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Discussion: Maine Chaos Is Culmination Of Gov. LePage’s <span class="s1">Retaliatory Use Of The Veto
It appears should Scott Walker get the GOP Prez nominee nod he has the perfect running mate in LePage.
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Exactly why a repub will not be in the White House. LePage is just like trump and that’s who’s leading the party. This no apologies, no second guesses, bully governing style doesn’t work at any level of government.
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Walker of WI survived recalls, and was reelected. LePage was reelected. Rick Scott of FL reelected. Chris Christie of NJ reelected. All four are renowned bullies, steamrolling over their legislatures, opponents and constituents. Hasn’t seemed to hurt any of them. Every single one could run again and if not for term limits win again, despite ever growing publicity for being bullies. Bullying may not work as a style for effective governance but it certainly doesn’t exact a penalty at the polls.
In every possible way. Agnew to Walker’s Nixon. Says horrible things that thrill the angry base jobbers and so horrifying that it impeachment-proofs the Leader.
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I feel for progressive Maine residents. It must be weird having the very embodiment of “Boss Hogg” inhabit the Governor’s mansion. Put a poofy gold hairpiece on him and give him a microphone, you might think you’re listening to The Donald. And those voting for him are bereft of any sense of civic duty.
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“The governor doubled down on the approach”
LePage is way past double, he’s into quintuple territory at least…
He’s like the proverbial bull in the china shop, the damage he’s done to Maine is incalculable.
The Tea Mob era has been especially hard on some states… Maine, Kansas and Oklahoma top my list, in that order, but I’m sure there are arguments for many other states.
Imagine if progressive or even just moderate governors and legislatures managed those states… but instead, authoritarian bitterheads who all look like they stopped buying new suits in the 60’s, have taken over, full of tea and promising to take down the progress of decades.
Historians of the future will look back on the Brownbacks and the LePages with wonder and they’ll often quote the Eagles “Lyin’ Eyes”…
“wonder how it ever got this crazy…”
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I was thinking more like Palin/Lepage… Walker’s milquetoast compared to Crazy Sarah.
Can you imagine the venomous rhetoric those two could produce together?
It’s the Z-Rays. And Sputnik. A dash of Flouride. The Great Bootstrap Die Off of the 60s and 70s. Unleaded gasoline. Maryjane and Madhatter. There’s been a blue light special on Hell and Handbaskets for years now. I bought in when they were cheap, thinking they were a harmless curio. Little did I know the damned things reproduce like rabbits.
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The guy’s just another fucking extremist –
You know, let’s assume for sake of argument he just got some bad legal advice about whether this would be a veto.
Why in the hell was he trying to pocket-veto bills in the first place? Was his time too precious to waste signing his name 19 extra times in one of those ten days?
Usually, the pocket veto is reserved for presidents or governors who are trying to draw as little attention as possible to the fact that they’re preventing bills from becoming law. LePage doesn’t strike me as the kind of guy who intentionally draws as little attention as possible to ANYTHING.
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He stopped just sitting and holding his breath. Now he has started flinging poo.
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No. Christie would not be reelected if he ran again. Neither would LePage. Exposure, especially across the webs, impacts electability. See: Mitt “47%” speech, Akin “shut that whole thing right down” comment, etc, etc.
I would think Wisconsin should go before Kansas and Oklahoma. I mean, even if it isn’t quite as bad as either Kansas and Oklahoma just yet, they were already right-wing havens before the Tea Mob showed up. Wisconsin, on the other-hand, had a reputation as a fairly progressive state. Just the fact that it is now even in the running to be compared to those two, shows how devastated it has been by the Tea Mob. So while Wisconsin might not have fallen as low as either of those just yet it had farther to fall from, so the fact that it is even approaching their level suggests it has fallen farther overall.
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“To his credit, he is the CEO of a company and he calls it the state of Maine"
He’s not a CEO and Maine isn’t a corporation. He’s the Governor of a State. He runs it for the good of the people not profit. Nuff of that. We already did the CEO thing with Bush.
LePage is a loose cannon. That may have been attractive to voters but what they did not seem to get in whatever frustrations they had when they went to the polls they were voting for MORE of them in electing LePage. LePage is not a problem solver he’s a problem maker. He’s oafish, crude and disconnected from the world and Maine as it really is. He went into office with notions of his own creation and he is incapable of changing them. He doesn’t want Maine to work…he wants his ideas to work. And they never will.
The folks in Maine reelected that clown like we reelected Rick Scott down here. We knew and the Mainers knew what was going on and we went for a second helping. We deserve it. No pity is deserved.
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Spot on.
LePage is constantly creating situations that he is then emotionally incapable of handling. The Kaci Hickox quarantine fiasco just before the election was one; he appeared before the press a day or two before the election and appeared to be having a mental meltdown (hard to gauge, given the baseline data we have to work with). Who knows what the combination of what’s going on now and the Goodwill-Hinckley scandal will lead to in terms of his conduct. He’s like a tea kettle on a hot stove - the end result is inevitable.
Edit: Can you imagine any CEO as willfully trashing his company as LePage has the state of Maine (including our workers, students and teachers, for instance), and behaving in as consistently an emotionally unstable a manner as LePage has being allowed to remain in place? Me neither.
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Americans were spoiled by a few generations of competent government. So, hey, we can vote in these tea party radicals in Maine, Kansas, Wisconsin, etc., and though they might have some different priorities, at least the trains will still run on time. Are we learning our lesson?
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Maine Governor LePetomane (the farter)
“Workworkworkwork”
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“I didn’t get a “harrumph” out of that guy!”
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When the job gets complicated, trust Teabaggers like LePage to fuck up.
And he’s FRENCH!
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