Idaho Gov. Risch thinks Idahoians smarter then Louisianians

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1789613,00.html

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The governor of Idaho, an affable rancher named Jim Risch, stretched back in his chair and outlined his alternative history of the last few years in America. "Hurricane Katrina - they heaped that on George Bush!" said Mr Risch, in his shirt-sleeves in the blasting dry heat of an afternoon in Boise, the state capital.

"Here in Idaho, we couldn't understand how people could sit around on the kerbs waiting for the federal government to come and do something. We had a dam break in 1976, but we didn't whine about it. We got out our backhoes and we rebuilt the roads and replanted the fields and got on with our lives. That's the culture here. Not waiting for the federal government to bring you drinking water. In Idaho there would have been entrepreneurs selling the drinking water."

(up yours, Gov. Risch)

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To liberals on both coasts, Idaho is redneck country, famous only for its potato industry and its white supremacists (the now-defunct Aryan Nations group was based in the isolated north of the state until 2001). "Sexual relations with livestock are still commonplace," a columnist for the Nation magazine claimed recently. Idahoans would prefer to focus on their spirit of rugged independence, but the redneck label is fine with them, too. "Many people would say if it stops people coming here and ruining our tranquillity, they're welcome to go on thinking like that," said Bryan Fischer, a former pastor who now runs the staunchly rightwing Idaho Values Alliance.

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"I'll give you the best example I can think of," the governor said. "We had a fellow by the name of Bill Clinton. You might remember him - he was the president of the United States. He sexually harrassed an employee in his office. The women's groups around America should have been ready to crucify him ... But what did they do? They came to his support in spades. Why? Because they knew his heart. They knew his heart."
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may Risch have chronic jock itch, so bad it bleeds