Opinion Line Extra (Feb. 9)

John Boehner just led House Republicans in their 56th Obamacare repeal vote. It’s getting ridiculous. At a cost of $1 million for each vote held, taxpayers can’t afford this Congress.

Once again the House Republicans prove they are not pro-life. Pro-fetus maybe. Pro-life? Not even.

If you think for one minute that someone in this country illegally will legally obtain a driver’s license, will pay taxes and carry liability insurance, you must be smoking the wacky tobacky.

I question the bravery of the ISIS militants who are beheading all these people, because they don’t dare to show their faces. They’re always covered. I call them cowards.

Thank you for The Eagle editorial directed to Sen. Ty Masterson (Feb. 5 Opinion). The senator needs to learn how decisions the Kansas Legislature makes will really affect school districts and the children for whom they are responsible.

Kansas must have a new duck species called the Brownback. Masterson says the proposed cuts to education for the current school year are a reduction to an increase, not a cut. Senator, if it quacks like a Brownback, it’s a Brownback.

OK, so to be fair, Masterson should also receive the same percentage reduction in salary as schools. It is not a pay cut. It is just less than anticipated – his words.

Liberals like to point to Robin Hood as an example of their tax policy. “Steal from the rich, and give to the poor!” they say. Have they forgotten that Robin Hood stole from the government and gave to the poor because the government was taxing them to death?

How can our governor and legislators believe that they are balancing the budget by taking money from one fund to cover the shortage in another? This is simply robbing Peter to pay Paul. It does nothing to address the real problem.

The first thing the governor should have done to plug the budget gap is to cut the salaries for himself, his staff and the Legislature.

I have no tears about a prison sentence for a man whose brain was so fuzzy from marijuana that he forgot he left a baby in a hot car. My tears are for that precious baby girl. What a terrible way to die.

I wish I could have saved the $70,000-plus I paid into Social Security over my working career. I’d be in good financial shape now. The government thinks it knows better than its citizens. We need to insist that taxpayers be allowed to choose how their FICA taxes are invested.

Where have all the good doctors gone? The ones who had a patient’s best interest at heart, and not the almighty dollar.

White crayons are racist.

I thought the point of the white crayon was the sharper end.

This story was originally published February 8, 2015 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (Feb. 9)."