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Obama's Car for your Future

Sebelius for HHS

In a time when conservatives and Republicans (for some odd reason, we go by both names) need to organize and win a battle or two, it isn’t often that DEMOCRATS hand us a freebie. But they did when Obama nominated Sebelius for HHS.

There’s enough ammo on Sebelius to knock her out cold before she even gets in front of the committees that question her for confirmation. There is no need to chronicle all that ammo here – radical abortion views, staunch partisanship, lousy fiscal policy, soft on illegals, Tiller parties, energy and jobs, multiple gaffes, etc. – you’ve heard it all before.

A win would actually be a double win, because it would represent another in a long line of Obama appointees who had to back out of their nominations due to personal or political deficiencies. He lost ANOTHER ONE yesterday, and one today!. His appointment record is dismal.

We got handed a double win!

A FREE double win!

So, what are we doing?

Letting it sail right by.

Way to go Republicans!

The pro-life community has launched a full-scale effort to keep her out. The problem is, they don’t have enough media clout to accomplish their goal. Some in the mainstream print media touched on the issue, and a few even mentioned some Sebelius negatives, but even those reporters usually mentioned her “positives” more prevalently in their articles.

One of the key reasons Sebelius is considered fit for duty as HHS Secretary is that her two pro-life home-state Republican US Senators immediately approved of her nomination. Roberts and Brownback may have had the press release supporting her written before Obama made the official announcement. It sure seemed like it. Their reasons for supporting her are very weak, and if you’ve noticed, they aren’t out there in the media defending those reasons.

Both Senators claim long careers devoted to their pro-life positions, and one of them can hardly speak without mentioning it.  The other one stood on the stage with her at the announcement of her nomination, even though every thing he’s ever stood for is 180 degrees opposite of Sebelius. So, I have to ask: “What is going on?”

Why aren’t we going after these two Senators for blatant hypocrisy and for throwing an opportunity to win in the toilet? We should be. Problem is – no one in our local media will get behind it. No one on TV. No one on radio. No one in the paper.

One guy on local radio is going after Brownback, but he won’t touch Roberts. Go figure. He’s the same guy who builds statues honoring McCaskill for voting NO on the Omnibus Spending Bill in the Senate this week, while slamming Roy Blunt every day (even though Blunt voted NO on the exact same bill when it was in the House). And that’s from our resident conservative (who is a hero compared to the rest of the KC "talkers"). No wonder we lose elections and policy issues. At this rate, we’ll get Carnahan for Missourah Senator next year.

Our local media has the advantage of Kansas listeners (i.e. VOTERS) who could possibly sway Roberts and Brownback to stick with their principles. Laura Ingram has covered it, on the national level, but she can’t do it alone. O’Reilly even covered it for a night or two. But the local media are the ones that should be after this. Every Republican or truth-lover in the local media should be all over this story and all over the Kansas Senators – BOTH of them. Local interest might even make it a national story again, adding to the pressure on Brownback and Roberts. Local media people need to get these guys on the air, and if they refuse, that needs to be publicized.

There is still time. But time is short. And this free double-win won’t just happen by itself. Write those Senators. Call the radio and TV stations. Forget the Star – they are too far gone. BOTH Brownback and Roberts need to step up and oppose Sebelius for HHS. Either one, alone, won’t do the trick. PRESSURE is the only way.

Otherwise, Sebelius and Obama will together run about one-fourth of our spending, and with a healthcare bill, it will go higher. I know folks in Kansas want her gone, but the REST OF US in the USA do not deserve the kinds of radical mistakes she made in the Sunflower State.  HHS will soon be ONE TRILLION DOLLARS per year of spending.

Of course, we could just let her slide right in to the post and just keep harping about earmarks for the next four years, day after day after day. That’s proven to be a winning strategy. Didn’t McCain start fighting pork about 10 years ago? Look where it got him.

Low hangin’ fruit? Low hangin’ curveball? Whatever you want to call it, it’s right there, right now, right in front of our faces, and we are ignoring it. That is very sad.

Bob Hazlett