Pence breaks Senate tie to advance Sam Brownback nomination - Polidicks

[URL]https://www.axios.com/pence-1516825636-94fb6356-a497-438f-b3ef-9e3d2b30a3c4.html?source=sidebar[/URL] [QUOTE]Mike Pence broke a 49-49 tie in the Senate to advance Sam Brownback for a final confirmation vote as U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. Why it matters: Brownback, the current governor of Kansas, had his first nomination for the position expire at the end of 2017. Brownback will join HHS Secretary [URL="https://www.axios.com/senate-confirms-azar-as-hhs-secretary-1516818289-2df2785d-812c-42fc-9cac-f0b392a3a3b4.html"]Alex Azar[/URL] and Federal Reserve Chairman [URL="https://www.axios.com/powell-confirmed-as-next-fed-chair-1516747613-a252946d-b2f0-45ef-9395-8f470ece584e.html"]Jerome Powell [/URL]as Trump nominees confirmed by the Senate this week if the final vote passes.[/QUOTE] This is the governor of Kansas, whose budget for schools was ruled unconstitutionally low I believe.

At this point its better to shove him in an ambassadorship where he's out of the country and has pretty much no legislative or executive power. Its not like the state department is being used for much, might as well use it for a daycare for right wing loons

Ah Sam Brownback, the especially unpopular former Governor of Kansas who nearly lost his reelection in deep-red Kansas because his massive tax cut program, which mostly targeted the rich in the state, bankrupted the state and lead to massive amounts of money needing to be slashed from other government services. Funniest thing about Brownback is that, towards the end of his term, a bipartisan group of Republicans and Democrats in the state legislator passed a bill that reversed the vast majority of Brownback's tax policy, his one important 'legacy,' and overturned him when he tried to veto it. The man entirely built his governorship around validating the idea of trickle down economics, and the only thing he did was succeed in bankrupting his state and somehow getting a bipartisan group to undo his shit. You have to fuck up real hard to get Republicans to willingly agree to raise taxes on the rich.

[QUOTE=Maegord;53079180]Ah Sam Brownback, the especially unpopular former Governor of Kansas who nearly lost his reelection in deep-red Kansas because his massive tax cut program, which mostly targeted the rich in the state, bankrupted the state and lead to massive amounts of money needing to be slashed from other government services. Funniest thing about Brownback is that, towards the end of his term, a bipartisan group of Republicans and Democrats in the state legislator passed a bill that reversed the vast majority of Brownback's tax policy, his one important 'legacy,' and overturned him when he tried to veto it. The man entirely built his governorship around validating the idea of trickle down economics, and the only thing he did was succeed in bankrupting his state and somehow getting a bipartisan group to undo his shit. You have to fuck up real hard to get Republicans to willingly agree to raise taxes on the rich.[/QUOTE] Meanwhile, Conservatives say "you just didn't wait long enough to let it start working" as they continue to try and apply it elsewhere with their read-only brains.