Someone at Politico is reading this blog. In an article on how Conservative bloggers have taken Haley Barbour to task for his pardons, Our own Speranza gets quoted!

Conservative bloggers were shocked and puzzled by Haley Barbour’s pardoning of nearly 200 convicted criminals — including a handful of murderers — and said the last person they expected something like that from was the “law and order” Mississippi governor.

Barbour, who was term-limited, granted the mass pardons in his last days in office — a move the conservative blog HotAir called “startling.”

“It just shows you that Republicans can be as full of spit as Democrats. Haley Barbour, an allegedly conservative law & order governor on his way out of office, has pardoned 14 convicted murderers,” wrote Speranza at Blogmocracy.

Congrats Speranza!