“My wife says I should rent an apartment up here.” — Rep. Todd Tiahrt (in photo), R-Goddard, in Overland Park, on one of the more than 40 days he’s spent in Johnson County this year campaigning for the U.S. Senate
“Johnson County has become a second home.” — [...]
In endorsing President Obama’s plan to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry (in photo) raised a key concern: Success depends on the Afghan and Pakistani governments. “In spite of everything we do,” Eikenberry told the House [...]
Bottom Line Communications picked up on this. Apparently, even the favorite university of the "paper of record" in Kansas City isn't spared from bad editing.
“One of the examples I use: Part of our stimulus money went to spaying and neutering pets in Wichita, Kan. The stimulus bag was in fact a grab bag of big spending programs.” — Carly Fiorina (in photo), GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in California and [...]
“I’ve started reading it, but it’s going to take a while.” — Sen. Sam Brownback (in photo), R-Kan., placing his hand on the Senate’s 2,000-page health reform bill at an Olathe town hall meeting
“If you’re the least bit politically active, and the party doesn’t have the governor’s [...]
Columnist and author Thomas Frank finds it “cosmically correct” that James K. Glassman (in photo), the co-author of “Dow 36,000,” will be the executive director of the George W. Bush Institute at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. “This great Wall Street optimist will oversee the remnants [...]
RealClearPolitics’ Tom Bevan and Mike Memoli have cast their imaginations beyond Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, and drawn up a list of GOP dark horses for 2012: South Dakota Sen. John Thune (in photo), Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Texas Gov. [...]
