Sebelius (D-KS), nominee to head HHS: Another Lobbyist to the Obama Administration

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 11th at 07:40 PM  | 

Update 3/31/09 by Jeff: Ho, hum, it appears Gov. Sebelius is yet another Obama nominee with a tax problem. Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius (Democrat), fresh off a losing battle against the GOP-led state legislature to solve the state budget crisis by incurring more debt while keeping expenditures exorbitant, has been selected by President Obama to head up the department of Health and Human Services. Given | Read More »

Kansas Gov. Sebelius (D) Responds to Pressure by Releasing Hostages, Averting Disaster

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 18th at 12:50 PM  | 

Late yesterday, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius (Democrat) succumbed to pressure and gave up on her attempt to hold state employee paychecks and taxpayer overpayment refunds hostage for $225,000,000.00 in ransom. Sebelius’s overspending on unnecessary programs, and unwillingness to heed warnings last year from the Republican-led state legislature that a failure to trim budgetary fat would lead to a 2009 crisis, put Kansas’ state government in | Read More »

What’s the Matter with Kansas?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 17th at 12:00 PM  | 

Faced with a shortage of funds this year and unwilling to cut the bloated state budget, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius is planning to welsh on the state’s debt to taxpayers who overpaid in 2008 and to put a hold on paychecks owed to state employees until the Republican-controlled state legislature allows her to break state law by borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars from already  | Read More »