(The following blog post appeared on the Plunderbund website on March 13, 2011.)
When John Kasich ran for Governor last year he promised to ‘focus like a laser’ on creating jobs in Ohio. It may seem like a trite and obvious statement for a candidate to make in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the great depression, but a number of voters responded to statements like this by actually voting for the guy. And they expected him –- and the rest of the Republicans they simultaneously voted for –- to fulfill their campaign promises to put aside partisan bickering over controversial right or left-wing issues and to focus exclusively on improving Ohio’s economy and getting Ohioans back to work.
It turns out they were all full of s—.
The full column appears at www.plunderbund.com.