Come on! In all fairness I have to defend Fox here. If this sort of thing was covered by the “Fair and Balanced” network, the ensuing cognitive dissonance would so disturb the already mentally unbalanced viewers that heads would spin, a la The Exorcist, amidst a demolition derby of Hoverounds, walkers, canes, misspelled signs and Liptonized crazy hats.
Have some compassion for the double-digit IQ’d, elderly and atavistic.
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LD
True, I guess SCOTUS will have to strip them of their insurance, or at least craft some sort of ruling resulting in coverage being exceedingly difficult to procure and pay for.
Feh. It’s a matter of scale. When the Kochs say “million” they mean what the rest of mean by “thousand.”
Okey-dokey then. One million revised down to about 4 or 5 guys suited up in chaps and cowboy hats (white Stetsons of course) out in the hinterlands then. Got it. Thanks for clarifying Kochheads.
Still waiting for it to destroy the budgets of the states. Or the economy.
The kochs are just doing this out of jealousy. they want to bring Montana down to Kansas level.
Well if you included the Montana diaspora, how many millions would that be?
As long as the conservative SCourt says Corporate Citizens can try to bribe public officials and lie to or scare the population (however large or small it is), cretins like the Koch Brothers and the rest of their filthy rich multinational friends will continue to throw their overinflated shareholder returns around in these fraudulent issue ads.
What’s truly amazing about Medicaid expansion here in Montana, is that it has so far come about via a coalition of all the State House Dems and–ready for this–11 State House GOPers who bucked the GOP majority leader’s efforts to kill our Medicaid expansion bill (which was sponsored by a Great Falls GOPer)! It still has to get through the State Senate, but witnessing an actual bipartisan process here has about left me gobsmacked! There really are a few GOPers here who have not gone bat shit crazy over Medicaid expansion.
It helps that Medicaid expansion has overwhelming public support here, of course.
That’s why we have the House of Representatives and its representation based on population. It is supposed to balance out the Senate and its equal representation.
There are quite a few Republicans in other states who have gotten behind Medicaid expansion too. While they still may not support the idea itself, it’s hard to explain to all but the reddest electorates why the state should forego money allotted for them. Federal government spending isn’t so bad when that spending is on you.
Well they’re in the oil business so you should expect some AstroTurfTM “grassroots”.
Americans for Prosperity-not so much, or for health insurance or women’s rights or the other than whites, OK, they are just a few Americans for the Kock Brothers and that’s about it.
“…spending millions of dollars to buy our elections.”
Because, they claim, government doesn’t work.
That was the “theory” but one of the Founders called in the fatal flaw. In actuality what it has done is allowed the small states to grab more than their share of the resources while allow major needs on major states to go unaddressed.
And significant portions of the reddest states object to dying when they don’t need to.
“Two mistakes were made yesterday. One was in our press release, the other was on the house floor with the passage of Medicaid expansion,” Lahn wrote in an email to The Great Falls Tribune. “The latter mistake will have a devastating impact on state budget and the lives of Montanans who have made it known that they reject Obamacare.”
Note that both chambers in the Montana Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
So this begs the question: who is responsible for the “mistake?” Republicans who control the legislature? Or the “scary” ghost of Ted Kennedy? lol.
So Republicans are mistaken to expand Medicare?
So the bulls are getting more than the guys?
Montanans don’t need no stinkin’ Obamacare. They already have their own insurance plan, amiright? Eh? Eh?
Love it when dems fight back!