There have been few surprises among Kansas newspapers’ endorsements this season. Here are two:
The Lawrence Journal-World endorsed Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and Rep Jim Ryun, R-Topeka, but chose not to endorse either candidate for attorney general, saying, “It’s hard to scrape through all the mud being slung to get to basics. Wipe off the candidate you prefer and mark your ballot for him.”
The Garden City Telegram endorsed Democrat and local businessman John Doll (in photo) over popular incumbent Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Hays, saying, “The problem is that Moran joins other Republicans in Congress who must shoulder blame for deteriorating conditions in Iraq.”
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What about publishers making endorsements, or receiving appointments, but not mentioning that in an endorsement?
Junction City Daily Union Publisher Contributes to Democratic Party and Candidates But Fails to Mention that in Paper’s Political Endorsements?
http://www.saljournal.com/blogs/?p=1532
Waah Meadowlark.
Anyway, what’s wrong with someone endorsing Doll? Moran votes over 90% of the time along party lines, he’s rabidly anti-choice, even against family planning and birth control, and the only time his nice side comes out is when he’s campaigning. The few good votes he’s made in office don’t stack up to the many pro Bush ones. He’s one of the religious right, and he’s got to go.
Subject: Vote Democratic ????
Probably by now you’ve seen the Democrats’ latest campaign slogan:”A New Direction For America — Vote DEMOCRATIC!”*
Perhaps we should analyze this promise.
The stock market is at a new all-time high and America’s 401K’s are back.A new direction from there means what?
Unemployment is at 25 year lows.A new direction from there means what?
Oil prices are plummeting.A new direction from there means what?
Taxes are at 20 year lows.A new direction from there means what?
Federal tax revenues are at all-time highs.A new direction from there means what?
The Federal deficit is down almost 50%, just as predicted over last year.A new direction from there means what?
Home valuations are up 200% over the past 3.5 years.A new direction from there means what?
Inflation is in check, hovering at 20 year lows.A new direction from there means what?
Not a single terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11/01.A new direction from there means what?
Osama bin Laden is living under a rock in a dark cave, having notsurfaced in years, if he’s alive at all, while 95% of Al Queda’s top dogsare either dead or in custody, cooperating with US Intel.A new direction from there means what?
Several major terrorist attacks already thwarted by US and British Intel,including the recent planned attack involving 10 Jumbo Jets beingexploded in mid-air over major US cities in order to celebrate theanniversary of the 9/11/01 attacks.A new direction from there means what?
Just as President Bush foretold on a number of occasions, Iraq wasto be made “ground zero” for the war on terrorism — and just as PresidentBush said they would, terrorist cells from all over the region are arrivingfrom the shadows of their hiding places and flooding into Iraq in order toget their faces blown off by US Marines rather than boarding planes andheading to the United States to wage war on us here.A new direction from there means what?
Moreover, bear in mind that all of the above occurred in the face of the1999 tech crash, the epidemic of corporate scandals throughout the 90’s,and the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks on NYC years in the planning , whichcollectively sucked 24 trillions dollars and 7.8 million jobs out of the USeconomy even before G. W. Bush had time to unpack his suitcases in the WhiteHouse. It’s easy to attempt to discredit, disgrace and defame our commander inchief, George W. Bush; what’s not so easy to do is to refute irrefutable facts,no matter how they might try.
Do yourself and this country of ours a favor and don’t be
bent on hate and blame-shifting simply in the name of hate andblame-shifting. Take heed of reality, use your head and cast your votewisely in the upcoming elections.
The stakes are far too high today, as America’s very future,and yes, even its very survival is now at stake!
Yes, I said even our very survival is at stake.
Republicans today, in 2006, believe that the following are:
Acceptable:
a.. Sexual predation by Members of Congressb.. Conspiracy by Members of Congress to cover up sexual predation by Members of Congressc.. Torture of anyone the President wantsd.. Wiretapping everyone, including American citizens, without a warrante.. Huge and increasing deficitsf.. Increases in the size of governmentg.. Starting wars on little, no, or trumped-up basish.. War profiteeringi.. Cherry-picking intelligence data and other subversions of national securityj.. Outing undercover intelligence agentsk.. Government interference in private lives, such as medical decisions (including contraception, abortion, and end-of-life issues)l.. Bribing journalists to produce government propagandam.. Voter intimidationn.. Increased pollutiono.. Decisions based on pseudo-science and religious faith
Unacceptable:
a.. Habeas corpusb.. Congressional oversight of the Executive Branchc.. Judicial review of the Executive Branchd.. Immigration of alien workers without whom the economy would fall aparte.. Sex acts between certain consenting adultsf.. Marriages between certain consenting adultsg.. Abiding by America’s treaty obligations, including the Geneva Conventionh.. Increasing the minimum wagei.. Health care that covers all Americansj.. Balanced budgets
Vote them OUT on Tuesday. Save America!
“Wow. You got the double whammy.”- George WMD Bush, at the two-year commemoration at the White House, when a 9/11 firefighter’s widow was introduced to him and happened to mention that 9/11 was her and her dead husband’s wedding anniversary
When the Republican operatives resort to trolling, you know they’re in deep do do.
It would be nice if the media is going to endorse candidates that they do it based on more than their view and opinion on an issue.
The problem with today’s media is they no longer have true investigative reporters and they have decided that because they can they will inform the public on their beliefs rather than what is truly news and information for the public to draw their own opinions. You have editorial boards for newspapers that sit in their offices thinking of ways to get their views across to the public but they really do not do any real investigation of an issue or story. They are no longer reporters. They want the public to think they are but they are not.
The media some how thinks they should tell the people what and how to think about a particular issue. They are afraid to provide both sides of a story because they want their opinion heard. They want the public to believe what they want them to believe.
The media is always trying to redesign itself because they are losing subscribers, viewers and listeners. When in reality if they would do what they are supposed to do people would want to subscribe, view and listen. The public does have minds and they are capable of making up their own opinions.
It would be nice to go back to the good days when the media was truly about the news; reporters really investigated a story and told it like it was.
I like the Lawrence apper’s comments about the AG candidates – hold you nose and pick one. As for Jerry Moran the Garden City paper is right. Moran has been a steadfast part of the problems – everything from Jack Abramoff to Foley to Iraq.
“Now, how many times very you seen the Washington Post do a second editorial on a candidate that they didn’t even endorse? It makes no sense. So clearly, I must be winning this race, and the Washington Post will have to write that headline, “Steele Wins”, and then eat it.”Michael Steele, Lt.Governor, Maryland, Republican Candidate for U.S. Senator
The difference between Ted’s and Moneyhawk’s blog entry is that Ted actually put facts in his post on what has been done by the Republican party.
Moneyhawk resorted to ‘bumper sticker politics and hate positioning’ and with no accomplishments or plans to better the U.S. by the Democratic party.
Dems are very good at spewing rhetoric, but offer little in the way of solutions.
JM, It’s awful hard to have solutions when the GOP has excluded everyone from debating anything.Forget checks and balances.
It’s way too late to be blaming the dems for the GOP’s corrupt incompetence.
Ted, our survival is the very reason we intend to vote out these complete nincompoops.
It’s pretty tough to paint Moran with the brush of towing the party line. The guy has received more grief than any other Republican for voting AGAINST No Child Left Behind, AGAINST Medicare and AGAINST some of the tax increases for what it would do to our nation’s budget. Not to mention he’s the hardest working man in Congress. He’s never taken money from Abramoff and has been a critic of the war effort after visiting Iraq twice.
The Telegram can try to say that Kansas can do better. But if Moran loses, our state is the one who suffers.
It was likely the moron Ted that trolled MonkeyHawk or……..was that YOU “JM”?
Let’s just take Ted apart.
Stock market all time high? YUP the rich are DEFINITELY getting richer.
Uhemployment at 25 year lows? Uh that only counts the people recieving benfits. It does NOT count the folks still unemployed who have given up.
Oil prices are plummeting.
Well OF COURSE they are. There is an election coming! Time to hold the oil administration accountable. After that watch the oil prices skyrocket like they did last Summer.
Oh I could go on but why bother? Ted and JM and whichever of them is the troll are not reachable. They are rich assholes living off the backs of the rest of us. THEY are in the minority of folks who have benefitted at the pain of so many more suffering. And they are quite appropriately nervous. Tomorrow is a big broom for them and their like!
Sorry to disappoint you J R. I am not a troll or never will be one.
My email is right there for you to see and write to me if you wish.
If I’m not man enough to stand by my convictions, then I shouldn’t be heard.
The “stock market” is not at an all-time high. The DOW is but the S&P500 and especially the NASDAQ lag.
How could anyone endorse republicans who blindly support a president simply because they are of the same neoconservative party. Iraq is a mess and not supporting middle class america are unacceptable:http://www.drummajorinstitute.org/pdfs/DMI%202005%20Scorecard.pdf
At the state level:”Wagle said the first thing that needs to be done is to lower income taxes, eliminate the death tax, and increase the child tax credit.”This line is as old as the hills and they have been in the majority for too damn long and saying the same thing over and over.
The state republicans have been in the majority for a very long time. Once they are elected it becomes all about abortion,creationism ,not supporting public schools,unite against stem cell research and sex education which ultimately wastes valuable time.
Then they will want to do this again.
Beware: TABOR Is ComingAfter devastating government services in Colorado, the “Taxpayer Bill of Rights” threatens to spread.BY MICHAEL REBNE
This article is from the July/August 2005 issue of Dollars & Sense magazine.
In 1992, after tireless nagging by Grover Norquist and his minions at Americans for Tax Reform, Colorado voters amended the state constitution to strictly limit the government’s ability to raise revenue. The Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR, has forced Colorado to spend the last 13 years writing mandatory rebate checks to taxpayers, while vital education and human-service programs have been nearly choked to death. According to David Bradley and Nicholas Johnson at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), for example, “between 1991 and 2003–a period in which the percentage of children who are uninsured declined nationally–the proportion of low-income children who lack health insurance in Colorado rose from 15% to 27%. Colorado now ranks 48th in its level of taxpayer support of colleges and universities, down from 35th in 1992.”
Despite the pain TABOR has caused in Colorado, some 23 states were facing similar initiatives at the close of 2004. But Norquist’s drive shows signs of floundering. “For businesses to be successful you need roads and you need higher education, both of which have gotten worse under TABOR and will continue to get worse,” Tom Clark of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce told the Washington Monthly. “I’m a Republican,” Clark said, “but I made the decision not to give any money to the state party.” Likewise, Colorado Governor Bill Owens is having trouble garnering support from his own party’s legislators, most of whom know their constituents no longer believe TABOR is a good thing. The anti-TABOR movement, meanwhile, continues to gain momentum, as the story of Colorado’s misery begins to spread nationally.
More:http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2005/0705rebne.html
Yep we need to begin getting rid of Kansas neoconservatives who appear to take their orders from national and state level neoconservative think tanksthat support measures such as TABOR.
Gropups such as:Kansas Chamber of CommerceKansas Club for Growth – Established in Washington D.C. as Club for Growth by former Brownback chief of staff.
I considerTihart, Ryun,Kline,Barnett and Wagle neoconservatives NOT EVEN republicans.
JR – you must not have a retirment account because the stockmarket is not just for the rich it is also for those that are saving for retirement.
But unfortunately if your retirement account is through your work, it may or may not be there when you retire. REmember Enron? WorldCom? adn host of other crooked CEO’s that took the retirement money and ran like the thieves they are.
lucee – almost all company-sponsored plans today are in mutual funds; not company stock.
hmmm – you are correct. So many people think the stockmarket is only for the rich becasue they have not taken the time to learn about saving for retirement.
It is amazing the number of people that have no idea how their retirement plan at work is handled.
Ted I read your post and just had to skip the rest to say ‘job well done’. But I fear you have confused the masses with facts that can’t dispute so they will spend the day trying to change the subject. Voters look at the facts and make an informed decision. Don’t let the pro-choice people obscure the fact that choice does kill a living baby and this is a social issue that will never be resolved in a vote.
Ted …
Oil prices are plummeting.But still at historic high.
The Federal deficit is down almost 50%, just as predicted over last year.But still much higher than before.
Home valuations are up 200% over the past 3.5 years.Simply not true.
Iraq …Creating more new terrorists than we are killing.
The stock market is at a new all-time high.The DOW is high; the S&P 500 and NASDAQ are lower than when Bush took office.
blame-shifting simply in the name of hateYes, shifting blame from those running the show to those who are not – just to further entrench themselves in power.
Take heed of reality …Like the failures of “stay the course” in Iraq and the impending fall of the only democratic Arab government that has been friendly to US interests.
The stakes are far too high today, as America’s very future,and yes, even its very survival is now at stake!On that I agree …
ksgrm, you’re right.This will never be resolved when people refuse to obey the intent of law.George W and his signing statements have reinforced this thinking,AND IT’S DAMNED UNAMERICAN.
Ted,
Re your copy/paste from freeper site,”Just as President Bush foretold on a number of occasions, Iraq was to be made “ground zero” for the war on terrorism…”
JM,
“…Ted actually put facts in his post on what has been done by the Republican party.”
Explain why the “Repub party” seems to have provided the terrorists (or someone) with large amounts of very dangerous explosives in 2003. Was that a wise “solution”?http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/al_qa_qaa-explosives.htm“Aside from the specific nuclear risk posed by HMX, all of the explosives could be used to produce bombs strong enough to collapse buildings or shatter airplanes. Further, if these materials are available to the Iraqi insurgency, they consitute an enormous stock for the road-side bombs and other attacks that have hindred reconstruction and stabilzation efforts, in addition to posing significant danger to coalition troops and Iraqi security forces.”
cosmos – to answer your question: JOB SECURITY for the commanders.
I sincerely hope that John Doll is elected tomorrow. We need somebody besides “rubberstamp republicans” in Congress to do their damn job of oversight. And I look forward to helping whoever runs against pat roberts. When the head of the Senate intelligence committee says that if he had known then what he knows now, he wouldn’t have voted for the Iraq war, then you know we are in trouble!
If the economy is doing well then the Democrats deserve to take over because that’s how the Dem’s left the economy when they last had control.
JM,
“Explain why the “Repub party” seems to have provided the terrorists (or someone) with large amounts of very dangerous explosives in 2003. Was that a wise “solution”?”Posted by: cosmos | November 06, 2006 at 11:10 AM
I don’t know, ask the military commanders on the ground during that time.
You know ‘everything’ that happens isn’t the fault of one party or another.
I suppose you would like to blame famine and disease on Republicans as well, since you’ve covered war.
Ridiculous and clueless.
The Journal-World could be so much better. It’s old-world political views are bi-polar in the new world of the internet and Rovian machinations. Sebelius on one hand; Ryun on the other? They don’t see the differences in competence and experience between Phill Kline and his opponent?
JM,
“I don’t know, ask the military commanders on the ground during that time.”
No, ask higher up. The commanders who passed thru there on April 3 and 10, 2003, did not even know about the high explosives in the bunkers. Their mission was the invasion, not securing the explosives.
That’s despite IAEA’s warnings, before/after the invasion.
“You know ‘everything’ that happens isn’t the fault of one party or another.”
Whose fault was it for not sending enough troops, and not securing the explosives? If you don’t do your homework…
“I suppose you would like to blame famine and disease on Republicans as well, since you’ve covered war.”
Climate change may cause famines, more disease, etc (note Darfur). It’d be fair to blame Repubs for the portion of future problems they caused by blocking solutions to climate change.
The last 6 years have been marked by intense Anti-American values exhibited by the Republican party bobbleheads. No to separation of church and state, giving federal funds to church organizations, cutting off funding to states, taking us into a war based on lies then mismanaging the war and taking American lives, everyone says the ecomony is better, but we’re paying out far more to the rich companies and keeping less of our paychecks. Salaries are NOT up, poverty is up, and whatever happened to being a uniter and not a divider? This country is more polarized now that it seems we should just split in half. We have congress that just lets Bush dictate everything, corruption to the max, instead of tax and spend, they run us into major deficit…and we haven’t done a thing for the needy in our own nation. Do I feel safe? Hell no.
Yeah I want more of that…NOT
Once again Rhonda is trying out to be Rush’s replacement.
Just once I would like to see a positive blog about our Governor or Morrison or Boyda
>>Once again Rhonda is trying out to be Rush’s replacement.<<
Tell me you’re joking.
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL ENDORSED PHILL KLINE AND THE EAGLE DOESNT EVEN MENTION THAT FACT???
http://www.cjonline.com/stories/110406/opi_klineed.shtml
Hey, Paul–
Did you have anything to do with Bonnie Huy not having a raise in her property taxes for six years?
Because everybody in her neighborhood saw their taxes go up between 12 and 19 percent from 2000 to 2005.
Bonnie Huy’s? . . . an astonishing two percent, way less than inflation even.
Now that is just amazing. What are the odds?!
And whose gonads have to be stroked so that my taxes stay that low?
Bonnie Huy had a dog
And “Bingo” was his name oh
B I N G O, B I No taxes oh, B I No debts I owe!
And nothing did she pay oh . . .