Who is this wet-behind-the ears pup?

From politico.com:

Republican strategist Alex Castellanos called the connection between Benghazi  and Clinton’s political future easy — and completely justified.

“Remember when Hillary described the Clinton presidency as ‘two-for-one’? Now  it’s two-for-one again: If Republicans hold her boss accountable for his failure  in Benghazi, Hillary’s political future is tarnished,” Castellanos said.

He added, “Hillary Clinton had the misfortune to be Secretary of State for a  weak and vision-less president on whose watch the world has unraveled. Then Mrs.  Clinton made three mistakes of her own: one, she didn’t protect the people under  her care in Benghazi. Two she said ‘what difference does it make?’ And three  she’s allowed a cover-up in her own State Department. Her political future is  being decided now, as Congress investigates the Benghazi scandal. Three strikes  and she’s out. It is increasingly looking like the only president named Clinton  may be Bill.”

Seriously.  Who is Alex Castellanos?  What turnip truck did he just fall off of?  How old is he?  Doesn’t he understand about women, minorities, and everything Clinton?  Have at it, Alex.

Does this pup think that what he says will matter when it comes to voting for a Clinton or for Hillary?  It turns out the pup is a little long in the tooth.  He is in his 50’s.  What has he missed about the American people and the Clintons?  He was a top media adviser to George W. Bush’s 2004 presidential campaign and Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign.  Maybe that explains it.

Keep talking, Alex, keep talking.

 

BOCS restores the DORM Program

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Semi-kudos for Prince William County BOCS for restoring the DORM program to the regional jail.  The DORM program deals with drug  rehabilitation as well as other goal setting plans for the inmate.  Nationally, the program has a 70% success rate, in that 70% of the program participants have not been re-incarcerated within three years.

According to Jeremy Borden in the Washington Post:

Prince William County supervisors restored the regional jail’s substance abuse treatment program Tuesday after weeks of lobbying from top law enforcement officials, judges and social service advocates.

Supervisors had cut the drug DORM (Drug Offender Rehabilitation Module), a savings of $607,000 a year,  to help pave pave the way for an agreement to a fiscal 2014 budget. But support remained for the program, and supervisors said they would try to find a way to restore it.

They did so unanimously by cutting a new deputy county executive’s position at about $211,000; $140,000 in funds used to supplement the state-mandated county health department; and $180,000 that was previously unallocated, in addition to other, smaller cuts. Supervisors also used those funds to restore the Bluebird bus tour program, a transportation program for seniors.

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