For a brief moment this evening, I felt like I do when I sneak a peek at the front page of the Weekly World News while I’m languishing in a particularly laggard checkout line, embarrassed that someone behind me will think I’m a regular reader - and an idiot.
But tonight, I was enjoying the privacy and quietude of my own home when I clicked on a now seldom-used link to the Huffington Post. Struggling past today’s screaming headline, I scanned down through the aging stories (from this afternoon). One immediately piqued my interest.
“Maine Gov. Paul LePage Regrets Stirring Up Labor Mural Controversy”
it read.
Hmmm, I thought, A Republican governor capable of seeing the wrong of his ways.
Now that’s stranger than the 3-headed woman in Utah who married triplets.
Could there be humanity buried deep within this LePage fellow?
If it be true, perhaps there is something human buried inside Scott Walker; maybe even in Rick Scott and Rick Snyder and Chris Christie and...
Wait a big minute. I’ve just re-read the next to last paragraph of this bogus story:
“He certainly regretted that it happened," said state Rep. Leslie Fossel (R), who chairs the Moderate Caucus and attended the meeting. He added that LePage revealed he wished he had waited to take it up in the summer, rather than the middle of the legislative session. ‘It was a distraction that they did not need, and it just got away from them,’ Fossel said”
So according to the hearsay comment of a Republican State Senator, the Governor is sorry, not for his dick-wad decree to destroy the mural, but for not being devious enough to announce his intended heinous act during the Summer recess. In fact, not one contrite word from LePage is quoted, or even hinted at, in the entire Huffington article.
Here's an idea; why doesn't the Governor leave the labor mural in the labor department and simply commission a mural depicting greedy fat-cat CEOs to grace the walls of his own office.
Everything in it's proper place.
Update: I just got back from a quick supermarket run.
Did you know a 30 pound newborn ate his twin brother while still in utero?
How could AOL/Huffington have missed this story?