It appears that the only thing Democrats have not screwed, up of late, is the Republican dash to oblivion, occasioned by their pursuit of the goals they have always wanted, and that America has always rejected, instead of focusing on jobs, as they all promised to do. In states where Republicans control the state house and the legislature, Republican policies have been both draconian and misanthropic, like this gem from Rick Scott.
Is this just plain incompetence, or is Gov. Soylent Green making yet another one of his wingnutty libertarian points? Whatever the explanation, I’m sure it’s just fine. It’s not as if there are any sick or elderly people in Florida anyway!
Gov. Rick Scott continues on his merry wingnut way. It’s not as if there are actual people attached to his policy choices!
In March, Gov. Rick Scott’s staff said he would accept a $35.7 million “Money Follows the Person” federal health grant.
But the Legislature appears to have decided otherwise. In the 2011-12 budget Scott just signed, lawmakers failed to give the Agency for Health Care Administration budget authority to draw down and spend the money.
Patient advocates were dismayed at the omission, because the money was to have been spent on home- and community-care programs that let disabled and elderly people move out of nursing homes or avoid them in the first place.
The likely reason seems to be that Scott wants to throw a monkey wrench into the implementation of the Patient Protections and Affordable Care Act… [emphasis original]
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And Florida merely reflects the disgust voters everywhere have for Republican rule.
When several newly minted Republican governors began pushing through broad, unpopular legislation this year, they may have unintentionally aided President Obama’s reelection odds.
Emboldened by their party’s midterm election day romp, freshman GOP governors in a few crucial swing states immediately began to advance radical legislation upon taking office. But as the cost of those unpopular legislative agendas has now become clear in the form of free-falling approval ratings and incredible buyer’s remorse, polls have shown that that same voter discontent could translate into a big 2012 boost for President Obama…
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Here’s how new polling demonstrates that voters regret electing Republicans.
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2012 is a key opportunity to flush Republicans from power, and we can best improve it by hammering our Democratic representatives and senators to represent main street. There is no advantage to caving-in and becoming GOP-lite.
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If you ask me these guys are pretty shady. They do the worst possible moves in the early part of the terms and then have three or so years before they come up for re-election and people have become used to the new world order. All we can do except for work to re-call them ASAP is keep hammering home the points of what they have done so people do not forget.
Mark I agree. We cannot let people forget.
Recall where possible–They lied to be elected– no little fibs– LIES– Put into play all and any means to control these now out of control these fools!!
Amen to that, Phyllis.
You can bet that Christie’s already abysmal polling in NJ is going to drop even further after he makes the State Police fly him to his son’s little league baseball game in their new $12.5 million helicopter:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/gov_christie_arrives_at_sons_h.html
The above site also has lots of photos (38) of Christie and his helicopter trip. I knew that Christie was morbidly obese (which makes him neither a good nor bad person), but I had no idea he was THAT overweight.
He does seem to carry his weight well, and it does make him look sort of presidential … if by presidential you mean Grover Cleveland!
Erratum: Apparently it was a high school, and not a little league game.
Well, that changes everything! Of course he’d take a $12.5 million State Police helicopter to a HS game!
Thanks Nameless. I think this comes back to the Republican notion of entitlement. As they see it, they are right so whatever they do, no matter how wrong, is right. This also involves the belief that, as the best and the brightest, they deserve perquisites that would not be appropriate for mud people.
It’s a sad commentary that they could not care less about providing the jobs they campaigned on providing.
They obviously misrepresented their agenda so that they could get the votes they did, but those who chose not to vote at all in 2010 passively voted for them just as those whose votes they got actively voted for them. Either way, they have shown their true colors, and the lackeys who are showing glee at how they are hurting fellow Americans seem oblivious that these destructive policies will also affect them adversely unless they are wealthy.
Anne, I fully agree. Now the trick is to educate people as to what’s going on.