Matt Blunt on O'Reilly: Reviewed

Thanks to News.Google.Com, we get this "news" review of Matt Blunt's appearance on the O'Reilly Factor last night.

Missouri Governor Matt Blunt, son of US House Majority Whip Roy, was a guest on the O'Reilly factor tonight 8/8/05. Being all too familiar with Blunt's priorities and methods, I fully expected him to be built up on O'Reilly's show and was not disappointed.

Missouri is a microcosm of American politics, with Blunt the younger, a right-wing conservative with no empathy for constituents of lesser means or differing views, acting as mini-W. One of his first acts to endear him to constituents was to have the state install "panic buttons" throughout the Governor's Mansion, because he was concerned about his young family's safety from the mansion staff, specifically those who are on a prison work-relief program. His deep cuts to programs benefitting children, the elderly, and the disabled across the state have made him widely reviled. It is estimated that 90,000 were cut from Medicaid upon which they depended earlier this year.

The remainder of the piece believes that O'Reilly approved of Matt Blunt, which can only help our purposes here at DMB2008. Special props to the site's author, who uses our favorite turn of phrase in his summary:

Yet the budget that he signed was balanced on the backs of children who lost medical care, First Steps therapies for babies and toddlers, and on statewide child advocacy centers (where rural rape victims can receive immediate medical, legal, and psychological assistance).

Yes! Yes! Yes! On their tiny little backs!