Tiahrt worries about Illegal aliens

"If evolution is a fraud, then so is the idea that there is no life on Venus.
The idea that there is no life on Venus is full of holes. Many scientists are beginning to rethink their position on this theory.
Has anyone actually gone to the surface of Venus and proven there are no dangerous life forms there. What about an invasion from space? Can we really take such a chance?

After all, we need the Patriot Act because dangerous aliens can come from anywhere. If Mexicans can sneak atomic bombs across our southern border, we better not take any chances."

-The logic of the right-wing of the Republican Party

This picture shows what the Soviet Union (the evil empire) said they found on the surface of Venus using Venera 9 picture of the surface.

Of course Tiahrt supports the war – What’s Vietnam

Rep. Todd Tiahrt is still trying to justify the war in Iraq. According The Wichita Eagle, March 19, 2008:

Tiahrt justified his vote to go to war on the grounds there were weapons of mass destruction and both he and Democrat Rep. Dennis Moore believed he would have nuclear weapons in a year.
That turned out to be false. There has been no evidence at all for any weapons of mass destruction.
Tiahrt said much of the information he based his vote on is still valid and the threat was real enough to justify war.
If that wasn’t bad enough, nearly all our lawmakers, including Democrat Moore, refuse to denounce the war effort. It’s as if we learned nothing from Vietnam.

Unfortunately, the same Kansans who voted in total idiots to run the Kansas School Board also have not learned anything from Vietnam.

According to the same Eagle edition:

“By a sizable majority, Kansans support the war in Iraq, but they think less of the way the White House is handling the conflict than they did two years ago.
A KWCH-12 Eyewitness News-Wichita Eagle poll conducted earlier this week shows that 59 percent of Kansans think the decision to invade Iraq was the right decision. In 2004, 66 percent of Kansans said they supported that decision in a similar poll.

By comparison, the number of Kansans who thought the decision to invade was the wrong one grew from 25 percent in 2004 to 36 percent now.

Those numbers suggest that Kansans seem to be more supportive of the war than the nation as whole is.”

Not everyone was duped by George Bush. According to Diane Wahto Peace_and_Justice_Kansas@yahoogroups.com:

“You wouldn’t know it by reading the Eagle this morning, but we had a successful, and peaceful, march yesterday with 110 people of all ages, including babies, and a few dogs participating. KAKE News ran a short video, but I can’t find it on the web site.

Thanks to everyone who helped organize this march. Despite the misleading headline in today’s Eagle, I believe the people of Kansas are sick of Bush’s war and the statistics in the story support that.”
Marches took part all across the country, Wichita included. Many of us know the war was started on a lie and control of Middle East oil is the main motivation. The “war on terrorism” is a crock and a lot of us know it. It has been used to justify denying our civil liberties and fighting wars on behalf of oil companies for the phony excuse that we are trying to “stop terrorists.”

The local march was designed to coordinate with marches across the country.

Tiahrt sheds crocodile tears over job losses

According the The Wichita Eagle, Mar. 08, 2006:

Rep. Todd Tiahrt has opposed new user fees on general aviation to boost revenues for the Aviation Trust Fund.
According to Tiahrt, The fees carry the threat of decreasing aircraft sales and that could affect jobs in Kansas, Tiahrt said. General aviation operators now contribute to the trust fund by paying taxes on fuel.
Effect jobs?
Has Tiahrt looked at figures over the last several years showing that high paying manufacturing jobs are leaving Wichita and Kansas?

According to The Wichita Eagle, Mar. 09, 2003:

“The Wichita metropolitan area has lost 10,100 transportation-manufacturing jobs since December 1998, according to Wichita State University's Center for Economic Development and Business Research.
Aviation jobs lost since Sept 11, 2001, represent as much as 17 percent of the $50,000-and-over jobs in the Wichita area that were counted by the 2000 census.
Other communities have faced similar -- or worse --job losses in aerospace and bounced back stronger.
But recovery takes strategic planning and hard work by government and the private sector to identify and attract new industries.”

Tiahrt hasn’t done that. He put a lot into his tanker aircraft deal that fell flat on its face. This is just one more example of Tiahrt using non-existent jobs as an excuse to help out his friends in big business.

Once again Tiahrt leaves his constituents like a sinking ship (or tanker).

Bob Corkins, Kansas Education Commissioner - The other IDIOT

Normally this blog if for Todd Tiahrt, but it is called “The Idiot Factor” and being an idiot and serving in a public office is becoming more common here in Kansas. So this is a comment about the “other idiot,” Bob Corkins, Kansas Education Commissioner.
Having just finished obtaining my teaching certificate, I had to spend many long hours of classroom work, practice with an actual classroom and I must recertify. There are many tests and background checks done on us before we get certified. All this cost us money.
The average teacher is not making the kind of money that Corkins and is making and the only reason Corkins got that job is to help the present school board find ways to tear down our public school system and replace it with some program to promote private schools.
This man is an insult to any intelligent person who is or has worked to become an educator in Kansas. Many of us have worked hard and invested a lot of money in our careers only to see a state school elected that seems to want to run us out of the state. Corkins has not worked in an actual classroom setting. He has no serious credentials. He simply shares the far-right’s agenda for destroying public schools.
He has insulted the everyday educators of this state. The best and brightest will certainly “see the light”and leave the state. That is a consideration I am giving serious thought to right now. Kansans have proven with this board they don’t respect teachers and they don’t respect our public schools.
So don’t be surprised when there’s a shortage of “GOOD” teachers because the state has allowed these wing-nuts to destroy our schools to the point of running off our most gifted teachers.