From the Times Picayune, apparently disgraced Junior Senator David Vitter is taking credit for Louisiana Senior Senator Mary Landrieu’s opposition to a public option for healthcare reform. This is another in a long string of “victories” the unindicted co-conspirator/Senator from Louisiana has claimed over Landrieu.
Apparently unaware that the dodo bird has a more active heartbeat than his political career, State Treasurer John Kennedy emerged from whatever rock or self help group he has sought refuge in since his latest humiliating defeat in his latest failed bid for United States Senate. According to the St. Tammany News, Kennedy spoke before the Northshore Kiwanis Club in Mandeville earlier this month.
Although there has been no reporting of the crowd estimate, it is assumed that perennial candidate Kennedy, as usual, drew a packed house. While there were, surprisingly, several interesting moments in his speech, apart from obligatory references to cowgirl halls of fame and brown tree snakes in Guam, the highlight was Treasurer Kennedy’s visionary solution to solving our nation’s education problems.
When discussing what to do with students who are resistant to learning, Kennedy argued that teachers should put them in another room and make them “do push-ups or stare at the wall…”. As of this reporting, it is unknown where the clearly still confused State Treasurer developed this advice from, as push-ups and wall staring appear nowhere on Wikipedia’s education reform page.
Also of note during this speech was Treasurer Kennedy’s claim of inflation accounting for 27% of the increased budget of the State of Louisiana in the past decade, despite saying throughout his most recent senate campaign that “except for healthcare, inflation has been pretty tame over the last ten years.” Even more confusing is Kennedy’s assertion less than 3 months ago that inflation has increased 37% over the last 10 years.
Never known to be good at math, a frightening thought for a state treasurer, clearly, John Kennedy still has a lot of learning to do. But of course, it is nothing a few push ups won’t solve.
From Talking Points Memo: (7th item down) During her swearing in yesterday, Senator Mary Landrieu told disgraced Louisiana Senator David Vitter, who recruited State Treasurer John Kennedy to run against her last year, to keep his seat opting instead to be escorted to the well of the chamber by Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and retiring Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM).
From the Advocate: A year ago, who would have guessed that Mary Landrieu would be the senior member of the La. Delegation an the Joseph Cao would be its newest addition?
From FCW.com: Senator to gavel the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, says she intends to make small-business a focal point of the economic recover.
From NPR and the Times-Picayune: National Republicans have been quick to embrace Joseph Cao since his upset victory over Congressman Bill Jefferson but they weren’t so quick to get behind him as he struggled to run a campaign.
