News from Brownbackistan: GOPers may be imploding

[deminks]

http://www.kansas.com/opinion/editorials/article66528637.html

Lawmaking can be an ugly process. But lately it has seemed as if the wheels are coming off state government.

Consider what happened just on Tuesday:

▪ House Speaker Ray Merrick, R-Stilwell, stunned lawmakers when he publicly announced the removal of two highly respected lawmakers from their committee chairmanships. One of those lawmakers, Rep. John Rubin, R-Shawnee, declared he would resign his legislative seat effective midnight (but later changed his mind).

▪ The Senate overrode a veto by Gov. Sam Brownback and nearly overrode another, as senators openly expressed frustration and mistrust of Brownback. At a GOP caucus meeting a day earlier, Sen. Michael O’Donnell, R-Wichita, said it was “insane” that lawmakers learned of Brownback’s concern about the state’s bond rating via Twitter, and Sen. Ty Masterson, R-Andover, confessed that he had advised Brownback to withhold the information.

▪ A House committee considered a proposal to end the state’s income tax exemption for the owners of pass-through businesses. (Three GOP senators have introduced a separate bill to eliminate the exemption.) Several business owners who financially benefit from the exemption testified that the policy was unfair and was undermining the state’s budget, but Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan defended the exemption (and Brownback has vowed to veto any change in policy).

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The Kansas GOPer Senate President had to go begging to the Democratic Caucus this week to ask them to vote with her to override the governor's veto. Hell just got a little cooler, and the Kochs must not have been camped out in her office.

GOPers are not right for Kansas, and they are not right for the Nation. They won't do what is right because it would break their vows to the pursestrings. They won't do their jobs.

[Loki]

1. Kansans voted for this miserable POS

now they are reaping their stupidity. I know there are sane people there, but they do need to rid that state of their infestation. Just don't send them across the border to Missouri, we have our own plague of them here.

[jberryhill]

2. What is it that causes this in the midwest?

Is it lack of exposure to ocean air currents?

Lack of fresh saltwater seafood in the diet?

Is there something in the water? Or something not in the water?

I've already come to understand that there's something in avocados that makes people flaky, but I've never figured it out for the flatlanders.

[Loki]

3. OMG have you ever driven through Kansas?

We only drive through at night, it makes it less miserable.

[jberryhill]

5. Yes I have, with a stop in Wichita during a heat wave

I really like the wall-to-wall sky, although I didn't find it much different from driving across Nebraska.

But seeing the sky, unobstructed from horizon to horizon is not something you get where I live. It's like you are hanging upside down in a big bowl of sky. Like it's pulling you up into it. It's an amazing sensation, but when I felt it, I also felt like I was exactly where I belonged in the universe at that moment - right at the center of it, and all of reality extended outward from me equally in every direction.

I couldn't imagine what it would be like to feel that every day, or how it would affect my mind over a long period of time.

[Loki]

6. The you should try Big Sky country in Montana

On our way to Yellowstone two years ago, it was one of the most magnificent experiences I have ever had. No wonder TR and the Native Americans knew that place was sacred.

[riversedge]

4. Happened and happening now in Walker's Wisconsin

[greymattermom]

7. Don't forget the wind

It's great for wind farms, but I lived in Kansas for 28 years and grew to hate the constant wind.

[Archae]

9. One time, the wind actually did stop.

And all the Kansas cows fell over.

[0rganism]

8. discord at the national level seeping down to the states now...

it's like watching the death star blow up in slow motion