I had a 3+ hour Church Building Committee Tuesday night and will sing a liturgy at 6:30 am for the Prophet Elijah. Consequently, I have only one Tasty Tidbit.

So sue me.

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No Tasty Tidbits today. If I stumble onto some sublime religious thought, that’s easy to link, I may put it up separately.

I can’t remember the question, but it’s being treated as a launching pad for Coats’ final statement. Apparently, he considers being a lobbyist a private matter like sex or something, and Ellsworth’s drumbeat a virtual invasion of privacy and very unseemly.

Ellsworth sez the record and resumé are among the issues, and Coats’ resumé is a legitimate issue. Then he ticks me off by saying that lawyers advocate for whoever pays the bill, eliding lobbying and lawyering. Unless my profession is less popular than I think, he just blunted his mantra of “lobbyist, lobbyist” by making it no more noxious than the honorable job of an attorney.

Sink-Burris, too, makes a closing statement.

All things considered, war is a big enough issue for me that Sink-Burris gained a touch of favor. Postscript: her position on marriage, too, may be the ultimate compromise we collectively reach.

A Rohrschalk question about gay rights – “what do you think about gay rights?” I think it was.

Ellsworth: Very big question. Don’t ask don’t tell has been bad for gays. Marriage is one man and one woman, though.

Sink-Burris: I think she’s saying that civil unions should be the government role, and then Churches should do as they want about “marriage.” But she has an odd locution about “people who consider themselves gay” or something like that. Hmmm.

Coats supported DADT. Marriage is a “liaison” between one man and one woman.

“Campaign Finance Reform.”

Coats stammers. Maybe we should ban money from outside Indiana for Hoosier races.

Ellsworth thinks it’s a great question. He served in Vietnam with John Kerry. Wait, no! That’s not what he said. He walked a beat! He was police, not soldier. He’s not the kind of guy who would do an unnamed thing that rhymes with hobbyist to line his pockets after leaving Congress.

A Fair Tax would minimize the influence of big money says — let’s see — I think that was Sink-Burris.

Energy including “alternate” or “green” energy.

Sink-Burris wants the states to regulate pollution and the market to provide energy.

Coats knows how to pronounced “nuclear” — I think, but I’m not sure. I think he likes market solutions.

Brad Ellsworth gets excited at the sight of boondoggle windmills in White and Benton Counties. And notes that Coats was lobbyist for cap-and-trade billionaires.

Moderator offers everyone 30 seconds to clear the air over the lobbying stuff that’s been flying around. It will never happen. It will be brought up again. And Coats will bring up Ellsworth’s Obamacare vote again.