About a week after mistakenly using a Twitter hashtag for the Cincinnati Bengals to wish the New Orleans Saints good luck, the Cassidy camp refers to the EPA as the "Energy Protection Agency."
Congressman Bill Cassidy's press machine is humming - like a schizophrenic balled up in the fetal position in a padded room. It's probably just a political Freudian slip, but in a press release issued this week applauding passage of the never-to-be-signed-into-law Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act, Cassidy's office refers to the overreaching, job-killing EPA as the Energy Protection Agency. This is maybe ironic or something.
The gaffe comes about a week after Cassidy's social media geniuses used the Twitter hashtag for the Cincinnati Bengals - #whoday - to wish the New Orleans Saints (#whodat) good luck on Facebook. Cassidy also wished LSU good luck with a hearty "Go Tigers!" (instead of Geaux Tigers!), which got the Republican Senate candidate to Cassidy's right, retired Air Force Col. Rob Maness, very upset. Maness took to Facebook to suggest that Cassidy is a D.C. insider who has lost touch with Louisiana - a claim the GOP has lobbed at incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu.
"The evidence shows that #MaryLivesInDC but lately I think many have been wondering if Louisiana has become foreign to my other opponent," Maness (or, more likely, his "people") wrote. "Could it be that Congressman Cassidy has already been in DC long enough that he doesn't know the difference? It appears someone else needs a refresher course on his home state!"
OK, back to kitty videos on Facebook.