So a governor from Kansas who oversaw the most disastrous tax reform in the history of the country, with a law degree, a history of being on the wrong side of LGBT issues, and multiple ethics violations is representing the trump administration on religious freedom to the world? That’s about like putting DeVos in charge of education. “Only the best people.” What a joke this administration is. Time for a wipe and flush!
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It’s the glass-floor phenomenon, the reverse side of the glass ceiling law for women: no matter how incompetent, corrupt a grown-ass white Christian man, there’s always some place in upper management.
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The US will need a roto-rooter when this is all over with. T rump has turned the WH and Capitol Hill into a cesspool.
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Pence and Brownback. This administration is like a safety net for crappy extremist governors…
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Yep, I’m from reddish Indiana. Pence wasn’t re-electable here due to his extremist agenda, economic damage, and overall dull wit. He’s perfect for this administration apparently. He actually proposed a government run news agency for our state. WTF is wrong with these un-American clowns?
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He made Kansas an economic laboratory for the nation by aggressively cutting taxes, arguing that they would provide “a shot of adrenaline to the heart” of the state’s economy.
It was more like a snort of naloxone, the heroin antidote. The victim woke up suddenly and violently in instant, drug induced withdrawals. Then, because the hero didn’t know WTF he was doing, the antidote wore off 30 minutes faster than the poison. So the victim passed out again and died.
I don’t know if this is “failing upwards”, more likely “failing into a cushy taxpayer-funded sinecure.” Just what the hell does a “Global Religious Freedom Ambassador” do? Run around spouting whackadoodle right wing crap? I admit that Brownback is the most qualified candidate for that job.
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It is beyond even the capabilities of Roto-Rooter. This calls for the Toxic Avenger, New Jersey’s first superhero! Oh, wait, that’s our ex-governor…scratch that idea.
The clearest example of that sad fact is currently visiting Davos.
“Brownback also would leave a Kansas legacy of far tougher restrictions on abortion and fewer limits on gun owners than when he won the first of his two terms in 2010”
So he is for throwing back the young ones and getting them after they have matured. Interesting strategy.
More missionaries, more dogma.
I am certain Brownback will bring all of his hard won acumen (aka Killing Kansas) to his new position. There is no doubt that a thousand flowers will bloom for (white protestant) religious freedom.
An excellent question to ask. So I went to an authority on Brownback:
“If you think Sam is bad, you should read about his brother who doesn’t hide being a psychopath.”
Jim Brownback sounds nice:
“Folks can read for themselves the litany of accusations against Gov. Sam Brownback’s 56-year-old younger brother and some of his family members. They include drive-by shootings, death threats, detonating explosives on his property, slaying a neighbor’s dog, stealing a neighbor’s cattle, vandalizing adjacent property, hit-and-run driving and killing a fawn outside of hunting season and leaving it gutted in a neighbor’s driveway.”
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/barbara-shelly/article30611604.html#storylink=cpy
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Sam Brownback will bring the same pattern of ruin and bedevilment to this new post as he did in the Senate and as the disastrous Governor of Kansas. His record of certain disruption and failure has found a new home!
“Oh, but Brownstain isn’t done with the Sunflower State yet. In the State of the State address last night, he called for a $600M increase in school funding (NPR story I caught the tail end of and so the number isn’t certain), but proposed no funding mechanism.”
In Oregon, we do things differently. We mandate that public schools take on more and more responsibilities, but then do not provide funding to pay for the extra personnel that compliance with the new mandates will require. Always fun!
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This reminded me of a Susan B. Anthony quote I came across for the first time a couple of days ago:
“That’s about like putting DeVos in charge of education.”
DeVos is worse. But then again, I am biased.
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Brownback is to religious freedom what an incinerator is to books.
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More mandates, less money: sounds like Illinois.
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