Originally published at: Republican Work Of Cutting Medicaid While Pretending They’re Not Begins In Earnest - TPM – Talking Points Memo
During a widely covered weekend town hall at which New York Republican Rep. Mike Lawler was forced to answer for the Trump administration’s many loathed and lawless actions, the Republican got more than an earful from residents of his swing district about the party’s intended cuts to Medicaid. Lawler did what some of his Republican…
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Who will be hurt most from their Medicaid cuts? The largest single group of Medicaid recipients: children. But since this regime is cutting the school lunch program (proportion of American children on the lunch program: >51%), I guess starving them to death will cost Medicaid less.
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Republicans apply a scorched earth program on their own country and in particular, on their own constituents.
I guess we will see if their constituents notice.
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Yes, but they have a plan. You know, the one about paying women $5000.00 to have a child. So, for any lives lost due to cuts in Medicaid the money they save there will just be transferred to that account. And yes, that’s really twisted. You’d think we’d be used to hearing their hypocrictal statements about how they’re the party of the family. It amazes me to watch them lie so convincingly and with an attitude that oozes sincerity. Even used car salespeople are more honest.
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I look at my clientele at the store. So many of them are in motorized wheelchairs, or pulling along a mentally challenged adult child, or some other malady. I have to wonder how work requirements will even be remotely possible for some of these folks.
But the cruelty is the point.
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Gee. Suddenly that five grand my wife and I will get if we have more kids looks a good way to pay for our medical bills, our kids’ school lunches, our … (snark!)
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I suspect they’ll notice that the earth has been scorched, but whether they will assign blame where it is due is an open question.
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Moderate House Republicans and those who hail from swing districts have said they don’t want major cuts to Medicaid to finance the bill, but have left the door open to reducing the federal share of payments in states that have expanded Medicaid under the 2010 health law. But that could lead states to make benefit cuts, raise taxes or slash other programs to fill budget holes.
Thus making the states the bad guys, leaving Trump and Congressional Republicans with “clean” hands…
*^%#!?
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More money-whipping. Now it’s the “blue” cities, those who dare to welcome immigrants. Last week, private universities were money-whipped into submission – until Mighty Harvard said “hell, no!” … and sued.
As Josh Marshall has reminded us, the courts are taking notice, particularly after ICE tried to disappear one of their own, basically for not letting their thugs burst into her courtroom without a warrant, terrifying all the other defendants and their families, and making them fear the “justice” system.
He’s going too far, and people are noticing at last. He doesn’t even have a good economy to bolster his misrule – he wrecked that, and the empty shelves will be appearing soon.
Take heart! And encourage your Democratic office holders to blame the right person(s)! If you are so unfortunate as to be represented by Republicans, hang it on them and demand to know why they haven’t exercised any oversight.
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Of course they’ll assign blame where it’s due - clearly, Biden screwed up everything before he became too senile to even run again for President.
And of course, Harris could have fixed it with a couple of TSF-like executive orders, but she hid behind her “Vice President” title, refusing to act, so that’s how we ended up where we are today…
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/s ← here it is… 
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Trump and Congressional Republicans all have orange hands.
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The more obtuse, bizarre and shrill Lil Stevie gets, the more I think things are not going according to plan. Off the rails even.
Sorry, I can’t get a link to work for this one.
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directs the House Energy and Commerce Committee to identify $880 billion in spending cuts over 10 years
Remember, their new rule is that once something has been in effect for 10 years, it becomes the new baseline. In other words, the spending cuts and tax cuts are intended to last forever.
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Modest proposal: make it unlawful in each state to put on a mask, kidnap somebody in broad daylight, present no ID, suggest to no one where you’re taking them, shoving them in an unmarked van, and driving away while the citizens stand around you, filming you, demanding you stop. It just seems to me that in a society that is ruled by laws that that kind of thing shouldn’t happen.
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Unlike birthright citizenship, reproductive healthcare, public education, civil rights, food safety, environmental protection, etc. etc.
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“As long as they’re hurting the right people.” They totally ignore that they are many of the people being hurt.
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The thing is …we had a baby bonus -for one year. It was called the expanded child tax credit and it cut child poverty damn near in half. But every single republican senator plus Joe f’ing Manchin decided they could not abide poor kids being a little less poor and they killed it.
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I don’t understand why Canada doesn’t want to be 51st state.
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“When it comes to Medicaid, I have been very clear: I am not cutting benefits for any eligible recipient,” Mr. Lawler said.
“And any of those moochers that I do cut benefits for, obviously weren’t eligible in the first place. Q.E.D.”
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