Senator "Memory Pills" Has Democratic Challenger In Kansas
Some of you may recall Kansas Senator Pat Roberts' appearance on Meet The Press in February 2006, where he pulled out a bottle of "memory pills" as he debated Democratic Senator Tom Daschle. Roberts, then the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, ran cover for the Bush administration by stalling multiple reports on the faulty intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Roberts has been all but invisible for quite some time and now he has a challenger for his Senate seat. Kansans elected Democrat Nancy Boyda to Congress last year and things look even worse for Republicans for 2008. Given Robert's permanent ties to the failures in Iraq and his loyalty to President Bush, this seat could easily be in play.
Via Daily Kos:
The Kansas Democratic Party now has a candidate to take on Pat Roberts. Kansas businessman, Greg Orman is stepping up to the plate. From Mr. Orman's press release just this afternoon:
"As I look at what’s going on in Washington, and the course we’re on as a nation, I am convinced we can and should be doing better," Orman said of his decision to run.
"Like so many Kansans, I’m disappointed and deeply troubled by the inaction, infighting, and ineffectiveness on display in Washington today. And I’m prepared to offer the people of Kansas a United States Senator with the right priorities who can help get America moving in a positive direction again."When it comes to Pat Roberts, Kansans have much to be disappointed with. As Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committe, Pat Roberts has been a disaster and an embarrassment for this nation. His committee has done nothing but cover-up the dirty deeds of the Bush administration, obstructing investigations into everything from eavesdropping to the lies leading to the Iraq War. Think Progress has an excellent and detailed breakdown of his record on the committee. Read on...
OVERDOSE!
It's time for Pat to go.
Then we could start working to send Brownback away...
Boy your right about one thing, where the hell has "pills Pat" been all this time? I can't remember the last time I saw or heard from him! Don't get me wrong, there's no love loss and may explain why I get fewer headaches...
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I'm a Kansan and I guarantee I will work for ANY dem candidate that runs against Roberts.
Off topic but…
CIA destroyed tapes showing it waterboarded prisoners to protect itself from legal jeopardy.
New York Times
America tortures. The CIA admits it and they destroyed the proof.
Any challenger to Roberts is getting my vote.
Does anyone know a thing about Greg Orman?
The man doesn't even have a campaign web page up.
For all we know he's a member of the Nazi party.
What would make the republican candidates' campaigns more interesting, and thus draw greater public attention, which is, after all, the purpose of campaigning, would be to have some on-line pharmacy whip up some special 'Republican Pill Packets'.
Each packet would consist of twenty OxyContins, twenty Memory Pills, and twenty Cyanide tablets. Before each appearance, the candidates would be required to shake their packets, and take one of the pills/tablets, sight unseen.
This would add drama and suspense to the appearance, and attract a lot of media and on-line attention.
Should justice somehow, someday be "served", Senator Roberts will stand with Joe Lieberman, Zell Miller, Pat Robertson and a Host of others beside George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Connie Rice and all the rest of the NEOCON CONSPIRITORS in the dock before the bar to find that their treason shall not go without consequences dire!
I am quite curious as to why Senator Robertson(Chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee) did not bring other Committee members into the meeting back in 2003 so they too could view/witness the video tapes of the interriogation of two alleged AlQueda members before the video tapes were destroyed. ONLY two person(Chair in House and Chair in Senate) were permitted to view the tapes before being destroyed by the CIA, as Michael Haydenof the CIA has disclosed this evening.....of course both Intell. Committees were chaired by Republicans; both of whom supported bush's war in Iraq. The interrogations of these two individuals occured back when "waterboarding" was, apparently,
o.k. to use, so being as how almost ALL Republicans are dishonest/deceitful, it would come
as no great shock to me that such a procedure was used, videoed and then destroyed.
Only time, and an investigation, will give us the true facts.
Doggiebobo @ 11:
For those not up-to-date, Yahoo News has this as their top story this evening..headlined
"Hayden Says CIA VideoTapes Destroyed".
taodon @ 6:
Actually NOT off topic inasmuch as Senator Robertson was the Chairman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee and was one of only two people who were made aware that
tapes of interrogation were being destroyed.
CD @ 8:
Isn't he one of the guys that just switched from the GOP to run as a Dem? Or is that in Nebraska?
Sitemonitor: Suggest that you or John or Nichole post a thread on C&L about the
recent breaking news pertaining to CIA admitting it destroyed video tapes of interrogations.
With respect to MY numbers 11, 12, & 13 above, it should read Senator "Bob Roberts"
not Robertson.
Sooooo disturbed with this recent story that my figers got ahead of my brain...
Doggiebobo @ 16:
Damn, I did it again...Not Bob, but "Pat Roberts".
Orman seems like he'd be a great candidate, not that I vote in Kansas.
If he's a former Republican that's fine.
Those turncoats are the best kind.
Just ask the GOP about Joe.
If he's a Democrat running in Kansas, he better run a very populist, down to earth campaign or he might as well not bother. Unless a Democrat can convince the people of Kansas that he's really on their side looking out for their welfare and Pat Roberts is a tool of corporate interests, he hasn't got a chance. Read "What's the Matter with Kansas?".
I look forward to working with the Orman campaign. Roberts is a GOTS-to-go situation!
I saw MTP that morning and when that lying bastard pulled those pills out I want to throw something through the tv to get at him. He did nothing but coverup all the the Bush/Cheney bs.
And where was Pat Roberts when Valerie Plame was outed and her operation to track WMDs in Iraq and Iran was outed and our intelligence in those countries was compromised? Bet he knows something and it's high time he was questioned. Oh, nevermind. He's in the club. Protected.
Brownback has announced he won't run in 2010, but he might pull a Craig. Roberts will never retire, he's like a piece of furniture--heavy and uncomfortable but always in the way.
I love Jim Ward from the Stephanie Miller Show's impression of Roberts. It's a must-hear
fuck this repug shithead.
NovaNardis @ 14:
I have no clue I'd never heard of the guy before today.
"Kansans elected Democrat Nancy Boyda to Congress last year and things look even worse for Republicans for 2008."
Are you nuts..? Boyda is hardly a "win" for the Dems. How quickly we forget she was on board with denying DC their rights to be part of the "consent of the governed" and who can forget her star-winning performance with Charles Gibson in which she said she was supporting Bush on the surge literally seconds after getting elected.
Gibson: Would you vote in favor of money to support another 20,000 to 40,000 troops in Iraq?
Boyda: I think we're going to vote to support what the commander in chief and head of military asks to do. At least, I am certainly going to vote to support it.
Gibson: If he wants the surge, he'll get it.
Boyda: Yes.… He is the commander in chief, Charlie. We don't get that choice. Congress doesn't make that decision.
Gibson: But the polls would indicate, and indeed, so many voters when they came out of the ballot box, said, "We're voting because we want something done about the war and we want the troops home."
Boyda: They should have thought about that before they voted for President Bush not once, but twice.
roberts is nothing more than a used piece of repiglican shit paper .. does not have soul .. in it's place is simply a rancid abscess full of the puss of evil .. a stooge of lucifer himself .. and this is what the 'enlightened' people of kansas 'elected' ? saws a whole lot about what lives in that state ..........
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