Meeting with Eagle editorial board members last week, Democratic challenger Jim Slattery signaled he won’t be going easy on Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. The former 2nd District congressman sharply criticized most of Roberts’ record, suggesting that as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Roberts “helped lead this country into a war†based on “flawed data.†Slattery, whose last campaign was his landslide loss to Bill Graves in the 1994 gubernatorial race, also takes issue with the Roberts campaign’s portrait of him in radio ads as “a Washington lobbyist . . . Gucci loafers and all.†The lobbyist part is true, though he’s lobbied mostly for Kansas companies, Slattery said. And he said he’s “never seen a pair of Gucci loafers,†though he wears cowboy boots sometimes. “Roberts was as confused in his intel on me as he was on the war,†Slattery said.
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I do not fault Roberts for the lead up, the majority on the house and Senate are just as guilty for failing to see through the deception. Otherwise saying that they took it all as the truth and did not seek out their own sources. I do fault Roberts for being partisan in his duties to the American people and not having the best interests of the country as a guiding light.
Slattery is striking me as being a status quo politician and not much hope of being a effective Senator.
That is one of the deceptions Bushco relied on.
Roberts had a reputation for truth and honesty but he abandoned that in order to blindly(?) serve Buschco.
He continued the deception even after he knew that it was a lie.
Now he is willing to lie in order to save his ass.
It is fitting that Roberts’ electoral fate in 2008 will be determined by the same voters who Roberts played a critical role in deceiving – until after the 2004 election – about the lies and deceptions commited by the Bush/Cheney Admin. in their campaign to take the US to war with Iraq.
The Supreme Court handed bush his first election and Roberts was complicit in handing him his reelection. bushco and Roberts brought to America: endless war that makes NO ONE any safer, an economy on the rocks, our country’s reputation badly sullied, the Constitution and Bill of Rights ignored, science not only disrespected but manipulated, corporate welfare while Americans can’t put food on the table and roofs over their heads, leaders(?) bankrupt of ideas or solutions.
McCain wants to be elected for bush’s third term and continue all these failed policies.
Roberts had bush’s back all along. Hold the waterboy’s feet to the fire even though the well’s gone dry, and so has his bucket!
Just a reminder of hope for Kansans:
This election cycle, almost every Republican faces a Democrat opponent. That hasn’t been the case for many years.
Many true moderate Republicans have even changed parties to run against the reichwingers that stole their party.
Vote Democrat. This is Kansas’ chance.
Roberts must go. He promised to fully investigate pre-war intelligence and he dragged his feet for years. He stalled and stalled and how we must better learn to manage intelligence information. His partisan posturing hurt America.
“Current Chairman John Rockefeller (D-WV) said the committee faced “constant” pressure from Vice President Cheney to delay the report, and Roberts and his allies went “along with the administration.””
FROM: http://www.thinkprogress.org/2008/06/10/mcclellan-heads-in-sand/
Roberts has his track shoes and tennis shoes on for this race, knee pads and elbow pads have come off!
If Slattery is smart, he’ll pound Roberts on his voting for the McCain Ammendment giving Airbus an in ( Roberts was for Airbus, before he was against Airbus), and also on his lack of interest and partianship playing on the Plame outing.