The Hill newspaper has an article today about Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard. It explains his journey from dealing with his son’s death to deciding to run for House majority whip. The article notes that “Tiahrt is casting himself as the outsider on the inside — a new face with a combination of corporate know-how and old-school political skills to win votes.” But as it turned out, Tiahrt didn’t get a chance to compete for the majority whip job, because that was dependent on current whip Roy Blunt of Missouri being elected the new House majority leader. But Blunt lost in today’s election to Rep. John Boehner of Ohio.
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“outsider on the inside”? What the heck is that? Maybe he didn’t get quite as much from Abramoff as some other “insiders” did.
Who gave Ryun the 2 write-in votes he got in the majority election?
Anybody know?
Smart move by the GOP, making as clean a break w/DeLay as one internal election will yield, and voting Boehner in over Blunt. The sooner DeLay is behind the GOP leadership the better off they are for Nov-06 (but the worse off is President Bush and his HSA’s; science infrastructure may survive). Boehner may help cauterize the wound; Blunt would have led to a case of ‘bleeding to death slowly.’
Repukes,
So, it appears that some Republicans tried to rig the election for Majority Leader. More votes were cast than there were representatives voting.
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/1_1/breakingnews/12015-1.html
Glad to see that the GOP isn’t just committed to stealing national elections, but internal, party ones as well.
So the next time I point out the GOP’s obvious theft of Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, you may want to recall this before you try to dismiss me as a tinfoil hat-wearing member of the fever swamp. Let the record show that when it comes to elections, Repukes are thieves, even when it’s one another they’re stealing from.
CF,
First of all, no implications were made on this vote, it could be *GASP* a simple mistake…
Second, you are still a “tinfoil hat-wearing member of the fever swamp” if you are still claiming that Bush stole florida in 2000 and ohio in 2004.
Let the record show that at any turn CF is going to try to twist and manipulate whatever he can to discredit Bush and the Republicans.
Nathan,
Yeah, right, a ‘mistake’–like the way the election for head of the College Republicans is a knife fight-every time.
Let the record show that Nathan is a dishonest, suck-up who will ignore or try to explain away any obvious wrongdoing in order to maintain his intellectual dishonesty.
Bush stole Florida in 2000, and Ohio in 2004. Exit polls don’t lie: Repukes do.
Why do Repukes hate democracy?
Mr. Tiahrt is nothing more than a mouth piece for the Bush White House. Mr. Tiahrt has forgotten his “oath of office” to defend and protect the constitution of the United States of America. Had he not he would be leading the drive to start the Impeachment Process against the Bush White House for the lies and violations of the Constitution and federal laws done.
Yet Mr. Tiahrt who is suppose to represent the citizens of the United States and Kansas has not. He has though insured his own financial welfare while dumping a disproportionate tax burden on the middle class citizens.
The citizens of Kansas need to wake up and stop playing political party. Both parties are just the same – corrupt. However, if citizens can not hold elected officials accountable then why even vote.
Mr. Tiahrt has long exceeded his “one term” that he indicated he would be bound to back in the 90’s. So I recon that his word is not worth much either.
Woo hoo, nice find, CF.
Unfortunately, they don’t say how many more votes were cast than House Republicans . . . I wonder if it were 6,000, like in that Ohio district that only had 380 people in it.
There were more votes cast than republicans present? Somebody help me up off the floor when I quit laughing.Nathan is right. It could just be a simple mistake.The sun could rise in the west tomorrow.People in Hell could get ice water.What a suck-up!
CF,
If it is so obvious that the election was stole in Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004 why has nothing been done about it?
Are you one of the few enlightend ones who seem to be blessed with the truth or is it some grand conspiracy keeping us all in the dark?
Nathan–
Google “diebold” and “ohio.”
It’s not a conspiracy. You only need one guy with computer skills.
Nathans right. If it was rigged why didn’t anybody step up and fix it. Oh thats right the Supreme Court settled the lawsuit started by the Democrats and if memeory serves the Democrats conceded in Ohio.
I’m no Bush apologists but it seems to me the process worked like it has for years. Kinda like arguing that officials cost a team a game. Officials never do that it is the players who decide the outcome
Someday teh tide will turn and we’ll see if republicans can be gracious losers and democrats non partisan winners. hasn’t happened lately
CF and ProudLib: You guys better bring these criminal activites to the attention of the authorities!
Seriously, if that had any substance to it, wouldn’t this be the type of story that the main stream press would just love to jump on? Probably because George Bush is their favorite son, right?
And BTW name calling, CF, is juvenile.
Proudlib,
Where are the criminal charges?
Is there not at least one liberal agency out there with this criminal information they found on their google search willing to bring charges against Bush and the Republicans?
Or was it a conspiracy to keep it out of the courts by those right wing judges?
Outlander,
Like I care if you call me ‘juvenile’? Please. Name-calling is a proud GOP tradition; witness that skank Ann Coulter, or the Oxycontin poster boy calling for the death of Justice Stevens. It’s funny to watch you nasty right wingers cry like pre-pubescent teeny-boppers when someone calls you out.
Nathan, the sorry-ass shill who acts dumb and is dumber:
Here’s the work of Florida political scientist Lance de Haven-Smith, proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that a) Al Gore received thousands more votes than George Bush, and b) that a political conspiracy disqualified thousands of eligible black voters:
http://www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/winter2005/features/battlefield.html
Regarding the election in Ohio, there are lots of indicators. The one I pertains to the 2005 election, where the results contradicted the predicted outcomes of a pre-election Dispatch poll that has been accurate for decades. When election reform ballot intiatives were voted on, a number of them went down by statistically impossible margins.
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1559
As someone who’s proven himself to lack even a shred of integrity or intellectual honesty, Nathan’s opinion couldn’t matter less. He’s too stupid to understand the issues, and too dishonest to concede them if he did.
As for Scott and Outlander, God, how pathetically naive can you be? Like no one powerful in America has ever gotten away with murder? And like the Rove Administration isn’t ruthless enough to steal what they can? Been keeping up with the news lately?
Our Presidential elections mean nothing, folks. They’re an occasion to blow off steam. The power structure in this country stole a Presidential election in 2000, and they ain’t giving it back for nothin’.
If it is proven beyond a reasonable doubt then why has nothing been done?
Are you seriously telling me that you have the proof that Bush stole the election both times and the democrats are not willing to do anything about it?
It appears as if everyone else seemed to think that Bush won even if the recount went on without Supreme Court intervention:
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/04/04/florida.recount.01/
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/jan-june01/recount_4-3.html
But hey, it was this deHaven-Smith guy who has it right! By goodness his research clearly shows that Bush stole the election.
I am just trying to figure out why no one has siezed on this overwhelming evidence of his to bring Bush to justice.
Because Nathan is too stupid to understand how politics in America works. He’s also too stupid to understand the methodologies involved with how the various ‘recounts.’ Finally, he doesn’t question the collusion between major media outlets and the GOP.
This last piece is self-serving, since it enables him to claim with a straight face that said media outlets merely ‘report’ the news without prejudice or assistance from the GOP.
As for your last, stupid, question, why do you think no one has seized on it? Shills like you try to shout anyone down who actually knows anything.
You’re too stupid to understand the arguments, Nathan, but you’re smart enough to take orders.
CF: Ann Coulter is not on this blog. Michael Moore is not on this blog. We are on this blog. IMO, name calling (for no reason) sets a tone where no one hears anything else you say. If that’s what you want, that’s fine. But if we are trying to exchange ideas, it is counter-productive.
Getting back on subject (sort of), just because you see a conspiracy behind every tree does not mean it exists. Nor are those who don’t agree naive or stupid. Just not paranoid.
CF,
I would wager that I despise Bush more than you could imagine but I fear that you are wobbling out of control.
V.L.R.B!!
Outlander,
The evidence is out there. It’s been reported minimally, and those who report it (Greg Palast and others) get zero time in the media. None. The whole thing is so obviously a mess, and so great a threat to the dominant media narrative of this country, that the GOP fearful-media dishes out the fear and ridicule as fast as it can.
Considering that this Adminisration LIED about nuclear weapons in Iraq in order to go to war–and they DID lie, Outlander, there’s nothing I’ll put past them. Here’s the latest: the CIA debunked the Niger uranium claims in June of 2003, and the Administration kept pushing them anyway.
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0203nj3.htm
It’s up to you to believe what you want, and to ignore facts–FACTS–when they’re presented to me. But don’t throw that ‘conspiracy’ word around at me, Outlander. You may want to have more facts, and less spin, backing up your arguments. The fact that you experience such extreme cognitive dissonance when presented with facts doesn’t say much about your version of events, now does it?
As for insults, I’ll say whatever I please. I document what I say, and make my own arguments.
Finally, it’s amusing to see Ian Santiago so concerned with my sanity. Considering the source, I’d say I have a clean bill of health.
V.L.R.M.!!!!!!!!!!!(Viva La Raza Mulatto)
I think I am going to start a ticker of insults at the end of my posts.
Keep in mind this is only from this post right now too… LOL
Me: 1CF: 14
Might as well make it 15:
‘Nathan has a martyr complex!’
CF,
Don’t worry, it will probably be people like me, the special forces underground, militia types and millions of well armed White lone wolves who will probably rescue you and your ilk from the neo-conartist’s gulags. When the time comes I am sure that much gratitude will be forthcoming! rotflmosao
Viva La Raza Blanco!!!
Ian Santiago,
Both you and Heckler have promised to protect me in the coming neo-fascist apocalypse.
Do I seem that needy? Maybe I need to get some shootin’ irons to go with the ax handle waiting the corner.
Whatever. And once Bush is out of the way, I’m sure we’ll have a splendid little race war.
Viva La Raza Mulatto!!!
CF: “Cognitive dissonance is a perceived inconsistency between two cognitions in which the person believes one thing but then acts in a different way from what they believed.”
I think that you misdiagnosed me, but thanks for trying.
My only other comment CF, is that it is possible to find qualified and supported research and opinions for virtually any question or issue, that are diametrically opposed to each other. That is why I don’t place much value on the web site links that are thrown down by some like a royal flush in a poker game.
CF,
Firstly, our rotten government is neo-trotskyite and the coming race war will precede the civil war.
V.L.R.B!!
All you libs…keep making me smile, keep whining about Florida and Ohio. Spend all your energy on that. Bitch. Moan. Whine. Keep fighting the last battles of the past (which you, well, lost) while we plan on winning the battles of the future.Thanks, ever so much, for making my day!!
Ian Santiago,
Sounds like you keep a well-thumbed copy of “The Turner Diaries” in your bathroom closet, next to the gay, interracial porn.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
First Joe Williams and now Ian is a “lone wolf.”
I guess that’s what you call yourself when you’re a middle aged gelding.
I was a “wolf” once too, but then I went to the next level of cub scout, “bear” I think it was . . .
PL, I was a wolf once, too. Proper medication controls that now.
CF,
Thanks but no thanks; I have never been into homosexuality nor bestiality.
Viva la Raza Blanco!!