On May 25, 2013, at 1:47 PM, Mugsy Lunsford wrote: > Bruce, can you explain this one? > > http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/jan-brewer-to-gop-expand-medicaid-ill-veto
She was planning on running again for Gov, but because she served more than half of Janet Napolitano's term after Janet went to DHS, the court said she's plainly termed out, she doesn't look good for being anything but an Ex-governor, so she did the math and realized she could either fight expanding Medicare, get a shitload of really needed money from the feds (we passed a voter prop a number of years ago forcing the state to cover all adults under a certain multiplier of the poverty level with AHCCCS, which is Az's medicare vehicle.) or preside, as her last act of office, massively screwing over the state financially. Jan, in a fit of sanity and comprehension of modern math went 'Well hell, if the Feds are gonna give us the money, we'd be stupid not to do this!'. The Lege has played games with AHCCCS the last few years, cutting a whole bunch of people off, and the state Supreme Court just ruled that 'Nuh UH! Homie can't play that game!' and so they're going to have to fund a huge expansion of health care one way or the other. Remarkably, last week the State Senate rebelled against the Senate Majority leader, who's a teabagger nutjob, and six or so Republicans voted with the entire Dem delegation in the senate to pass the medicare expansion. The House, naturally, since it's composed of a minority of Dems and a majority of poo-flingers are trying to gum up the works. Brewer found her spine after carefully hiding it for seven years, and is making good on her threats to veto everything that comes her way until they give her Medicare expansion. She's vetoed several bills, but so far most of them have been 'Oh HAIL NO!' bills that would never actually see the light of day, like SB1718 (iirc) which is 'Religious Freedumb means I can disregard any law whatsoever if I think Jeebus would disapprove, and I don't have to be a church either because my religulous freedumb is more important than my slav, err, "employees" stupid little fake religulous freedumb!'. (Surprise surprise, it's all about those lady parts, and their insatiable desire for contraception!) Also I love how TPM says 'growing threats of retribution', way to understate the case: "Nine lawmakers, including [House Speaker] Tobin, received an e-mail that begins, “Please kill SB1492, the Medicaid Expansion Act.” It then quotes the Second Amendment and provides a script to be followed as a defense for shooting someone." As they sow, so shall they find out that the Bugfuck Crazy cannot be controlled. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
