Kentucky: Barack Obama

White Male Liberty Patriots are aflutter all over Kentucky:
Bob Resnick didn't believe all the right-wing militia conspiracy theories — the FEMA internment camps or the government coffins stockpiled for the day the feds declare martial law and round up dissenters. But they made him wonder.

Then America's economy tumbled and the nation elected Barack Obama, and the resulting chatter about socialist incursion, rampant gun control and a government takeover of health care made him fear where the nation was heading.

So the 43-year-old disabled Louisvillian searched the Internet for local militia groups that seemed to echo his misgivings.

“The way everything's going nowadays, if the economy tanks and they do declare martial law, and they do like California with all the riots and stuff, I'd like to know I've got a group I can be with so I'm not on my own,” he said.

From "Change We Can Believe In," Barack Obama's 2008 campaign platform book, comes the following on health insurance reform:

For those who do not have health insurance or who do not like their health insurance, they will have a range of private insurance options--accessible through a new National Health Insurance Exchange that is similar to what members of Congress have--as well as a public plan. The public plan will cover all essential medical services--including preventive, maternity, disease management, and mental health care.

I'm reluctant to outright accuse the White House of waffling on the public option, but things certainly aren't looking pretty with all of the retractions and back-pedaling that have marked the typically sterling Obama message machine of late.

Dan Mongiardo’s fake puritanical outrage over Attorney General Jack Conway’s recent, shocking use of profanity at the Fancy Farm picnic brought back memories for me of a Democratic State Senate Caucus fundraiser that I and several other UK College Democrats attended some years ago. As you will remember, this was two offices ago for Dan Mongiardo, back when he was still a lowly state senator who had recently lost the last race for US Senate against Jim Bunning, and as such he was expected to allow the rest of the caucus and the attendees at the fundraiser to bask in the glow of his political fame.

FRANKFORT – Kentucky won't get federal stimulus funding for an advanced car battery plant in Hardin County.

A proposed $600 million plant in Hardin County was not on the list of funded projects released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Energy. Instead, President Barack Obama awarded $2.4 billion to 48 other proposals, including $1 billion to companies and universities based in Michigan.

The proposed plant, which Kentucky had pledged to boost with $200 million in state spending, was expected to eventually employ 2,000 workers.

State officials were trying to get part of $2 billion in federal stimulus dollars to help fund the proposed lithium-ion battery plant. A non-profit consortium of more than 50 companies – known as NAATBatt -- had proposed the plant.

Gov. Steve Beshear released a statement about the loss: