{"id":128918,"date":"2015-11-22T06:15:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T13:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/22\/balance-of-power-andor-terror-kansas-edition.html"},"modified":"2015-11-22T10:26:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T17:26:23","slug":"balance-of-power-andor-terror-kansas-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/22\/balance-of-power-andor-terror-kansas-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Balance of Power and\/or Terror (Kansas Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because, y&#39;know, you can&#39;t expect judges to do their job unless you can intimidate the snot out of them. Only then will they declare your laws legal. Bravo, Kansas legislature! Show them what &quot;law&quot; and &quot;justice&quot; and &quot;checks and balances&quot; are all about!<\/p>\n<p>(Yeesh.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2015\/11\/kansas-asks-entire-supreme-court-step-aside-key-case'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/U_w5-FF-QBicZWlV1DcuIPcpqprClZzCzHjz0y8jIayWZuRwC4W0GkyxuLlPPNuC02k-yrT8X092MrT1=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2015\/11\/kansas-asks-entire-supreme-court-step-aside-key-case'>Kansas just asked its Supreme Court to do something insane<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAt stake is the high court&#8217;s future authority&mdash;and its funding.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/MLDBL6FupHN'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because, y&#39;know, you can&#39;t expect judges to do their job unless you can intimidate the snot out of them. Only then will they declare your laws legal. Bravo, Kansas legislature! Show them what &quot;law&quot; and &quot;justice&quot; and &quot;checks and balances&quot; are all about! (Yeesh.) Kansas just asked its Supreme Court to do something insane At &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/22\/balance-of-power-andor-terror-kansas-edition.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Balance of Power and\/or Terror (Kansas Edition)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135056,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/11\/gop-federal-tax-plan-already-tried-kansas-failed.html","url_meta":{"origin":128918,"position":0},"title":"The GOP federal tax plan has already been tried. In Kansas. It failed.","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Oct-17 8:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"Kansas serves as a cautionary tale for the whole concept of \"if we cut taxes, the economy will thrive and we'll end up pulling in more tax revenue anyway\" that underlies Republican claims around their tax proposals. Making the rich richer, cutting taxes on businesses that already manage to exempt\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed-9.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":132890,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/20\/kansas-may-be-coming-to-its-senses.html","url_meta":{"origin":128918,"position":1},"title":"Kansas may be coming to its senses","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-Feb-17 2:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"When Gov. Sam Brownback in 2012 started pushing through massive tax cuts in 2012, it was to prove the conservative tenet that reducing taxes boosts the economy, effectively increasing the revenues brought in.And, as a proof, it's largely fallen apart. The more taxes have been cut, even with cuts in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30280,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/19\/dorothy-were-not-in-kansas-any-more.html","url_meta":{"origin":128918,"position":2},"title":"Dorothy, we&#39;re not in Kansas any more","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Sep-12 4:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Gideons have competition at Indian hotels. Unfortunately, I only spotted this as I was packing up. Google+: View post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27030,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/10\/kansas-ups-the-anti-abortion-stakes.html","url_meta":{"origin":128918,"position":3},"title":"Kansas ups the anti-abortion stakes","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-Mar-12 1:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, clearly, we've discovered one thing that the GOP hates more than taxes: abortion. Thus a Kansas state bill to sales tax (and tax in other ways) the snot out of the abortion process, increasingly making it affordable only to the well off. 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