I saw Sen. McConnell on TV yesterday, dismissing Obama's jobs plan - saying that nothing he has done has worked. He's getting hard to take - his demeanor is awful and he's just so disagreeable. Well, actually he has been hard to take all along, but he's getting exceptionally so lately. He has been against everything that Obama has been for. In fact, it's his opposition in the senate that kept many of the things that Obama had wanted to do the first two years of his term from getting done. A few analogies that I have thought of include sitting in a boat punching holes in it and then complaining because you are sinking; or pouring sand in the gas tank of a car and then complaining cause it won't go; or putting something on the railroad tracks and complaining because the train got derailed. You get the picture.

But not only that - but McConnell is complete hypocrite when it comes to Obama's stimulus. Let me give you some examples: while Kentucky is not one of the most populus states, and they voted against Obama decisively, one of the very top recipients per dollar of stimulus contracts is from a Kentucky company, the Rogers Group, Inc., listed from Hopkinsville, KY, according to Propublica. Trigg County, which voted against Obama with an even larger margin than the state as a whole, is one of the top per capita recipients of stimulus money in the country. The county in which I spend a lot of time - McCracken, the home of Paducah - received over a hundred million dollars in stimulus funds, including extra funding for cleanup at the gaseous diffusion plant, a whole block of brand new public senior housing, which I watch being built everyday I go to town, improvements to existing public housing, and many other things. You think that isn't or hasn't been providing jobs? Wouldn't things be a lot worse on the jobs front if those jobs were eliminated? Those jobs certainly couldn't have been taken by the "private sector."

And it might be worth mentioning that some of that stimulus money went to a private company that didn’t even exist a few years ago, that now is reaping good federal contracts with the Dept. of Energy and the U.S. Forest Service, some of which was bolstered by the stimulus, and some of which were obtained "no bid." And would you be surprised to hear that the company hired McConnell's former long time Western Kentucky head of his staff?

Yet, there is McConnell doing everything he can to throw Obama under the bus. One has to wonder if his motivations are more than just political? I believe that they are. I’ll just leave it at that. McConnell will come to towns in Kentucky like Paducah and meet with the Chamber of Commerce, but he won’t hold any open town meetings. He’s a coward in that regard. Sure, he squeaked by in the last election, but only because he had as his opponent another republican trying to disguise himself as a democrat - something at which he had already been caught. That never works, especially when power and money are at stake, and in a currently republican state like Kentucky.

While I’m not completely happy with Obama, I still think he is trying hard to cope with a difficult situation, is compassionate and intelligent. I can’t say the same for McConnell. He is the ultimate political hack who seems to care much more about political outcomes than the nation. Yet, it’s people like him who are the first to wrap themselves in the flag. And that is hypocrisy - a calling card of Mr. McConnell.