Subject: U.S. Congressional Budget Office

• With all of his talk about the “middle class,” Congressman Sam Graves sounds like the idiot on Main Street

  January 22, 2009

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

  June 25, 2009

• Brownback lies about cap-and-trade

  ​U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback is spouting nonsense in an effort to denigrate a bill intended to halt climate change.In a taped address to the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, Brownback recently warned that cap-and-trade legislation in Congress would slap a family of four with a $1,500 annual increase in energy costs.But as Media Matters points out, Brownback's $1,500 increase seems to have been pulled from thin air.

  August 5, 2009

• Jenkins gets what she asked for, probably regrets it

  Lynn Jenkins​For everyone who hasn't succumbed to health-care-reform-debate exhaustion, here's some news about it for Kansas. The agency in charge of advising the state's lawmakers on health-care policy has run some numbers and concluded that even in their sold-out, watered-down, pro-life-placating and pandering-to-holdouts condition, the House and Senate reform bills would still save Kansas money and cover almost (but not all of) the state's uninsured.The Kansas Health Policy Authority asked

  December 2, 2009

• Rep. Lynn Jenkins throws rocks at things she wants

  Lynn Jenkins​Scenario: Kansas Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins asks for a yellow piece of fruit. The grocer gives her a lemon. She throws it against a wall.Jenkins pulled a similar stunt on Monday, when she released a statement praising Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback for opposing the health-care legislation creeping through the Senate. Jenkins' statement hit the Republican talking points (increase taxes, federal bureaucrats) and concluded with a call for Congress "to go back to the drawing board and

  December 23, 2009