Whatever Brownback does.
Whatever SCOTUS does (if and when they invalidate)
etc.
Depends mightily whether the MSM can contort reality into “both Democrats and Republicans have failed here”
And for everyone in the country except non-fundamentalist African Americans, this MSM bull***t is accepted
Take Latinos:
(1) A couple of weeks ago, a Latina advocate, appearing on Chris Hayes’ show, when presented with the reality of a Republican judge ruling against Mr. Obama’s actions on immigration [measures directly caused by John (lush-Republican) Boehner’s refusal to put up Senate-passed Immigration LEGISLATION for a House vote] opined this:
“I’m disappointed in both sides”
(2) Later, at a Town Hall, the Cuban Jose Diaz Balart prosecutorially excoriated Mr. Obama for “failing to act” on immigration, prompting our intrepid President to push back. Hard.
It seems that Republicans can “do no blame”. In my life following American politics, from the mid 1950 to the present, I have never seen things as bad as this. And although oases like TPM provide voices for people on the left side of the 50 yard line, I see torpor on the one hand and rage on the other.
And the wrong people are experiencing these emotions.
I enjoyed the documentary related to the book “What’s The Matter With Kansas?” The thing that I was somewhat puzzled by (but not completely) is why the people who said claimed they were (RW) Christians investing thousands of dollars of their hard earned money in that so called family themed evangelical Christian amusement park. I ashamedly admit I got some guilty pleasure out of seeing them lose their investments bedazzled by those so called businessmen Christian spouting con artists when that park went bankrupt.
These were apparently hard working and intelligent farmers and business people. That they couldn’t see how a state that was already hearing of news of family farms closing, job market shrinking, etc thinking that thousands of people would come to spend what little money they got from unemployment insurance or juggling multiple dead end low salary jobs to run to that amusement park because it was by “Christian” business people.
It’s one thing to tithe with your place of worship because of faith in God’s blessing and maybe helping the poor but it shows their religiously cloaked human “greed” in believing that GOD would bless them with high returns on their investments.
Christians (and other religious people) can be such suckers. So with their constant re-electing of confidence Conservative politicians like so called “Christian” Sam Brownback just shows how what fantasy state they wish live in. And these so call “Christians” are gonna be wary about helping their medically uninsured Kansan citizens get Medicaid? I hope God doesn’t help them.
Brownback can check with Christie on how to do this because Christie will be diverting at least $50M and perhaps twice that from the Exxon lawsuit settlement of only $250 million into NJ’s budget. Settlement was supposed to be $9 billion. CC agreed to settle for $250 M.
King Pyrrhus The Plague is determined to drive the state of Maine over the fiscal cliff by eliminating the state income tax. So, maybe there’s hope for Medicaid expansion in Maine after all. Just gonna take a few more years. We’ll send smoke signals when we’re ready to concede.
God, in his infinite wisdom, has revealed that he so favors Brownback’s tax cuts for the wealthy that he is willing to accept Medicaid expansion to help preserve as many of the cuts as possible.
These deals should stop. You want the Medicare money, they your poor should have the right to join Medicare. These deals where Medicare money goes to a private insurance company is complete garbage
You have brownback all wrong. He’ll gladly take the tax money from other states. He just doesn’t want to tax the wealthy and businesses in his state. Classic Red state economics.
Do these brilliant, “Leap and the net shall appear” Zen tax-cutting Republicans run their businesses with the same recklessness that they run governments?
I am picturing a meeting at Brownback, Inc., “We’re in the red due to declines in revenue, but if we take these Obama funds, we’ll get through the next few quarters.” “Sounds good, and in six months, maybe revenues will improve and, if not, we can figure out another way to muddle through a few quarters before the shareholders notice. By then, we’ll have taken our big bonuses for the year.”
I imagine not using traditional Medicaid will cost more money. It will certainly cost the recipients more money in copays they can’t afford if they qualify for Medicaid. In addition, more bureaucracy to check on people working at McDonald’s if they want the benefit.
Texas vacillates between moocher state, break even, and kick a little into the kitty. Currently I think they managed to claw back into break-even territory after the stimulus kick-started the recovery.
So even the federal bailout to the state’s self-imposed stupidity will be Obama’s fault. Perfect, it will the people something to divert their attention to Brownback’s failure
Actually the author did make a syntactical error… he lost track of the subject of his sentence. But it really doesn’t matter, as the meaning comes through loud and clear, so who cares at this point? And now we have a whole pen of chickens…
