Kansas Conservative Politics and Beyond
The Johnson County bloggers at Red County have a nice list posted of what our children and grandchildren will be paying for in the years to come.
I’ll share some of my favorites:
Finally, my ultimate favorite two:
If I have to explain why that’s funny, we’re in real trouble.
Nostimulus.com surpassed half a million signatures in the waning hours of the spendulus debate, but it made no difference to the Democrats or three “moderate” Republican Senators. The site is still up if you just feel a need to sign it. I’m sure AFP will keep ownership of the domain name. I have a feeling this won’t be the last “stimulus.”
During the House and Senate debate I had a nightmarish flashback to the last time a legislative body voted on a massive piece of legislation without reading it.
Of course, everyone by now knows what a cash cow state-owned casinos turned out to be for Kansas. And not allowing legislative oversight in the bill, that was an excellent idea. I can only imagine what American citizens will learn about this spending bill over the next year or two.
U.S. House rules state that all conference committee reports must be made available for 3 calendar days before a vote to allow Representatives to read the bill. The Democrat controlled House passed a special resolution to waive that rule so a vote on the 1100 page bill could be taken not even 24 hours after it’s final draft was made available.
Democrat Reps and Senators must be very fast readers.
I can think of a few high points though. Every Representative and all but three Republican Senators voted against the bill. What a dramatic return to conservative principles. It’s certainly refreshing to see that most of our Republican officials intimately understand what lost them the election and what they need to do to begin to win again.
Imagine if Republicans had acted like Republicans several years ago.
Other Kansas spendulus blog posts:
Kansas Meadowlark – “‘Yes We Can’ Pass $787 Billion ‘Stimulus’ Without Anyone in Congress Reading the Bill”
Red County JoCo – The short list of your grandchildren’s debt
Wichita Liberty – NoStimulus.com Effort Crosses 200,000 Petitions
Wichita Liberty – Tim Phillips of AFP explains NoStimulus.com
StimulusWatch.org – Lists all Kansas Stimulus projects
Well, the results are in. After 101 unique votes…
The poll has been taken down from the main page, but you can still vote in the poll here on the blog. Just look to your right. Feel free to vote as many times as you like, just wait a few seconds and hit refresh.
Take a second and vote in our new poll, Moran vs. Tiahrt.
You can check results by going to the homepage and clicking on the “Poll” tab.
Update:
The poll on the website has closed. Here are the results from 101 unique voters…
But if you’ll notice, the poll has reappeared on the right hand bar of our newly updated blog. Vote as much as you want, if you don’t mind waiting 30 seconds and hitting the refresh button!
The Pat Roberts for Senate campaign set the record straight recently regarding voter registration in Kansas and the real reasons why Republicans will be victorious Tuesday.
All Republicans own a debt of gratitude to the Roberts campaign for all of their hard work and dedication to winning offices for Republicans in Kansas. Because of Senator Robert’s hard work, all Republicans down the ballot will benefit.
TOPEKA, KS, — Senator Pat Roberts today said the Roberts for Senate campaign’s comprehensive grassroots registration and advance voting program has increased numbers for Republicans in all areas.
“Our campaign has run a technologically advanced grassroots operation across the state working with our local candidates to produce a large increase in Republican advance voting,” Senator Roberts said. “I am proud of my team and despite Democratic momentum on the national level, we have been able to build a sophisticated advance ballot program that has already achieved results in Kansas .”
Roberts’ comments come today as the Secretary of State released new voter registration data.
As of today, over 106,000 Republicans have requested advance ballots and over sixty-seven percent of those ballots have already been turned in. Republicans requested 30,000 more ballots than Democrats. Republicans maintain a large advantage in voter registration with 287,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats. Due to the Roberts for Senate field operation efforts, Republicans gained 32,000 registrants from June to October of this year.
“As I said when I announced my run back in January of 2007, I am the top of the ticket in Kansas and I intend to help all Republicans up and down the ballot. I am proud to say we have done just that. I look forward to Election Day as our turn out operation will provide positive results for Republicans in Kansas .”
Senator Roberts has set in-state fundraising records for a federal election since announcing his intention to run for re-election in 2008. Senator Roberts is running for his third term in the U.S. Senate.
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