Does Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., think that former Sen. Bob Dole is doing the devil’s work? After all, Dole has been a lobbyist. Or how about Roberts’ own son, who has lobbied for EADS-Airbus? Or all the people Roberts meets with who represent agriculture, aviation or education interests?
Roberts needs to stop sliming his Democratic opponent, Jim Slattery, by portraying lobbying as some evil profession, as Roberts has done in campaign commercials and tried to do at Tuesday’s debate in Wichita.
Roberts has a solid record to run on for re-election. He shouldn’t resort to these Rovian tactics.
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question: What was your last job Mr. Slattery?
answer: I was a lobbyist.
question: Do you think lobbyists should run for public office?
answer: I lobbied for and I never did anything I didn’t think was in my own best interest and financial well being.
Lobbying is a slimy enterprise.
But since Newtie Gingrich’s 1994 “revolution,” it’s been the only game in town.
Lobbyists wrote legislation for people such as Dick Armey and Tom DeLay and Tood Thiart and Jim Ryun (a group that probably couldn’t construct a coherent sentence among them).
Pat Roberts’ media blitz was financed by lobbyists.
wahhhhahhahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa…..
I’m sure the millions Roberts has raised absolutely none came from lobbyists because he told them they were slimy and didn’t want their slimy money. Puuuleeeze, Roberts is so full of crap he can’t contain it anymore.
Roberts, please return our 5 mil. campaign contributions!
Association of Lobbyist
I Suspect that Roberts if he were to lose would be come a lobbyist. And I noticed that Roberts became visibly annoyed when Slattery brought up the fact that his son is a Lobbyist for Airbus at their debate
Obviously, Slattery never lobbied Sen. Roberts, or he might have had kinder words for him.
The last thing Roberts wants to do is run on his record and be held accountable for voting down ‘Buy American’, for his lax oversight while chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, for ignoring the outing and even supporting those who outed a CIA agent, and for being a bush lap dog in general.
Better he attack someone who held the same occupation as his son.
So what is happening in many cases, the community activists are turning in the applications – as required by law – and even pointing out the applications they think are bad.
Then the partisan election officials are crying “WOLF!” “FRAUD!” Demanding investigations, to reinforce this fiction of voter fraud.
We will surely see examples exposed of Republican hacks who have joined the campaign and deliberately turned in false ballots to try to discredit the registration drives.
Ahhhh, poor Brownlee. If I was you I’d be more concerned about keeping my job. I hear the newspaper business isn’t doing so well anymore!!!
Don’t forget Kansas’ own Dan Glickman, lobbyist for the MPAA.
And don’t forget that Pat Robert’s son is a lobbyist for Airbus (hmmm, any conflict of interest on that one?)
What I don’t understand is “why?” Roberts is going to win by a large margin; why use such tactics? It seems to me that Roberst would be better served by only campaigning for himself instead of using the tactics he is using.
Well, Roberts now has a clear choice. He can either lighten up on lobbyists or disown his son. Given his obvious lust for power, I wouldn’t want to be his son right now.
“Jed
Posted October 16, 2008 at 4:42 pm | Permalink
Well, Roberts now has a clear choice. He can either lighten up on lobbyists or disown his son. Given his obvious lust for power, I wouldn’t want to be his son right now.”
Fortunately for his son, as a Republican senator, Roberts has the God-given right to call lobbyists evil and denounce Democrats who receive money from them while at the same time cohorting with them himself and receiving money from them himself.
One of the perks of the Republican hypocritic oath.
I still can’t believe the Eagles obsession with defeating Roberts. Slattery,or should I say movealong.org with Slattery’s approval has turned this election into a slime fest, not Pat Roberts. They are the one’s who are flooding the airwaves with slimy ads lying about and attacking Pat Roberts. I just heard a new one today with a duck quacking through out it. And the three trillion dollar mistakes ad is played so often and is so obnoxious, you would think it was a car dealer ad. By the way, that same ad is playing in every State with an incumbent Republican Senator running for re-election with the challengers voice over at the end.
Slattery reminds me of a chihuahua nipping at the heels of a big dog. A nuisance but not really a threat.
“Chrisfrommactown
Posted October 16, 2008 at 4:58 pm | Permalink
I still can’t believe the Eagles obsession with defeating Roberts. Slattery,or should I say movealong.org with Slattery’s approval has turned this election into a slime fest, not Pat Roberts. They are the one’s who are flooding the airwaves with slimy ads lying about and attacking Pat Roberts. I just heard a new one today with a duck quacking through out it. And the three trillion dollar mistakes ad is played so often and is so obnoxious, you would think it was a car dealer ad. By the way, that same ad is playing in every State with an incumbent Republican Senator running for re-election with the challengers voice over at the end.
Slattery reminds me of a chihuahua nipping at the heels of a big dog. A nuisance but not really a threat.”
<— this is the equivalent of the ‘I know you are but what am I?’ response.
Have some cheese Chris …
Quack – why doesn’t Roberts want to debate?
Three Trillion – 100% TRUE
The Eagle is obviously the official newspaper of the Slattery for Senate campaign. Given his ongoing smear campaign against Roberts,doesn’t it make you wonder if Phillip Brownlee is a paid member of Slattery’s campaign? Tabloid journalism at its best!
<— this is the equivalent of the ‘I know you are but what am I?’ response.
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Care to expand on this brian. My addled, right wing brain can’t quite figure out what you meant.
“ConcernedVoter
Posted October 16, 2008 at 5:34 pm | Permalink
The Eagle is obviously the official newspaper of the Slattery for Senate campaign. Given his ongoing smear campaign against Roberts,doesn’t it make you wonder if Phillip Brownlee is a paid member of Slattery’s campaign? Tabloid journalism at its best!”
Remind me of that when the Eagle endorses Roberts – AGAIN.
Brian,
“Fortunately for his son, as a Republican senator, Roberts has the God-given right to call lobbyists evil and denounce Democrats who receive money from them while at the same time cohorting with them himself and receiving money from them himself.
One of the perks of the Republican hypocritic oath.”
Please don’t make the mistake of assuming that hypocrisy is is the exclusive property of any one party. One of the serious problems in a democracy is that the people demand that their representatives become hypocrites in order to get elected and stay that way. It’s a simple fact of political life that the surest way to lose an election is to tell the people the truths they need to hear. If we’re going to make this form of government actually work, we need to change the people first, and they will change the government. And it’s a truly tough sell!