“There are lots of areas in our budget that we can look at and find dollars,” he said. “I’ve talked a lot in this campaign about how I think we have a new American paradox, how I believe it’s harder than ever for the average American to get ahead, and yet paradoxically easier to do nothing with your life. And so I think we need to look at some of the programs that we have that we’re giving to people, that aren’t promoting pathways to work, and see if we can’t find dollars to make investments that we need to make in things like transportation.”
If a Republican said something like that, Democrats would attack him for wanting to take food out of poor children’s mouths. Yet when Orman says it, Democrats remain silent.
Which leads to the suspicion that the Orman campaign is a fraud. Republicans have long been skeptical about Orman’s “No Labels” style, but that skepticism went through the roof on Sept. 3, when, at the very last moment it was legally possible, Kansas Democrats forced their own candidate, Chad Taylor, to withdraw from the Senate race. Taylor had been polling third, and his departure gave Orman a clean one-on-one shot at defeating Roberts.
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