Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday July 22, 2011
Republican populism. Timothy P. Carney writing in Washington Examiner: "President Obama, ignoring his own calls to leave rhetoric at the door, has relied on populist demagoguery throughout the debt-ceiling negotiations. But given the President's record of bailouts, his dedication to corporate-welfare handouts, and his calendar filled with $35,800-a-plate fundraisers, Republicans ought to take the populist cudgel from Obama and use it against Democrats." Carney recommends: "Instead of trying to defend themselves against Obama's misleading populism, Republicans ought to return fire with some sincere populism in this debt battle." Cost of space shuttle. It's a difficult question to answer, writes Carl…