Posted on 06/11/2017 7:11:28 AM PDT by Ennis85
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Kansas was at the heart of the tea party revolution, a red state where, six years ago, a deeply conservative group of Republicans took the state for a hard right turn. Now, after their policies failed to produce the results GOP politicians promised, the state has become host to another revolution: a resurgence of moderate Republicans.
Moderate Republicans joined with Democrats this week to raise state taxes, overriding GOP Gov. Sam Brownback’s veto and repudiating the conservative governor’s platform of ongoing tax cuts. The vote was a demonstration of the moderates’ newfound clout in the state Republican Party. Brownback was unable to successfully block the bill because many of the die-hard tax cut proponents had either retired or been voted out of office, losing to more centrist candidates in GOP primaries.
“The citizens of Kansas have said ‘It’s not working. We don’t like it.’ And they’ve elected new people.” said Sheila Frahm, a centrist Republican who served as lieutenant governor of Kansas and briefly as a U.S. senator.
Kansas’s moderate ascendance may portend problems for Republicans in Washington, where many in the party, including President Trump, are pushing to adopt federal tax policies similar to the ones Brownback has installed in Kansas. But while Brownback had hoped what he called Kansas’s “real-live experiment” in conservative economic policy would become a national model, it has instead become a cautionary example.
Brownback and his promised tax cuts were expected to spur enough economic growth to keep the government well funded, but when that economic boom never materialized, state lawmakers faced perennial deficits and had to implement spending reductions to close the gap. And when they did, some lawmakers found that while promising to cut spending plays well during a campaign, the subsequent loss of public services often proves-
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It is because The Kansas Government is addicted to spending like everyone else and couldn't find a way to "pay for" the tax cuts.
Instead of, you know, spending less and doing without.
So now I will have to do with less because my property taxes are climbing sky-high.
The Fudge Packers in Topeka never seem to think that maybe if we didn't have all these illegals in the state or ran the government efficiently we wouldn't have these budge problems now then would we? >:(
get rid of every single republicrat that voted for it. The “tea party” is basically the people that stand on the principals of the Republican party. The “moderates” are part of the kleptocracy that are subversive democrats in republican clothing.
Name names.. make lists and publish widely through social media and tag/label them every time they pretend they’re republicans. It’s just like santa claus. Who’s been naughty and who’s been nice.
professionally destroy those who have been naughty.
“The Tea Party is dead kids. This time, for real....No seriously, we mean it...Trump is doomed too!”
“Kansas was at the heart of the tea party revolution, a red state where, six years ago, a deeply conservative group of Republicans took the state for a hard right turn. “
interesting...i remember being at Tea Party rallies almost eight years ago in 2009...i remember the 9/10/2010 Tea Party rally in DC almost seen years ago...i remember the Tea Party led smackdown in the 2010 midterms....
can’t even get their date right...
Moderate Republicrats are closet Democrats period!
It’s comical what the Washington Post is reduced to reporting as a new trend that foretells the Left regaing power.
It’s also very telling what they think of as centerist. Why raising taxes is as American as apple pie. What good patriotic citizen wouldn’t want to have more of their personal income confiscated?
No wonder the Democrats control next to nothing these days.
If only it were true that Dems controlled next to nothing these days! In reality, though, they still control the narrative, and that makes all the difference, especially to the do-nothing GOP we keep putting into office.
Tea Party is a state of mind, those with that state of mind express their opinion thru President Trump whom they elected to office.
Kansas has always had a deep divide between the old line “main street” Republicans and the Republicans of the Right. I am a Jayhawk. Was a neighbor of a son of a Governor. Been in Ralph Landon’s home. Met Bob Dole in the 70s.
When the party first divided the Right was clearly motivated by a single issue: abortion. And boy were they motivated. Main Street Kansas Republicans were already very anti-left and anti-communist. But you would have thought they were 60s radicals to hear the ProLife Republicans. By about 1972 there was a bright line dividing members of the party and they have had some nasty feuds. Those not on the more Right Wing have not necessarily even been predominantly pro abort, they just refuse to make the entire state’s agenda about abortion and boy it made some bitter battles.
This is why it has had so many Democrat governors.
Kansas politics have always been fickle.
There are two reactions that were pretty much expected.
One was your observation about (essentially) the media.
The other would be that the Republicans are essentially acting as proxy Democrats these days. So while officially the Democrats have no power, their extended ideology sure seems to.
Isn’t Skippy Podesta over there now? Hmmm.
Or, instead of that, the group will become even more "extreme" — calling for elimination of whole classes of taxes, advocating the abolishment of most federal government offices, you know…
real Constitutionalism.
Could be. I haven’t kept that close of tabs on him.
BS it is ‘moderates’ who have wreak havoc whereever they go.
Bunch of Kansas “Republicans” gonna find themselves out of work soon.
The advent of Trump is the Tea Party rising from the ashes - he is what they envisioned when they formed......maybe not in the personage they pictured, but he epitomizes what the Tea Party stands for.
In business terms, the TP failed but the intellectual property was acquired by and has since become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Team Trump.
In business terms, the TP failed but the intellectual property was acquired by and has since become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Team Trump.
All good by me! I couldn’t give a damn regarding the Tea Party business model!!
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