Posted March 10th, 2010 5:58 am

The old saying is that when a dog bites a man, that’s not news. But when a man bites a dog, THAT’s news.

Yesterday, a “dog bites man” story in Kentucky:

FRANKFORT — The House voted largely along party lines Tuesday for a two-year, $3.4 billion road plan.
The House voted 67-32 to pass House Bill 292. Republican lawmakers complained during a debate that many road and bridge projects in their districts were yanked from the plan, particularly those involving federal stimulus funds, as punishment for their voting against the Democratic leadership’s $371 million revenue-raising measure.
Democrats are giving “a lesson in political retribution,” said House Minority Leader Jeff Hoover, R-Jamestown. Rep. Danny Ford, R-Mount Vernon, listed the transportation projects that disappeared from his district, including a replacement for a bridge used by school buses in Lincoln County that engineers have rated as “structurally deficient.”
“Folks, when we play games with things that affect people’s lives, it’s wrong,” Ford said.

If Ford and Hoover weren’t part of the same party that has exacted juvenile and illegal political retribution on a daily basis, this might have some basis for empathy. In Kentucky, there is always a component of political retribution. Hopefully there is also a component of good policies mixed in.

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