Group to confront Tiahrt on his taxpayer’s supplied socialized medical coverage he opposes for the rest of us

A number of people from Wichita’s Peace_and_Justice_Kansas@yahoogroups.com are planning a visit to Rep. Todd Tiahrt’s office to ask him what kind of health care benefits the taxpayers are providing him with.

For those who don’t know, all US Congress people are given free health care benefits, even though the majority of them have opposed any kind of “socialized medicine” or any other government sponsored health care protection. It apparently works for them, but can’t work for us.
The main reason it can’t work for us is that it is opposed by medical lobbyist who fear loosing money.
Government leaders, such as Tiahrt, have done nothing to stop private companies from cutting their medical benefits.
The meeting from the Peace and Social Justice group has been postponed. But they will confront Tiahrt on the issue of taxpayers paying for his healthcare when they can’t afford their own.

Tiahrt’s lackeys are kicked out of Venezuela

According to The Wichita Eagle, Feb. 10, 2006:

“CARACAS, Venezuela -- U.S. missionaries accused by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of espionage have been forced from their remote outposts among jungle tribes by a government order, the final pair leaving Thursday after years of evangelical work.
The New Tribes Mission flew those two out of the rain forest to regroup with other missionaries in the eastern city of Puerto Ordaz. There they will decide what to do next: leave the country or continue with a legal battle seeking to overturn the government's order to expel them from indigenous areas by Sunday.”

Chavez is wise to push them out. These groups are conservative Evangelicals linked to US Reprehensive Todd Tiahrt (R) and other conservatives that seek to destroy the local culture of these people and reinforce conservative governments. There impact on these countries is almost always negative.
Most of the group's missionaries are Americans.
To get a good idea of how those groups interfere I local politics, get a copy of In the Presence of My Enemies, By Gracia Burnham.(See F5). I this book, Burnham and her husband are captured by local Muslim guerrillas, Abu Sayyaf and Tiahrt pushed for the blotched military operation where two of the three hostages were killed and as many as 45 Philippine government soldiers (according to Gen. Roy Cimatu of the Philippine Army, or AFP). An unknown number of rebels were also killed. Burnham made her politics known when she campaigned for Tiahrt, during his reelection bid for the US House. Burnham's book has been used by the present Republican administration and members of Congress as a tool to inspire even more military meddling in the Philippines. the US has sent more than 700 troops to help train the Philippine military, according the New York Times.
Tiahrt also made irresponsible and ignorant statements that the guerrillas in the Philippines were nothing more than street gangs. He ignored the historical relationship between the US and the Philippines, which includes the US making the islands a colony from 1901 to 1945. The US crushed a guerrilla uprising by Filipinos trying to win independence. Their leader, Emilio Aquinalda, was captured and killed, even though he had helped the US in its war against Spain. The US also supported President Marcos after he declared martial law in 1972 and set up a dictatorship.

Tiahrt bombs out as majority whip!

A major crisis had been averted as Rep. Todd Tiahrt learned he would not be chosen as the majority whip. The Republicans may be stupid at times, but they weren’t stupid enough to put one of the dumbest politicians from Kansas in one of the most important positions of power in the US House or Representatives.

According to The Wichita Eagle, February 02, 2006:

”Tiahrt didn’t get a chance to compete for the majority whip job, because that was dependent on current whip Roy Blunt of Missouri being elected the new House majority leader. But Blunt lost in today’s election to Rep. John Boehner of Ohio.”

Much as our mission in Iraq, Tiahrt has bombed.

From WASHINGTON – “U.S. Representative Todd Tiahrt had already announced that Committee Chairmen, Steve Buyer (R-IN) Veterans’ Affairs and Donald Manzullo (R-IL) Small Business, would have Co-Chaired his campaign for House Majority Whip. Buyers has been accused of treating veteran’s benefits as welfare.” See: Larry Scott: "Welfarizing" the VA

Tiahrt is once again, a sinking ship.