Chicken Little

Taft, the farmer eating chicken piccata at brunch with the fox he appointed to guard the henhouse, apparently lied about the nature of those meals.

Tom Noe yesterday asked Gov. Bob Taft to issue a public statement correcting his accusation Thursday that Mr. Noe "made a great effort to conceal" his role in the state's $50 million investment in rare coins.

If Mr. Taft does not acknowledge that he made a "simple mistake," then Mr. Noe "will help people to understand that it was incorrect," said Mr. Noe's attorney, William Wilkinson.

Noe is about to sing like a canary. Either way, I think we need to talk about a third bird, as in Taft's goose being cooked. Hell, the Ohio Republican party is a freaking aviary!