{"id":11223,"date":"2015-06-12T17:15:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T00:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11223"},"modified":"2015-06-12T17:41:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T00:41:27","slug":"this-is-whats-the-matter-with-kansas-bradcast-6122015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=11223","title":{"rendered":"THIS is What’s the Matter With Kansas: ‘BradCast’ 6\/12\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a major victory<\/a> (for now) for progressives in the U.S. House hoping to block the TPP trade agreement favored by Obama and the Republicans. On today’s BradCast<\/em><\/a>, we explain what actually happened on Friday. (Since all you’ll hear from the MSM is how “Obama suffered a humiliating defeat by Democrats!” He did, but that’s not what matters.)<\/p>\n

Then: Apparently Republicans don’t understand how the whole “Laboratories of Democracy”<\/a> idea for states is supposed to work. At least not based on how the disastrous ongoing experiments of Reaganist Gov. Sam Brownback (R) in Kansas are going. The state has several incredible messes on their hand, all stemming from the far rightwingers’ tax cuts for the wealthy which have now resulted in a massive $400 million budget deficit<\/a> which must be closed by law before next week.<\/p>\n

But, perhaps even more extraordinary, is a law signed this week<\/a> by Brownback that would, if the court system dares to disagree with him and fellow Republicans on state funding, result in the entire state Judicial system being defunded. No, seriously. Matthew Menendez<\/a>, Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice’s Democracy Program<\/a>, joins me to explain the insanity. And, apparently, it’s as mad as it sounds! “It is incredible,” Menendez tells me, as I beg him to explain how I’ve got it wrong. “I have never seen anything like this,” he says.<\/p>\n

Also today: Yet another major hack<\/a>, this time of security clearance info for intel and military personnel. (But, again, Internet Voting and e-voting is totally security, as run by your local election official. Don’t worry!); And Desi Doyen joins us with the latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a> on, among other things, the G7 declaring the end of fossil fuels and Santorum v. Pope!…<\/p>\n

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It was a major victory (for now) for progressives in the U.S. House hoping to block the TPP trade agreement favored by Obama and the Republicans. On today’s BradCast, we explain what actually happened on Friday. (Since all you’ll hear from the MSM is how “Obama suffered a humiliating defeat by Democrats!” He did, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[675,390,357,477,654,617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bradcast","category-economy","category-internet-voting","category-kpfk","category-kris-kobach","category-tpp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}