In response to flak about the negative elements of his latest TV ad, Sen. Pat Roberts’ campaign wisely has toned it down. There will be plenty of time to get nasty once his Democratic challenger, former congressman Jim Slattery, clears the Democratic primary next month. Meanwhile, a new poll suggests Roberts can relax: Rasmussen Reports shows Roberts leading Slattery by a whopping 27 percent. Just a month ago, Roberts’ support had dropped to 48 percent — setting off some alarm bells nationally about his chances. But now, Rasmussen reports, “Roberts is one of the few Republican incumbents who appears to be in the clear this election year.”
The same polling firm also gives John McCain a 20 percentage point lead over Barack Obama in Kansas, never mind the latter’s family roots in Butler County and close ties to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.
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“What’s the matter with Kansas?”
Glutton’s for Big Mac’s and punishment.
Thanks Senator, you can run on the merits of your record.
Go for it Pat.
Pat Roberts is a genuinely very impressive guy.
Go Pat!!!
Fortunately Kansans, at least the majority, are smart enough to know that.
I curse the generations of my family and fate that brought me to be born in the hinterland Republican duchy of ….ugh….Kansas.
Roberts had best run away from his record.
Kansas is pretty stupid. And you wonder why we’re the butt of the nation’s jokes.
I quit wondering years ago when I figured out What was the matter With Kansas.
Author Jane Mayer of “The Dark Side” held an online interview. Here is one question and answer (read it and more at the link below). Kansans need to remember the part Senator Roberts played in this whole sick mess. We have our answer of why did he drag his feet, cover up for bush and not release the report. He RAN from his responsibilities and hopes we forget how complicit he is in the criminal activities of bushco. I wish they could all be held accountable and face the punishment they deserve. I don’t think that will ever happen but I won’t forget how guilty Roberts is!
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New York, N.Y.: In your interview with Harper’s yesterday, you said that this about why war crimes prosecutions are unlikely: “An additional complicating factor is that key members of Congress sanctioned this program, so many of those who might ordinarily be counted on to lead the charge are themselves compromised.”
What did you mean by that? Who specifically is compromised ” who might ordinarily be counted on to lead the charge are themselves compromised” — Nancy Pelosi, Jane Harman, Jay Rockefeller? — and how are they “compromised”?
washingtonpost.com: Six Questions for Jane Mayer, Author of The Dark Side (Harpers.org)
Jane Mayer: The ranking members of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees were briefed dozens of times about the CIA’s interrogation and detention program over the past seven years – so any member who has held one of those posts has arguably been complicit. Some say they tried to object, internally. But either because of the threat of violating national security, or, because of the fear of the political price of dissent, these figures in both parties would find it very hard at this point to point the finger at the White House, without also implicating themselves.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/07/10/DI2008071001458.html
Yes, and we know Roberts was briefed on the torture being used, and kept his mouth shut when bush told the nation “We don’t torture”.
I would agree that the IRC has an agenda, as does the author of the mentioned book, etc… She is trying to sell books.
This is the same stuff that has been covered by congressional investigations etc…
Ultimately just another opinion on the difficult subject as to what is tough interrogation, what constitutes torture, and where is that line?
But in a crisis when the lives of your countrymen may depend upon the result, accepted “rules’ of war can go by the wayside.
Linda I hope you aren’t happy until all of the perpetrators are named. I also hope that they are named before the next election. Should be interesting to see if the truth is important to you or if the person telling the lie is more important.
Anyone can write a book and not name specifics. Sorta like Chas did yesterday on this blog. Throw our broad statements without naming names so no one can accuse you of slander. Talk is indeed cheap. I’m waiting for the meat.
Editors: Why haven’t you published the news that Roberts’ son was an EADS lobbyist, and that Roberts accepted donations from Northrop. Would be interesting to learn also, how much was David Roberts paid to lobby for EADS before Roberts voted out the ‘Buy American Ammendment’.
Could be technically an indirect contribution.
Are there no investigative reporters at The Eagle?
Gee, any expose, meets with “Trying to sell their book” becoming the Republican mantra lately.
Well, Phantom, they have to go with what they’ve got and if the posters here are an indication they haven’t got positives. ;-)
No where Linda and Phantom have I put you or yours down. So tell me – who is desperate?
Linda and Phantom if you are really so open minded why don’t you read ‘Fleeced’ by Dick Morris?
This is a review of Fleeced from Amazon.
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Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Here are the facts:
The United States has released 425 terrorists from Guantanamo, at least 50 of whom have returned to the battlefield to fight our troops.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both say they’re fiscally responsible. But each has called for $1 trillion in tax increases over the next ten years — and dressed them up as tax cuts!
Mainstream Media has been given marching orders from the Society of Professional Journalists: never refer to “Islamic terrorists” or “Muslim terrorists.” And they are obeying! Whenever our brave agents disrupt a terror plot, The media dismisses the culprits as a gang of idiots — lulling us into a false sense of security.
If the liberals win the 2008 election, they will cripple talk radio — forcing stations to give equal time to left-wing programs, and insisting that liberals play a key role in station management.
Up to a quarter of all state pension funds in the United States are invested in companies that are helping Iran, Syria, North Korea, or the Sudan — for a total of nearly $200 billion.
The Do-Nothing Congress is still doing nothing — and the worst offenders are the presidential candidates Clinton, Obama, and McCain, who never show up for their day jobs as senators . . . except to pick up their $165,000 paycheck!
Is it any wonder that Americans feel fleeced at every turn?
As more and more critical problems develop that need national attention, the White House and Congress appear to be AWOL.
Who’s calling the shots instead?
Big business, big government, big labor, and big lobbyists. And their self-serving agendas are doing nothing to help the ever-increasing number of American people who are losing their homes, paying credit card interest rates higher than 25 percent, and finding their jobs increasingly outsourced to foreign countries.
In this hard-hitting call to arms, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal the hundreds of ways American tax-payers are routinely fleeced — by our own government; by foreign countries like Dubai that are gobbling up American interests and spending millions to influence government decisions and American public opinion; by Washington lobbying firms that are pushing the agendas of corrupt foreign dictators on Capitol Hill; and by hedge-fund billionaires collecting huge tax breaks courtesy of the IRS.
With their characteristic blend of sharp analysis and insider insight, Morris and McGann call offenders of all kinds on the carpet — and offer practical agendas we all can follow to help turn the tide.
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This is but a sample of what you will read. As you can see he hits both sides equally. Just a challenge for the really open minded among us.
“. As you can see he hits both sides equally.”
Yeah? Where did he hit the right?
Morris made some money and sold out everything he believed in when he became a Hannitized, lobotomized, bushbot. Now he’s their little toady pet.
Dick Morris? Didn’t he have a problem with prostitutes and a toe fetish?
Yeah, that was Dick Morris, the old toe sucker.
Seems appropriate that he works for Fox News now.
Is he still positive Senator Hillary Clinton will win the nomination? I know he spouted some hysterical theories and maybe still is afraid. He said if she became president he would leave the U.S. He has a few “bones to pick.” Did you hear about the time he was supposedly tackled by President Clinton and Hillary Clinton had to pull her husband off Morris?
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On August 29, 1996, Morris resigned from the Clinton campaign after reports surfaced that he had been involved with a prostitute. A tabloid newspaper had obtained and published a set of photographs of Morris and the woman on a Washington, D.C., hotel balcony. The Daily Telegraph reported that in order to impress the woman, Sherry Rowlands, Morris invited her to listen in on conversations with the President. The Telegraph also alleged that Morris had a preference for “toe-sucking and dominance,” and that he regaled Rowlands with a version of “Popeye the Sailor Man,” performed in his underpants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Morris
At least Roberts has made an effort. I’ll give him that. Slattery’s efforts remind me of the Doonesbury asterisk that represented George H. W. Bush during his term in office. I mean, where is the guy? They got half a million in contribution, have they just not had the campaign staff to follow up with that? The Democratic Party and Democratic candidates are going to have to do better than this with their big 50 state plan to get the change they want.
Good GOD thanks for the visual linda!
Now, whenever I see that little pervert turncoat shilling for Hannity I will imagine he screech “Popeye the Sailor Man”.
No one should be surprised by this.
Kansas is still a three party state where Democrats are the third party.
If the Republicans had been dumb enough to run Huckabee like the Republicans who participated in the caucus wanted them to, then the gap between the Republican candidate and Obama would have been much closer, because the moderate, non-Christian Right non-unquestioning coalition conservatives would have been split. But, McCain is acceptable to moderate Republicans and the coaltion conservatives will still hold their noses and vote for McCain over Obama.
A similar situtation exists for the Roberts situation. While he is a consistent conservative, he does not come across as a demagogue. Brownback would be far more vulnerable than Roberts.
okobserver, that has to be one of the most unintentionally funny posts I’ve seen. A review from some schlub on Amazon. And if you think that the idea that Morris hits the left and the right equally is apparent from that rant of a review, you really have difficulties putting aside your conservative filter when you read.
Morris is a hired gun. So what. Tell us something we don’t already know. You libs may cuss him now, because of your overwhelming obsession with Fox News, but you were singing a different tune twelve years ago when he picked Bill Clinton up off the carpet and got him reelected when it appeared Clinton was going to be a one term President.
By the way, this week marked the twelfth anniversery
Like the Richard Nixon saying: “The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.”