This is disgusting. There can be no doubt that blue states are being punished and red states being rewarded. Welcome to the oligarchy.
Disgusting, maybe. Surprising? No. Par for the course.
Okay, if this is how it’s gonna be, time to talk about secession. If the GOP is not only going to collude with hostile foreign powers to get their scumbag presidents elected and then shield them from legal oversight while gerrymandering the fuck out of congress but also reapportion everything to reward their constituents and punish ours, I’m out. The mid-Atlantic and New England states should leave in a block. The Western states should leave in a block. They can move the capital back to Richmond and call it the CSA again for all I care.
So…now we know he IS a whore…we just never knew how much he sold himself for.
Mmm, tasty red sausage is being made! Don’t look, though!
They really don’t care about the country or its people, do they?
I think Richmond, and all of Virginia, would likely join the Blue States of America under this scenario.
Richmond itself certainly would, as would Charlottesville and a number of other areas.
ETA: Ron Johnson can go fuck himself, along with the rest of them.
With Graham-Cassidy we see how the proposed law is yet another cynical play to pit red states against blue states – as though the blue states were taking something that belonged to red states. They want their healthcare dollars BACK. Never mind it was their own GOP governors who opted out. With the GOP, the policy always has one underlying theme – resentment. They aren’t against receiving “handouts” – just against someone else getting them.
Wisconsin gives Foxconn a waiver for its state courts and gets a payoff from DC – the Kochs’ #1 midwestern subsidiary eight years running!
Nothing would give Republicans more pleasure than seeing blue states nuked in that scenario!
No state, including Wisconsin, is better off under the proposed Graham-Cassidy bill when compared to Obamacare. That is when compared to what all states would receive under full implementation of the ACA, every state including Wisconsin loses under the bill co-sponsored by Senator Johnson.
Because for reasons at best incomprehensible and at worst insidious several states decided not to accept the free money offered by Obamacare to provide healthcare coverage to millions of its citizens. Representatives from these states now proposing changes to the healthcare law that only benefit their states because of these insidious reasons for refusing a healthcare law passed by a Democratic president should not be allowed to say their citizens will be better off because they will accept less from Republicans.
I’m sure Republican Senators from other states are totally fine with WIsconsin getting hundreds of millions of dollars more from this clusterfuck bill than their own states are getting.
the Kochs’ #1 midwestern subsidiary eight years running!
Don’t forget the Christian People’s Republic of Brownbackistan—Koch Industries HQ is in Wichita.
How can Cory Gardner and Dean Heller and Rob Portman and Pat Toomey possibly vote for this piece of shit and tell their own constituents that they didn’t even try for a “special” deal for their own states? Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse . . .
I called the offices of Senators Graham and Scott today to express opposition to Graham-Cassidy and to ask who the campaign contributors are that they are representing - since it’s obvious that they are not concerned about the majority of the people in South Carolina.
And then, there’s this:
It’s better if you’re Scott Walker and you’re getting less money in the form of a block grant you can shovel towards your rich patrons.
Oregonian here, at the point that my federal tax dollars are going to DC to be redistributed in this obscene way to states that want to hurt their people, I am ready to seriously consider secession. What I can’t believe is that 34 states will be worse off, yet this vote is still close.
“Madame, we’ve established what you are, now we’re just haggling about the price”.