"President Obama's nominee for health secretary received nearly three times as much political money from a controversial abortion doctor as she had told senators," the Associated Press is reporting, noting that this marks "the second time in her confirmation process" that Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kansas) "had to explain a financial oversight" to the Senate Finance Committee.
Sebelius is only the latest Obama Cabinet pick to face a rocky road to confirmation, and in part over tax trouble, yet when it came to reporting the story on the eve of tax deadline day, the Washington Post opted to quietly tuck the story into the Nation Digest feature on page A4.
In addition to the $12,450 Sebelius reported last week as having received "from 1994 to 2001 from George Tiller, one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers," records show that Tiller also donated "at least $23,000 more from 2000 to 2002 to a political action committee that Sebelius established while insurance commissioner to raise money for fellow Democrats."
Sebelius's need to correct "three years' worth of tax returns" and to pay "more than $7,000 in back taxes to fix improper deductions" was the first "oversight" the pro-choice Kansas governor had to correct.
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Can't do it?
April 14, 2009 - 11:51 ET by AJBCan't make money killing babies inside the womb? Then pay off your representative and get the laws passed. How American is THAT?
Liberals - funding and promoting the extermination of inner city babies since 1973
Kansas Can Have Her
April 14, 2009 - 12:41 ET by allanfKathleen Sebelius is the epitomy of every left wing cliche. I think the people of Kansas who voted for this gem richly deserve her. Just yesterday, Sebelius vetoed a bill that would have allowed two new coal power plants.
The people of Kansas elected this leftist, and they should keep her and bear the consequences.
She won election in Kansas
April 14, 2009 - 14:26 ET by Jack Hermanin the same manner that got Clinton and Obama elected. The Republican candidate was boring and she campaigned as a centrist.
I didn't vote for her and would be happy if she moved back to Ohio and stayed the hell out of Kansas.
This POS governor could care less about western KS (proposed location of powerplants). She's trying to appease her liberal friends in Wyandotte and Johnson counties.
Sebelius & Kansas
April 14, 2009 - 11:53 ET by BlondeA total nest of abortionists and profiteers from baby deaths.
The whole big to-do over Michael J. Fox's support of infant stem-cell research had to do with this as well....the Stowers institute in Kansas funded the stem-cell ballot initiative.
The Stowers' private foundation funds their private medical research facility (doing genetic research).
It's a mess. If you wish to learn more, it's all out there, I looked it up in 2006.
And Sebelius had her hand in that fine mess....she has continuously rejected legislation to more carefully control abortion (while pretending to be pro-life in her personal beliefs!). She vetoed a bill that would have put her partial-birth-abortion pal, the Killer Tiller, out of business. Even democrats think she is TOO much.
No small wonder she was accepting illegal campaign contributions from his abortion mill.
Bet the Bamster "supports her nomination all the way".
Disgusting.
I hope he fails, too.
'accepting illegal campaign contributions'
April 14, 2009 - 13:04 ET by JDWThis was an AP report. Have we arrived at the point where there is no lib nomination shame?
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We're now waaaay beyond that
April 14, 2009 - 13:17 ET by SickofLibsWe're now waaaay beyond that point, IMO.
Just barely short of a prosecutable felony? Hey, you're smelling like a rose!
In The Beginning
April 14, 2009 - 13:44 ET by JDWDaschle, Richardson, Geithner's nominees... all walked away and the news media forgot about them. Today people with similar problems are reported and they continue with their nomination process. Why?
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Liberals Death and Lies
April 14, 2009 - 12:01 ET by The Smokin FrogIt is amazing how Obama and his associations are so pro death. They think hire of terrorists than they do of little babies. It also amazes me how cold the faces are of these killers. Whether it is Sebelius, Tiller, or Obama, there is a deadness about them. They have no respect for life or for telling the truth. They are liberals and they know the greater good. So lies are quite acceptable to them.
How the heck did she become
April 14, 2009 - 12:09 ET by wiwfHow the heck did she become governor of Kansas?
The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy
Good question -- it's a bit
April 14, 2009 - 13:06 ET by lotrGood question -- it's a bit of an enigma. I can't imagine the opposite scenario happening. She must of hoodwinked them using a complicit mass media. Any theories out there?
Of course, the multiple
April 14, 2009 - 13:09 ET by lotrOf course, the multiple $10,000s of campaign contributions from "Doctor" Tiller, certainly didn't hurt.
culture of corruptions
April 14, 2009 - 12:10 ET by m1xramThat's the Culture of Multiple Corruptions for you. They provide equal time to all forms of evil. Thought Anne Coulter did an excellent job of outlining their true nature in Godless.
it's amazing
April 14, 2009 - 12:39 ET by AJBI find it funny that, in the old days, the people out to exterminate African Americans from our society wore white robes and pointy hats. Now, they've traded that garb for the respectible looking business suits and ties and have taken over the Democrat party. Fully 80% of abortion clinics are in the inner city, populated mostly by African American women. Those women, who number 10% of the female population, have triple the abortions of all other demographics.
So, from their high office, they seek to do what their ancestors in white robes could not do... kill off the African American population. They're doing it with the full support and leadership of an African American man. Wow. It just boggles the mind that under the pretense of 'choice', they're suceeding beyond the white-robed ancestors wildest dreams.
I have been more than
April 14, 2009 - 12:27 ET by bigtimerI have been more than furious since late last night when I first heard this latest news regarding the witch...and her connections money wise to Tiller the Baby Killer regarding these donations she just seemed to forget about ...
I have posted before more than once about my feelings regarding Sebelius and Tiller the Baby Killer...
I am begging all of you when congress comes back in session to call your Senators and make sure and call Yellowback and Pat Roberts offices who are endorsing this pond-scum...and let them know how you feel about their support...especially if you live in Kansas and the sentiments you have about NOT voting for either one again if they vote Yea to confirm this POS to be our Health Secretary...
I know one thing..they are going to hear from me....including my two dem Senators here from Montana.
This is outrageous...once again the filthy, filthy lawless leftists are going to try and force-feed this slug on earth down our throats...and rule us...as we the people pay another slithering sewer slugs wages. ..
...and they wonder why there are Tea Parties all over the place...this is just another reason.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
One has to feel for the people of Kansas
April 14, 2009 - 12:47 ET by TjexciteI don't know about any one else but if she was my Governor and she lied about the money I would not have anything good to say. Someone in Topeka has to find something that they have lost and start impeachment hearings if she does not get confirmed and as others have shown it very likely regardless of what she has done. Giving false information to any government is still an impeachable offense for most.
It is going to be long 4 years and it just started.
Long live George W. Bush
Those wacky liberals!
April 14, 2009 - 14:05 ET by RagamuffinI guess the liberal media bias is the MSM not calling her a liar when you can only prove she got her facts wrong?
I'm stretching, I know.
Another fine example of
April 14, 2009 - 14:59 ET by rwesleyAnother fine example of Sebelius's inability to govern matters in Kansas is reflected in the current Brooke Franchise/Aleritas Corporation scandal. Under this lady's watch, the country's largest franchisor of insurance agencies was allowed free reign to rack up millions in junk loans, engage in fraud, and violate RICO statutes and then simply declare bankruptcy, leaving banks and hard-working people completely decimated. Her office and the Kansas AG's office was bombarded with complaint after complaint about this company but I guess the great liberal regulation promise fell flat once again through this woman.
It also explains why the
April 14, 2009 - 16:04 ET by GrannyGrump42It also explains why the medical board that she appointed didn't find fault with Tiller for letting his staff kill Christin Gilbert.
Sebelius is unfit to serve
April 14, 2009 - 22:33 ET by TN Momin return for Tiller’s generous support, Sebelius has opposed legislation that would have held abortion clinics – including Tiller’s – to a higher standard. She has worked to keep abortion clinics unregulated and unaccountable.
Beginning in 2003, and for five straight years, Sebelius opposed legislation that would have, for the first time, provided safety standards for abortion clinics
• Sebelius appointed a former abortion clinic “escort” John Carmichael, a militant supporter of Tiller’s Political Action Committee, ProKanDo, to the Human Rights Commission. His name was quietly withdrawn ten months later.
• Sebelius appointed political supporter and abortionist Howard Ellis to serve on the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts after he surrendered his medical license in Missouri rather than face disciplinary action. Ellis resigned under pressure, and two months later was charged by the Board with attempting to persuade a physician to falsify records.
(via operation rescue.org)
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April 14, 2009 - 22:39 ET by TN MomHelp Wanted:
Tax Cheaters are needed to fill Cabinet positions in Barack Obama Administration....
Sorry, There's No Scientific Proof A Fetus Is An Unborn Child...
April 15, 2009 - 00:35 ET by The7SticksDo you necessarily have to be liberal in order to support abortion or birth control? My late mother had a few abortions and miscarriages, and it never really phased her that much (Of course she was drugged out of her mind most of the time, so I'm not sure if the repercussions ever hit her that much.) I know that I had many opportunities to have siblings, but I'm just glad that it was I that made it out into the world. You have to fight in order to get to the world like that. I don't recollect what it was like inside the womb, but I'm glad I'm out here.
If all you have is the word of some Christian God of yours, it's laughable. You need scientific proof that a fetus is an unborn child. There is no way you can convince me that, from conception, it's an unborn child even with scientific evidence or ultrasound. From what I recollect here, Dr. Tiller specialized in late term abortions, so there is far more of a consequence than there would be within the first twenty-four days.
I'm simply saying that if it's only liberals who love the culture of death (what is this culture of death anyway? You mean all the gothic Lolita costumes in Japan or something, because I just don't get it?), well, I'm pro-military and I'm anti-excessive taxing and spending. You can't be liberal if you believe in that, can you?
Good evening sticks
April 15, 2009 - 00:44 ET by cocodrieIf a fetus is not an unborn child, what is it?
An unborn dog, cat, fish oak tree? It has to be something.
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Sorry, but you are mistaken
April 15, 2009 - 08:34 ET by lotr1. In answer to your first question, no. I'm sure there are neo-Nazis out there who are in favor of abortion because of the race demographics surrounding the practice.
2. Well, looks like you came to the wrong place to laugh. The womb is not a "blackbox" anymore, and there are folks like me out there who are pro-life simply because we know from empirical observation and reason (i.e., science) that abortion is the killing of a human being, albeit at a very early stage of development in utero. Unless you were joking, you summed up the essence of "invincible ignorance" with your statement: "There is no way you can convince me that, from conception, it's an unborn child even with scientific evidence or ultrasound."
3. The "culture of death" means what it says -- that there is a "culture" out there that favors the killing of our own posterity in the name of convenience.
I am very sorry to hear that your own mother had abortions. "I know that I had many opportunities to have siblings, but I'm just glad that it was I that made it out into the world." Wow. Have you ever taken a moment to meditate on the meaning of this statement?
I know that I had many opportunities to have siblings, but I'm
April 15, 2009 - 15:07 ET by IndyAdamThe7Sticks - Sounds like your late mother (God help her soul - eh, maybe not?) made the wrong decision as to whom to allow to live. It was not "you" who "fought" to live, It was "your mother's" decision "not to kill YOU". Too bad your unborn brothers/sisters were so unlucky as to have a mom who did not give a rats ass about them, rather simply regarded them as trash.
prove us wrong
April 18, 2009 - 01:32 ET by m1xramWait nine months and then tell us what it is. I'm pretty sure the evidence is 100% in favor of it being a child. But, if any brain sucking space aliens are born let us know immediately!
There's nothing more
April 15, 2009 - 17:16 ET by rbosqueThere's nothing more despicable than a baby-killer. May God have mercy on them.