Our editorial on Saturday’s Opinion page ponders the increasingly strange inquiries into what Kansas Supreme Court Justice Lawton Nuss and two state senators talked about at lunch on March 1. Last week, we found out that Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and her chief of staff could be called to testify before a special House panel. This week, we learned that Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning (in photo) had been tapped to assist Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline by assisting the House committee, meaning Nebraska’s attorney general could end up quizzing Kansas’ governor. Meanwhile, there is understandable discomfort with the idea of House members investigating Senate members, which a Washburn University law professor and others say is at odds with the constitutional separation of powers.
We wonder: “If all the House probe will produce is a report, what purpose will that serve, other than to influence the fall election? With every development, this looks like an awfully big fuss to make over a few-minute lunch conversation, however inappropriate it was.”
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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Okay, Hank, my turn.Move along, nothing to see here.
Been keeping that one in your back pocket, eh, mrcontroversy?
Along as we find something out before election day.
Why should we trust Phill?Hasn’t he already been admonished for improprieties?
I thought the Supreme Court was supposed to make decisions based upon the law?
Now we hear from Nuss himself that he brought newspaper clippings to the lunch to try and understand what was going on. Why would he be allowing the media to help him decide a case before him? He is supposed to make the decision on the constitutionality not public opinion or the media.
He also tells us that the Supreme Court had someone monitoring the legislative meetings of the education committees. Again how is this looking at law and comparing it to the constitution?
Something is wrong here and I hope that it can be sorted out so that we can all know if our Supreme Court is corrupt or not.
OK, now THIS is funny. Eagle has no problem with separation of powers with the courts mandating the legislature appropriate money. None. But when we have a potential problem in getting that loot to the kiddies…”Well, gee, might have a separation of powers problem here.” Be funny if it weren’t so sad.
The only thing worth seeing about this whole episode is how this lala land loony tune will play out. Maybe this is Kansas version of “24″, although with Phil Kline involved it putd it in the realm of “Lost.”
Maybe Phil will order a raid on Nuss’s and the Senators offices, so he can get some national attention. It’s not impossible, this is Kansas!
If it’s corrupt, it must be all those Graves appointments.After all, he WAS a Republican!
Not only that MrC but the legislators were also REPUBLICANS!
Mr Blow,
I am gonna descend for just a second below the bridge to learn more about the troll you are.
You post blogfarts which more than often deride funding for education. Your usual terms for this is something derisive like “getting the loot for the kiddies” as you posted above. You have variations on this. But your general sentiment would seem to reflect not just a contempt for public education (typical of those on the right) but an underlying contempt for children.
I have been known to be wrong. If you correct the record I shall apologize.What are ya blow? An angry frustrated guy who hates kids cause you don’t have any? Are you the old guy shouting at kids to get off your lawn or the young guy who can’t find a woman and hates anyone that has? Let’s know the inner Joe. The only interesting thing about you would be discovering the anger and vitriol behind your otherwise irrelevant posts.
Sarcasm, JR, it’s a literary term. Of course, in your public education, you have likely never heard of it.Your side has no intellectual basis upon which to make your argument so you rely on, “It’s for the children.” Which is crap. The schools have plenty of money, I know it, you know it. We all know of administrators making over $100k, schools tossing out perfectly good “reading programs” and getting new ones because “the money is in the budget and we’re getting it.” This last example of reading program largess is not from my imagination but a conversation with a real live teacher right here in Kansas. You want to know why schools in Kansas don’t have enough money accroding to your crowd, JR? Because it will NEVER. BE. ENOUGH.So if it makes you feel like a big man to make fun of my little internet moniker, be my guest. I chose it, in fact, because I KNEW trolls like you couldn’t resist the bait. You make my point regarding your small mind daily. Gracias muchacho. Peace. Out.
My God, JoeBlow has advanced beyond mono-sylabic.
Yeah XXX
I credit me, you and assorted liberal bloggers Mr.Blows knowledge and use of higher language.
Clearly, exposure to liberals has broadenend his mind. (Against all odds?)
Mr Blows posts have usually tended to the 2 or 3 sentence blogfart variety.
Oddly enough, Joe Blow decries mine and many others the easy twists on his moniker for this the first time when I did not do so.
Joe is correct. I am a product of public school. Where did you go to school Mr. Blow? Under a bridge?
Mr.blow? You are a blogfarter. That MY post motivated you to “elevate” you to something resembling more that that is to my credit. You are in my debt sir your words and your position.
Didn’t think you would be able to dispute a single substantive point of my post.Why don’t I write more? Because this blog is debate at a playground level. You people aren’t that bright and even with my public school education, it bores me.
Inquiring minds want to know, Joe–did you go to public school? Do you have any children of your own?
Wait, the post above indicates you DID go to public school.
Okay, that’s one question answered.
Maybe if you had gone to private school, you wouldn’t hate public education so much.
“You people aren’t that bright and even with my public school education, it bores me.”
Bub-bye.
Take your boredom to someplace more interesting, like rush or little green footballs, etc. Your reality based community awaits you blow. Just leave us small minds to our small playground.
And could you take the rest of the wingnuts with you?
BUB-BYE
Still not a substantive disagreement. Sigh. Morons.
buhbye bored boy.
I dont even know why you bother with us simpletons.
Just so you can feel superior?
roflmqao
Do administrators sometimes waste money? Of course! That does not, however, mean that they are over-budgeted. They are simply making a bad situation worse in those cases. I would very much like to see closer scrutiny over their spending.
Interesting that the Legislative audit did not find what you consider so obvious Joe. Must be very well hidden indeed!
Not hidden at all. You don’t have to hide things when people only see what they want to see.