Tiahrt wins Olathe test

According to The Wichita Eable:

"As the GOP Senate primary unfolds over the next year between Rep. Todd Tiahrt of Goddard and Rep. Jerry Moran of Hays, Tiahrt can now point to an early show of strength in crucial northeast Kansas: He won 165 votes to Moran’s 46 in the Olathe Republican Party picnic and straw poll over the weekend. According to the Kansas City Star, Tiahrt was there with a busload of supporters from the Wichita area. Moran did not attend."

OK we know Tiahrt has his own troops of zombies from Wichita, but still, CAN’T OLATHE do better than that. Polls are showing Tiahrt and Moran running neck and neck in the polls. Moran has something that Tiahrt doesn’t… a brain. While Moran is conservative, Tiahrt is a corrupted idiot.
If Tiahrt is our next Senator, Kansans will really have something to be ashamed of.

This global warming bill could actually hurt chances to stop global warming.

From Credo Action:
Rep. Todd Tiahrt is about to vote on legislation designed to stop global warming. Unfortunately, members of the House who answer to the worst polluters have succeeded in including a Trojan Horse at the heart of the legislation — a prohibition on Obama's EPA being able to use the Clean Air Act to take additional action on CO2.This little known, almost secret provision actually guarantees that the United States will fall short of doing what the scientists tell us must happen — a reduction of 80% of CO2 emissions from their 1990 level.Mr. Obama ran for president on a very strong global warming platform which achieved the 80% reduction, launched a cap and trade market without giving away free permits to polluters, and set strong standards for boosting clean renewable energy. Special interests are warping his pledge almost beyond recognition.But the worst and most important compromise — and the one most secret and hidden from view — is the crippling of EPA's powers. This is precisely what Newt Gingrich and the Republican-controlled House of the 1990s did to President Clinton's EPA from 1995 on. They simply prohibited EPA from enforcing many laws. We cannot let the House strip President Obama of his most powerful tool to stop global warming.
Click here to tell Rep. Tiahrt to remove any provision that prevents President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency from using the Clean Air Act to reduce CO2 emissions.

Tiahrt attacks stimulus bill

True to Republican ideology, Rep. Todd Tiahrt tried to roll back the stimulus bill. The House Appropriations Committee nixed it on a party-line vote.
According to The Wichita Eagle:

. “Disguised as economic recovery, the so-called stimulus plan has miserably failed the American people,” Tiahrt said. “Quite simply, it has not worked. Consider that 1.5 million Americans have lost their jobs since the Obama stimulus bill became law, and then ask yourself why we should borrow money to fund programs that fail to perform.”

He ignores the fact that the recession began years before George Bush left office and was getting continuously worse. It’s hard to believe the recession would magically reverse itself without any government program. Some parts of the economy are improving. Tiahrt and his fellow right wing crack pots want us all to sit on our asses and just wait for things to get better,

Wing nuts try to take the reigns from Tiahrt

Two slime buckets from the right-wing of the Republican Party have signed up to run for Todd Tiahrt’s seat now that he plans to run for the Senate. Republican National Committeeman Mike Pompeo and State Sen. Dick Kelsey have filed.
Both of these men are from the conservative wing of the Republican Party. According to Wichitopekington:

A self-described “pro-life Republican,” Pompeo vowed in a statement announcing his candidacy to fight the Obama Administration, which he said “is promoting central planning and a larger government at the expense of future generations.”

This is just what we need, one more right wing idiot trying to represent the 4th district.

Tiahrt holds up a clean energy bill

From MoveOn
It's 2009. Democrats have ample majorities in both houses of Congress. President Obama campaigned on the promise to tackle climate change and boost our economy by investing in clean energy.
So why on earth is Congress considering an energy bill that:
Would weaken current law, repealing President Obama's authority to crack down on dirty power plants,1 and
Doesn't actually require the creation of new solar or wind power? (The Union of Concerned Scientists has concluded that the clean energy standards won't make power companies produce more clean energy than is already in the works.)2
Why? Because Big Oil and Coal have teamed up with conservatives in both parties, and they've been successful in weakening the bill.
These are major flaws, but the bill has a lot of really good provisions, too. The key thing is that Congress can still strengthen it—if there's a public outcry. But we don't have much time: Congress is expected to vote on this bill in less than three weeks.
Can you sign this petition to Representative Todd Tiahrt today? Eighty thousand MoveOn members have already signed. We need to double the number of signatures by Wednesday—that means we need 3 more signatures in Maize. MoveOn members will personally deliver this petition to many congressional offices the next day. Click here to add your name:
http://pol.moveon.org/cleanenergy/o.pl?id=16314-3189845-oO3X4Qx&t=4
The petition says: "We need a stronger energy bill to fulfill Obama's vision of a clean energy economy. Congress should strengthen the clean energy standards and restore Obama's authority to crack down on dirty coal plants."
Congress must change the energy bill to require power companies to produce more clean energy for America. Wind and solar create more than twice as many jobs as coal and oil.3 And Congress needs to hold polluters accountable by restoring President Obama's current authority through the EPA to crack down on global warming pollution from power plants.
The Union of Concerned Scientists analysis finds that the current version of the clean energy standard "won't require utilities to use any more renewable electricity than...would be generated as a result of state renewable electricity standards already in place and the recently enacted stimulus package."4
If we just sit back, we'll miss our chance to go big with wind and solar—and we'll lose the jobs those industries would create. Big Oil and Coal will keep getting billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies. And President Obama will be powerless to stop more than 100 new dirty coal plants, which will crowd out the clean energy growth we need to boost our economy.5There are some good parts of the bill, but these are significant problems. As the Sierra Club's Carl Pope writes, the bill establishes strong long-term goals for cutting carbon pollution and very strong energy-efficiency investments, "but in its present form, it won't do all that's needed. The oil, coal, and dirty-utility interests...were able to prevent enactment of President Obama's much bolder vision...Yes, they will try to kill the green-jobs recovery in its cradle, and yes, they will try to block our clean-energy future."