Overland Park, Kansas
Greg Orman, the independent candidate running against Kansas GOP senator Pat Roberts, did the best he could at a debate Wednesday to fend off accusations that he’s really just a liberal Democrat. There was plenty of non-ideological, centrist talk about how we need to “certainty around things like transporation funding” and casting of blame of both parties. “This afternoon, Pat Roberts will tell you that Harry Reid and Barack Obama are the reason Washington is such a mess,” Orman said. “But the other half of the mess is Mitch McConnell and Pat Roberts. The truth is both parties are more interested in playing political games than problem-solving.”
There were even some feints to the right. “We need to relax the Dodd-Frank regulations that relate to community banks and regional banks,” Orman said. “These weren’t the banks that were responsible for bringing our financial industry to the brink of collapse.”
