Wait, give us some of that wasteful $$$$

Rep. Virginia Foxx has radio spots running across the 5th District condemning the stimulus as shameful wasteful spending, but the congresswoman has her own Paul Ryan letter requesting $80 million to replace a bridge on I-85. Hypocrisy knows no bounds with her.

OK, this is actually funny

http://www.puppetpat.com/

Don't be shy Patsy...we know the other R word

Patsy Keever, the NC 11th Congressional District Democratic candidate, did a little backtracking today after her staff said she wasn't endorsing the President for re-election. She relented today, using the big E word. Keever said her staff didn't want her to endorse because most of the people in the 11th District probably didn't support the President.

What she could've said, and would have been probably more accurate, is that she's worried she won't get the votes of all those people in the 11th District who will never support a black man.

Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!

The esteemed State Senator from over in Watauga County was one of 14 in the Senate on Wednesday to vote against allowing live dealers at the tables in Cherokee, apparently on moral grounds.
What caught our eye was what Sen. Soucek had to say about his opposition:

"It's not an industry where things grow," Soucek said. "It’s just an exchange. You’re not creating anything. I don’t like the economics of it, and I don’t like the problems it causes to families."

We wonder if he realizes that he's just described Wall Street - a place where stocks are exchanged but nothing is really created and nothing grows. Nah. Not a chance.

Fixed News: ignoring racial bigotry since 1865

Absolutely ridiculous analysis. To propose that Barack Obama can't win Logan County, WV, because of economic conditions is ...beyond words.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/09/moderate-dems-bail-on-obama-in-primary-votes/

That's one hell of a campaign promise

House Speaker Pro Tem Dale Folwell, R-Forsyth, apparently thinks promising to be buried in Ashe County when he crosses over the River Jordan will get some votes going into next Tuesday's primary for the GOP nomination for NC lieutenant governor.
It was at least enough to garner some otherwise unwarranted coverage by the Ashe Mountain Times.
We wonder what sort of promises he made to voters in the other 99 counties.

NYT: "gratuitous bigotry" in NC

Dear Sen. Soucek,

Thanks for getting North Carolina's name out there in the national press. We're sure this editorial in the New York Times' Sunday edition is just the thing to get CEOs around the country to take notice of North Carolina, pull out their permanent marker and put a giant black mark through our name.