Editorial: Short takes (Columbus Dispatch; Bizarre Attack on Voinovich by Dem)

The Columbus Dispatch ^ | March 27, 2009 | NA

[buccaneer81]

Editorial: Short takes Friday, March 27, 2009 2:55 AM

• OHIO SECRETARY of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat who is running to fill the seat of retiring Ohio Republican Sen. George V. Voinovich, has launched one of the oddest political attacks in recent memory.

Brunner said that Voinovich, who voted with his fellow Republican senators in an unsuccessful attempt to block the $787 billion economic-stimulus bill passed last month, should have voted for the measure. The reason? To spare taxpayers the cost of flying Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown by military aircraft from Mansfield to Washington to cast the deciding vote.

Democrats needed one vote to prevent a GOP filibuster, but Brown was attending his mother's funeral in Ohio, and ailing Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., also was unavailable. So Democrats asked Voinovich to vote for the measure. He declined.

Instead, Senate Democrats delayed the vote for five hours while the White House sent a military aircraft to Ohio to fetch Brown.

To criticize Voinovich for refusing to vote against his beliefs is bizarre. And pointless, because Voinovich won't be her opponent.

[libs_kma]

"With Blackwell's shellacking by Strickland.."

What makes that so hard to take is that even if you strip the R's and the D's, Blackwell would have been a 100 times better for Ohio than senile Strickland ever could be.

You should hear that idiot Strickland when they invite him on the morning radio talk show out of Cincinnati.

That imbecile can't even put a coherent thought together.

He repeats the host's question and rephrases it, as if it's actually an intelligent answer.

The man is stupid beyond your wildest imagination. If breathing weren't instinctive I beleive he'd forget how to do it.