What is the most brazen political lie ever told? I submit that it is the big lie Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback spread across Capitol Hill on Wednesday, hours before every single Republican senator voted to rush a massive tax cut crafted in secrecy and without public input from experts to a full floor vote by the end of the week.

Here's what the chief executive of the Sunflower State said: "What we did actually worked.”

Brownback, the walking personification of failed Republican economic policy, lobbied GOP lawmakers to replicate his failed experiment in supply-side tax cuts across the country.

“If you actually looked at what we did, it actually worked for our target,” he said. “Our target wasn’t revenue, it was growth. And it did that.”

The only plausible sense in which Brownback can claim his disastrous tax cuts in Kansas worked is that they were passed, the state’s economy was all but destroyed yet somehow he he was still reelected.