Discussion: States Could Run Out Of Funding For Children's Health Insurance Within Weeks

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This. When I got to the end of this story –

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), in a floor speech last week, called on his colleagues to get it done.

“Partisan objections forced Congress to settle for a short-term patch,” he said. “This month, we can set this right. I know that colleagues on both sides of the aisle are eager to find a long-term solution. Five years, full reauthorization. Let’s get this done for working families.”

– I almost gagged in my fury. Those “partisan objections” were Democrats’ refusal to fund CHIP by taking funds from other health-care programs as Mitch and his party were demanding. No need to pay for corporate and mega-wealthy tax cuts, but sick kids must be held hostage until they can take necessary care from other sick people. It’s the GOP’s hideous, greed-fueled ideology that’s truly sick. Not enough words in my vocabulary to accurately describe these fucking evil sociopaths.

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For McConnell and all of his acolytes, all issues are political and all politics are cutthroat. He has hurt us in ways that will last for decades if not potentially end democracy as we used to know it.

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Nah, Trump’s base will just think those dead kids took one for the team.

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Nothing new. This is a phenomenon that was actually well documented at the time.

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
Mt. 7:21

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Absolutely. There are a handful of men who can clearly be identified as the primary villains of our modern history, the deliberate architects of our dangerous dysfunction; along with Ailes and Gingrich and just a few more, McConnell is unquestionably one of them.

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How about a 1-dimensional game of “footgun”?

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“States Could Run Out Of Funding For Children’s Health Insurance Within Weeks.”

Yeah, but the Rs got their millionaire’s tax cut, so no worries. :rage:

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I seem to recall “Let Them Die” proceeded “Lock Her Up” as a three word goober chant.

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I went with 4-dimensional nose picking, because now they can renew and brag that they “found a way to cut the cost almost 90% and they did it by cutting taxes.”

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It’s a common refrain I hear from conservatives at work (EMT) as well.

“Poor people are overtaxing EMS/ERs… Health care subsidized by taxes is basically theft!!!”

It boggles my mind.

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Apparently a comma was missing…

“Suffer, the little children…”

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Trump: Blue states just need to suffer and die.
Ayn Paul Rand Ryan: All moochers must die.

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Apparently, tax cuts for billionaires was a lot more important than poor sick children – even if they belong to the Stable Genius’s base.

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Let’s cover the nation with billboards with pictures of sick and hungry children and tell everyone THIS is what the GOP has done.

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Correct … on all counts –

“Oh, Man, look here! Look, look, down here!” exclaimed the Ghost.

They were a boy and a girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread.

donnie started back, appalled. Having them shown to him in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.

“Spirit, are they yours?” donnie could say no more.

“They are Man’s,” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!” cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. “Slander those who tell it ye. Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And abide the end.”

“Have they no refuge or resource?” cried donnie!

“Are there no prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?”

The bell struck twelve.