Kansas Conservative Politics and Beyond
First we have an Obama nominee to the US Supreme Court who has yet another of her rulings overturned by the US Supreme Court… then Obama opposes the Honduran Supreme Court that was simply trying to uphold their constitution. They don’t seem related… or do they?
It just so happens that both topics came up this morning on a Kansas City talk radio program and Kris Kobach, constitutional law professor at UMKC, shared his views on both topics. Listen here.
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It seems simple enough. Yet today we have so-called moderates and liberals claiming that Republicans need to act more like Democrats if they want to get elected. Isn’t that what turned off their voters in the first place? It seems I’m not alone in that reaction, as I found when I read a recent column written by David Steelman. While he tends to paint all elected Republicans with the same brush (and not all deserve it), he makes some very good points:
Unfortunately, the labels and platitudes have confused what should be a simple charge. Elected Republicans should govern by the principles they profess in campaign rallies and advertisements. Those principles were once the difference between the parties. The Democratic Party has always been an amalgam of special interests and constituencies with specific needs and wants cobbled together with government programs and spending. The Republican Party, at its best, is a party of broad ideas and principles. For example, those who tend to vote Republican believe in limiting the size and scope of government and respect the guarantees of individual freedom and liberty of our Constitution; they respect life and its diversity; and they understand that free market capitalism, the glue that holds the Republican party, and our Nation, together, is both the most efficient and most moral economic system.
Elected Republicans, particularly in Congress, have expanded government; ignored the Constitution; bailed out failed big businesses with taxes collected from successful small businesses; and spent, and spent, and spent. The Republican Congressional network of wasteful earmarks, corporate welfare and politically motivated subsidies simply recast the Democratic model of purchasing votes (ethanol anyone?). Now, Republican leaders express surprise that in a fiscal arms race to decide which party can spend the most, the Democrats have won.
Fox News headlines Sebelius tax problems
News is breaking today that Kathleen Sebelius has paid over $7,000 worth of back taxes over a three year period, thus becoming just another Obama nominee who loves to tax but apparently hates to pay up.
You can see all the articles here.
So far, Senate Democrats seem to still be behind her nomination but one has to wonder if it’s because there truly isn’t any problem with not paying taxes or if the administration is simply running out of options for the HHS post. Sebelius has previously been passed over for VP, other administration posts and was the second line choice for HHS. Maybe it has less to do with what is ethical and more to do with limited options.
This combined with problems of favoritism in Medcaid reimbursements and political and financial support from abortionist George Tiller, who is now under investigation from the Board of Healing Arts, has to be taking its toll.
My question is, would the “unintentional mistakes” have been caught if Sebelius hadn’t been nominated for HHS? Probably not. And that’s over $7,000 that the rest of us honest taxpaying citizens would have had to cough up.
Perhaps we should ask Obama to nominate more elected Democrats. It seems to be doing wonders for the government’s tax revenue.
From the Kansas Federalist’s Currie Myers
The most demonstrative pro-abortion governor in the history of the United States has been selected by President Obama to become the Health and Human Services Secretary. Even though I am excited to have our Governor “out of Dodge” due to her horrible tax and spend policies as well as liberal thoughts on energy, I have great concern for the impact she will have in our nation regarding health care.
As HHS secretary, Sebelius will have a major impact in crafting a health care plans that could cover abortions with taxpayer funds or require insurance companies to cover abortions in their plans. Sebelius could also, if confirmed by the Senate, issue new regulations overturning the protections President Bush put in place that protect pro-life doctors and medical centers.
Sebelius is best known for her close relationship with late-term abortionist George Tiller, who has escaped prosecution and accountability on many occasions until just recently when a Wichita judge ordered the green light that his criminal case should be tried.
As Kansas governor for 6 years now, Sebelius’ lax standards has caused criminal cases to go uninvestigated. She has also dominated liberal campaigns with tainted abortion money through her political allies, to whom Tiller has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars not only to these allies directly, but to Sebelius’ own “Blue Stem” Fund. Her position favoring abortion is so radical and extreme that Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City called her to stop receiving communion until she disowns her support for the “serious moral evil” of abortion.
Governor Sebelius vetoed a bill last April that the legislature approved that would have strengthened the state’s limits on late-term abortions. That followed by a year her veto of a bill requiring explicit medical reasons for a late abortion, which was preceded by vetoing other pro-life legislation in 2006, 2005 and 2003. She has appointed pro-abortion politicians to posts and committees that oversee agencies that investigate the violation of Kansas Laws on abortion. And she has allowed late term abortions to continue even though Kansas Law specifically does not allow the horrible procedure.
Sebelius has had secret fundraisers with Tiller and Planned Parenthood, many times at the governor’s mansion, which she failed to officially report as a campaign event. Once again using Kansas ’ taxpayer money to promote and honor abortionist and abortion related industries and to raise money for her or her friends campaign coffers.
The good news is that now the national spotlight is on Sebelius and her illegal activities will be investigated and looked at from people across the nation. They will find out that Sebelius political machine makes Chicago politics look like a day at grammar school. Sebelius is cunning and liberal. She is far from the Blue Dog Democrat that the drive by media portrays. And her day in the Obama spotlight will provide the nation with a glimpse of the embarrassment we Kansan’s call, Governor!
As HHS secretary her damage to our country’s health services will be significant and her abortion power unyielding. More abortion parties and fundraisers to come!
Except this time the event location will be 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue !
Feeling like the last kid to get picked for the playground soccer game, it looks like Governor Sebelius will finally get picked after all the “good” nominees are taken.
Sebelius jumped on the Obama bandwagon early and so it was with a bit of surprise and a lot of laughter that the state got to see her rejected for a VP spot, then time after time after time rejected for a cabinet nomination. Only after the fall of numerous nominees did Sebelius finally get her life long wish to leave Kansas.
It’s unfortunate that Gov. Sebelius might still be in a position to harm Kansans. If confirmed, she’ll have a national audience to try her brand of socialized medicine rather than just one state.
On the up side, I can’t wait for the U.S. Senate to dig into her ties to George Tiller. There have been numerous reports that her nomination was tied up due to her close ties to the notorious abortionist. What sweet justice that the man who was her main financier may be the one who keeps her from furthering her political career.
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