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Their mommies must be so proud.
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Its stuff like this that make me wonder about polls that show these bastards ahead
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At least you get the headline right. Most news organizations will characterize this as a failure by the Democratic governor, not as obstruction by the GOP controlled legislature, which is what it is. For the life of me, I do not understand why Dems throughout the South and Bible Belt are not running on the fact that their citizens are paying for other states to expend Medicaid, while getting none of the benefit because they won’t expand Medicaid in their owns states. I would hate to be dumping billions in tax revenue into the Federal treasury and getting nothing back, while blue states rake it in. Seems like that might actually resonate, given the selfishness that pervades Republican politics these days.
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Sadly the GOP is willing to take the entire ship down just to satisfy their racist dogma that demands opposition to anything the President supports. Hopefully the good folks in Virginia will recognize this for what it is, and vote them out of office.
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This is what happens when progressives attack Democrats and effectively convince people not to show up at the polls, do-nothing Republicans get elected.
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Governor McAuliffe fails to see the bigger issue here:
The President is a Black Man, and a Democrat!!!
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It’s hard to fathom isn’t.
The GOTP. Killing Americans since 2010.
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It’s sad, but they really are determined not to let people know what a great plan this could be. The VA GOP will fight to the death to keep the essentially flat (and insanely low) income tax it presently has, at all costs. The only way we got a transportation deal was by agreeing to the most regressive tax of all: sales tax.
The people the VA GOP represents have healthcare (by and large), and could not care less if the broad base of virginians pay more and don’t get the federal money back - so long as the state doesn’t go on the hook for providing expanded coverage. The uninsured GOP ranks (southwest is full of them) are very weirdly less afraid of no healthcare than “socialized medicine”…plus many of them are happy to be 'self-pay" free riders.
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Your second sentence of your post is exhibit A. of the GOP’s success.
Because the GOP so blatantly goes against policies favoured by the majority of Americans (while losing comparatively little in the process), it could be suggested that Republicans are aware that, whatever they do, the MSM is bound to treat their actions as one half of some sort of “even-handed” political dichotomy, in which “Democrats tweedle-dee” and “Republicans tweedle-dum”.
The answer to “why this would occur” would take some reading, but I suppose it has a lot to do with the resurgence of the upper classes starting in the 1970s, the creation of “for profit” news departments and the like
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102153/The-Transformation-of-Network-News.aspx
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Since 1964. When Goldwater got waxed they retreated and retrenched. They finally got there with St. Ronnie in 1980 - since then they have been dismantling the country piece by piece, returning power to the plutocrats, starving education and the infrastructure, overturning civil rights laws, restricting abortion and blocking anything any Democratic president tries to do. They have made us a laughingstock in the civilized world, and detested in the Middle East. And they still convince enough people that hurting those with less is good for all. They are monsters of evil, greedy and unrepentant.
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Evil they are.
Incredibly, they have induced enough ordinary people to support their policies.
Which group (0.01% vs. the duped) do I resent more? Well…I can SEE the ordinary people who vote Republican. I can READ about the nabobs of the 0.01%. Thus the stage is set for the complete division of the People of United States of America: people react more viscerally against those they can see.
Sometimes I feel that it is this division of an entire nation–aside from what you very accurately and skillfully list as Republican “accomplishments”–is the sin for which they will be rightly judged, in this life and the Next.
And those are their strongpoints.
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No Virginia, you don’t have and don’t get affordable health care. Republicans like the shitty old way and proudly fight to keep it.
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But it was all a far cry from what seemed to be coming when McAuliffe said in June that his administration “has several options that we’re looking at, but we’re going to provide health coverage to our citizens.” At the time, nobody was sure what exactly the governor had the legal authority to do, and so Monday’s announcement was closely watched by those inside and outside of the state. In the end, it seems Virginia law significantly limited what McAuliffe was able to do unilaterally.
Well, Dylan, you sound like you’re placing some blame on the Governor for what the VA GOP is responsible for, and I wish you wouldn’t. This is all on the GOP, and the feckless State Senator, not T Mac, whatever some might think of him.
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Well Terry, now use your office to register 375,000 to vote
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Because n_gras are not just butlers and maids in the White House.
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And I hope the Governor and the President tattoo it right on the VA GOP’s corrupt entitled foreheads.
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Republican death panel challenges the poor to provide their own healthcare. Saying that your health is not our problem get sick and die already.
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