# The Revolt of the Sane has begun

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-revolt-of-the-sane-has-begun/761690>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [August 3, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-revolt-of-the-sane-has-begun/761690 "2016-08-03T21:29:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-revolt-of-the-sane-has-begun/761690/1 "2016-08-03T21:29:37Z")

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[In Kansas](https://www.yahoo.com/news/backlash-kansas-ousts-least-11-conservative-lawmakers-095627942.html?nhp=1), the Senate Majority Leader and 10 other Brownback Teanderthals lost their primaries.

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> Kansas has struggled to balance its budget since the GOP-dominated Legislature slashed personal income taxes in 2012 and 2013 at Brownback’s urging to stimulate the economy. That’s created concerns among educators about future spending on schools, even as many Republicans see the $4 billion-plus a year the state now spends as generous.

Slashing taxes, per what has recently been GOP orthodoxy, has only crippled the state, and the adults recognize it.

Will it continue?

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**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-revolt-of-the-sane-has-begun/761690/2 "2016-08-03T21:35:45Z")

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In KANSAS?? I’ll consider it sane when the state taxes their churches. 😃

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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-revolt-of-the-sane-has-begun/761690/3 "2016-08-03T21:52:59Z")

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Amazingly karmic, after years of Teahadists primarying moderates out of office that the moderates finally turned the tables on them. Hopefully that spreads nation wide.

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-revolt-of-the-sane-has-begun/761690/4 "2016-08-03T21:56:45Z")

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“I see the GOP… hanging from a T of gold…”

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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-revolt-of-the-sane-has-begun/761690/5 "2016-08-04T11:20:54Z")

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U.S. Representative and Tea Partier Tim Huelskamp was also [defeated](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/huelskamp-defeated-in-kansas-primary-226603) by a more moderate conservative. (For a certain value of moderate.)

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> “Every member should remember this the next time they see a Club for Growth or Heritage Action vote alert,” said a national Republican strategist. “Never put their interests before your district or the country, or there will be a price to pay.”

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-revolt-of-the-sane-has-begun/761690/6 "2016-08-04T13:38:22Z")

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Wow, in the Koch’s own backyard. Sting much?

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**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-revolt-of-the-sane-has-begun/761690/7 "2016-08-04T18:38:58Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Wow, in the Koch’s own backyard. Sting much?

Similar thing next door in Missouri. Conservative billionaire Rex Sinquefield dumped a bunch of his money into campaigns for various statewide offices, and it looks like everyone he backed got stomped in their primaries.