nobody! Soon another score of lucky ones will be gone via buyouts. Quality will not decline — how the hell could it?
HAMILTON COUNTY RINO PARTY: Yesterday at the Sharonville Fire House, Alex T. Mall Cop GOP’s Hamilton County RINO Party held a campaign training seminar for candidates, staff, volunteers, and all those interested to learn techniques for running successful campaigns this fall. But The Blower wants to know: who at “Old Blueface’s” Hamilton County RINO Party knew the first thing about running a successful campaign?- REPUBLICANS FOR HIGHER TAXES: is urging everyone to support Kevin DeWhine as Ohio Republican Party Chairman. By squandering Republican Party resources to defeat fellow Republicans in Republican primaries rather than save the money to defeat the DemocRATS in November, DeWhine has increased the chances that Barack Obama and Sherrod Brown will carry Ohio. Kevin is also one of the closest allies of 2010 Tax Hiker of the Year Jon Husted and has worked tirelessly to make him next in line for Governor. Republicans for Higher Taxes think that’s great leadership and therefore want DeWhine to remain as Chairman.
RACIAL HEALING UPDATE: CNN reporter Drew Griffin is still under fire for sort of using a racial slur on the air this week. Griffin was only quoting somebody who had used the dreaded “N-word.” The Blower is amazed the man still has his job.- THE CINCINNATI MESS (You’ll Only Read About in The Blower): Cincinnati’s Useless Police Chief James Craig, the one with the sore testicle, is a guy who thinks he is so important he doesn’t have to do what the rest of us do. Drifter Development Director Odis Jones has a bit of trouble giving correct information in order to get a new job. The Mayor’s cousin, black deadbeat Liz Rogers, wants to open a soul food restaurant in the Banks area even though qualified people who aren’t tax dodgers or deadbeats had applied. And our Girly Mayor Mark Mallory’s New Extreme City Clown-cil wants four year terms, so they don’t have to face the voters as often. What could possibly be wrong with that idea?
- FROM THE GREAT WHITE NORTH: Westchester Tea Partiers all got to hear from State Auditor David Yost this week, when he told the same old dead mule story again. But he did allow enough time after the mule story to let some people ask questions. When Sandra the ( tax fighter from Lebanon ) asked Mr. Yost why she was not allowed to have a copy of the requested forensic audit from Lebanon City schools, she was told that the public shouldn’t be allowed to see these audits. Maybe Mr. Yost forgot whose tax money they are dealing with.
IN ANDERSON: Gannett’s First Amendment Attorney Jack Greiner still hasn’t filed a Freedom of Information Request after Judge Nadel sealed the so-called settlement documents (where Disgraced Anderson Trustee Kevin O’Brien’s former employer was seeking repayment of a paltry $336,175 the company paid to just one of Kevin’s former clients who committed suicide). If the Forest Hills Urinal isn’t going to do its job, maybe The Blower needs an FOI Guy of its own.- READING THE TEA LEAVES: Even though Tax Day isn’t until April 17 this year, Tea Party Groups are still planning a big “Tax Day 2012” Rally on April 15. Curiously, this year Tax Day isn’t until April 17.
- NOW HERE’S THE LATEST FROM BUNKY TADWELL (OUR OFFENSIVE OCTEGENARIAN), THE BARD OF CLEVES: Just in time to enjoy the warmer Spring weather, we found this in his “Turning the Other Cheek,” found in better bookstores everywhere, except in Cleves.
Spring Fashions The girls have started a fashion trend Which I think is nuts They drop their pants for some guy To put a tattoo on their butts.
IN CLERMONT COUNTY:Speaking of Archie the Big Game Hunter, did anyone happen to watch Sunday’s episode of “Harry’s Law,” which is conveniently set in Cincinnati, Ohio? In the ripped-from-the-headlines episode, a public official known as “Choir Boy” liked to preach morals and values carrying around his Bible before he would go into Court and prosecute prostitutes. Funny thing is, the “Choir Boy” was a frequent flyer to a rival escort service himself. Once the sting came to light, the “Choir Boy” was singing a different song. Some are saying at least once former Clermont County Commissioner may have had some trouble watching that episode.- IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY: Bluegrass Bureau Chief Ken CamBoo says the reason his section was so short yesterday is because he had to let his staff leave early, so they could all get good bar stools to watch UK try to succeed where UC, Xavier, and Ohio University had all failed at the NCAA Basketball tournament.
THIS WEEK IN KENTON CIRCUIT COURT: The latest and greatest e-dition of Our Good Friend Kenton County Commonwealth’s Attorney E Rob Sanders chicken fried e-newsletter is on cyber news stands now! This week’s This Week In Kenton Circuit Court has the usual parade of ugly mugs that the Robster’s readers have come to know and love, including this lovely lady who was apparently incarcerated for bad hair… or at least she should be!
LEGAL UPDATE: Lovely Lisa Wells, who’s getting paid by WLW Hate Radio for doing the program “Crazy Eric” Deters was doing for free, said she’d be talking about a couple of upcoming indictments Blower readers will be interested in the next time she’d be on the air, which was Saturday night from 7-9 PM.- HURLEY THE HISTORIAN says on this date in 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned down, killing 145, but curiously, $tan Che$ley didn’t get a dime of that settlement money. What happened?
- OUR QUOTE FOR TODAY COMMITTEE: chose Will Rogers’ “Make crime pay. Become a Lawyer.”
CFK-TV: Over at CFK-TV on Anderson Community Television, we still can’t figure out who sent in an that “The Vetting of Chris Bortz” audition tape, but we’re almost sure it wasn’t anybody from Hamilton County RINO Party Headquarters, since Conservatives are all asking if this is the man they want representing them as the Republican candidate for Hamilton County Commissioner.- THIS WEEK AT A MEETING OF THE CONSERVATIVE AGENDA: Political Insiders were asking Beloved Whistleblower Publisher Charles Foster Kane about how $4-per-gallon gasoline prices might enough to bring down Obama in November. “The media just can’t stop hyping those high gasoline prices these days,” Kane explained. “I remember 1980, when the feisty Mt. Washington Press published our “Weekly Area Gasoline Price Index” as a public service. Those days, people were outraged when self service prices were $1.10 per gallon.”
AND COMING UP IN “THE WEEK THAT WILL BE”: The Blower’s Campaign Countdowns to will continue. Speaking of which, the 2012 Elections are only “225” days away and the Bluegrass primary in May 22 is 58 days away.
Monday we’ll delivering some low blows in our Below the Beltway E-dition.
Tuesday you’ll be reading “Real E-Mails from Real Subscribers,” and trying to ignore March Madness, since UC and Xavier are no longer in it.
Wednesday will be checking again to see how those Dirt-Digging DemocRATS at the DNC are progressing with their big local opposition research project.
Thursday, we’ll be trying to find out the favorites to replace Disgraced Ohio RINO Party Boss Kevin DeWhine.
The first line of next Friday’s limerick is: “There once was an Old April Fool.” How timely will that be?
And all next week, Channel 19 will still be wondering what happened to all those clocks.
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