When Politico blogger Ben Smith heard that Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, was among the more than two dozen House members who are the subject of an ethics inquiry, he wondered whether it meant Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Hays, will be a senator soon. “It’s tough enough running in a GOP primary in a conservative state as an appropriator. . . . And when you have even a whiff of scandal surrounding your role as a congressional spender, you’re in an even tougher spot,” Smith wrote. “Tiahrt will need to clear his name quickly on this.”
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““Tiahrt will need to clear his name quickly on this.”
To run for Senate as a Republican in Kansas? Republicans LOVE crooks. As long as they are white collar crooks getting rich people richer.
The only ethics problem is the leak itself. It’s not ethical to ‘leak’ a list of names that may or may not have an ethics problem.
The people on the list shouldn’t find out there is a congressional ethics ‘investigation’ from the NYT. Just more proof the democrats have nothing.
Ethics!?
CONs don’t need no steenking ethics!”
Jesus has forgiven Toad Tiahrt.
Repubic Party voters will, too.
I wish just once, that Americans would vote out these career fools and bring in fresh thinking. Of course government would come to a halt. I see no problem with that.
Pleefer
Posted November 6, 2009 at 8:41 am | Permalink
I wish just once, that Americans would vote out these career fools and bring in fresh thinking. Of course government would come to a halt. I see no problem with that.
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Pleefer, I’ve had an idea banging around in my head for a while now.
What if we did away with elected positions? What if we made what are elected positions now like jury duty? You get chosen to serve as a legislator for a year and then you’re out. Have the Presidency the only elected position.
I watched CNN and Congressman Rangel says there are only allegations – no ethics violations.
So that settles it right? :)
DC has a habit of leaking items like this for political purposes.
It appears the dims are working with do nothing Moron to get him elected.
It’s pretty obvious how liberal Moron is with his McCain endorsement.
Politico,
You might try viewing events through a lens other than your narrow partisan interests from time to time. There are more Democrats whose names were leaked on that document than Republicans. Rep. John Murtha, who has been a burr under the GOP saddle for a long time and a world class who re, is the mostly likely target of this leak.
Do you really believe that the Democrats want to shine the light on a corrupt Democrat by leaking this document just to tip the balance of a GOP Senate primary in Kansas?
Politico
Posted November 6, 2009 at 9:22 am | Permalink
It’s pretty obvious how liberal Moron is with his McCain endorsement
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Hey wait a minute – I remember Todd Tiarht kissing up to McCain at election 2008, so I guess McCain wasn’t a liberal then. I bet you and other Tiarht supporters would be singing McCain’s praises if he had endorsed Todd – huh?
Wow – two put downs in a row – McCain doesn’t endorse Todd and neither does his C Street Christian buddies.
Maybe those C Street buddies are also liberal because they endorsed Moran?
You betcha!!!