Discussion: GOP Voters Stage Major Revolt Against Brownback's Kansas Experiment

Dorothy should have stayed in Oz

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Auntie Em:
Hate you, hate Kansas. Taking the dog.
/s/ Dorothy

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Well, well. This should send shockwaves through the GOP (and not just the TeaBuggers). Their entire fiscal doctrine (killing taxes = growing economy) has just been given the thumbs down in Kansas, of all places.

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One could only hope

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Gee who could have thunk it cutting taxes and not bringing any money in would cause a deficit.

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Teabagger smack-down

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Unfortunately the damage has been done. Brownbach has raided everything meant for the public good, education,highway funds,public safety,state pension funds,health care. The state is a disaster.

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Brownback did.

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Give the voters credit. They observed the national dysfunction caused by representatives with no real interest in governing, and lived the disastrous results of Conservative orthodoxy at home.

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Apparently “math” doesn’t care about ideology.

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And it only took 6 years

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These are great.

http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/yael-t-abouhalkah/article85812392.html

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Credit due-- had they had the same reaction 2 years ago-- instead of re-electing Brownback when the disaster was already clear. By not doing so KS voter lengthened the time for possible recovery by many years-- by emboldening Brownback with 4 more years of cover.

Brownback’s re-election was startling to me.

jw1

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Huelskamp is gone?! Hoo-effin’-ray! There’s one particularly odious member of the Crazy Caucus down. Only 41 more to go, although one trusts that at something less than twenty their influence should be pretty marginal.

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It’s always been a fantasy but like most ideological fixations, Tea-holics have clung to it like a bulldog does a soup bone…eyes fixed, jaws locked. The original Laffer curve was purportedly scrawled on the back of a napkin. The napkin should have been used for a wipe, then a flush.

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Was listening to John Zogby of Zogby polling fame on NPR a few months ago and he predicted this and a huge win for Democrats in November. I was doubtful (considering Kansas) but so far he’s right.

Fingers crossed!

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Brownback may not have a choice but to moderate since he will no longer have a compliant legislature. Thank goodness, my grandchildren may have a chance of a proper education. If the Johnson county suburbs have changed, it will be significant in the fall election. Hope springs eternal.

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Yeah, I don’t know about that. Pretty sure Kansas has plenty of Dems who explicitly predicted this outcome years ago and the state still recently re-elected Brownback when they knew his policies were a complete failure.You don’t deserve much credit for only being smart enough to grab something still floating after you refuse to steer away from the iceberg.

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And the Koch Bros, Brownbacks sugar daddies.

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