Those Wacky Republicans

Republican White House Hopefuls Attack Obamacare But Take Money

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - Several Republican governors likely to run for president have secured hundreds millions of dollars under Obamacare while working to dismantle the healthcare law, according to a Reuters review of federal spending records.

Governors Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and former Texas Governor Rick Perry, all staunch opponents of President Barack Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act, have collectively applied for and won at least $352 million through grant programs set up by the law, federal records show.

Walker has called the law an "abysmal failure" and Perry has blasted it as an "abomination." Christie called it a "failure" and Jindal told a gathering of conservative activists in February that "we must repeal every single word of Obamacare."

"There's a lot of hypocrisy when it comes to some Republicans and Obamacare," said Greg Valliere, a nonpartisan political adviser to Wall Street clients. "As my father used to say: 'Do as I say, not as I do.'"

In Louisiana, Jindal's administration has accepted $60 million in Obamacare grants while refusing to expand Medicaid and set up a state exchange. "Most of these grant funds are used for state initiatives that existed long before Obamacare ever became law," Jindal spokesman Mike Reed said.

In Texas, Perry took in at least $148 million in Obamacare grants while refusing money tied to the insurance exchange and the Medicaid expansion. He stepped down as governor in January.

"Governor Perry has long called for flexibility from the federal government so the states can implement health care programs in the best interests of their citizens," spokeswoman Lucy Nashed said.

In New Jersey, Christie has not set up an exchange but has accepted the Medicaid expansion on the grounds that it will help low-income residents and hospitals in his state. His administration has secured at least $75 million in grant money, on top of the additional Medicaid dollars.
 
sooo.... the rights of men that like to f^ck each other in their hairy stinking @ssholes and form a subculture capable of taking every good job from family men are being violated? Awful...
 
What's never made any sense to me, but then why should it?, is this Republican fixation on O'Romneycare. And Indiana's Pence typifies this. If the ACA is the disaster they say it is, why not just comply willingly and forthrightly and let the ACA disaster roll on without carping and interference. Then when the ACA falls apart at the seams, as the Republicans have assured us it will, they can ride triumphantly on their soothsayer laurels to the rescue of the national electorate and be swept triumphantly into office.

If expansion of medicaid is such a bad idea, and assuming they want to regain the White House in 2016, why not just help the disaster along its natural course by expanding medicaid and bankrupting the States and the Nation as they say it will. By continually dragging their heels as unwilling ACA participants aren't they risking making the result of the ACA not as bad as they say it will be?

The answer to that question is clearly, NO. It's obvious from their actions that what they really believe is that if fully implemented the ACA wouldn't be nearly the mess they say it will be and so they have opted to try and actively turn it into a bigger mess.

The single best, short term accomplishment of the ACA might have been the expansion of medicaid in all fifty states to bring routine medical care to millions that otherwise have no access. This explains why the Republican governors, have made up all sorts of excuses to justify their political malpractice and mistreatment of their States' tax payers and low income citizens by refusing to expand medicaid in their own state..

I don't like the ACA in the form that passed because it lacks the features needed to break the medical Cartel and significantly bring down overall costs. Medical care costs are slowly bankrupting businesses and public institutions; thus the continuing effort by businesses to shift as much cost as the law will allow onto their employees, sometimes by cutting their work hours. Something will have to be done eventually to break the immensely powerful Cartel, but the ACA is clearly not it.

In the meantime, the Republicans are continuing their shameful, ridiculous charade. Not a one of them deserves to be re-elected.
 
Ted Nugent Says 'Enemy' Obama Is Causing Veteran Suicides

Ted Nugent is blaming the "enemy" for veteran suicides: President Barack Obama.

“Here’s your job, Republican Party," Nugent said over the weekend in comments posted online by Right Wing Watch. "Twenty to 25 of those guys kill themselves every day, and they haven’t told you why and they haven’t told anybody else why but they told me why: because the commander-in-chief is the enemy.”

Nugent was speaking at the Republican Party of Maricopa County, Arizona's Lincoln Day Dinner, where he had been introduced by controversial sheriff Joe Arpaio, the website reported.

His remarks come as a new report finds that increasing rates of veteran suicides are not being caused by deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Nugent made similar comments nearly two years ago to conservative radio host Alex Jones.

At the time, Nugent said veterans were taking their own lives "because they are in absolute frustration and heartbreak that their boss, their commander-in-chief, violates the Constitution that he has made an oath to, while their hero warrior blood brothers are being blown to smithereens and blown up while executing their oath to the same Constitution that the president, the vice president and the attorney general violate."

The classic rocker has a history of controversial statements, with the president as a frequent target of his ire. Last year, he apologized after calling Obama "a subhuman mongrel." Nugent has also called Obama "an evil, dangerous man who hates America" and said in 2012 that he would "either be dead or in jail" in a year if the president was reelected.
 
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