Monday, April 9, 2018

Are Republicans finding their way?

Don't count on a full-scale retreat, but it seems some Republican legislators are coming to their senses.

Kentucky governor Matt Bevin is the latest old-school GOP honk to come to Jesus, and by that I mean he realizes today's Republican isn't acting in the best interests of the party nor the people.


“We want to come up with a smart, thoughtful, more balanced approach,” Bevin said at a news conference. “We need to govern in a different way.”

That tax plan seems eerily similar to the one Donald Trump recently signed that Republicans are now backing away from and even Trump is trying to invalidate some components of the horrendous plan.

The GOP plan in Kentucky slashed business and income taxes while raising sales taxes.

You don't have to be an economist to understand how that plan hurts the middle to lower income folks.

"One analyst has projected the plan, now headed back to the state legislature, would raise taxes on 95 percent of Kentuckians while cutting them for the wealthy and corporations."

So, yeah, Bevin is correct, he and his GOP partners in crime do have to govern in a different way. They do need to come up with a smart, thoughtful and more balanced approach.

We've been trying to tell the GOP their train has veered off the track, but they just didn't want to listen.

Apparently, the stunning upsets in several primary races has the GOP rethinking its awful strategy.

That's good news for everybody.



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