Teabaggers have a rather selective understanding of what the Constitution guarantees, and seem quite ready to trash whatever portions thereof contradict their platform of guns, greed and hate. But when it comes to sheer ignorance, this governor needs to return to grade school.
Maine Gov.-elect Paul LePage says it will be a smooth transition from his campaign, where his rhetoric was often confrontational toward the federal government, to working with the Obama administration as Maine’s governor.
The Waterville Republican visited Washington, D.C. this week with other newly elected governors to meet with the president as well as top administration officials to help forge new relationships. He also met with top Republican members of Congress, where the GOP has an incoming majority in the U.S. House.
LePage, whose pledge to make headlines by telling Obama to “go to hell” reverberated nationally during the campaign, was also quoted during the campaign as intending to “push back against the federal government…
…The governor-elect said his major concerns are overreaching policies — LePage identified education and health care as areas he thinks the federal government goes too far — and how much, and in what way, the federal government distributes funds.
“I am going to be sitting with our attorney general and ask him to join the (health care reform) lawsuit against the federal government,” he said, adding he just learned that if 35 states join the suit, the law “dies, automatically.” Twenty states so far have joined the suit, filed in federal court in Florida, to repeal the provision in health care reform law that requires individuals to purchase health insurance… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <The Kennebunkport Journal>
Hat-Tip: TPM
Earth to Teabagger! Earth to Teabagger! Hello? Is anyone at home between those ears? If 35 states would join the suit, the only thing that would mean is that 35 states had joined the suit. Have you been getting your tea from Batshit Bachmann?
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Has this even been declared a class action suit or is this a suit by an individual state with the others filing Amicus briefs?
So how did the president respond when this old white man told him to go to hell?
While not a class action, the major lawsuit may very well be State of Florida v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Case number: 3:10-CV-91), which has been joined by 20 other states (Arizona, Indiana, Mississippi, Nevada, North Dakota, Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Georgia, and Alaska. Along with the National Federation of Independent Business and two individuals, Mary Brown and Kaj Ahlburg).
In October, the presiding judge for this case (Roger Vinson) granted standing – this allows the case to continue. Both parties have filed their Motion for Summary Judgment, and both a hearing and oral arguments based solely on the merits of each side has been set for December 16.
And Paul (“The-Stupid…It-Burns”) LePage has so far only threatened to tell Obama to go to hell – but it’s unclear what the hell LePage is waiting for.
I’ll defer to Nameless, who knows the particulars better than I. I understand that he’s buttering up Obama for federal spending in Maine instead of telling him to go to hell.
What dumasses. Their fellow statesmen and women will have them hanging in the town square.
We should be so lucky!