Isn't It Funny?

Isn't it funny (odd) that our governor, a guy from a family with a net worth in the billions would want to suffer the slings and arrows of conflict to become Governor, especially when life affords him so many other opportunities? Then again, Buddha renounced his family's wealth to pursue enlightenment.

OK, so he didn't go to that extreme.

Isn't it funny that with his education and background in business, the Governor easily understands the state's financial challenges, yet chooses to focus on cutting costs of the states' facilities and maintenance when they are among the most cost effective parts of the budget – and doing that by outsourcing the services to companies run by his friends and business associates?

Isn't it funny that the Governor would spend so much time working on a health insurance plan that could insure 280,000 uninsured Tennesseans, return a billion and a half ($1.5B) dollars from Washington to our economy, stabilize a weak hospital system, provide for 15,000 new jobs (not to mention the jobs saved), many of them high skill/high pay, then resist the need to educate his citizens to gain their support, and fold his cards because it would cost political capital to do the right thing? (Management is not Leadership)

Isn't it funny that the Governor would take advantage of press coverage to showcase new businesses coming to cities across the state with broadband and high speed internet (as if he had anything to do with it), bringing thousands of new jobs, creating new business incubators, improving delivery of education and medical services, yet take steps to prevent the rest of the states' communities from building out their own broadband systems, and, instead, publicly state that doing so would be unfair to the legacy service providers that have held the state back for decades (and just $10,000 donated to his PAC)?

It may be funny (odd), but it is far from funny.