It’s been four years since Phill Kline was Kansas attorney general, and Kansans are still paying for it. So far, Kansas taxpayers have paid more than $500,000 in legal fees and expenses defending Kline and two of his former aides against ethics charges. And more Kline hearings are scheduled for July. Be careful whom you elect.
Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, took part in a focus group of freshmen GOP members of Congress on the “Hannity” show on Fox News last week. When asked by pollster Frank Luntz how the culture had changed during the first 100 days of this Congress, Pompeo said that lawmakers “don’t spend much time talking about how we got here, whether it was Democrats or Republicans that dug this hole,” Instead, Pompeo said, “we spent a lot of time thinking about, what are the facts? How do we get out of this? What is the path forward? I think that’s a big shift.”
President Obama goes into his re-election campaign with long odds and lots of critics. The New York Times’ Charles Blow observed: “To those unhappy on the left, he’s a corporatist, war-waging, pusillanimous pushover who is silver-tongued and rubber-spined. To those who most oppose him on the right, he is a socialist, spendthrift, republic-destroyer who is unfit, unqualified and literally, by way of his ‘Kenyan birth,’ ineligible to be president.” Blow added: “So Obama’s best chances of winning re-election may well hinge on his ability to re-energize and engage two of his largest, strongest groups of supporters who have mostly avoided the negative labeling: blacks and Hispanics. But that won’t necessarily be easy either.”
