{"id":181311,"date":"2016-08-03T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/03\/brownbacks-folly\/"},"modified":"2016-08-03T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T01:00:00","slug":"brownbacks-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/03\/brownbacks-folly\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownback’s Folly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turns out Speaker Boehner is indeed enjoying Kansas primary night. Just received this from former staffer! pic.twitter.com\/hIzmFt8hn0<\/a><\/div>\n

\u2014 carl hulse (@hillhulse) August 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, Boehner is happy<\/i><\/div>\n

Yesterday was primary night in Kansas, and Governor Sam Brownback’s motley crew of Teabagger scum got served<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A top Senate leader and at least 10 other conservative Kansas legislators lost their seats as moderate Republicans made Tuesday\u2019s primary election a referendum on the state\u2019s budget problems and education funding. <\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, of Nickerson, fell in his south-central Kansas district to Ed Berger, former president of Hutchinson Community College. Bruce\u2019s defeat came amid a backlash against Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and his allies that appeared to spell trouble for conservatives. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe way the state has been going, we have so many problems, and we need some changes to be made,\u201d said Stanley Prichard, a 46-year-old manufacturing worker from Hutchinson, who voted for Berger in the Republican primary. <\/p>\n

Five other conservative senators lost in races that spanned the state. So did five conservative House members, all of them from affluent Kansas City-area suburbs in Johnson County, the state\u2019s most populous, where voters have cherished good public schools for decades. <\/p>\n

The voting occurred against the backdrop not only of the state\u2019s fiscal woes but ongoing legal and political disputes over funding for public schools. The state Supreme Court could rule by the end of the year on whether the Legislature is shorting schools on their state aid by hundreds of millions of dollars a year.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Browback got a sh%$ load of money a few years from the Koch Brothers to get antediluvian reactionary candidates, and once they were elected, they proceeded to destroy the state.<\/p>\n

Their theory was that if they lowered taxes on rich folk to next to nothing, and strip mined government, that prosperity would ensue.<\/p>\n

As you can see, it did not work.<\/p>\n

BTW, one of the most obnoxious of Teabaggers in Congress, Tim Huelskamp, just got crushed in the primary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Boehner is having a glass of wine to celebrate because he drinks a lot, and because Huelskamp was the most Teabagger of the Teabagger Caucus in the House of Representatives, and undermined the then Speaker at every turn.<\/p>\n

I think that the new members of the state lege are in for a rude awakening if they think that Brownback will see this as anything by an excuse to double down on his failed policies, because in his mind, wing nuttery can never, it can only be failed.<\/p>\n

Kansas will be having interesting times, as in the Chinese curse, over the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turns out Speaker Boehner is indeed enjoying Kansas primary night. Just received this from former staffer! pic.twitter.com\/hIzmFt8hn0 \u2014 carl hulse (@hillhulse) August 3, 2016 Well, Boehner is happy Yesterday was primary night in Kansas, and Governor Sam Brownback’s motley crew of Teabagger scum got served: A top Senate leader and at least 10 other conservative …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1000,1003,978,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-elections","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}