City’s Avoid Tiahrt amendment

Common sense prevails and Rep. Todd Tiahrt’s attempt to protect shady gun dealers is being over written by city council’s that have brains in their heads. Todd may have the bribes, but he can’t take away local autonomy and that is what is saving a lot of large cities. Just check out The Wichita Eagle’s Article:


Cities detouring Tiahrt roadblock
Changes to the Tiahrt amendment were supposed to change things for cities wanting gun-trace data. But Baltimore and New York City are newly sharing their own information about seized illegal guns, and are trying to get other cities to sign on to their database detouring Tiahrt’s measure..
By Rhonda Holman

Idiots of a feather flock together/Tiahrt/Bush

It was several years ago that Rep Todd Tiahrt interefeared in the affairs of Washington DC, by passes legislation to prevent needle exchange programs. He said it “sent the wrong message.” Of course the message it sends today is that people with drug problems don’t deserve to live.
Now President George Bush is pushing to bring back the needle-exchange ban. If anyone has proven to be callous to the lives of others, it’s Bush. He had a record number of executions as governor and he has sent a lot of men to their deaths in Iraq.
According to The Wichita Eagle:

Bush picks up where Tiahrt left off
PostedAbout 11 hours ago
The meddling federal measure about needle-exchange programs is undead — the one once pushed by Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, and declared dead last year. President Bush’s proposed 2009 budget revives the measure, which prohibits the District of Columbia from using its own money to fund such programs. “That Mr. Bush would do this in a budget that will take effect after he’s left Washington strikes us as gratuitous and shortsighted,” editorialized the Washington Post.
By Phillip Brownlee

Tiahrt addressed the Republican convention

I think I fist learned about the caucus system from a Three Stooges Movie. The three were picked by some crooks to caucus for a crooked politician and the stooges come back to a motel room realizing “It’s a good thing we found out that guy was a crook and now we’re supporting the other guy.”
Politics haven’t changed much and I went to the Republican caucus this morning. Yes, I’m registered as a Republican because I originally wanted to spy on the party. They no longer send things to me, but I still haven’t changed my registration. That’s because the Democrats have jettisoned their support for the moderate left to win over middle class rednecks.
The worst part came when the introduced our own US Representative Todd Tiahrt. Listening to that man makes my skin crawl like a person who has a bad case of arachnophobia and is covered with spiders. He continued to spew that ridiculous crap that he gets from the Republican Party, as the man has never had an original idea in his life.
He still claims that the US worker needs to be more competitive in the new global market and as other Republicans have said, it all amounts to tax cuts, so the American worker can compete with wages abroad. Once again, I’d like to know how a US worker can survive on $2 an hour or a $20 a week salary, which are the type of wages we have to compete with?
Other idiotic ideas, from other speakers, included a bill to name a stretch of out highways system: the Operation Enduring Freedom Veterans Highway. According the idiots I listened to, “who could oppose that idea but a stupid Democrat.”
Tiahrt should now about that, he spends a lot of his time renaming buildings, roads after Republicans and replacing historical statues with more modern Republicans, who may have spent only a small portion of their time growing up here as opposed to an actual Kansas founding father.
I can still remember the three stooges, where Mo said “come on boys, lets caucus caucus caucus!”
Which sounded a lot more intelligent than all the clap trap I had to listen to at the Republican caucus. “As Ronald Reagan said” ….Applause! “Our country is still the best hope for the rest of the world.”….”Our president has kept us safe by sending troops to stop the war on terror while the Democrats have never done anything about it.”

Tiahrt delusional

Recently Todd Tiahrt told the Leavenworth Times:
“I’m tight with the constituency. I think I’m sensitive to their needs.”
If by constituency, he means the Koch Corporation and his other wealthy donors, he may be right. But most of the people in Wichita consider him an embarrassment. I constantly hear people, both Democrat and Republican, that they wish someone would vote that idiot out of office. He does nothing for the common citizen.