Posted on 10/08/2014 9:17:27 AM PDT by redreno
Here's how embattled Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback diagnosed his political problems in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody: “I think they (the mainstream media) want what’s happening in this state to fail that they’re shopping for a factual setting to back that up because it’s working.”
Um, no. While blaming the media is both one of the most common strategic moves and one that regularly reeks of desperation, in this case -- like in most of them -- what Brownback is saying is simply not true.
So why then is Brownback in so much trouble in a state where President Obama won just 38 percent of the vote in 2012 and is, inarguably, one of the five most conservative states in the country?
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Ha!
yes it is
Since when are “massive tax cuts” massively unpopular?
And “massive spending cuts” too?
Answer: When the libtard media say so. And so they are trying to DRIVE the mod of this election with some of the worst biased reporting yet.
Because if he still wins, after all this, they know they are screwed.
I dont know much about Brownback, but I know tax and spending cuts are a good thing.
Am I missing something?
The short answer is: There go the freebees!
Tom Corbett is in the same boat, and all he did was hold taxes steady.
At least until he caved on this massive gasoline tax.
If you aren’t raising taxes you’re stealing our children’s education apparently.
Like the third rail of politics - take away the free stuff they come at you like armed hobos always do when not paid something for nothing - with a nasty gleam in their eye and a fistful of somebody else’s fence. Go Brownback!
Well the libtard PAC LCV victory fund, has a mailer that says Tillis in NC has “raised taxes $2,000 per year”, combined with a greenie/red enviro diatribe against him. The media is the thrower of poop against a wall, as proxy for the libs.
Brownback needs to grow a pair and make. a. distinction— unless of course he’s a true RINO.
Corbett’s issues are bigger than that.
Corbett’s problems are he took out some very senior democrats when AG for corruption, so he’s had a target on his back before he won the office.
Since then he’s made some bonehead moves that haven’t helped, like refusing to tax natural tax extraction at rates of comparable states etc.
So he’s had 4+ years of unions beating him up, and the teachers union is an insanely powerful union in PA he’s pissed off...
Corbett is sadly looking at very likely being the first governor EVER in PA history to lose a re-election bid.
What you are missing is that Kansas is not as conservative as people think it is. People also forget just how large the government school voting block is. In many counties, the school district is the largest employer.
As I’ve said before, if Americans truly wanted less spending and smaller government, we would have it. So many people are dependent on government programs, that it is almost impossible to cut anything. Redstate had a great piece about how the government is taxing the middle class to subsidize the middle class, and even though middle class people hate and resent it, they don’t see a way to survive without it. We are trapped in a spiral of increasing spending that probably won’t end until the debt hits the fan.
Yesterday morning, the most recent polling showed Brownback down one point to Davis. Not a great position for an incumbent to be in at this stage of the campaign but hardly a lost cause. I'm cautiously optimist that both Brownback and Roberts will rally in the last month of the campaign - I don't think the situations are quite as bleak as the MSM wants to portray.
I think you’ve made quite a valid point. There are lots of folks who oppose wild government spending until they see it might affect *them*.
like refusing to tax natural tax extraction at rates of comparable states....Yeah, he didn’t want the unemployment rate to go down, just for EDUCATION, which has plenty of money (if they’d spend it right).
You misdirected your reply. I believe you meant to reply to the post above mine, to CommerceComet.
Don’t a buncha Kansas voter get direct or indirect Farm Subsidies?
When you're cutting funding for education. Makes the soccer mom's testy.
Brownback came in with the promise that his tax cuts would stimulate business growth, hiring, and increase revenue. It didn't work out that way. The results have been budget deficits, credit rating reductions and, since education spending makes up over 60% of the budget, cuts in school funding. It may be that in the long run his tax cutting will pay off. But right now it isn't and it's hurting him.
Sorry... guess I need to spend some of my tax cut in getting my eyes checked.
I missed that poll. Where did you see it?
Like you, I think both Brownback and Roberts will pull it out. Personally, I want to publically thank Gov. Brownback for cutting my state taxes at a time when I was struggling greatly with finances.
Libs always HATE tax cuts!
How dare conservatives want to leave the people's money with the people, when everyone knows all money belongs to government (IRS, EPA, HHS, in other words Liberals!)
No prob, FRiend. I am more interested in the KS race than I probably should be as a resident of CA.
It’s all the way principles over freebies & gimmes at this point, isn’t it?
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