Bozo's In Frankfort

The Herald-Leader has a story that Kentuckians are dissatisfied with the state Legislature.

Two of every three Kentucky voters don’t like the way the Kentucky legislature is doing its job, a new poll shows.

We needed a poll to tell us this? But here is the zinger.

The higher disapproval rating of 66 percent now suggests the public saw little accomplished in the 2008 General Assembly, Dugi (Don Dugi, political science professor at Transylvania University) said.

He added that polls of job satisfaction with the U.S. Congress usually are low, but are high for individual members of Congress. “I would imagine that most Kentuckians think more highly of their local state legislator than they do the legislature as a whole.”

I don’t think very highly of the job done by either my Representative or my Senator. Between them, their performance has generally been intellectually AWOL.

Neither one is a prize but at least they are not an idiot like “No Global Warming” Jim Gooch.

Hyperbolic Bluff

The Herald-Leader editorializes on the hyperbolic bluff by President Michael McCall of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.

McCall warned that the council's action, on top of a 6 percent cut in state funding, would produce a revenue crisis and require reducing enrollment by 6,000 students……

The budget for KCTCS central administration is as large as that of the largest community college. There have to be efficiencies there that can be achieved without barring access to instruction.

I think what the Herald-Leader is trying to say, in a somewhat diplomatic way, is that a guy who has a salary and benefit package of $610,000 is threatening to screw the students he is supposed to be educating because he is not getting the pet projects he wants.

This is a perfect example of reason number three for the problems in Higher Education in Kentucky.