Poor sad little Rich. Today he echoes the conservative lament that the GOP just “doesn’t have our A Team on the field.” “A” apparently stands for Anonymous, because he has trouble even imagining who that might be.

Across the country, politicians have been selling off public assets to private businesses in exchange for hefty campaign contributions and sweetheart deals. The politicians claim they are saving tax dollars, but when the real costs are examined, it’s only the corporations – who back them financially at election time – who are making a financial killing on the deals. This kind of corrupt pay-back to wealthy corporate-CEOs has produced numerous disasters for taxpayers, who end up paying more in the long run.

Fittingly the day before 4/20 was a day of many “achievements” for the Republican Party.

As we look forward into the new year, and the looming state budget crises, what should we anticipate?

The Louisiana legislature just passed, and Bobby Jindal just signed, a law permitting people to carry concealed firearms into churches, synogogues, mosques etc. That must mean there’s an epidemic of god-fearing folks being murdered in their pews, or rugs, or something.

There’s encouraging news that the panel tasked with investigating the disaster in the Gulf wants to actually get it right.

Tony Hayward, when he’s not sticking his foot in his mouth, has devised a great idea to put BP back on top — an ad campaign.

Gov. Bobby Jindal told me about his plea to Obama on his way out of Grand Isle, Louisiana after the President’s press conference here Friday.

Today the Coast Guard took a break from following BP’s orders to chase the press away from BP’s crime scenes, long enough to approve wasting millions of dollars building toxic mud pies that will starve or further poison Gulf wetlands. Yep, the Coast Guard’s throwing a poisoned life preserver to two Republican Louisiana pols who’ve spent years scheming to build a wall of toxic mud pies intended to cut off Louisiana’s wetlands from the tides the wetlands require for survival .

For Kenneth Jindal, it wasn’t so long ago that “Washington” and “big government” was the root of all our problems.