Salon.com: Brownback and Jindal go down in flames: America’s worst governors proven bullies, liars,

[LiberalElite]

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/18/brownback_and_jindal_go_down_in_flames_americas_worst_governors_proven_bullies_liars_fools/

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Nowadays, states are often referred to as “laboratories of democracy,” based on a line from Justice Louis Brandeis stating federalism allows that “a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.”

Implicit in this formulation is the scientific method—trying things out, and learning from the results. But science is in ill repute with the increasingly rigid, ideological GOP these days. For them, the question of what’s to be learned is not how to produce beneficial results, but how to repackage and sell disasters as shining examples of “success.”

Which helps explain how it comes that two of America’s most ambitious GOP governors are now deep in denial that their imaginary budget schemes lie in ruins.
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[AgingAmerican]

1. They will stay in deep denial

Republicans don't do introspection. They don't think about the consequences of their actions. Theirs is a world of cognitive dissonance purely guided by ideology. They don't believe in thinking. They are like robots.

They aren't self aware. They are essentially toxic narcissists.

[marble falls]

2. Especially when one considers that someone like Brownback would be 'concerned' if his daughter....

were going to marry someone like Jindal's son, or better yet, daughter.

[Persondem]

3. And just to provide a contrast

Minnesota is rocking along with a very nice surplus created by liberal policies over the last couple of years. Governor Dayton taxed the wealthy, used the income to create jobs, gave more support to education and upped the minimum wage. In doing so he turned a 6 billion dollar deficit into a 1 billion dollar surplus.

Article here.

Jerry Brown did similar things in CA.

[Hekate]

4. I won't consider them "down in flames" until they are both out of office in disgrace. At the moment

...Jindal is still running for Prez.

This is the part that worries me:

"Both governors’ budget shenanigans are reminiscent of how George W. Bush made the case for WMD in Iraq, but without even the thinnest veil of secrecy hiding the arm-twisting, manipulation and outright lying. Talking points and Fox News headlines—the only justifications GOP spinmeisters care about—leave both men in a credible light for those viewing them at a distance or through a partisan lens."

I remember how horrified I, as a Californian, felt when my dear aunt and uncle from Colorado told me how much they liked everything they had heard about our wonderful Governor Reagan. From a distance apparently he looked terrific.

Once again, this is the sort of info Dem activists need to be disseminating.

[LiberalElite]

5. True. They still have their jobs and still doing tremendous damage nt

[DFW]

6. AMONG the worst (unfortunately), not THE worst

Maine's Paul LePage and our own disaster in Texas, Greg Abbott are hot contenders for that title as well.

Thanks to Abbott and his financial benefactors, it is now illegal in Texas for a town to forbid fracking. If an oil company wants to come and poison your water supply, your town MUST, BY LAW allow them to do it. Where is Henrik Ibsen when you need him?

[MBS]

7. + 100 but don't forget

Scott Walker and his demolition of Wisconsin.. and also Oklahoma, which also just passed a law to make it illegal for towns to forbid fracking

[DFW]

8. It's almost a rule of thumb

If your governor is a Republican these days, your state is heading down the tubes.

Benevolent Republican governors are about as prevalent as flying clams.