“Damn near irrelevant”

Republican Greg Ballard, the new “accidental mayor” of Indianapolis, has just appointed Randall Tobias as head of the city’s airport authority. You may recall that Tobias, Bush’s hand-picked “abstinence czar” who oversaw a nine billion dollar budget, hurriedly resigned last year when he was outed as a client of the notorious D.C. Madam’s escort services. Before that he had been an Indianapolis icon, as CEO of Eli Lilly, a company which more or less owns Central Indiana lock stock and barrel.

There’s another Eli Lilly/Bush-crony dickhead running around Indiana these days, that’s the state’s governor, Mitch Daniels. Don’t even get me started on him. He’s the one overseeing a hemorrhage of jobs out of Indiana and selling off state assets like the Indiana Toll Road to private investors so he can appear to have balanced the budget. This is the same budget director for Bush who estimated the Iraq War would cost less than $100 million. Sheesh, these whack-jobs do stick together, don’t they?

“Damn near irrelevant to the position” is how Ballard characterized Tobias’ entanglement with the escort service, the Indianapolis Star reported. I like the “damn near” part of that assessment a lot. It shows Ballard has an open mind. He’s quick to forgive and forget, and probably just wants someone who can “get the job done.”

I’d say Ballard himself was damn near irrelevant if he hadn’t accidentally become the mayor of my old hometown.

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