Surely We Can Agree On These Things

You know bipartisanship has broken down in Frankfort when Democrats won't even agree with Republicans that the Corvette is Kentucky's favorite sports car, given that it is the only sports car manufactured in Commonwealth. As the Associated Press reports:

[W]hen state Rep. C.B. Embry Jr. introduced legislation two months ago to make the Kentucky-made Corvette the official state sports car, he expected it to speed through the General Assembly.

Instead, Embry's proposal has been stalled in a committee, badly in need of a jump-start. Embry, a Republican in the Democratic-controlled House, said the measure is languishing with a number of other bills being ignored by legislative leaders who say they're working on more pressing issues.

And it is not just the Corvette that has been slighted by Democratic obstructionism. According to AP, "[t]he Corvette legislation is among a group of 'feel-good bills' that state Rep. Mike Cherry, D-Princeton, chairman of the House Committee on State Government, says he doesn't plan to try to advance." These include proposals to "make cornhole the official state game, burgoo the official state dish, and Kentucky Fried Chicken the state's official picnic food."

Come on Democrats, can't we agree at least on Corvettes, cornhole, burgoo and KFC? Humor us Republicans. Surely something should be enacted to show for this legislative session other than the all-time Democratic favorite of raising our taxes.

KFC Torched in Pakistan

Here's a weird Kentucky angle on the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto. Rioters in Pakistan torched a KFC. (Hat tip: Instapundit).

Though we've heard numerous explanations as to Bhutto's cause of death, neither Colonel Sanders or trans-fats have been implicated.

It's understandable that Bhutto's grief-stricken supporters would take to the streets in response to her assassination. What makes no sense, however, is the destruction of a symbol of West, given that part of Bhutto's allure was her Western education (Harvard and Oxford) and her modernity in a nation where Islamofascists hide in caves.