Sam Brownback at Christmas: the lonely governor with so much to give the rest of America

Gov. Sam Brownback’s holiday gift to the hardworking Kansas statehouse press corps is the end-of-the year sit-down he grants reporters, who are invited individually or in pairs to his inner-office sanctum. There, like an understuffed Santa, the sweater-clad governor dispenses a bag full of excuses, falsehoods, underwhelming plans and promises he can’t keep.

Brownback is always a pretty unjolly Santa, but he was especially whiny this year. The media are unfair, he complained. Legislators don’t understand him. The state Senate president calls him names.

Please, won’t someone give this guy a job in Washington and allow the governor the happiness that his fellow Kansans have so cruelly denied him?

He is still, after all, capable of expressing a truly congressional grade of delusion. Among the delusions he cites as reasons to feel good at the end of this lousy year: tax policy that allows owners of certain types of businesses to pay zero state income taxes. Even better: Their neighbors and employees foot the bill and get less from overstressed state services.

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