Checking in on the Governor

Paul Lepage has been quiet the last couple of months. He took a well timed vacation and has been muzzled a bit in recent weeks. Of course he occasionally speaks which can never be a good thing. He got his insurance plan through which will inevitably help the healthy and secure and hurt those that need insurance most and have the fewest options. All in the name of competition of course. He informed us that he values people over eagles. I do too, most people do. The thing with LePage is that he is already a caricatire of himself. He is Dan Quayle in Maine.

The Republicans themselves seem a bit distressed with is agenda and his harsh measures. Of course the corruption and problems in his administration seem a bit extreme for being so early in his term but I am willing to give him a pass for that. Could the vetting be better, of course, but when you have an extreme agenda you will bring in extreme people who by rule will be more of a lightning rod.

The issue for me is can we withstand the next two years of Lepage before hopefully a modifying of the legistlature can take place giving him less of an ability to wreck havoc. The next question is of course when Cutler takes him on in a few years if the Democrats will again sport a candidate which will with Cutler put LePage back in. That is the only way he can get elected again.