Kobach, abortion and the president's power
Gusher of a myth
President Barack Obama has been hard at work driving down gasoline prices around the nation and in the Kansas City area, where they have fallen 15 percent just this month.
Thank goodness the President of the United States still has the power to control the price of fuel.
We’re kidding, people!
Politicians of both parties too often are tempted to use the cost of gasoline as a political cudgel.
Democrats did it a few times when George W. Bush was president, once passing a bill demanding that he halt efforts to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. That was aimed at saving a few pennies a gallon for consumers but it also endangered the country’s ability to provide enough oil in a national emergency.
More recently, Mitt Romney and other Republicans have been grousing about the cost of gasoline, pinning much of the blame on the policies of Obama.
It’s another misfire. Politicians, including the president, do not have much influence over near-term gasoline prices. And their long-term power ain’t that great, either.
Instead, as energy experts and consultants make clear, oil is a commodity traded worldwide. So the price is established by what’s going on around the globe. Is consumption up in China? That’s going to allow producers to boost prices. Are major economies tanking, reducing demand for oil? That’s going to put pressure on producers to lower costs. Oh, and how’s the political tension in the Middle East? How’s the weather out there; is it forcing refineries or drilling rigs to close down?
Yes, this country can make some long-term changes to slowly boost production. That’s been happening with the fracking boom in North Dakota and elsewhere. In fact (Republicans, hide your eyes), U.S. crude oil production has risen in Obama’s first three full years in office.
Boosting the efficiency of the nation’s fleet of cars and trucks also could help drive down demand. Obama has led the way in crafting agreements with carmakers to build vehicles getting an average of 54.5 miles a gallon by 2025, double the current requirement.
Still — like Bush and other presidents before him — Obama has very little control over the price of gasoline in this country.
Kobach’s wandering ways
Apparently unchastened by a fledgling recall effort that accuses him of being “derelict in his duties,” Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has signed on to represent Mississippi in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over President Obama’s executive order to allow some children of undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States.
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant contends Obama’s order will cost the state money for education, law enforcement, health care and other services. According to the Jackson (Miss.) Free Press, Kobach is representing Mississippi at no charge.
A Topeka activist, Sonny Scroggins, has filed notice with the state of Kansas to launch a recall petition against Kobach, claiming in part that his immigration work prevents him from fulfilling his duties.
The recall effort faces a high bar. But perhaps Kobach is paying attention, after all. Recently, he’s at least been sticking close to the Kansas state line. He’s been barnstorming around Missouri with secretary of state candidate Shane Schoeller on Schoeller’s “show me voter ID” tour.
Kobach is also scheduled to attend a “power lunch” at Brio on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City on Wednesday with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Todd Akin, the GOP candidate for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat.
Kobach does seem to be exceptionally busy right around election time, when most secretaries of state hunker down to try to ensure that everything goes well at the polling places.
But we have doubts about Scroggins’ effort. Recalls are difficult to accomplish under the most egregious of circumstances. And, given that nearly everything Kobach undertakes is controversial, many Kansans might prefer that he spend his time out of state.
Limiting abortion
Nearly 40 years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision made abortion legal, its fallout continues to scar the political landscape.
With lawmakers in state legislatures and Congress seeking ever more restrictive laws, politicians are now fielding questions about just how far they would go to limit abortions. The topic has become a minefield from some candidates — think Republican U.S. Senate hopefuls Akin of Missouri and Richard Mourdock of Indiana — but it’s clearly not going to go away.
So what do you think?
Should abortion:
Be legal, especially in the early stages of pregnancy.
Be illegal in all cases.
Be banned except for cases of rape and/or incest.
Be illegal except to save the life of the mother.
Other.
Go to Midwest Debate at kansascity.com/opinion to record your choice and tell us why in the comments section.
George Hunsucker
Northland
6 months, 3 weeks agoWhy isn’t the star interested in getting at the bottom of Benghazi-gate??????
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/petraeus-throws-obama-under-bus_657896.html
Come on libs we need some help with this transparency from the big 0 that was promised….
Sonny Scroggins
6 months, 3 weeks agoBIAS BUSTERS OF KANSAS, AND BIAS BUSTERS OF GREATER KC WILL PROTEST. KRIS KOBACH FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD HOME, NEWT GET OUT OF DODGE BY HIGH NOON!?! Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012…
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/10/26/3887081/the-stars-editorial-kobach-abortion.html#storylink=cpy
I Challenge my Generation to Inspire Future Generations.
Yours in Christ, Sonny Scroggins
Linda Joy Adams
6 months, 3 weeks agoDear Mr.Scroggins: Kris Kobach having same politics for some time and no one was opposing him until he said Pres Obama is eligible to be on the ballot as he has the proof of his Topeka Ks birth, death certificate of his real Dad,(never in media) murdered in a vicious racial attack against his parents that left three dead on the banks of the Kansas River before birth and the marriage certificate to Obama Sr, which ,my Dad arranged before birth at Mcvicar Chapel on Washburn campus with the Black sorority members in attendance. Before birth, which rebuts the presumption of the husband being the Dad. Both sides ‘mad’ at him.His staff diligently searched for the records after I filed an affidavit of eyewitness account of circumstanes of birth with him and posted on my face book,blogger and twitter. Orly Taitz didn’t help him out by asking for the court orders which is needed to let everyone know the TRUTH.These birthers seem only to want to prove eligibility. For 50 years there has been no justice in the matter and Ann, my second cousin died still subject to being called as a witness if any trial had ever occurred. A few days later, I posted my letter to Eric Holder to see if any justice could occur 50 years to late. The gossip frenzy over the interracial couple, which led to the attack ended at the deaths and for 50 years, no one in Topeka KS wanted to speak about it. When we forget the injustices of the past, we are doomed to repeat it.How about a protest march for justice for all the ‘ disappeared’ and dead that ended up in the Kansas River not so many decades ago and whose bodies didn’t wash up on a sand bar later as these did. My affidavit also explains that as of 1/71, the president was not being told of his origins and as of Fall of 1963, his maternal grandmother had concocted a false bio and expected every one in the extended family to go along with it. My Mother did not fly to Hawaii nor to Kenya in her 1948 Fleetwood Chevy as she took Ann to Forbes Air Force base hospital to have him. Whoever bought that car as an antique from my parents, Tracy and Florence Hardy at RR paxico Ks in the 80’s may still have the DNA of the President in the stuffing of the driver;s side of the back seat as Ann’s water broke on the way. No time to get to Hawaii!!Complicating the history is that Dunham was a stolen id by my cousin Daniel Wayne Pope so he could go to war when too young as the KS authorities verified in trying to locate paternal relatives after Ann had parted ways wit her mother;s relatives at westboro baptist church and my Mom and I went to get the gdnshp papers signed over to her from Fred Phelps where she lived while attending Capper Jr HS. She was unable to enroll at Topeka HS until my mother got the papers and did so in Spring of 1961. All The authorities wanted to do is stop a 15 years old from searching for a body and wanting an investigation. No real justice has ever occurred on this that I am aware of! Linda Joy Adams
Sonny Scroggins
6 months, 3 weeks agoOK
Sonny Scroggins
6 months, 3 weeks agoVDAY: NOV. 6, 2012..
VOTE YOUR VALUES…
RIDE R DIE… 4 THOSE THAT DIDN’T REGISTER 2 VOTE, GIVE SOMEONE A RIDE WHO HAS, MAKE PLANS NOW!
I Challenge my Generation to Inspire Future Generations.
Yours in Christ, Sonny Scroggins
Sonny Scroggins
6 months, 3 weeks ago47% RIDE R DIE CAMPAIGN!
Sonny Scroggins
6 months, 3 weeks ago47% vs SUPPRESSERS AND HYPOCRITE!?!
PRESS RELEASE
October 28, 2012
To: All Media Outlets
From: Bias Busters of Kansas
Subject: Itinerant Secretary of State
Kansas City, Missouri …….………On Wednesday October 31, 2012 at 11 am, Bias Busters of Kanas will hold a protest near Brio’s Restaurant at 502 Nichols Drive on the Country Club Plaza. The actual location of the protest will be on the east side of the Plaza. Once again, Kansas’ Secretary of State is meddling in other state’s affairs rather than doing the job Kansas taxpayers are paying him to do.
Instead of making sure that the upcoming presidential election process runs smoothly in Kansas, he is lunching (hobnobbing) with republican party members; the former House Speaker but now “irrelevant” Newt Gingrich and Todd “I’m sorry, I misspoke” Akin, the GOP candidate for Missouri’s US Senate seat.
Politics make strange bedfellows. Kris Kobach intends to prevent all undocumented workers from entering the United States. Newt Gingrich’s position on immigration is that anyone who is unreceptive to helping undocumented workers does not have a heart. Gingrich once stated that “America also is a land of immigrants, and our lives, economy, and history have been enriched by immigration.”
http://cjonline.com/news/2012-03-06/scroggins-protest-gingrich-behalf-poor
Kris Koch Kobach, follow the yellow brick road home to Kansas!
Newton Leroy McPherson, Get out of Dodge!
Todd Akin, Get a Clue!
THE POWER OF ONE!
The 47% vs. Right-wing Conservatives
The public is invited to participate.
For more information contact Sonny Scroggins at 785 431 6304.
http://cjonline.com/news/2012-03-07/gingrich-cancels-kansas-visits
I Challenge my Generation to Inspire Future Generations.
Yours in Christ, Sonny Scroggins
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