Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., dropped below the 50 percent mark in the latest Rasmussen Reports poll — he’s up 48 to 39 percent for Democratic challenger Jim Slattery. Dipping below 50 percent is a key indicator, say some political analysts, that a candidate might be vulnerable. Leading Slattery by only 9 points this early in the race also indicates some weakness.
Roberts is still the heavy favorite in his race. But the fact is, this just isn’t a good year for Republican incumbents, especially those who, like Roberts, have close ties to President Bush. Voters are in a surly, throw-the-bums-out mood. They want change.
Meanwhile, the poll indicates that Barack Obama has cut John McCain’s lead in Kansas in half, from a 21-percentage point lead in May to a 10-point spread in June, causing Rasmussen to move the state in the presidential race from “safely Republican†to “likely Republican.â€
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Throwing ALL of these worthless incumbents and insiders, “Left” or “Right”, out is the the only thing left to do.
Robert’s recent ad where he states that all children deserve to have health coverage is just about as disingenuous as an ad can get. Look at his record! It belongs between ads for payday loans and “male enhancement” products, to make them seem less sleazy by comparison.
He did vote for the expansion of SCHIP. I remember clearly because I had become a regular correspondent, always critical of him and his votes. When he finally “saw the light” I also wrote telling him I appreciated that vote.
That’s all I can give him on a positive note.
His campaign ad based around Greensburg — the one that says something about not quitting until it’s done — notice he never says squat about what he has done or will continue to do. He showed up in Greesburg. What an accomplishment! Just a silly little “feel good” ad that doesn’t make me feel good at all!
I find it inexcusable and unforgivable that he covered for the lies that got us into Iraq. Covered long enough to get bush reelected. He is complicit in the deaths and the waste of bush’s war of choice which has made NO ONE any safer!
“lindainks55″ makes the point –
“I find it inexcusable and unforgivable that he covered for the lies that got us into Iraq. Covered long enough to get bush reelected. He is complicit in the deaths and the waste of bush’s war of choice which has made NO ONE any safer!”
And that’s the sad thing about poor ol’ Pat Roberts. He was the classic back-bencher and probably really believed in all the paleo-Republic Party policies he supported. But he approached the job as as what he was… a drone in a United States Senator’s office; someone to bring home the pork and write cranky letters to the Social Security Administration on behalf of constituents.
The very fact that Roberts’ only committee chairmanship after all these years was Intelligence (like where’s the pork there?!) speaks volumes about Roberts’ clout in the Republic Party, much less the United States Senate.
(Jay Rockefeller, the current Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, is another non-entity in the United States Senate, what with Byrd owning all the pork. But I digress…)
It was an accident of happenstance that Pat Roberts found himself carrying water to mitigate Shrub/Cheney’s impeachable crimes long enough to get through the 2004 elections before he could resign from the Intelligence Committee and attempt to distance himself from his malfeasance.
Pat Roberts is a nice enough guy. He’s frequently the most interesting and funny guy in the room. That room, however, is not the chambers of the United States Senate.
He’s the Bachman-Turner-Overdrive of Kansas politics. Had his moments, but you don’t book him into the Colosseum. He’s a Cotillion act.
It is rather interesting that a senior Republican incumbent is below 50% in Kansas. While he will probably win it just might be an interesting race.
Any poll numbers on Tankerless Todd?
Partisanship and personalities aside, the next election pivots on Bush’s Misbegotten War. If you like it, vote Republican. If you don’t . . . Pat Roberts f@@ked up; he lied for Bush and Cheney. He knew better; he knows better now. ‘fess up, Pat. You’ll feel better.
Oh, MAN!
“He’s the Bachman-Turner-Overdrive of Kansas politics. Had his moments, but you don’t book him into the Colosseum. He’s a Cotillion act.”
Wish I’d said that. Good one MonkeyHawk!
Is it possible bush has been a better ambassador than I gave him credit for? Maybe he did more than unite the Democratic Party, make his Father’s presidency look much better, and interest more Americans in the need for change. Is it possible even Kansans see what today’s Republican Party has become?
I hope so! The Grand Ole Party has a long ways to go to be grand again, but if enough wake up to the path the neocons and religious right have put them on, there is hope.
So… we have a choice this year between Pasty, the quintessential water boy, and Slattery the lobbyist bigot?
yep. must be kansas….
I’ve always liked the color purple. (No, not the movie.)
It’s no surprise that the more the media reports on the facts and positions of the Republican candidates their approval ratings will go down.
Here’s some of Robert’s campaign promises:
1. I promise to send hundreds of thousands of Americans and billions of tax dollars to Iraq.
2. I promise to keep us reliant on foreign oil.
3. I promise more pollution.
4. I promise more tax breaks for the rich.
5. I promise higher deficits and debt.
6. I promise to continue to allow commodity traders to go unregulated to keep your gas prices high.
7. I promise to rubberstamp everything McCain does if he is elected President.
8. I promise to do nothing on health care.
Yup, the guy is a keeper.
I find it inexcusable and unforgivable that he covered for the lies that got us into Iraq
What lies?
“redandgoldroom” naively asks –
“What lies?”
Oh, I dunno.
How ’bout, ““I’ve got tennis shoes and track shoes on, on Phase II”?
– Pat Roberts, November, 2005
For starters, I mean.
News about Roberts?
Slip one in for Obama too.
News about the weather?
Make a headline for Obama.
Car wreck on Kellogg?
Yep, Obama here too.
Need some aspirin for the house?
Yep, you guessed it, put an Obama ad here too.
redandgoldroom,
You’re going to need work on the stand-up comedy routine.
Or did you just wake up from a coma?
Perhaps the words in the Senate Intelligence Report that was finally released were too big for you to comprehend? After you’ve asked someone to read the entire report to you maybe someone could then explain why your question doesn’t any longer make sense.
Or you can continue living in ignorance.
I won’t waste time trying to fill in your blanks. You obviously have access to the internet, use it.
Bachman Turner Overdrive:
“It’s the work that we avoid
Because we’re all self-employed.
I love to work at nothing all day.”
Yup. That’s Old Rubberstamp alright.
Regular–
Dude, that was the most incoherent post I’ve read since Fleettwood stopped typing more than one line.
You might want to get a check up for possible stroke or seizures . . .
And I only say this because I care.
“lindainks55″ admonishes a wing-nut with –
“…you can continue living in ignorance.”
Oh, damn, “lindalinks55!”
You shouldn’t have offered that option.
The wing-nuts love that option!
ya, I know, it’s the default option.
Just wait until Slattery starts hammering Roberts on his record under bush!
I’m offended for BTO!
Now Monkey Hawk’s got me thinking–
if Roberts is BTO, who are the posters here?
KsFrmGrrl– Indigo Girls
Blue Jay– U2
MonkeyHawk– The Byrds
CF2K– The Clash
Boxlock– Lynrd Skynrd
BTH– Doobie Brothers
LindainKS– Joni Mitchell
WichiWoman– (heh) The Eagles (obviously)
PMom– Pink
Maggotpunk– Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Regular– The Royal Guardsmen (one-hit wonders)
WriterDog– The Police
MaxGrobnik– Napoleon the 14th (”they’re coming to take me away, haha, hoho”)
CapnAmerica– John Cougar Mellencamp
HLP– Al Hirt and the Tijuana Brass
Nathan– Toby (”boot up your ass”) Keith
Fleettwood– Junior Samples on “Hee Haw”
Awwwwwwwwww Captain! I wanna be the YOUNG Melissa Etheridge. Not her old fogey, wishy washy self she is now!
And, I dunno, but maybe Wichi would prefer to be Sapphire, the Uppity Blues Women? Not that she’s uppity, just a Blues Woman.
Come to think of it, I might like to be Bessie Smith! Or Lou Ann Barton.
“you can have my husband but please dont mess with my woman”
heheheheheh!
Fleetwood– Tiny Tim ???
Well, Capn, your compliment has me giddy.
I know the feeling, KSGrrl.
Every white boy within shouting distance of Chicago really wants to be Muddy Waters.
I’m the Hoochie Coochie Man
Everybody KNOWS I am.
Tiny Tim . . . hehehe, haven’t thought about him for a long time . . .
CA- That’s about as serious as I can take anything Fleetwood posts.
Phantom- Mick Jagger, felt kind of left out!
“ksfarmgrrl” wails –
“I wanna be the YOUNG Melissa Etheridge.”
Don’t we all?
Such fire! Such passion! Such rock ‘n’ roll!
I go back so far with Melissa Etheridge, I didn’t know she was gay and I didn’t know she was Kansan!
I just heard those words and music out of the speakers and connected!
“Somebody bring me some water!”
And, around the same time, “The Way That I Do.”
It wasn’t a gay song or a Lesbian song (though it was, I guess)… it was a HUMAN song!
The Byrds?
I hadn’t thought about it, but you may be on to something.
“I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.”
(Dylan, with better vocalization.)
I wish.
Oops, sorry, Phantom.
I knew I’d leave somebody out.
Jaggar perhaps.
I’m thinking more “Pearl Jam” because you bring an alternative perspective.
Billy Gibbons, ZZtop is more like me.
La Grange…
Agreed Monkey. Both those songs just send CHILLS down my spine. I saw her a bunch of times in Austin when she was new enough to get close to the stage.
And most of her early works were gender neutral. For commercial reasons. It’s how she got her crossover audience early on.
“..and baby you can sleep while I drive…”
“Billy Gibbons, ZZtop is more like me.
La Grange”
I can’t decide between Clarabelle or Harpo Marx!
Jeez, Capn’ don’t I get a nickname, too?
Hey captain, if I had to be a man, I’d like to be Willie Dixon. ‘Cause you know I’m “built for comfort, not for speed”. heheheheheheh!
Or maybe I’d like to be Lucille. Under BB’s ever so talented hands…
Hee hee heeeeee gster!
Clark, you just defy catagorization. You’d have to be a whole orchestra.
But I vote for Bo Diddly.
Yeah, I couldn’t think of a good one for you, Clark.
Bo Diddley’s good.
Or maybe
“The Doors” . . . can be scary at times . . .
“1. I promise to send hundreds of thousands of Americans and billions of tax dollars to Iraq.”
Did you realize that if every American quit using cosmetic products for one day it would pay for the war, not just Iraq but the whole war on terror, with money left over?
“2. I promise to keep us reliant on foreign oil.”
That was the doing of Clinton, and the rest of you mentally challenged leftest. President Bush has been calling for us to drill in ANWR for years, but the environmental wackos threatened to cut off their bank roll to all politicians who went for it. We would not be in the position we are now, if anyone would have listened.
“3. I promise more pollution.”
See there you go with the environmental lies again. I grew up around oil wells, and it doesn’t cause any harm to the environment. However let a few morons from Wichita in to fish, and the environment was destroyed for ever.
“4. I promise more tax breaks for the rich.”
Some of his tax breaks for corporation are geared at the production of technology to produce alternative energy sources. As for the Bush tax cuts, the taxes are truly lower for middle and lower classes. For example according to IRS tax tables a married couple filing jointly in 2000 with a taxable income of 30K would have paid $4,504. For 2007 they will pay $3,721, or $783 less. Likewise with a taxable income of 40K they would have paid $6,004 in 2000, and $5,221 in 2007, which is also $783 less.
“5. I promise higher deficits and debt.”
I doubt it, but it would beat unemployment, and starvation. I really can’t predict the future.
“6. I promise to continue to allow commodity traders to go unregulated to keep your gas prices high.”
So how do you control foreign speculation? If we would have drilled in ANWR all along, we wouldn’t need to import any oil from the Saudis and this alleged speculation issue would not be a problem.
“7. I promise to rubberstamp everything McCain does if he is elected President.”
I doubt that also. He’ll be too busy keeping Senator McCain on the right side of the road. Contrary to popular liberal beliefs, McCain unfortunately, is no Bush.
“8. I promise to do nothing on health care.”
At least we still have choices. Most of the stress on the health care system now is from leftist government meddling. Take the government out of it, and let doctors be doctors, and nurses be nurses. Use those resources to regulate the legal system involvement in the equation.
“I won’t waste time trying to fill in your blanks. You obviously have access to the Internet, use it.”
Testy testy testy!!
I do not need any blanks filled thank you.
What lies??
Senator Roberts will be re-elected.
Congressman Tiahrt will be re-elected.
The Boeing Tanker deal is ALIVE again, because of Tiahrt and Roberts!!!!
http://tiahrt.house.gov/?sectionid=90§iontree=5,90
Obama?
If Obama wins, he will completely destroy the Democrat Party, much like Jimmy Carter did.
Welcome to WEBlog, Franklin. It’s nice to have new posters, even if you are obviously a (stupid, boneheaded) conservative.
You write very similar to a former (stupid, boneheaded) poster here called Rossell or Econ - 101.
Your comments are idiotic, like most (stupid, boneheaded) conservatives, but welcome to the club, anyway!
Hey Franklin, I was thinking about you the other day when the Supreme Court handed down a decision about illegal enemy combatants. I’m sure you’ve read about it somewhere! I think I’ll take your political predictions with the proverbial grain of salt. But I’ll give you sticktoitofness! (giggle)
U2?
I’m flattered.
Hey Paulie. I betcha Raj Goyle is gonna be your Representative again!
heh heh heh HEH heh heh heh HEH heh!Hehhhhhhhh!
“Did you realize that if every American quit using cosmetic products for one day it would pay for the war, not just Iraq but the whole war on terror, with money left over?”
Damn, I would love to see some actual facts behind that lie. So you are saying that we spend $275 billion per DAY on cosmetics? Let me do the math - $275 billion * 365 = whoops! my calculator broke!
$275 billion per DAY on cosmetics?
“That was the doing of Clinton, and the rest of you mentally challenged leftest.”
Actually, it was the mentally challenged leftist (notice the correct spelling) George the Smarter that banned off shore drilling in 1990.
“I grew up around oil wells, and it doesn’t cause any harm to the environment. ”
I did notice your lack of articulation - was that caused by exposure to environmental hazards?
“I promise higher deficits and debt.”
The project deficit as proposed by George WMD Bush’s budget for fiscal 2009 is $600 billion - nearly $200 billion over his own record deficit.
What is McBush going to do to change that?
“If we would have drilled in ANWR all along, we wouldn’t need to import any oil from the Saudis and this alleged speculation issue would not be a problem.”
Really? There is only about six month’s worth of oil in ANWR - a drop in the proverbial bucket.
Now what?
“George the Smarter that banned off shore drilling in 1990.”
Wrong!!
“The House bill would end an Outer Continental Shelf drilling moratorium that Congress has renewed every year since 1981.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13573049/
“I did notice your lack of articulation - was that caused by exposure to environmental hazards?”
I noticed your lack of ability to follow the thread. What is your excuse, drugs?
“The project deficit as proposed by George WMD Bush’s budget for fiscal 2009 is $600 billion - nearly $200 billion over his own record deficit.”
See what I mean? Bush wasn’t the topic of the thread. Have a grown up give you a hand.
“Really? There is only about six month’s worth of oil in ANWR - a drop in the proverbial bucket.”
Yeah really! You are WRONG again. there is more than over 30 years of Saudi oil imports in ANWR!
http://www.anwr.org/features/ctoohey.htm
That’s what bubba!
Well, Redand…………….
ANWR - “Study: ANWR oil would have little impact
Heavy reliance on foreign imports would continue, agency finds”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4542853/
All of our imported does not come from Saudi Arabia.
“But even at peak production, the EIA analysis said, the United States would still have to import two-thirds of its oil, as opposed to an expected 70 percent if the refuge’s oil remained off the market.”
And…………………
“The House bill would end an Outer Continental Shelf drilling moratorium that Congress has renewed every year since 1981.”
“Also, Bush is a bit disingenuous in blaming Democrats for the ban on offshore drilling. Though many Democrats have and do oppose the drilling, it was his father who issued a presidential executive order in 1990 banning coastal oil exploration, and Bush could rescind that order today if he chose to.”
Wichita Eagle, June 18, 2008.
“I noticed your lack of ability to follow the thread. What is your excuse, drugs?”
It’s an open forum - there is not requirement to “follow the thread.”
As for drugs? I don’t have any, but do you have a good connection?
“See what I mean? Bush wasn’t the topic of the thread. Have a grown up give you a hand.”
I was responding to a direct statement from another poster - are you okay with that?
As for a grown up giving me a hand? A girlfriend offered that last night, but she ended up performing oral sex for me.
“That’s what bubba!”
I am from Kentucky, raised in Detroit.
That would make me white trash hillbilly - Bubba’s are from Arkansas.
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