Wednesday, October 29, 2008
U.S. House of Representatives, District 2
There may be two women running for the 2nd congressional district, but the similarities stop around there.
Incumbent Nancy Boyda and challenger Lynn Jenkins differ significantly in their positions.
Boyda has accurately represented Kansans, but Jenkins would adopt the failed positions that the Bush administration clings on to.
Jenkins appears to be the logical, “fresh” GOP answer to ultra-conservative Jim Ryun’s failed re-election bid, but she essentially promotes the same failing stances on energy and taxes. She is in favor of drilling offshore and in ANWR, in addition to permanently extending Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest corporations.
Jenkins has yet to directly inform voters of her position on Iraq, but she gives no reason to suggest her stance would be any different than Ryun’s or Bush’s.
Boyda addresses the issues that are most important to Kansans: the economy, national security and low healthcare coverage. Boyda takes the clear stance that our troop levels in Iraq should be reduced as soon as possible and that their presence in Iraq makes our national security more vulnerable because it reduces the level of readily deployable troops in the case of an emergency.
She wants to simultaneously promote small businesses and healthcare coverage by allowing small businesses to band together to provide lower rates. She wants to bolster government coverage with Medicaid and Medicare while cutting taxes on medical expenses.
America is facing a serious financial crisis. More than 40 million Americans do not have medical insurance. The current administration has overextended its troops to fight wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
America is suffering from too many problems to gamble on representatives without set visions for solving the issues.
— — Ray Segebrecht for the editorial board
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Editorial: Boyda has shown genuine progress
I think you are being a bit misleading here: Off-shore drilling is not a "failing" stance since it has never been given the opportunity to go forward given the ban of the past several decades. The same goes for ANWR.
Bush's tax cuts apply across the board, not just to the "wealthiest corporations." This is akin to the common Obama line that McCain wants to cut taxes for oil companies without mentioning that his tax plan is a cut for ALL corporations. To say that the Bush tax cuts failed is another thing altogether considering that federal income tax revenue continued to rise above historical averages as a percentage of GDP in the period after the cut.
http://www.heritage.org/research/taxes/bg2001.cfm
Your editorial sounds like something out of a campaign pamphlet.
Editorial: Boyda has shown genuine progress
I'm voting for Boyda- because she realized that the $700 billion bailout was a bad idea.
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