Republican Paradise.

over and get some sleep.

Republican governors love those bribes coming in from business interests, after all, rest stops don't have lobbyists.

And the truck stops are overflowing now. You see it.


The theft of the commons continues apace. Soon there will be no government activity allowed that competes with private interests.

So, even though it's conservatives that continue to make cuts that directly impact their quality of lives, these slow-learners blame liberals because they are told that they should. I continue to remain completely bewildered by conservative thinking.

Also, baby-killers and teh gay!

Conservatives get exactly what they deserve.

Unfortunately, liberals get exactly what conservatives deserve too.

vast wasteland and get the hell out before they are also totally run over. Kansas has become a pit, so sad. It's doesn't require one be a democrat or independent to see what is going on in Kansas, it just requires voters to use a tiny portion of their brains to see what is going on and vote these assholes far out of office.

these people up. It's like they are stuck in stupid and fine to continue on as such.

Bed. Made. Lie. I only feel bad for the ones who didn't vote for this turd and his ilk.

is how the citizens vote
The only way republiCONs win election is by wedge issues like the three I stated.

marriage!" and it's Katy, where's the "R" lever?

You are right too GAGG me

they are completely brainwashed - wouldn't know the truth if it bit them is the ass.

Hate Radio & Fox "News" - the worst things to happen to the US - ever

I remember back in the day when some rest areas had attendants.

I am quite sure the Kochs will buy up the areas, and we will have to pay to use them.

This is what they want for us, complete and utter servitude for the masses. No access. No mobility. Pay to play.



Oh, and Welcome to Brownbackistan.

for a bowl of beans.

Brown back is an idiot

and get some brains and get rid of these assholes in office. The stupidity in Kansas is so great it's mind boggling.

This is a fine place to live, and you can find stupidity anywhere.

My neighbors are no more or less intelligent than Americans in other states.

Of Kansas would, now, be receptive to the anti-teaparty message, having seen the results first hand. But if Arizona is to serve as a guide, they will not.

Arizona gave away billions to business and the wealthy and cut government services to the bone ... resulting in rest stop closures ... and the good people of Arizona put the same idiots back in office.

Kansas joins Oklahoma and Arizona on my Avoid List. If they want to be assholes, then fuck 'em.

But, I used to just bemoan boredom and bedbugs in those small motels.

Well, this should make the corporate farmers happy as those rural towns dry up and land goes for nothing.

My sister-in-law from Hoisington took a friend who makes less than 10K a year to the welfare office in Great Bent to sign her up for what she called Obamacare, they told her she did not make enough money. She was confused and asked me what these people are supposed to do, I had to tell her Brownback refused the expansion of Medicaid from the feds, which would have provided for her friend. She looked at me and said well I guess I have been living in a cave. I said that's okay as long as Brownie boy keeps praying in public like he does then Jesus will still let him into heaven even though he don't give a shit what happens to poor people. Needless to say I am not real popular out there.

And the chief medicine man is pissing on the fire in hopes of keeping things even dimmer and more confused.

only it was a DEM gov that closed the rest stops near the end of his term! The ONE good thing McDonnell did as gov…….the ONLY good thing, may I add….was to reopen them. Only now they are all sponsored by GEICO, but what the hey, at least you can stop and pee. NC, as I found out while working there as a travel nurse one summer, does not have rest stops at all. You have to get off the interstate at convenience stores instead….part of their "business initiative", I suppose.

at a convenience store when you see the truck stops are all filled up. But let that tired, sleepy truck driver driver run over a car and all hell breaks out. It's the truck drivers fault!

Fly-over state, right?

That is one rightwing meme I'd like to retire because it has served to do nothing but create unnecessary divisions in this nation. I would love to see just one Republican effort made to unite people instead of the negative ones of greed, division, and bigotry that have been such common themes for the past 20 years or so. I absolutely do not understand the mindset of people who systematically destroy the nation from its infrastructure to the lives of its people and then wrap themselves in the flag while singing patriotic songs. Now that is cynical and evil at once.

Same thing happened under Georgia's GOP goobernor Sonny Perdue. Current Georgia goobernor Nathan Deal is worse than Perdue, and probably more crooked than NJ's Chris Christie.

who should really be on his knees begging forgiveness for the great harm he's done for his constituents and his state. The state is in huge debt while he cuts more taxes for him and his rich friends, but there's not enough rich voters to keep him in office. I hate to say it, but the voters in Kansas are stupid.

to call him Sam Brownshirt. It fits him better.

This poll is from February but maybe they'll kick him out of office.

Brownback very unpopular, trails Davis by 2

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Raleigh, N.C. – PPP's newest Kansas poll finds that Sam Brownback has continued to become even more unpopular in the last year, and that he slightly trails his Democratic opponent for reelection. Only 33% of voters in the state approve of the job Brownback is doing, compared to 51% who disapprove. That's down from a 37/52 spread when PPP last polled the state a year ago.

Brownback trails Democratic challenger Paul Davis for reelection by a 42/40 margin. Davis isn't particularly well known- only 41% of voters have an opinion about him one way or the other- so those numbers are more a referendum on Brownback than anything else. Davis leads largely because he is winning 23% of the GOP vote, a large amount of crossover support in this polarized political climate, while only 11% of Democrats plan to vote for Brownback. http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/kansas/

9K? That must be a typo.

Let's see if we can kill the grass around that sign to let Brownback know what we think about his "No Services" policy.

of people now, especially when vile people like Brownback are given positions of power.

However, Democratic Paul Davis is proving a formidable challenger. My wife and I will be actively campaigning for him! (Talked with his campaign team recently about phone banking).

The polling has been back and forth with the race still a "tossup."

Believe it or not, there are some Republicans in Kansas concerned about the state budget, particularly money for education.

Gross.

or is it Brownshirt?

For those republicans that don't like the two party system.

I don't know if you'd ever get a dyed in the wool conservative to vote for a democrat, but if you could convince them to throw their vote away on a third party candidate it would increase the chances of the democratic candidate winning.

Kansas has had some democratic governors. I remember when Joan Finney beat out the incumbent republican governor in the early '90's. It seemed her only goal was to take the lottery money and put it into schools. Once she accomplished that - I'm not sure she did anything else.

http://lpks.org/2014/05/01/kansas-libertarians-nominate-1st-amendment-hero/

My how things have changed in the past 5 years.

I was thinking that Sebelius was governor, I just didn't know when (didn't keep up after I had moved).

I never liked Brownback - I'm pretty sure he was elected to the u.s. senate while I was living there. I never understood what anyone saw in him.

It doesn't surprise me that he's a lousy governor.

I've lived in Kansas for pretty much all of my life, and I thought it had nowhere to go but up, particularly regarding racism, homophobia, etc. This guy has made all of that worse while systematically destroying our economy, social services, and education. The majority of people that I know are Republicans, and even they despise Brownback.

born and raised.

Kansas is one state over and down. My mother's family came to Iowa through Missouri and Kansas and my grandmother was born in Ft. Scott so I have always had a soft spot in my heart for Kansas. It has been heartbreaking to see the state trashed so thoroughly by these people.

in Eastern Colorado with my grandparents during high school on the Plains. Very much like Kansas with the tumbleweeds on the Prairie.

Who knows Kansas could thrive with the right people in charge. Actually I have a soft spot for every state in our Union.

one state at a time.

Thanks for the thread, Skidmore.

that's how it goes...

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