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.
In an interesting development, one of the only four losing democratic incumbent congressional races in the country is speaking out. Second Congressional District Rep. Nancy Boyda's campaign manager Chad Manspeaker has posted a blog on the Kansas blog Everyday Citizen calling for a greater need for youth outreach and leadership development for youth in the state.
After a tough year in Kansas that made only a net gain of one state house seat and lost a US Congressional seat, democrats in Kansas are bitter sweet. Inspiration for hometown favorite Barack Obama came out in force with a gain of 4% over Kerry's loss in Kansas in 2004. Obama also garnered a 65,000 vote gain since 2004. Yet even with those benefits, Kansas was unable to create any local benefits for itself.
This morning's Topeka Capitol Journal says democrats in the state have no bench of candidates ready to step up and run for any statewide seats much less to seriously oppose the now 3 members of Congress in Kansas.
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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