True to form, she's also hoping the people of Kansas will forget all about it too.
But we're not gonna let up.
To start, we're launching JenkinsFail.com, a new website from the Kansas Democratic Party with the sole intent of keeping track of Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins' repeated failures both past and present.
Remember Rep. Lynn Jenkins? If you don't, she was last week's Joe Wilson.
Jenkins spent her recess eagerly embracing obstructive partisanship, going so far as to declare herself a "proud member of the Party of 'No'". Now she's back among her Republican colleagues in Washington where she's now disguising an attack on the President as a plea for bipartisanship:
"...I was hopeful that tonight he [Obama] would lead the way on a bipartisan solution."
That statement was sent out just minutes after President Obama finished his speech last night.
Rep. Lynn Jenkins' terrible awful no good very bad August is definitely extending into September.
Yesterday, her parade of failure marched on. Elizabeth Smith, the uninsured single mother Jenkins laughed at, is now telling her story. Last night on the Ed Show, she made it clear that she was "frustrated" with her Congresswoman and that she "wasn't looking for a handout" in insurance reform.
After this week, I bet Lynn Jenkins can't wait to get back home to Washington. Video below the fold...
The tide is turning in Kansas' Second Congressional district.
In what has to be described as Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins' terrible awful no good very bad August, the Congresswoman has faced a slew of bad front page headlines, embarrassing gaffes, and three consecutive mentions on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Jenkins has admitted she failed to read legislation she's voted on, has no plans to read the health bills she opposes, and failed to show compassion by laughing at an uninsured single mother while she held her young son.
Lucky for her, August is over.
...but September is already off to a bad start. She can't wait to find shelter in Washington.
All the bad press is starting to catch up. She's rattled. Yesterday, Rep. Jenkins held another town hall forum, and, let's just say, the crowd was left unimpressed. Meet me below the fold for more.
Lynn Jenkins is really making a name for herself this past week.
No, I'm not talking about her "great white hope" comments. I'm talking about her incredibly cold response to a 27 year old single mother without health insurance. This polite woman, a full time waitress, falls just within the health insurance crack. Despite having a young son, she can't afford health insurance and doesn't qualify for Medicaid or SCHIP. As the AP wrote:
One was Elizabeth Smith, a 27-year-old Ottawa waitress who wanted to know what was wrong with a government-run plan for Americans who are currently uninsured. Smith's 2 1/2-year-old son, Jonah, sat on a nearby table, swinging his legs...
....Smith's son hasn't been to a doctor in 21 months, except for emergency room visits for ear infections, because she can't afford either insurance or a doctor's visit.
Jenkins' response? A hardy laugh and the words "go be a grown up."
This compassionless, bureaucratic exchange between Smith and Lynn Jenkins' was luckily caught on tape. The footage is incredible in it's detachment from the dire situation that is our health insurance crisis.
I just had to tell ya'll about this because its something that makes me crazy.
Last year around Christmas time - the Kansas GOP sent out what I'm sure they thought was a normal everyday fundraising email. What they mistakenly did was talk about all the great work they are doing and talked about their Vote Caging program.
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