The GOP Elites Have Themselves to Blame
From their “Dark Money” bagman Karl Rove to their philosophical guru David Brooks, the GOP elites are in a tizzy over saving the Republican Party from Donald Trump and the other intruders, extremists...
View ArticleGOP Economic Plans Explained - Back to the 1920s
Hat tip to Tom Sullivan at Digby’s place for pointing to Ryan Cooper at The Week: Republicans are plotting economic disaster for 2016The party's intellectual apparatus (distinct from the Trumpist...
View ArticleGOP turns its back on Brownback
In other states, Sam Brownback's Kansas revolution is still being treated as a model for pared down government, but those close to ground zero are a bit less enthused.... many of the same Republicans...
View ArticleNY Voting Probs (Real and Fake); Prison Industrial Scam Bites MS...
GUEST: HuffPo Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim...On today's BradCast, voter head to the polls in the New York Presidential Primary and encounter yet another electoral mess, while down in Mississippi,...
View ArticleKansas strips Planned Parenthood of state Medicaid funding, in violation of...
Just weeks after the Obama administration warned states that their Medicaid funding would be jeopardized if they tried to defund Planned Parenthood, Kansas goes and does it—strips Planned Parenthood of...
View ArticleYes, Hillary must attack Trump. But every Democrat should run against the GOP...
Let’s start with the obvious: The person at the top of the ballot is going to get the most attention in any presidential election year. Donald Trump being what he is only exacerbates that reality. The...
View ArticleHealthcare company announces plans to leave Kansas, eviscerates Gov. Sam...
Jeff Blackwood, the CEO of Pathfinder Health innovations, released a public letter stating their intentions to move the company out of the state of Kansas. Mr. Blackwood pulled no punches in his...
View ArticleFour former KS governors issue scathing letter torching Sam Brownback and his...
In a highly unusual move, four former Kansas governors are coming together to try and stop the destructive policies of current Governor Sam Brownback. Former Republican Governors Bill Graves and Mike...
View ArticleJudge nixes Kansas Planned Parenthood defunding
Republican states were warned: Taking Medicaid funding away from a provider like Planned Parenthood for political reasons is against federal law. But Kansas went ahead and tried to do it anyway, and...
View ArticleRebranding public education to make it more hateable
Public schools are an idea older than America, and it was immediately understood that for any democracy to flourish, public education was a prerequisite. But in Kansas, they’re an idea that may be on...
View ArticleObservations from a Midwestern Vacation: Signs It's an Election Year - Or Not
Kayso, this old fart, me, Kangaroo, was one of about 96 Clintonistas chasing about 15 slots for delegates and alternates from Kansas to the Democratic National Convention this year, and, needless to...
View ArticleTweet storm from Paul Krugman - timely
Read the whole thingxOK, a brief tweetstorm:1. An emerging meme: Republicans are starting to bail on Trump, so HRC should move right to accommodate themâ Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 3,...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Trump tells Florida to vote for the guy he once dubbed...
Leading Off:●FL-Sen: Marco Rubio's humiliating attempt to embrace Donald Trump has now been consummated. A few days after Rubio declared that "[w]e have to make sure that Donald wins,"Trump told...
View ArticleThe Public Shaming of a Governor: Kansans Should Continue to Turn Their Backs...
Originally published at Cultural CommentaryWith an approval rating that has been as abysmally low as 15% in recent months and having been adorned with the title of “most unpopular governor in America,”...
View ArticleCSGOPOTD: Sam Brownback- 2016 Update
On this date, in both 2014, as well as in 2015, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day shared its first two profiles of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, a man whose dedication to smaller government and...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Two weeks before early voting, it sure looks like the GOP is...
Leading Off:●AZ-01: On behalf of the DCCC, Global Strategies Group is out with a poll giving Democrat Tom O'Halleran a 45-38 lead over Republican Paul Babeu. This sample has Hillary Clinton leading...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Hillary Clinton's allies start spending to make sure she has...
Leading Off:●NH-Sen, PA-Sen: With Donald Trump's numbers in the gutter nationwide, the well-funded pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Priorities USA can devote some of its resources to ensuring that Clinton...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Republicans make a late move to save Ron Johnson in Wisconsin
Leading Off:●WI-Sen: While the Wisconsin Senate race hadn't attracted much outside spending all cycle long, that's changing in the final days of the race. On Friday, the Democratic group Senate...
View ArticleIn deep-red Kansas, even Republicans have had enough of Republicans
One bright bit from the 2016 elections is that there really does appear to be a limit to how badly you can screw up a state's economy before voters have had enough. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has been...
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Kansas Governor's conservative tax plan blown up with his own words
Chris Hayes used Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's words against him in this excerpted video as he tries to sell his failed tax plan to Donald Trump. It was a knockout. The Kansas Governor should not...
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