NC Governor Mike Sleazeley Is A Coward And A Liar

As I watch a newspaper in Raleigh do what it is supposed to do (albeit at least a year later than it should have), AND as a physician formerly in public service (under the "supervision" of NCDHHS) I have two things to say.

Like so many other "suits" who have raped the public coffers as they crammed their misguided public policy agendas down our throats - and/or simply ignored the plights of those of us on the front lines of medicine . . . like so many others who now want to duck and dodge responsibility at the expensive/ugly truth trickles out . . . Governor Mike Easley is a coward and a liar.

And please don't get me started on the NC legislature.

Update: Does anyone else just love the "deer-in-the-headlights" look on Mike Easley's face in the photo the N&R featured in its sidebar?

Meanwhile, "eric" does some chiding (over the title of this post) at Cone's: Out of curiosity, I clicked through to Dr. Mary Johnson's blog. At the top of the page, I find this fine example of "civil discourse": NC Governor Mike Sleazeley Is A Coward And A Liar. Thank goodness we have someone like Dr. Johnson to remind us what a nasty man Ed Cone is.

I'm glad Eric is clicking. Maybe if he reads beyond the title he might actually learn something.

My response:

Read the links, Eric. Look at the facts.

Governor Easley "IS" (a favorite parsing word of Democrats) a COWARD (ducking out in a fast car to escape the questions of reporters), and a LIAR (deflecting the responsibility of his inept and careless administration for the mess that is mental healthcare in this state).

82 people are dead. Eric. They died alone and forgotten by a state that was supposed to protect them. I know how alone and forgotten feels (and I'm quite sure Cara can speak to it).

Given the way Ed & company treated me when I dived into this online "community" (thinking "citizen journalism" might be something real), I find it HUGELY ironic that Ed (preceded by Sue) is bemoaning the suicide of a blogger that was likely brought on by the bad/thoughtless/cruel behavior of others.

I find his continued rationalization of the "batshit crazy" remark nauseating.

On the other hand, it is time to stop playing politics and parsing words to protect the dirty/greedy/oily politicians who have run Raleigh for years and WHO DO NOT GIVE A ROYAL DAMN about patients - or the people on the front lines trying to take care of them.

When are the journalists in this state and this (supposedly oh-so-concerned) blogpshere going to stop sucking up to (and/or excusing) this stuff . . . and call a bunch of LIARS & CHEATS, LIARS & CHEATS?

Rachel Hunter, for better or worse, was trying to do something about it. If that makes her "batshit crazy", well, I'll take batshit crazy any day.

I have not seen the politicians Ed sucks up to do anything but waste billions of tax dollars in one healthcare scam after another.

Put that in your pulpit of fake indignation & sarcasm and smoke it.

For her part, Dr. Mary Johnson's rage and indignation is real.

And she's smoking.

Update II: An Ian McDowell chimes in at Cone's: Even if Rachel Hunter were mentally competent, her bizarre and vicious statements on the campaign trail would suggest that she was evil and utterly unfit for public office. And I somehow doubt that Dr. Johnson would retract her invective about Governor Easley if his own behavior turned out to be the result of brain damage rather than an innate character flaw.

And I bow out of the thread with this:

Ian, if Governor Easley is ever proven to have been "brain-damaged" at the time these decisions were made, I would certainly unconditionally retract my "invectives". Of course, taking that very remote possibility one step further (to a place I expect you did not think to go) if our Governor were indeed "brain-damaged" one could argue that he is unfit for office and should be removed/impeached.

Personally, I'd take that too if it would get him/his sycophants the hell out of Raleigh, so we could start to really clean up the messes made on his watch.

I'll note that, to this day, many Democrats seem to take great satisfaction in Ronald Reagan's tragic diagnosis of Alzheimer's - as if that somehow proved he was unfit for office before he left it. They haven't "retracted" or apologized for anything. In fact, some continue to cruelly revel in what that insidious disease did to a man of great vision and purpose. It's "funny" - good for a smug/superior chuckle at the donkey-kong fund-raisers.

Where our illustrious Governor is concerned, I would submit that "liar" and "coward" are descriptive terms of character that are very much based in fact. As the N&O links I cite show, Mr. Easley's memory problems are likely more related to covering his butt (which has been well-cushioned by his stint in "public service") and re-writing a history that does not bode very well for his "legacy".

On the other hand things like "batshit crazy", "mentally incompetent" and "evil" are simply hate speech.

That being said, I certainly know what "evil" is. I've been fighting it for ten years in a small North Carolina mill town. The badness went down on Mr. Hunt's watch. On Mr. Easley's watch. On Mr. Cooper's watch. On Mr. Edwards' watch. And right under the noses of journalists/blogger-kings Edward Cone & John Robinson.

I'm sure they all "wish me well". But wishing does not make it so and they know it.

I've wasted enough time on this thread . . . and this blog. Ed can find some other naive schmuck (which I certainly was to have ever bought into the "citizen journalism" shovel-full) to entertain his loyal like-minded readers.

Bye-bye.

Leaving Ed behind, I feel all lightened up.

;)