First Brownback, now this cretin. What the hell is wrong with the water in Kansas?
And there it is. The compulsory Wizard of Oz reference any time Kansas is discussed. How incredibly original of you.
Furthermore, Iād like to point out that not every citizen of Kansas is a right-wing, gun-toting, xenophobic, born-again fundamentalist bible thumper. And then there are the comments like this:
The blanket statements about how awful Kansas is because there are dickheads like Kobach is no different than how DJT thinks all African Americans live in decimated inner cities or that all Latino immigrants are rapists and murderers. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/09/why-liberals-arent-as-tolerant-as-they-think-215114
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Actually, SW Kansas is almost majority Hispanic. The meat-packing industry in Kansas is totally dependent on immigrant labor.
Well, there is something to that. The management at the Department of Health and Environment caused over 200 years of dedicated experience in their labs to quit within a single year. Kansas now has to outsource the testing of all water samples from the nuclear power plant to Iowa. Most cities in the state also now outsource the tests for their municipal water supplies because outsourcing is now more accurate, and itās faster. The management at the H&E labs have set up the state to be the next Flint, Michigan.
Kobach will not win the nomination. The State Attorney General is also in the race. He is viewed by Republicans as much more sane than Kobach. My biggest fear is that Brownback will resign early, and the party will appoint Kobach to serve the rest of his term, thus giving Kobach the status of incumbent. But, even if that does happen, the Legislature wonāt work with Kobach on anything.
The citizens of Kansas are responsible for their own fate. Similarly, those who voted for Trump also have to answer for their vote. There have to be consequences for putting aside the best American traditions. Those who stay home are no less guilty.
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you should send Josh a private message telling him to āscare [himself] if [he] must,ā then. because he also seems to think that this has a good chance of happening.
or, i suppose, you can just continue to stick your head in the sand and chant to yourself āthis isnāt happening.ā it worked well with the nomination and election of trump, and with so many other things.
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Okay, Iām conceding the point that Rs are ruthless, sneaky and selfish SOBs, but then we must concentrate on how to remove them from office. I would hope that those people facing the loss of health care will understand who has done it to them, and that it was not the Democratic party. As Josh reminds us at the end of his blog
Adjudicate it at the next election. Make that clear.
This is what I posted to a couple of other people just now in a discussion of how to get people to vote in larger numbers than the 60% we saw in 2016 and whatever the pathetic number was in 2014 and could very well be again in 2018.
We have a persistent, almost impossible to fix situation in this country as relates to voter turnout. We barely show up for midterms and we show up in small numbers for general elections every time out, and 2016 was at around 60%. Those who do show up, however, are older, wealthier and more educated. Those who donāt show up are under 25. In primaries and in local elections the turnout is sometimes in single digits. How you get a message to those millennials and others is difficult, but fixes could include moving election day to a weekend, voting from home and very, very importantly candidates who inspire a voterās support. Weāve only had that with Obama, we may never see it again. So, on your last point, an aspirational candidate, Iād agree. P.S. Sorry for the explosion.
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I agree with you 100%. Apathy gave us this. All of this.
TY six or eight times.