by Pa Rock
Political Commentator
Lynn Jenkins is a freshman Republican Congresswoman from southeast Kansas. She is quickly proving herself to be a political doofus on the order of Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota.
Congresswoman Jenkins apparently told a group of supporters that her party is struggling to find a "great white hope" to lead them back to power. When she was challenged on the racist tone of her statement, she replied that she was not aware that the phrase "great white hope" had a negative connotation. Really.
I wonder what she thought it meant?
Rex Rammell, a Republican candidate for governor of Idaho recently told a group of supporters that he would buy a special tag to "hunt" Obama. Later he said that he couldn't understand what all of the fuss was about. He was, after all, just joking. His remark was probably a real knee-slapper in Idaho!
And Republicans wonder why they can't win the support of minorities. Pandering to old white people and demeaning everyone else sounds like a plan. I hope they stick with it!
Palin - Jenkins 2012!
2 comments:
The lady represents my district. She is a walking case of contradiction.
Jenkins is pro-choice but voted against Lilly Ledbetter and SCHIP. Her message apparently being that it is a woman's choice to have a child. Once she's made that choice, has that baby, then she's left to deal with life all on her lonesome. Equal pay for equal work? Hell No, corporate profits rule. Health care for her child? Hell No, corporate profits rule.
One of the great ironies of
Representative Jenkins is that her district represents the places, which once wounded, gave rise to the moniker "Bleeding Kansas."
From these parts old John Brown, the Reverend Mr. Adair, and the good folk stood their ground against chattel slavery, Missouri's bushwackers, and the raiding Quantrill.
Her district includes Osawatomie, the birthplace of the Republican Party in Kansas.
The Kansas GOP no longer bears resemblance to the ideals by which Mr. Lincoln lived. Kansas Republicans have forsaken their heritage, broken faith with an assassinated American President, and sold their souls to corporate entities.
The elephant has left the tent. The wingnut and the squirrel are competing for mascot. And you ask "What's Wrong With Kansas?" Well, yes, you can start with Lynn Jenkins.
Great Old Party, Great White Hope, Great White Elephant - White Elephants do not earn their keep, and they eat and cost a lot - Republican Party
Kansas House Representative Lynn Jenkins said this week that the Republican Party needs a "Great White Hope" and enumerates a list of only White Persons as possible political candidates for the future.
The Republican Party or GOP is becoming a "Great White Elephant", but the problem is that White Elephants are very costly, useless, etc ... Many Sacred Laws of Kings forbid the use of White Elephants for practical purposes and for work.
In the following section wee see the Biggest White Elephants in South East Asia, Europe and North America :
White Elephants in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant
Some excerpts :
The term derives from the sacred white elephants kept by Southeast Asian monarchs in Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. To possess a white elephant was regarded (and is still regarded in Thailand and Burma) as a sign that the monarch was ruling with justice and power, and that the kingdom was blessed with peace and prosperity. The tradition derives from tales in the scriptures which associate a white elephant with the birth of Buddha, as his mother was reputed to have dreamed of a white elephant presenting her with a lotus flower, a symbol of wisdom and purity, on the eve of giving birth.
Because the animals were considered sacred and laws protected them from labor, receiving a gift of a white elephant from a monarch was both a blessing and a curse: a blessing because the animal was sacred and a sign of the monarch's favour, and a curse because the animal had to be kept and could not be put to practical use to offset the cost of maintaining it.
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Examples of notable alleged white elephants :
The Concorde, a supersonic transport built by Aérospatiale and British Aircraft Corporation, intended for high-speed intercontinental passenger travel. Only fourteen production aircraft were built, though it was planned that development costs were to be amortized over hundreds of units: the British and French governments incurred large losses as no aircraft could be sold on commercial terms. Concorde flew the transatlantic route for over two decades, and it did at least make a big operating profit for British Airways.
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport runway 11/29 was conceived on the basis of traffic projections made in the 1980s and 1990s that warned of impending strains on the airport and the national air traffic system as a result of predicted growth in traffic at the airport. The $1 billion runway expansion was designed in part to allow for simultaneous operations on parallel runways in bad weather. Construction began in 1998, and continued even after traffic at the airport declined following the 9/11 attacks, the purchase of Trans World Airlines by American Airlines in April 2001, and subsequent cuts in flights to the airport by American Airlines in 2003. The project required the relocation of seven major roads and the destruction of approximately 2,000 homes in Bridgeton, Missouri. In addition to providing superfluous extra capacity for flight operations at the airport, use of the runway is shunned by fuel-conscious pilots and airlines due to its distance from the terminals. Even one of the airport commissioners, John Krekeler, deemed the project a "white elephant".
Montréal-Mirabel International Airport is North America's largest airport, but has been abandoned as a passenger airport.
Olympic Stadium in Montreal cost about C$1.61 billion. Since the departure of the Montreal Expos baseball team in 2004, it has had no main tenant. The debt from the stadium wasn't paid in full until December 2006. Because of the financial disaster in which it left Montreal, it was nicknamed "The Big Owe", "Uh-O", and "The Big Mistake".
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