Kansas again - Sam Brownback, Likeminded Lawmakers Recast Social, Fiscal Landscape Of Kansas

Sam Brownback, Likeminded Lawmakers Recast Social, Fiscal Landscape Of Kansas

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/04/sam-brownback-kansas-_n_871366.html

"TOPEKA, Kan. — For decades in Kansas, a delicate political balance kept the state on a moderate path even as other states in the region turned to the right. Conservatives could cut taxes in flush times. But Democrats and centrist Republicans still freed up money for highways and schools, and a loose coalition worked out compromises.

Those days, it seems, have passed.

And the change has come more swiftly than in other places that were part of last fall's conservative electoral wave that put new Republican governors or stronger Republican legislatures in charge in half of the nation's statehouses.

In a mere five months, new Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and likeminded lawmakers have recast the social and fiscal landscape of Kansas and made the state a laboratory for conservative ideas.

Kansas will soon become one of the most difficult places in the country for a woman to obtain an abortion. Its public schools will have much leaner budgets. Its government workers will have smaller pensions or pay more to keep what they have. Several state agencies have been closed or merged. The state will look for ways to spend less on health care for the poor in the Medicaid program. And Kansas will be first state to eliminate funding for the arts.

The legislative session that ended this month will have shoved Kansas away from the socially moderate climate of the Midwest, with Iowa and Illinois, and toward the sharply conservative Southwest of Texas and Oklahoma."

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Indeed.

Conservatives.
Extreme Religious zealots.
Republican "vote against my own best interests" hand-jobs who hate Democrats, liberals, and ho-mo-sex-uals.
And illegal immigrants.
The anti- abortion (and at times murderous) crazies.

Kansas, is a wonderful state with a proud (shout out) liberal history and many strong, committed Democratic people.
Remember that Lawrence, Kansas was once known as the "Berkeley of the Mid-West" and is a great small city.
Burroughs lived there.
It was one of my favorite haunts and that was because of it's character.
Like Austin is to Texas.

There is a cancer that will be shortly cut away from this beautiful state, and that cancer is Brownback and his strong Christian support.
Kansas ain't all Christian and one day soon, they will be marginalized.
The Rev. Phelps and his ilk... their days are numbered.
I loved Kansas, it's a beautiful state.

You want crazy?
Come visit me in Florida.

Florida and you're so correct, lots of crazy there. I sure hope the Brownback cancer gets cut away when people see/hear more and more what he's doing. I just find it hard to believe everyone's jumping up and down with joy.