Oh, how we wish school funding and the timing of school board elections weren’t decided by the legislature and that our legislature would obey the courts. Since that is not the case, over the past few years many of us have evolved from people who barely paid attention to politics to those who watch the legislature carefully, listening to proceedings live and following Twitter at all hours. What we’ve seen is deeply disturbing. We agree with this editorial.

“The image of a grown legislator sobbing in the middle of the night would be poignant if it weren’t so symbolically wretched…

“’I voted for something I am not proud of,’ Whitmer conceded, ‘but I feel it’s what the folks need.’

“It’s really hard to imagine which ‘folks’ Whitmer was working for.

“Let’s get this straight: The tax-is-theft, small-government Kansas Legislature, prodded relentlessly and shamelessly by Brownback, was on the verge later Friday of imposing on themselves a false choice — pass a huge sales-tax increase or face across-the-board budget cuts starting Monday…So in a week of Topeka soap opera, late Thursday spilled into the early hours of Friday, and House Speaker Ray Merrick of Stilwell sprinkled some legislative power dust into the proceedings and eked out the slimmest of GOP victories about 4 in the morning.

“The Senate and House returned to the Capitol on Friday, presumably to ink the deal and send their Pyrrhic victory to the governor’s desk.”

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article23850511.html.