Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, was among 73 Republican freshmen swept into office touting the “Contract With America.” As of January, notes CQPolitics, Tiahrt will be among only 15 remaining members of that 1994 GOP class in the House. Seven of the original 73 lawmakers are now senators, and seven retired or lost re-election bids this year. Looking back, Tiahrt said he wished Congress had exercised more aggressive oversight, pointing to 2005 hearings on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as one example. The lenders’ problems were spotlighted, but action didn’t follow. “And look where we ended up,” Tiahrt said.
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Tiahrt, as the post mentions, remains in congress. He retains the option to look back, but what we need is for the politician to look ahead and use sound judgment with the pending ‘09 stimulus. While he may argue that we can’t afford the stimulus at all, this would only serve to place him in the irrelevancy category: the stimulus is coming, and he knows it. Now, when it does, a whole posse of the people who got us into this little shindig are going to be lining up at the OK Corral, asking for free hooch, just as they always do. Here’s where Tiahrt could use his influence for a change: “Sorry, pardner. This money’s for the middle and lower income people, the lone hands and the gunfighters.”
If Tiahrt actually wants to be of some use in ‘09, he should do something about the credit card industry. Here’s how it works, just in case he hasn’t figured it out yet: the companies loan the money out at one rate, then they look for any excuse on God’s green earth to change the rate and gouge people with fees. So now sales are down everywhere because consumers are down on the ground and can’t get up.
What am I missing?
Tiahart won’t even stand up for children’s heathcare..why would he give a rip about the middle and lower classes? As long as the lobbyists have him in their pockets, he’ll remain faithful to the corporate greed that has brought this country to it’s knees.
Get the picture of that disgusting pawn for greedy people off my screen. Toad Tiahrt shames Kansas. Kansas shames itself by continuing to elect that corporate stooge.
Todd….still going strong.
It wasn’t even a contest this election….again!
Ha!
Tiahrt is either going get into a nasty campaign with Jerry Moran or a really tough fight with Raj Goyle
Tiahrt, another freddie,fannie idiot. Just what Ks. needs.
Tiarht’s future political plans will probably be determined as to what happens within the next year. If he sees his future in the new Congress as marginalized, I think he will try to run for the Senate.
If that happens, I hope Jerry Moran will stay in the race and give Tiarht a run for his money.
But never think for a moment that Tiarht is not looking out for his number one passion – his own pockets.
Tiarht wishes that Congress had exericsed more aggressive oversight? Since when did the Republicans in the last 8 years ever call for more oversight?
Isn’t the greed running rampant a big part of their spend, spend, spend philosophy?
Isn’t the greed running rampant a big part of their spend, spend, spend philosophy?
Yep. And they created a situation where personal profit was the only motivation. You even had credit agencies like Standard & Poor’s playing along, because they had their fingers in the pie as well.
George W. Bush actually used the metaphor “house of cards,” as have others who were in the know. It was bound to come tumbling down.
The last 8 years?
You must be one of those Obama supporting idiots who thought that the Republicans still controlled Congress.
For almost the last 2 years now the Democrats have been in control in Congress, not the Republicans.
What did they do to stop this crisis from happening?
Obviously you goofballs didn’t bother to watch the video of the Democrats defending Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac several years ago when some Republicans were trying to highlight the problem with them.
I hate to break it to you liberals, but you can’t blame the Republicans anymore.
Hate to break it to you, Nathaniel, but Barack Obama warned about the Freddie Mae and Freddie Mac crisis also several years ago – but I don’t see you giving him any credit.
Also – for the last 2 years the Democrats have had a simple majority control.
Do you even know what that means? It means little or nothing will get done unless the Republicans would decide to do something for the country rather than themselves and their party to fix the problems that Bush and his fellow Republicans created. Instead of fixing things, the Republicans do what they do best and that is to whine, cry and blame the Democrats.
No matter how hard you try to spin it – the Republicans created the mess we see today and they are the still the ones getting the blame. Or did you miss the last election?
Mom,
I didn’t miss the last election, but obviously you missed the one in 2006.
mom
Also – for the previous 6 years the Republicans had a simple majority control.
Do you even know what that means? It means little or nothing will get done unless the Democrats would decide to do something for the country rather than themselves and their party to fix the problems.
Regular,
Exactly. Remember jumping Jim Jeffords?
The Republicans spent the first part of Bush’s first term with barely any majority in the Senate at all.
When Jim Jeffords switched parties it left control of the Senate at 50/50.
The Demcorats don’t care about history or truth.
Just blame the Republicans.
Did you see the interviews after the election with the Obama supporters who didn’t even know that the Democrats have controlled Congress for the past 2 years?
The only thing the liberals have going for them in winning an election is that those who support them are ignorant idiots.
Republicans abuse the fillibuster and are the true obstructionist, the dems should’ve been just as petty, and maybe prevented bush from getting everything he wanted. From a SAlon article.
“As Steve Benen detailed yesterday, a new study from the Campaign for America’s Future found that Republicans have broken the single-term record for filibusters this year already, with more than a year to go in the session:
The 62nd cloture vote of the session is more than any single session of Congress since at least 1973, the earliest year cloture votes are available online from the Senate. Republicans are on pace to force 134 cloture votes to cut off a filibuster, according to the Campaign for America’s Future analysis, more than double the historical average of the last 35 years.
As Benen notes, the GOP has used the filibuster as a common tool on virtually every piece of significant legislation, all part of what Trent Lott described as their strategy: “The strategy of being obstructionist can work or fail . . . and so far it’s working for us.”