Duh! Headline

May 11, 2007
5:22 AM CST

“Kansas Governor Sebelius Turns Tornado Disaster Into Political Opportunity”

(story here)

Of course, insertion of a single word would have made sense of it all:

“DEMOCRAT Kansas Governor Sebelius Turns Tornado Disaster Into Political Opportunity”

Sheesh. And just to reiterate: the stories of “shortage” of National Guard equipment and assistance in Kansas were just so much crap.

Lying bitch.

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And the residents of Greensburg themselves poleaxed her ass for it, too.

She’s a political, umm, “ho”, and took her yapping orders from the DNC.  I’m ashamed that the good people of my state not only elected her, but reelected her to the governership.

‘Berg

Author ID: 363 | 5/11/2007 05:41 AM CST | #89320


I understand leftist weenies from New York, but why do people from places like Kansas vote for Democrats?  I don’t get it.

I knew that story was B.S. as soon as I read it a few days ago.  Nobody in Iraq wants soft-top Humvees, which is what most National Guard units have, so there are plenty of them around.  Nor do they want our busses or old deuce and half’s.  Additionally, there are several big bases in Kansas from which the Guard could draw needed equipment if they really were tight. Since this is total crap, it isn’t necessary.

Author ID: 8662 | 5/11/2007 06:01 AM CST | #89322


There are such things as honest demoncraps. There are albino ferrets. And any of a number of rare things you’ve only ever seen one or maybe two of. EVER. She ain’t one of them, obviously. Somehow, I never really thought of Kansans (?) being such idiots as to have put this pos in power twice. I’m disappointed in you people. Unless it was voter fraud that we on the right, truly at least trying to see some decency in these things, never contested. DAMN, ya’ll, what’s wrong with you?

Author ID: 6430 | 5/11/2007 06:53 AM CST | #89332


“ DAMN, ya’ll, what’s wrong with you? “

2 words:

Kansas City (aka the Newark NJ of flyover country)

dw

Author ID: 8713 | 5/11/2007 07:00 AM CST | #89338


It’s, dare I say it, the Katrina-ization of another natural disaster?  If this story turns out to be true (particularly the Dean/Quinn portion of it), it is absolutely egregious.

Natural disasters are apparently no longer opportunities to show what you’re really made of, display leadership, get your hands dirty, and help the constituents (who really need your help this time) by physically earning the big bucks you’re being paid… they’re opportunities to position yourself by meme-making for somebody higher up the political food chain.

What a disgusting breed of politician we sometimes get in this great country.

Author ID: 9972 | 5/11/2007 07:24 AM CST | #89345


Update: Looks like the DNC, Dean etc, have issued an unequivical flat-out denial… no weasel words.

Some aspects of this story are apparently still up for grabs.  IMO it’s only fair to Dean and Co. to hold back judgement until we know more. 

Now, as far as the governor exaggerating the lack of NG troops/equipment and making political hay out of it?  That’s fair game; she can wear that scarlet letter all day long.

Author ID: 9972 | 5/11/2007 07:35 AM CST | #89349


Blackeagle603 is 100% correct. That vile woman didn’t get elected by the “Kansas heartland”, Kansas City elected her. She needn’t campaign anywhere else and likely doesn’t give a damn about the rural population of Kansas. It’s the same problem in my home state of Missouri. MO Liberals do not have to campaign anywhere but Kansas City and Saint Louis.

Conservative rural types are being “represented” by elitist liberals as a result. I suspect that’s the same reason that leftists seem to fare so well in places like Washington State and Oregon...they don’t represent either state; they merely got elected by Portland and Seattle.

St. Louis is especially bad (there have been a few “voting irregularities” there especially when concealed carry legislation has come up; naturally “investigations” into these are half-hearted and short lived) so the rest of us have to suffer the socialist stupidity that KC and St. Louis visit on the whole state. That’s one reason I moved to Arkansas.

Apologies for the rant. This really chaps my ass if you couldn’t tell…

Lone

Author ID: 8551 | 5/11/2007 07:37 AM CST | #89350


Jim Quinn of the Quinn and Rose Show out of Pittsburgh claims to have got a call from one the ‘Ho’s staff who claims that Dean called her at 5am the morning after the storm to press and advise her how to make political hay out of the towns destruction.

Shameless

Author ID: 1894 | 5/11/2007 07:49 AM CST | #89355


It’s more than Kansas City, Overland Park and the surrounding burgs.  It’s Lawrence ( our own little Moscow on the Kansas River ), and maybe even Wichita.  I don’t remember Wichita voting results, but this little city ( the largest in Kansas, BTW ) is big enough to have plenty of whiny little leftist hand-wringers.

Author ID: 897 | 5/11/2007 07:53 AM CST | #89357


Isn’t most of Kansas City in Missouri?  I know that a lot of the suburbs are in Kansas, but still…

Author ID: 8662 | 5/11/2007 07:54 AM CST | #89358


NJSoldier, cmblake6, et al.,

As a lifelong KC area resident, and after living in Jo. County for the last 4 years, I am at a loss as to how Sebelius could have been elected, ever, let alone twice.

I never heard a peep about any kind of voter fraud, but the logic of the situation just never made any sense.  The demographics of the state just don’t seem to support the Donk candidates.  Color me, and about half or more of the 2.7 million other inhabintants of the state, puzzled.  I can only guess that it has to do with the high populations of Wyandotte Co. (KCK, the Newark, or maybe L.A. of the midwest, indeed), Topeka, Lawrence (the Berekley of the midwest [spit]) and Wichita.

There must be a bunch of closet liberals in this state, or there is a disconnect with some of the moderates who aren’t of the hard religious bent (I include myself in this latter characterization), and I can only hope that we’ll get a decent candidate from the elephants (Tim Shallenberger in 2002 and Jim Barnett in 2006, Yawn! ,) for the seat the next go ‘round, lest we endure more of the same from another thinly disguised socialist in the Donk camp.

Can’t wait to make it out west, permanently.

Author ID: 8624 | 5/11/2007 07:59 AM CST | #89360


Hopefully, people are noticing that the world that seems to “hate America” is doing an awful lot of electing of Pro-America leaders. With any luck at all, the msm will start screaming so loudly about this atrocity that the Rs will be awakened. Negative feedback on their part is GOOD for US.

Author ID: 6430 | 5/11/2007 08:16 AM CST | #89363


I’ve gone on about this person on these pages and elsewhere for years.  Yes, for the most part, it’s Kansas City and to some extent Wichita that can take the credit (?) for getting her elected.  The Kansas City Star is about as Left editorially as any newsrag you’re likely to find in flyover country and they enthusiastically (of course) endorsed her both times.

When Time magazine named her one of the five best governors in the country in an article on the subject not too long ago, it should have been obvious that even then she was campaigning for spot on the ‘08 DemCong ticket and possibly for the Presidency circa ‘16 or so.  I don’t suppose I need reiterate here that if in any instance Time thinks favorably of someone or something, that person or thing deserves especially careful scrutiny? 

The principal problem with all this is that she doesn’t have the administrative or managerial talent G-d promised a dog turd.  And quite as obviously has a demonstrable inability to gracefully handle the national spotlight.  She’s been crowing, for instance, about how the job situation in Kansas has been steadily improving during her tenure.  True on the surface.  Unfortunately, you don’t even have to scratch to find out that while public-sector jobs have been added—something like 10,000 in the last five years—private-sector employment has fallen off by roughly a percentage point. 

She wanted to take credit for resolving the publik skool finance mess we had out here.  Unfortunately for her, the argument has proven somewhat less than sunfast.  She passed the buck to the state supreme court—where it never should have been—who then instructed the state’s (majority Republican) legislature on the measures the court expected them to pass to meet consitutional muster.  “Queen” Sebelius essentially sidestepped the entire issue until it was time to assume credit for having fixed the problem; then, of course, she was in front of the cameras as expected. 

More topically to this forum, she twice vetoed Shall-Issue concealed carry measures.  While that’s nothing new—we previously had a RINO governor (Kansas Citian, of course) who also did so, and more frequently than did the “Queen”.  When doing so, however, she essentially said, and I AM paraphrasing here, that:

1) Kansas residents couldn’t be trusted to carry firearms for their own protection and that (insert favorite GFW phrase about “shootouts over fender-benders” here); and that

2) Kansas cops were too stupid to effectively and safely deal with an armed unsworn citizenry.

Now there might be an elected Republican somewhere who privately believes, as do virtually ALL Democrats, that their constituency is either:

A) Too stupid to know what’s good for them;

B) Too lazy to actually do it even if they do know the difference; or

C) Too irresponsible to care.

The principal difference is that the Republican will usually have the common courtesy not to say so publicly.

But I digress.

So finally, in 2006, our legislature overrides her veto.  Her response?  (And I admit to a certain amount of conjecture here) Encourage the mayors and city administrators of certain of our larger cities to try to go the home-rule route.  Which is actually kind of dumb, seeing as how a firearms preemption statute was passed in 2005 and cheerfully signed by our “Governor”, I’m sure at the time in absolute certainty that the legislature would never be able to override a concealed-carry veto.  Ain’t karma a flying bitch, though? 

So ya, she’s a collectivist/statist swine in the finest traditions of blue-blood blue-state limousine liberals.  Have I mentioned lately that she’s from Ohio?

‘Berg

Author ID: 363 | 5/11/2007 08:26 AM CST | #89365


CA is not full of moonbats either, there are a LOT of us Conservatives still here, but all the candidates have to do is take the L.A. basin and San Fransicko bay area, and they’ve got their ticket.  They’ve ignored San Diego (their backwards Redneck step-child) for MANY years.

And now Smell-A is even MORE socialist and illegal-immigrant hosting than ever!

Author ID: 2187 | 5/11/2007 08:35 AM CST | #89366


I showed this report to one of the liberals I work with and there responce was “This is not true Bush didn’t do all that he could to help these people, it isn’t up to the public and citizens to help that is the goverment’s job”. My responce to him was that when a tornado hits his town my rescue dog will be two blocks over helping people who want it.

Author ID: 8984 | 5/11/2007 08:48 AM CST | #89369


As others have pointed out before, we do not have a blue state- red state divide- we have an urban- rural divide.  So La and SF, and Seattle and Portland etc., control the largely rural states.
An example- In Washington the new Tacoma narrows bridge was opposed by about 75% of voters in the three counties that would use the bridge. To gain the votes nessesary for construction, the powers that be extended the vote to include King county (Seattle area). A 53% yes vote there was enough to override the 75% no vote in three other counties combined AND TO PLACE A TOLL ON THE BRIDGE> A perfect example of taxation without representation. The King county voters will use that bridge very, very seldom.  I hope when a new viaduct is built in Seattle that the entire state gets to vote on whether it should be paid for with a toll-- yeah, sweet dream.

Author ID: 8821 | 5/11/2007 08:49 AM CST | #89370


Point of conversation:

Kansas ARMY NATIONAL GUARD is out doing what an ARMY does: defending the homeland
(altho from far away)
This BullShit about must have the NG around for post-disaster trash pickup is so much ... BS.
I really don’t care if 99% of the ANG is overseas fighting Terrorists… at least the bad guys ain’t here.

Stupid Governer outta shut her yap.

Author ID: 9082 | 5/11/2007 08:50 AM CST | #89371


BTW - when you look at states that mostly vote red, except the urban centers - want an odd one?

NY!!

If you pull NYC, Buffalo, Albany and now Nassau County (which until about 15 years ago was solid red), almost the rest of the state is red..

It’s part of the reason the folks upstate don’t like NYC

Author ID: 7736 | 5/11/2007 08:57 AM CST | #89372


I am at a loss as to how Sebelius could have been elected, ever, let alone twice.

Well, wasn’t her opponent rabidly anti-abortion and viewed as a Chrisian right-winger?  The folks around here lean conservative, but they are also strongly independent cusses.  Maybe she drew less of the vote than her opponent chased away through being so strident.  She’s a turd, and barely a polished one at that, but perhaps a lot of folks thought they chose the lesser of two evils.

Author ID: 897 | 5/11/2007 09:40 AM CST | #89380


Maybe she drew less of the vote than her opponent chased away through being so strident.  She’s a turd, and barely a polished one at that, but perhaps a lot of folks thought they chose the lesser of two evils.

PLEASE Explain to me how THIS is the ”lesser of two evils”?

Author ID: 6430 | 5/11/2007 09:48 AM CST | #89383


Isn’t this the bitch who tried to veto the Kansas CCW law and was overridden?

Author ID: 8662 | 5/11/2007 11:23 AM CST | #89407


Having spent some time in KC, I can tell you it is sort of split between Ks and Mo.  Lenexa, Overland Park, and the surrounding area are technically not KC, but you can’t tell where the boundries are.  They’re one big city.  KCMo has the better food though.

I broke my arm in Lenexa and got a permanent souvenier in Overland Park.  I have a steel plate that makes air travel a serious PITA.

BOT, this idiot and Kathleen Blank-stare need to both be shown the door by voters in their respective states.  My respect for both states would increase.

Author ID: 1906 | 5/11/2007 12:06 PM CST | #89414


For the record, the National Guard armory in Hutchinson, about 90 miles from Greensburg, is absolutely awash in Humvees, haul trucks, trailers and 2 & 1/2 ton trucks as you read this message.

Sillybus is a lying opportunistic political hack pretty-girl with no imagination other than her daily marching orders from Howard Dean, but other than that, she pretty much just plains sucks. 

Oh, and her veto of concealed carry was over-ridden in 24 hours, and her subsequent veto of legislation that cleaned up some problems in the initial law was also over-ridden in 24 hours.

Author ID: 10083 | 5/11/2007 03:59 PM CST | #89432


PLEASE Explain to me how THIS is the ”lesser of two evils”?

Didn’t say it was.  Just offered that maybe some people saw it that way.  Personally, I can’t stand her style of nanny-statism any more or less than I can tolerate Tim Shallenburger’s style of nanny-statism, so it came down to the single-issue gun thing for me.  At least our legislature had the balls to override her vetoes on both CCW and the local law pre-emption bills.  Hey, we’ll throw Sebitchius out sooner or later.

Author ID: 897 | 5/11/2007 04:33 PM CST | #89435


A lesser wicked witch of the left.

Author ID: 5208 | 5/11/2007 05:36 PM CST | #89441


BOT, this idiot and Kathleen Blank-stare need to both be shown the door by voters in their respective states.  My respect for both states would increase.

1911Man on 05/11 at 03:06 PM

In the works.  She withdrew from the the race, after polls showed her far, far behind Jindal.  The Dems hopes were resting on Breaux.  Then polls showed him getting beat by Jindal.  He said he isn’t running.  Right now, the Dems in Louisiana don’t know whether to “shoot, $hit, or go blind”.

Author ID: 372 | 5/11/2007 05:49 PM CST | #89442


Okay then boys and girls, There ARE enough conservatives out there to override the left. GET OFF YOUR ASS AND DO IT!!!!!!!!!!

Author ID: 6430 | 5/11/2007 06:14 PM CST | #89444


Tee, did this story make it out of the immediate broadcast area? Why was it not on the national news? Or at least every news broadcast in the entire state?

Author ID: 6430 | 5/12/2007 12:40 PM CST | #89479


Yeah. Shame you can’t put the correct vocal tone in a typed blog.

Author ID: 6430 | 5/12/2007 11:11 PM CST | #89495