Democrat Jim Slattery To Take On Bush Lapdog Pat Roberts For KS Senate Seat
By Logan Murphy Thursday Jun 05, 2008 3:10pm
Former Democratic Congressman, Jim Slattery, has officially jumped in the 2008 U.S. Senate race to take on GOP incumbent and loyal Bushie, Pat Roberts. Slattery is holding his own in the polls thus far in the race, keeping Roberts from breaking the 50% mark, which is stunning in a state that votes overwhelmingly Republican. The release of the Phase 2 report on prewar Iraq intelligence has given Slattery an opening to attack Roberts that's big enough to drive a train through. Proving he's ready to take the fight to to his opponent, Slattery wasted no time calling Roberts out for his role in covering up the lies of the Bush administration during the run up to the invasion of Iraq:
After a nearly four-year investigation, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today released their final phase II report on prewar Iraq intelligence.
The report outlines many prewar statements made by members of the Bush Administration that according to the report "misrepresented the intelligence and threat from Iraq."
Jim Slattery, candidate for the United States Senate, criticized the federal government.
"It is unconscionable that top government officials would willfully mischaracterize the intelligence to drum up support for a war," Slattery said. "This is the worst kind of incompetence on the part of the federal government."
While the report details the failures of the Bush Administration and the intelligence community, Slattery said the Senate Intelligence Committee should also be held responsible for their lack of oversight.
"While this report is helpful in providing more evidence about what went wrong in the lead up to war in Iraq, it's not fair to place blame solely on the Administration."
Senator Pat Roberts was the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2002-2003, during the lead-up to the war in Iraq. As ranking member and then chairman, Roberts duty was to provide "vigilant legislative oversight over the intelligence activities of the United States."
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"Sadly, Roberts failed our country when it mattered most," Slattery said. "Both Republicans and Democrats on the Intelligence Committee were negligent in their responsibility to question the intelligence community and the Administration about their justifications for pre-emptive war.
"Why didn't Roberts' tell the American people there were serious doubts about the reliability of the intelligence and that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9-11? Why didn't he raise objections when Administration officials portrayed an open-and-shut case that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons and working with al Qaeda?
"As the top Republican on the committee he certainly should have known the intelligence didn't support these claims."
For three years Roberts repeatedly delayed the publication of the report in an attempt to protect the Bush Administration.
"As a citizen and political outsider, I find it completely unacceptable that our government failed us on so many counts during the lead up to the war in Iraq," Slattery said. "Ultimately, Chairman Roberts and the Senate Intelligence Committee failed in their oversight responsibility, both going into the war and in getting to the bottom of what happened in a timely manner."
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Foist!
Have a great weekend folks!
I'm goin to the pub and celebrate Obama's candidacy...again!
Go Slattery!
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 1:
No need to foist, just vote in a free and open election.
Go Slattery!
i give him credit for taking that fight on
This is one seat we need to go after. We have to pull together as Netroots and get Roberts, a filthy scumbag if there ever was one, out of the senate. We are going to have to get some more Demos in the senate anyway to shore it up for when Obama chooses Biden for Sec of State.
excellent. roberts is a traitor in fealty to bush. fuck him.
With this opening because of the Phase 2 report on prewar Iraq intelligence, Roberts is vulnerable right now. Get the wonderful people of KS to feel very comfortable with the name Slattery rolling off their tongues.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 2:
If you do this every evening until Nov. you're going to be wiped out.
Have a great one!
Pat Roberts should be an easy mark after the way he has kissed this administration's ass these past seven and a half years.
This state is ripe for the picking to turn it into a blue state if the cards are played correctly. Democrats have to really play this report on prewar Iraq intelligence has hard as we can. What has now been shown that Bush did has got to bring down the Republican party for generations. Double your efforts in everything yoiu are now doing. Whatever it may be. Even if it is writing comments. Go to other sites and write more comments. Hit some right wing sites and plant it in their heads that McSame is not going to be good for them/us. And all the right wing nutjobs in office right now were part of this thing. We have to have filibuster proof senate. we have to retire McCain and his war monger buddies right now.
Oh my, Pat must have had some really gay fantasies for God to send an Angel down to smite him thus!
Good for him and all, but I'm very annoyed that there is no one out there who is will to stop blaming this all on "incompetence" and calling these guys the liars that they are. It wasn't "incompetence" that made them lie about the testimony of Iraqi defector Hussein Kamel. The man told them in no uncertain terms that all the WMDs were destroyed and they turned around and cited his testimony as proof the WMDs still exist -- Bush in Cincinnati, Cheney on Meet the Press in addition to Powell, Rice and others. That's not "incompetence". That's a bald faced lie.
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Democrat Jim Slattery To Take On Bush Lapdog Pat Roberts For KS Senate Seat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md81TYtfSfE&feature=related
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 2:
I'll drink to anything
Even sobriety.
EPeoples @ 13:
Depemds on how you look at it. You can be evil and incompetent. Just ask George Bush.
Besides fucking everything up and possibly (hopefully) putting his own party out of power what has he achieved?
pissed off patricia @ 10:
Hey Patricia, can you use "feces" in a sentence again? I'm sure you can think something up concerning Pat Roberts.
Captain Bitter Elitist Husein Kangaroo @ 17:
Angels With Dirty Feces?
So isn't the Governor of KS, Kathleen Sebelius, real popular? After the right wing nut cases tried to force some kind of pro creationism down these fine people's throats.
Slattery should wear a tie.
He's making a statement to many by not wearing one and losing votes needlessly.
Hey, I was president of my fraternity. I know about such things.
Captain Bitter Elitist Husein Kangaroo @ 17:
How about he is just a piece of fecal matter. Will that do?
Pat Roberts is one of the worst BushCo appeasers. It would be soooo sweet to see him go (unless he decides to retire to "spend more time with his family".)
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Patsy Roberts has got to go...
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I think Roberts and McConnel from Kentucky and Cornyn from Texas are the three I would most like to see defeated. That would send a very strong message to everyone.
the fact that slattery is holding his own in a state that has traditionally been overwhelmingly Republican bodes well for a demo/liberal landslide in Nov. All that means is that the repulbicans have finally awakened and will cross party lines. Enough is enough. When they have to pay $5 at the pump, that tends to put having a beer with GW and mcSame on the back burner.
Go Jim Slattery, Go!
This is what the Democrats need to make 2009 a good year. More fresh blood in Congress. Time to sweep out the old legacy and replace it with a new one!
the media war has barely begun. they have already dragged up tom delay to call Obama a marxist.
I think that Obama should make a trip to KS and hold some rallies. He's on a roll right now. Slattery is on a roll.
Just thinking. Its no time to relax.
sturg111 @ 24:
I'd like to dump sen. nelson(D-Ne), another boosh dog
Captain Bitter Elitist Husein Kangaroo @ 28:
He's already made his first visit to appalachia.
pissed off patricia @ 21:
cleanup, aisle 21
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Party Victory @ 31:
Good one!
EPeoples @ 13:
Agree 100% .
Does anyone believe these guys just fell off a turnip truck and then got elected to congress ? They're allowing themselves to be called incompetent because you usually don't go to prison for incompetence .
Good for Slattery for going after Roberts. While leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Robert succesfully prevented oversight of the Bush administration's shameful conduct in misleading the country about the justification for invading Iraq. I expect politicians to play politics on most issues but not when it comes to the issue of war. Not when it results in over 4,000 American soldiers killed and 30,000 wounded.
Senator Roberts conduct was a profile in cowardice.
This is one seat we really need to nurture and fund with our $1.00 and $5.00. FireDogLake and C&L needs to get Slattery some face time on FDL.
This would be a major upset. Let's upset it.
EPeoples @ 13:
I could not agree more. It's a lie. And I hope Slattery comes out of the gate calling it a lie, since he has Roberts' record of hiding the truth for four years to back him up.
What's all this talk about Endangered Feces?
My goodness, another war criminal.
there is no way Pat Roberts doesn't return to washington as the senator from Kansas. we been electing this guy since 1980
and the Repukes thougt 2006 was a bad year
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Here is a video of him talking to delegates at the 2008 session of Boys State of Kansas from Tuesday.
Sen. Roberts was the one person most responsible for congressional oversight of the effectiveness of our intelligence agencies, and the use of intelligence by the Bush administration. His neglect of those responsibilities was complete. To make matters worse, he led efforts to block investigations of intelligence failures, and misrepresentation of intelligence, relating to the sale of the iraq war. If Sen. Roberts is not held accountable, and removed from office by the voters, democracy will have atrphied in Kansas to the extent that it will be completely disfunctional.
Republican Senator Pat Roberts did everything in his power to delay, divert and dilute Phase II of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. You know the report that was just released that should have been completed before the 2004 election. The Report that should end up holding the pre-war fabricators accountable.
Roberts did everything he could to divert JUSTICE. Hopefully the folks in Kansas will get it and get rid of Roberts.
theWalrus @ 22:
Yeah, he's the worst of the worst--well almost. Pat RobertSON is worse than him.
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Party Victory @ 27:
Tom DeLay is the smelliest piece of dung at the top of an already smelly dunghill. Who takes that guy seriously? He's gonna be gettin' bent over by Bubba in cell 39.
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