Subject: Kit Bond

• Crankytown: Kit Bond

  July 13, 2007

• Kit Bond hates Jeff Roe after all

  September 29, 2008

• Mail

  February 24, 2000

• Kansas City Strip

  November 16, 2000

• Kit Bond has plenty of time to send awkward Christmas cards

  Missouri Sen. Kit Bond is retiring. I hope he has more time to send holiday greetings. -- Justin Kendall

  January 8, 2009

• Best Temper Tantrum

  October 18, 2001

• Baby Blunt's unpopularity hurting daddy

  The National Review Online wonders if the unpopularity of now-former Missouri Governor Matt Blunt will sink big daddy Roy Blunt's chances of taking Kit Bond's Senate seat. Yes, it's early, but this poll says daddy's going to need help if he's going to beat Robin Carnahan. -- Justin Kendall

  January 14, 2009

• Slander?

  September 5, 2002

• Best Correction

  October 17, 2002

• Your Homeland Security Dollars At Work

  April 17, 2003

• Senate hopefuls get raspberries on human rights

  Roy BluntGay right advocates are not impressed with some of the candidates vying to represent middle America in the Senate. Change.org writer Michael A. Jones notes that Roy Blunt and Jerry Moran scored zeroes on the Human Rights Campaign's scorecard. Blunt represents the Springfield area in the U.S. House. He is reportedly asking fellow Republicans to support to his bid to take the place of the retiring Kit Bond.Moran has served western Kansas in the House since 1997. He wants the seat Sam Brow

  February 4, 2009

• Gold Bond

  January 15, 2004

• Bus Crash

  January 22, 2004

• Kit Bond named Wednesday's "Worst Person in the World"

  Don't show Keith Olbermann this video from KY3's political blog. Olbermann's head might explode if he hears Missouri U.S. Sen. Kit Bond spouting the myth of the train from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Uh, Kit. There's no such provision in the economic stimulus bill. There's money for high-speed rail, but no specific project. Last night, Olbermann hammered Bond on MSNBC's Countdown, naming Missouri's senior senator the "Worst Person in the World" for barnstorming the Show-Me State and touting the be

  February 19, 2009

• Broken Piggy Banks

  March 5, 2009

• Arguing about the stimulus, pork-producing hometown Republicans have made a ridiculous stand for austerity

  February 26, 2009

• In the new economy, even jackasses have to work a little harder

  February 26, 2009

• Six ways the city has wrecked a vital agency. Two projects that work anyway.

  January 8, 2009

• Letters

  October 9, 2008

• The Surreal Life: In Lee’s Summit, Missouri, John McCain and Sarah Palin refute reality

  September 18, 2008

• Unhappy Endings

  Readers speak out on the demise of a drug dealer — and our last lines about him.

  January 24, 2008

• Warren's World

  May 31, 2007

• Real Loft Living

  May 3, 2007

• Kit and Caboodle

  Letters from the week of

  January 5, 2006

• Cross Fire

  Letters from the week of December 29, 2005

  December 29, 2005

• Silent Night

  December 22, 2005

• Dude Where's the Party

  Local Democrats cross political lines to support their favorite pork producer — Senator Kit Bond.

  January 8, 2004

• High Five

  A handful of elders gets off easy.

  January 2, 2003

• Mud Money

  The barge industry pays Missouri's senators big money for small fry.

  October 12, 2000

• Will Missouri make a difference on Super Tuesday?

  March 2, 2000

• Environmental group releases congressional scorecard

  Republicans are anti-environment and Democrats are pro-environment. That is the rhetoric heard in political campaigns everywhere. And with the publication of the League of Conservation Voters environmental scorecard, released last week by the Sierra Club,

  February 17, 2000

• If only Kit Bond really spoke Spanish...

  ... then maybe the Missouri Senator would make more sense than when he talks about any issue in English. Senate Republicans were proud enough to post this on YouTube: Sen. Kit Bond delivering the weekly Republican radio address, on Gitmo, with audio in Spanish. Note that says "with audio in Spanish." Not that he's actually speaking it. Better than a B movie! And shorter!

  May 12, 2009

• Beer enemies join forces

  The film Beer Wars painted the world of brewing as a ferocious battle between little guys such as Dogfish Head and New Belgium being bullied by the multi-national giants of Miller, Coors and especially Anheuser-Busch. One of director Anat Baron's targets was the powerful lobbying group the Beer Institute, which she implied was the bane of the small brewer, pushing only the agenda of Anheuser-Busch. According to The Atlantic, though, The Beer Institute has now joined forces with its arch-nemesis,

  June 10, 2009

• John Danforth has tried to save the GOP from itself. Now, by endorsing Roy Blunt, he’s sold his soul.

  June 25, 2009

• Here’s why that shiny new government building doesn’t really help taxpayers

  July 30, 2009

• Kit Bond will vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor

  ​We've given Missouri U.S. Sen. Kit Bond a lot of shit (looking at you, Crap Archivist). But gotta give the old guy a tip of the hat for this one: Bond is one of seven Republican senators who will vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.The other six names don't begin with "Sam" and end with "Brownback" or, for that matter, "Pat" and "Roberts."

  August 5, 2009

• Three things we learned about sucking this weekend

  1. The slurping sound coming from the West Bottoms is Kemper Arena sucking up about a million taxpayer dollars. Photo courtesy of the Kansas City Convention & Visitors AssociationKemper Arena​2. The Kansas City Chiefs still suck. Long season ahead for Matt Cassel. 3. U.S. Sen. Kit Bond feels "like a mosquito in a nudist colony" trying to pick his battles. Despite e-mails to the contrary, he's still denying getting the White House to fire Todd Graves as U.S. attorney.​

  August 17, 2009

• Bond's nudist colony gag stolen from self, others

  Kit Bond's official, not-so-recent photo​When Kit Bond learns a joke, he likes to milk it dry.Missouri's senior senator recently quipped: "There's so many bad ideas in Washington that when I try to decide what to fight I feel like a mosquito in a nudist colony."It's a laugh line Bond's used before. He made the joke earlier this year, during the debate over the stimulus package.In fact, for Bond, the bug-bite simile goes back at least two presidencies. A 1995 St. Louis Post-Dispatch story descr

  August 17, 2009

• 17 things we learned this week

  ​1. Flavored cigs are going bye-bye.2. Congressman Emanuel Cleaver held a civil town hall meeting.3. Former Missouri Gov. Warren E. Hearnes died.4. David Cross is going to get fucked up in KC in September.5. Kit Bond: Joke thief.6. The most important video of our time -- of an alien peeking through a window -- was unveiled. 7. KU's J-school dean isn't sexist. 8. Alexander Austin wants his Michael Jackson mural to be perfect.9. Fox 4 is ready for a zombie apocalypse. Save us, Phil Witt.10. Wres

  August 21, 2009

• Locals react to the death of Ted Kennedy

  Ted Kennedy​Here's what Kansas and Missouri senators are saying about the death of Ted Kennedy (we'll keep adding them as they come in). Pat Roberts​Kansas U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts: "The Senate has lost the lion's roar of the left," Roberts said. "His wife Victoria, his family, friends and staff are in our thoughts and prayers." "When I came to the Senate, Senator Kennedy was one of the first to welcome me and invite me to his office to discuss legislation where we might work together and mov

  August 26, 2009

• Health-care campaign contributions for Senators Kit Bond and Sam Brownback

  For today's August-recess-celebrating tally of how much medical-industry money is going to the campaigns of metro-area politicians, we've decided to be extra efficient. We've already counted the totals for Sen. Pat Roberts ($525,000), Congressman Dennis Moore ($62,000), Sen. Claire McCaskill ($132,000) and Congressman Sam Graves ($85,500). Today, we've decided to combine the lists for Senators Kit Bond (Republican of Missouri) and Sam Brownback (Republican of Kansas) in one entry.Neither man rea

  August 31, 2009

• This morning's protest: Outside Kit Bond's health-care 'town-hall forum'

  ​Democrats immediately seized on the hypocrisy of a Republican health-care forum at Children's Mercy Hospital today. Across the country, conservatives have flocked to town hall meetings to jeer and deride Democratic policymakers because health-care reform is going to bankrupt the country and, uh, unravel all that is good about America. Apparently, Sen. Kit Bond wasn't interested in hearing liberal advocates assail his opposition to a public option. The Missouri Republican, along with  S

  August 31, 2009

• Rep. Lynn Jenkins' health-care campaign contributions

  ​In honor of her town hall meeting scheduled for 4 p.m. today at the Dole Institute on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, here's a list of Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins' campaign contributions from the health-care industry. (We'll refrain from saying anything here about other town hall meetings that got her in the news recently.)In 2007-2008, running in her first-and-only U.S. House campaign, former Kansas Treasurer Jenkins raised $1,803,976. Of that, $33,129 came from medical-industry

  September 1, 2009

• A sick, toxic summer of health care ends in a trip to the surgery center

  September 3, 2009

• Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's health-care campaign contributions

  ​Considering where this series began -- with Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts' $525,000 in campaign contributions from the health-care industry -- it ends on a number that's almost pathetic by contrast. When I started counting campaign contributions earlier this month, Roberts was the first; his amount struck me as outrageous (Roberts sits on the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, so I wasn't surprised that medical interests were heavily invested in his work). I didn't know what

  September 2, 2009

• Best Of Extra: Amid traffic, an engineering wonder

  Next time you're crawling across the Paseo Bridge (like 101,999 other people every day), look north at the birth of a Kansas City icon: the Christopher S. Bond Bridge.The 4.7 mile span over the Missouri River cost us only $245 million. Huzzah! When it's done, cannon lights will bathe the bridge in a seasonal colors (like green for St. Patrick's Day). The bridge is scheduled to open in 2010, and everything -- including all 12 new on/off ramps -- will is supposed to be done by 2011. On time, on b

  October 2, 2009

• Bond, Brownback and Roberts OK with rape-friendly contracts

  Al Franken​There are a few things that the majority of us can agree on. Among those things: Rape is bad. Gang rape is really fucking bad. Employers that try to get their employees to sign away their rights to sue if they're raped by co-workers? Fucking EVIL. Minnesota Sen. Al Franken introduced an amendment that would have kept the Pentagon from awarding defense contracts to employers that force their employees agree not to sue them if they are raped by co-workers.Franken was doing this all be

  October 19, 2009

• Bond, Brownback call on Obama to push for better health care for troops

  Kit Bond​Sam Brownback​Props to U.S. Sens. Kit Bond and Sam Brownback for pushing President Obama to make sure U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan get the mental health care they need. PrimeBuzz reports that Bond and Brownback are among a group of senators urging Obama to "fight against the military's misuse of personality disorder discharges," which they all teamed up on in 2007. PrimeBuzz notes that "the military views personality disorders as a pre-existing condition, [but]

  October 20, 2009

• Kit Bond on The Daily Show tonight

  Kit Bond​Missouri U.S. Sen. Kit Bond is scheduled to be in the hot seat tonight on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (hat tip to Mike Mahoney's blog).The show preview says Bond will "talk about the spread of Islam into Southeast Asia and a new way to fight global terror." There's also this helpful link to Bond's new book (with Lewis M. Simons) The Next Front: Southeast Asia and the Road to Global Peace with Islam.Too bad he's not pimping A Taste of Missouri: Bond Family Favorites.More Tuesday.

  November 9, 2009

• 'I just got back from Ike Skelton's office and lemme tell ya'

  Kit Bond​A new book written by Missouri Senator and inveterate head tilter Kit Bond held Jon Stewart's interest for three-and-a-half minutes before the Daily Show host moved on to a more interesting subject.Yesterday Bond sat across the table from Stewart to discuss the tome he's written with former Time reporter Lewis Simons, The Next Front: Southeast Asia and the Road to Global Peace With Islam. Bond advocates the use of "smart power," which sounds a little like the foreign-policy equivalent

  November 10, 2009