Showing posts with label Kansas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kansas. Show all posts

Friday, November 8, 2013

The News and Observer Discredits Themselves Over Kathleen Sebelius




I thought the editors at the Charlotte Observer were pathetic political hacks, the News and Observer is giving those Obama sycophants a run for their money.  Here is an excerpt from one of their ridiculous editorials entitled; Republicans discredit themselves over health care reform:

As governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius was respected by her peers around the country for managing the state budget in a no-nonsense way and maintaining worthwhile programs. She has been in politics for over 25 years, and from the state house in Kansas to insurance commissioner to governor, she has proven herself a capable administrator.
Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts knows all that and in fact has been a family friend of Sebelius for some time. So it was a particularly shameful moment in Sebelius’ appearance before the Senate Finance Committee this week when Roberts called for her to resign. But he knows he has a re-election challenger from the right-wing of his Republican Party, a tea partyer, who’ll blister him if he doesn’t join the ridiculous, exaggerated assault on health care reform.
Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, long one of the more sanctimonious voices in the Senate, is running Roberts a close second in the embarrassment sweepstakes, as he at one point said to Sebelius, “We’re not in it just to give you a rough time. We’re in it to try and hopefully get it right.” That’s preposterous.

Kathleen Sebelius is a respected and capable administrator?  Her tenure as governor of Kansas is marred with failed programs.  Here is an excerpt from The Daily Caller:
 Obamahttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png administration Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ failure at designing websites to provide government services began during her term as governor of Kansas, long before the Obamacare website debacle, Kansas political insiders told The Daily Caller.
Sebelius oversaw numerous costly and disastrous government website projects during her six-year governorship (2003-2009), including a failed update of the Department of Labor’s program to provide unemployment pay and other services and similar updates pertaining to the Department of Administration and the state’s Department of MotorVehicleshttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (DMV) services.

The Department of Labor’s overhaul of its computerhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png programs was a notable boondoggle, according to 14-year former Kansas state senator and former state Labor Secretary Karin Brownlee.


“In the Kansas Senate, I chaired the Commerce committee. We had oversight over the Department of Labor. For years, we watched as the Department of Labor under Sebelius worked on that computer program. After seven years and $50 million, something should work,” Brownlee told TheDC.

“In Kansas if you have a 40 or 50 million dollar project, that’s a lot of money,” Brownlee said, noting that the Labor Department project was funded by federal money while other Sebelius website projects sucked up state taxpayer dollars. “They started and stopped that project with at least 3 different major contractors.”

When Brownlee was appointed to head the state’s Department of Labor under new Republican governor Sam Brownbackhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png in 2011, she was tasked with cleaning up Sebelius’ technical mess

The Senate republicans have legitimate concerns about this Obamacare fiasco.  The only ones who have discredit themselves are the editors at the New and Observer.




Sunday, October 13, 2013

Obama Forces a Two-Tier System in America



It should be clear to everyone by now, that we live in a post-constitutional America.  Obamacare has created a two-tier system where congressmen, select companies and individuals get exemptions and the rest of us get screwed.  Whatever happed to equal protection under the law?  Where is the 14th Amendment for the average Joe?

Now two states, Arizona and Kansas, are setting up a two-tiered voting system, one for federal elections and the other for state and local.  All because Obama’s Justice Department believes citizenship should not be the only qualifying factor at the polls.  And what law are they using as a cudgel?  That’s right, the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  I didn’t know illegal aliens were given rights under this law.  Did you?

Democrats dismiss illegal aliens are voting.  But they are.  Here is an excerpt from Mark Levin’s The Liberty Amendments:

Noncitizens are on voter registration lists throughout the country.  In 2005, the Government Accountability Office found that up to 3 percent of the thirty thousand individuals called for jury duty from voter registration rolls, during a two-year period in just one United States district court, were not citizens.  This particular district was in Florida, but Florida is not distinctive.

Colorado’s secretary of state, Scott Gessler, is among a handful of state officials who have aggressively sought to enforce the HAVA.  “Colorado’s secretary of state testified before Congress in 2011 that a check of voter registration rolls against state [Division of Motor Vehicles] records indicated that more than 11,000 Colorado registered voters may not be U.S. citizens – and more than 5,000 of them voted.


 But hey, don’t pay attention to the illegal alien behind the curtain.
  





Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Gov. Sam Brownback Declares Federal Gun-Grabbers Beware




Even though the U.S. Senate was unable to muster the votes for a gun control bill this time around, it doesn’t mean they’ll stop.  They never stop.  States must pass laws that protect their citizens from ambitious D.C. politicians.  Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas signed a law doing just that:

(TOPEKA, Kan.)—
Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a bill into law declaring that the federal government has no power to regulate guns manufactured, sold and kept only in Kansas.

The legislation signed Tuesday also applies to ammunition made, sold and kept in the state. The new law takes effect by the end of next week and makes it a felony for a federal agent to enforce any law, regulation, order or treaty regulating such items.

But the bill also says federal agents won't be arrested or detained if they face trial for violating the law.


Source:  http://www.kansascw.com/kscw/news/kwch-news-jlr-brownback-gun-legislation-20130416,0,6105346.story