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| The state of Kentucky is full of yokels. The lawmakers there are quite dumb. |
1. Rand Paul gets racks after being served a knuckle style chili.
The Kentucky senator went to Canada for treatment for his back after the infamous fight with a neighbor in his hometown of Bowling Green. Paul is the son of former Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. Both Pauls tried and failed at running for President of the United States. Both have expressed white extremist views.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was awarded over $580,000 in damages by a Kentucky jury on Wednesday after he was attacked by his neighbor in the fall of 2017.
The lawmaker was violently attacked by his neighbor, Rene Boucher, in November 2017 while he was mowing his lawn. Paul was tackled from behind and suffered six broken ribs, including three displaced fractures. His recovery was complicated by fluid and blood around the lungs and recurrent pneumonia.
Boucher pleaded guilty in March to a federal charge of assaulting a member of Congress and had asked for probation.
He was sentenced in June to 30 days in federal prison for the assault. He was also ordered to one year of supervised release, a $10,000 fine, 100 hours of community service, and ordered to have no contact with Paul's family.
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| Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) are considered the worst in Washington. Why does Kentucky keep electing these two nimrods? |
Boucher, a retired anesthesiologist, said the attack was sparked because he was agitated about piles of brush on Paul's property. Boucher also claimed Paul used his lawnmower — on the same day as the attack — and blew some leaves onto his property, igniting his outrage.
2. Matt Bevin walked 15 miles in -15 degree weather.
The Kentucky governor fails to take the Polar Vortex seriously. He goes on record saying that Kentuckians are a bunch of wimps for not opening up schools.
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said America is "getting soft" by closing schools during the extreme cold that has gripped the country this week even as wind chills in his state have dipped low enough to cause frostbite in 30 minutes.
In a radio interview Tuesday with 840 WHAS radio in Louisville, the Republican governor bemoaned the fact the schools across the state would be closed Wednesday because of the bitter cold, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.
"Now we cancel school for cold, I mean — " Bevin told host Terry Meiners.
"It's deep freeze; this is serious business," Meiners responded.
"Come on, now," Bevin said. "There's no ice going with it or any snow. What happens to America. We're getting soft, Terry, we're getting soft."
"It's better to air on the side of being safe, and I'm being only slightly facetious, but it does concern me a little bit that in America on this, and any number of other fronts, we're sending messages to our young people that if life is hard you can curl up in the fetal position in a warm place and just wait until it stops being hard," the governor added.
NBC weatherman Al Roker clapped his ass.
"This nitwit governor in Kentucky saying these kids who are going to be in subzero wind chills...no! Cancel school," Roker said. "Adults, if they want to be out there, that's great. These are our children, you know. I'm glad you're not a teacher."
3. Kim Davis's crusade costed her a lot of pennies.
The infamous Rowan County clerk was defeated in the 2018 U.S. Midterm elections. Kim Davis, the former clerk of county became infamous in 2015 for denying same-sex couples marriage certificates.
Davis claimed that it violated her religious beliefs. The Supreme Court ruling mandated marriage legal in all 50 states and five territories.
Davis won praise from Republicans and conservative agitators for standing firm against the government. It cost her a job and it will be a lot of pennies in water jugs.
Citing "conduct that violates civil rights," lawyers for Gov. Matt Bevin say former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis should be held responsible for nearly $225,000 in legal fees and court costs incurred by couples who sued her in 2015 when she refused to issue marriage licenses because of her religious opposition to same-sex marriage.
Although Bevin, a Republican, publicly has praised Davis as "an inspiration ... to the children of America," his attorneys are taking a more critical tone in court briefs, blaming the ex-clerk for failing to do her job following the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage.
A three-judge panel will hear arguments about who should bear the case's expenses Thursday at the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. A district judge ruled in 2017 that the couples suing for marriage licenses clearly prevailed and that the state of Kentucky must pay their fees and costs.
Bevin appealed that ruling, hoping to hand the bill instead to the Rowan County clerk's office. Davis acted alone, without any state support, the governor's lawyers told the 6th Circuit in briefs ahead of the oral arguments.
The governor's general counsel, Steve Pitt, said Wednesday that Bevin still personally supports Davis.
"In contesting the federal court’s award of attorney's fees against the commonwealth, outside counsel retained by the Beshear administration to represent the governor's office have taken no position as to whether Ms. Davis acted unconstitutionally. Bevin does not believe that she has done so and continues to support Ms. Davis's actions," Pitt said.
“Regardless, the federal court has held that she violated the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights and that the state must pay to the ACLU legal fees incurred as a result,” Pitt said. “Our outside counsel have only argued, given the court’s ruling, that if constitutional rights were violated, the taxpayers of Kentucky are not responsible to pay the ACLU’s attorney fees.”
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| Kim Davis might want to check her watering hole, she's coming up dry on funds. |
After the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision, Davis announced that she held religious objections to gay marriage and no longer would grant marriage licenses to anyone in Rowan County. Her protest became international news, turning her into a symbol of conservative resistance, especially when U.S. District Judge David Bunning jailed her for several days for contempt of court.
4. Mitch McConnell is still a turtle hiding in his shell.
The most dirtiest politician in Washington is (Addison Mitchell) McConnell, Jr. You may know him as Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader. He resides in Louisville and he's the most visible member of the Senate. He is the most hated politician in the country besides Donald J. Trump.
McConnell wants to protect the "status quo" and will continue to play dirty to win. Remember, this guy denied Barack Obama an opportunity to nominate a Supreme Court Justice. As soon as Trump won the election, McConnell was all but happy to help the imbecile get nominees for the Court through. He repealed the rule requiring a plurality of votes to confirm. Now the Court needs 51 senators (or 50 with Mike Pence) to confirm a nominee to the Supreme Court.
McConnell is often mocked for looking like a turtle. He has been mocked, taunted and harassed by Kentuckians for being a failure. He hasn't confirmed his intention of running for reelection in 2020.
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| Matt Bevin is a disgraceful human being. |
McConnell took to the Senate floor on Wednesday to rail against H.R. 1, a bill Democrats are pushing that would make Election Day a holiday for federal workers. Under the bill, which would also enact automatic voter registration and tackle campaign finance, federal employees would be able to take off six days to work at a polling place. This is a "power grab" by Democrats, McConnell said. "Just what America needs, a bunch of government workers being paid to go out and work for I assume ... our colleagues on the other side, on their campaigns." The bill says nothing about federal workers being paid to work for any political party.
Democrats were quick to respond, with Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) saying that voting "is a power grab. By citizens." Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) tweeted that voting is "democracy, and it's literally the entire point of our representative government. And by the way: Not only should Election Day be a federal holiday, we need automatic voter registration and universal mail voting, too."
The Bluegrass state is lovely, but the politicians they elect are pretty sad.
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