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Brumfield covers Nunnelee presser

Brumfield covers Nunnelee presser

State Sen. Alan Nunnelee of Tupelo knows his way around the political chicken yard.

Monday morning, he hosted a news conference about how he feels about the Obama health care plan.

He doesn’t like it. I would have been more surprised if the GOPer had said otherwise.

Least shocking was his statement that he “could never support Nancy Pelosi as speaker,” apparently because she “does not nor will she ever represent the views of North Mississippi.”

Let’s look at that paragraph a little closer and ask ourselves if the usually smart Nunnelee is trying to play a little joke:

1. Nunnelee is a Republican. Pelosi is a Democrat. I can’t say for sure, but it certainly would be a weird moment for a Republican to vote for a Democrat for this highly political office in the House.

Travis Childers has taken a good bit of political heat for his Pelosi vote. Childers has a rational answer: What do you think GOPer John Boehner would have done for me if I’d voted for him, as a Democrat.

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Posted March 8, 2010 - 7:50 pm

3 Comments:

What do you think GOPer John Boehner would have done for me if I’d voted for him, as a Democrat.

Travis, I REALLY do not like this comment. Were you elected to represent Travis Childers, or the First District? What would he have done for him? Who cares???????? Your personal agenda means nothing, NOTHING, to us. Many answers could have been used here, but that one stinks.

Posted by Joel Wells on 03-09-2010 at 08:04 AM [link]

To me, the bigger news is not that Childers was whining, but that not only did Brumfeld consider his whining to be worthy of repeating, she even called it “rational”.

But Childers is her boy and the DJ’s. They try to help all they can.

But yes, a fairer question and answer would be “Why are you a Democrat, Travis?”. In this day and age, with the choices so clear, why did you choose to run as a Dem instead of as a Pub. Boehner is obviously going to help Pubs not Dems. You are right that Travis’s answer either reveals a lack of intelligence on his behalf or a lack of faith in the intelligence of his constituents. Neither possibility says a lot for him.

Posted by Howard Roark on 03-09-2010 at 12:12 PM [link]

Go ahead and speak your mind Joel,,, don’t hold back. BTW, when are you going to interview me?

Posted by CDavidS on 03-09-2010 at 12:25 PM [link]

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