Posted on 05/28/2013 6:37:08 PM PDT by Nachum
The Kansas Legislature continues to grind toward a tax agreement today. It’s tempting to snicker at the chambers’ inability to actually pass a budget after working at it for three months, but we should cut lawmakers some slack. Remaking an entire state takes time.
Much has been made of the continuing gridlock in our national government, brought on largely by the polarized nature of our two major political parties. Divided national government, in our time, is a recipe for dysfunction.
But a much different dynamic is playing out in state governments. There, one-party control is becoming the norm.
According to the Pew Charitable Trusts’ news service Stateline, 26 legislatures have become more Republican since 2003. The GOP holds a strong grip on legislatures in the Old South, the Plains, in some Rocky Mountain states and the industrial Northeast.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
If this dummy can't see it already, he's blind.
Taking Kansas back after the Godless Sebelius ‘effed it up.
Lots of stuff interesting coming out of Kansas today!
*I* think the ‘Rats are going to get their @sses handed to them in 2014 with true conservative and Tea Party candidates running.
Then Sarah Palin can save America from Herself! :)
The nation is too large and to divided to continue to be governed by an elite political class in DC that extorts 4 trillion dollars a year from those outside the beltway, skims off the top for themselves and their friends, and then deficit spends even more in exchange for votes to keep itself and the Federal apparatchiks living in fat city.
They can only continue this tyranny through the use and threat of violent force and intimidation.
The free states must refuse to participate in the monstrosity on the Potomac by refusing to send vote for or send representatives to Congress, not sending income taxes to the IRS, and by forming alliances with other states of like mind.
The Governors have National Guard at their disposal and must be ready to use them for defense if the Washingtonians invade their territory.
The greatest threat to the freedom and liberty of the US Citizen is the Federal Apparatus in DC, not a bunch of towelheads in the middle east and the ones that DC has let infiltrate the American Continent.
Ragheads and moslems would have to leave the new federations of free states.
:D
Right On Diana!
I remember gridlock being a recipe for prosperity.
What divides the country is the ruling class and those that make this country great (everybody else).
A new RTW bill was introduced in Ohio a couple of weeks back too.
I’m sure the folks in New York and Illinois enjoy having one party rule at all levels of government. The folks at Pew, in their delusional minds, think those two states are leftist nirvanas and not the economic and social wastelands that the liberals created there.
The South had plenty of single party States in the 50's and 60's.
It's apparently OK to have one party rule as long as it's rule by 'rats.
That’s how I pronounce it - Phew.
Basic reality is that vote manufacturing will not buy you state houses. In other words, the demoKKKrats can manufaacture all the votes they want in Philly or Dade County Flori-DUH, the GOP will still win its own districts. Only state-wide or national elections can be swung by vote manufacturing.
WI ain’t touchin’ that. Quite yet. :)
I’d love to vote for her again. :)
All these ISSUES seem to pop up when Republicans start to win...
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I can only hope....in Oregon, the DEMS and unions run the state legislature
Guess it was ok when the dems held control for several decades.
According to the Pew Charitable Trusts’ news service Stateline, 26 legislatures have become more Republican since 2003.
It's apparently only "one party control" when Republicans do it. Also, they laugh at the Kansas legislators for taking three months, but Senate Dems managed to take four freagin YEARS! But, you know, it's the Republicans that are incompetent.
Well, obviously it depends on "which" party is running things. Ironic that the 'Pubbies can govern very well at the state level, but somehow can't manage to do the same thing at the national level.
State governments are actually getting things done.
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