What's The Matter With Kansas? The GOPers Running It Into The Ground

[UCmeNdc]

It's fascinating that U.S. News & World Report could write this article without once mentioning ALEC or the influence of Koch Industries, but they did. So they did a really good job of describing the disease, without mentioning what caused it:


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Four years later, however, the state government is in meltdown, creating a toxic fiscal and political mess that will take years to mop up.

Splintered into conservative and far-right factions, the Kansas GOP is openly at war with itself over an $800 million, two-year budget deficit gnawed open by the tax cuts nobody wants to roll back. If they can't fill the hole by week's end – against long odds – furloughs of government employees will follow.



http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/whats-matter-kansas-gopers-running-it

[randys1]

1. MSM is not allowed to mention ALEC or Koch Bros, not even Rachel or not as much as

she should be able to.

Americans simply dont get it.

The Koch Bros and the company they keep are in a violent war with you and me.

A very violent, very very violent war.

Healthcare? Fuck you, unless THEY Decide you should have it.

Vote? FUCK you unless you vote the right way.

Climate Change? DOUBLE FUCK YOU because we at Koch etal have every intention of putting that on steroids for our own personal profit.

[UCmeNdc]

2. Citizen's United equals all of that advertisement money going to the media

[mindwalker_i]

3. "Evolution, Morpheus, evolution"

Sucks for the people in KS who didn't vote for this shit, but maybe they'll try harder next time. Maybe KS can go all Detroit, declare bankruptcy, and we can give it back to Native Americans.

[SmittynMo]

4. The state put Brownback in there...

Twice, if I recall. They knew just before the 2nd election what he had done to their state, and still put his ass back in there. I'm sorry, but they have it coming. I see it as an example of how the GOP will screw you at every corner.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

5. No guarrantee the election was honest.

[greymattermom]

6. Unless there is a miracle, the state will be closed Sunday night

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/jun/05/kansas-state-workers-be-told-noon-possible-furloug/

[DFW]

7. A majority of Kansans voted for people who convinced them that 10-8=10

The scary part is--now that they see it isn't true, they'd vote the same way again if the election were held tomorrow.

[dangin]

8. Liberal KS

I'm in the liberal part of Kansas, AKA Lawrence. I'm surprised how much the conservatives I know, hate Brownback, but usually for the wrong reasons.

[DFW]

9. Probably for the same reasons Richard Viguerie disliked Bush Lite

Viguerie wanted Cheneybush to balance the budget, but not by cutting military spending or raising taxes on the high earners. He wrote a book called "Conservatives Betrayed" (!!!!!!) basically saying that the less well off weren't suffering enough and they should go without so that the budget would come into balance. Detroit might look like Calcutta, but hey, we'd be in the black!