We're #1!! Kansas lawmakers rank farthest to right in study of U.S. House votes

[proud2BlibKansan]

The most conservative congressional delegation in America?

Take a bow, Kansas.

It isn’t even close.

Less than two years after Republicans rode a tea-party wave to retake the House of Representatives, a widely quoted survey shows the four-member Kansas delegation — Kevin Yoder, Lynn Jenkins, Mike Pompeo and Tim Huelskamp — has voted far more consistently conservative than any House delegation in the nation.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/05/3596704/kansas-ranks-farthest-to-right.html#storylink=cpy

Meet the Kansas delegation:

Kevin Yoder - a young whipper snapper who used to be a Democrat but moved to the right and used tea party support to get elected.

Lynn Jenkins - a compassionate conservative who laughed at a constituent who came to her town hall to ask where she could find affordable health care.

Mike Pompeo - a bigot who referred to his Indian American opponent as a 'towel head' but of course, won his election anyway.

Tim Huelskamp - a conservative who has done absolutely nothing while serving in Congress.

[LonePirate]

1. Is there any chance Yoder loses re-election?

Jenkins (my representative) seems likely headed to a slightly less Republican leaning district so maybe her re-election won't be entirely assured either.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. No one is running against Yoder

So of course he'll win.

[LonePirate]

5. How do we not field a candidate in the state's most populous county?

The Democratic party in KS is in shambles.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. It's positively shameful

I saw Joan Wagnon, state party chair, at the women's march last weekend. It was all I could do to keep from walking up to her and asking her where our candidates are.

[lonestarnot]

2. Not bad for 41 out of 121 days work egh.

[demtenjeep]

4. ugg I don't know which one is worse

Pompeo is an ass

[demtenjeep]

7. Jean Schoedorf is a republican but she is probably the last sane one

I keep telling her that her party is leaving her behind and she might as well become Democratic. She just smiles.

She hates Sarah Palin with a fury and has several of our Palin Jokes on her phone.

I tell her she really isn't a repuke!


My students have paged for her the last 4 years. She made sure they had a great time.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. We have several sane moderates in Johnson County. She's not the only one.

They are just losing to the far right time after time. Meanwhile, the Democrats just sit with their thumbs up their *****, not even recruiting candidates. I'm honestly angrier at the Democrats than the tea party.

[longship]

8. Sigh! Oh for those days when Michael "Tom" Sawyer (D-Wichita) was majority leader

As a former resident, this makes me sad.

I remember the day when Dan Glickman lost his House seat. We kinda knew that something had changed in KS politics. We were correct.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Summer of Mercy

Operation Rescue promised to pull the state to the right and they succeeded.