In a way it’s good they re-elected Brownback. Had the Democrat won he would have had to deal with the huge deficit Brownback created.
I do hope these painful cuts motivate Kansans to reconsider the direction their state is going in. But honestly I doubt it will happen.
SB before election - “Media won’t give my tax cuts time to pay for themselves!”
SB after election - “Neither will I.”
I agree with Matthew1961, but more specifically it reflects a feeling that A) Republicans are going to get what they voted for and B) Democrats are going to get what they failed to get enough votes to replace. I have sympathy for Dems who got out and voted for the obviously better alternative, but if you are hurt by these policies and didn’t exercise your right to vote, then you bear some of the responsibility of Brownback remaining in office. Elections matter, voting matters.
Brownback’s re-election has proved once again that H. L. Mencken was right-----
“Democracy is the idea that the people know what they want----and that they should get it, good and hard.”
Elections have consequences.
Economic freefall without a parachute is one direction very hard to reverse or stop before something hits bottom, HARD.
Possessed of the option to move out of Hell yet declining leaves me bereft of sympathy for Democrats in Kansas.
Except that there are children receiving that punishment who had no part in causing the economic digression. The number of children living in poverty in Kansas has risen 22% since Brownback took office.
They don’t matter.
This was the whole plan all along. Steal from the poor (they don;t deserve the money that have, right?) so we can feed the rich who are so much more deserving of money and wealth.
If God Himself wanted the poor ot have wealth, He wouldn’t have let them be born poor, amiright?
see my post below
see my other post below
This is what you wanted, Kansas. Enjoy the pain.
This the last time I’ll post this…
Of course they don’t deserve it—not even the most ardent Brownback supporter deserves to have his state turned into a smoldering economic ruin by a far-right-wing fanatic like Brownback.
But they re-elected him.
So even the innocent must suffer because Brownback will do his dead level best to make it even worse—because that is what his rigid, unyielding, and fraudulent ideology demands that he do.
All we can do is keep telling everyone that this is the GOP vision for America----not just for Kansas.
Except for the 40 percent who voted against him, and the additional ones who would have voted against him if they’re been allowed to vote. I guess they should pay for having chosen the wrong state to live in, and their children should pay for having chosen the wrong parents?
“They don’t matter”
So true. It’s a twofer they can’t all get together and primary you.
That is the silver lining in Brownback’s reelection.
Precisely.
The problem with comments like this one is they portray Governor Brownback in far more complimentary terms than are supported in the facts.
For a time, I wondered whether it’s even possible Kansas voters have this misunderstanding of the electoral process, by which they simply fail to connect the act of voting with the consequences to their state’s governance. of who they vote in favor for… I’ve become increasingly satisfied that such is no mere possibility.