No, Sam Brownback, it’s not the media’s fault you’re losing

[Liberal_in_LA]

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 -- as 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?

Maybe -- just maybe -- it has something to do with the massive (and massively unpopular) income tax cuts championed by Brownback and passed into law in 2012. Or a further reduction in the income tax in 2013.  The combined effect of those two cuts was a more than $330 million budget shortfall in the state and the downgrading of the state's credit by several major rating agencies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/10/08/no-sam-brownback-its-not-the-medias-fault-youre-losing/?tid=trending_strip_6

[gratuitous]

1. That's the problem right there

If people would just listen to Gov. Brownback and ignore all those facts and figures, then everything would be just as right as rain! Quit looking at the results of his policies and listen to the governor. Who are you going to believe, anyway?

[davidpdx]

2. Sounds like he got his talking points from Sarah Palin

[Takket]

3. You have to specifically use the word

"Lamestream" to be palin approved

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Reality's well known liberal bias strikes again

Yes, when you vote for people who want to cut taxes so much that they can "drown government in a bathtub," they do just that, and you get no social services, no education, no healthcare, or you run massive deficits and get downgraded.

Brownback's major mistake is that he actually thought conservatives were serious when they said they wanted tax cuts and spending cuts. They never really do, most of them, because they actually rely on those services. They've just been fooled by the uber rich into thinking that it's "the other guy" who gets those services, like sending their kids to good state universities and the like. Dumb conservative: the rich people who actually want the tax cuts are sending their kids to Taxachusetts for college, ya morons. You think they give a shit about you?

[demtenjeep]

5. HE hasn't made friends among the teachers or state workers

or those living in poverty or college students or women or the youth