A total of seven Republican Governors, including Rick Scott of Florida, Jan Brewer of Arizona, and John Kasich of Ohio, along with the Governors of New Mexico, Nevada, Michigan and North Dakota have dropped their opposition to ObamaCare in the form of federally backed funds for expanded Medicaid for their poor citizens, with Scott’s announcement the most stunning reversal of all, but with gubernatorial elections around the corner in 2014.
This has led to fury among Tea Party radicals who cannot believe that Scott has reneged on his Tea Party followers, and it might lead to a primary challenge to Scott, who has also reversed course on education funding. So this could make it harder for him and other Republican Governors to win another term in office, and give Democrats the chance to retake the Governor’s chair in many “Red” states, many of whom went that direction in 2010, giving the Tea Party prominence that it has used to try and take America back to the 19th century!
But two prominent holdouts remain–Governor Rick Perry of Texas and Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina— representing two states that are, overall, more degraded in their poverty statistics than most other states. These two Governors are making victims of millions of citizens, who are being condemned for being poor, an absolute disgrace!
And meanwhile, Tea Party Senators are becoming more outrageous in their rhetoric, including Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, with the latter being coined by some the “new Joseph McCarthy” , due to his wild and false accusations against former Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Barack Obama’s choice to be Secretary of Defense. These two men have no problem in being reckless in their behavior, as both are extremely ambitious, and think they will be President in 2017, a total delusion on their part!
It is people like Paul and Cruz, along with Perry and Haley, that demonstrate that the Republican Party is doomed in the future, until and when they purge these hateful, despicable figures out of the equation of the future of the GOP!
You forgot to mention Scott WalkWhore of Wisconsin
You are correct, Mark, as Walker is trying to develop a strategy on ObamaCare somewhere between acceptance and rejection! Thanks!
Professor,
Here’s an article about the impact in the small population state of Maine:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/02/22/maine-governor-cuts-medicaid-some-gop-colleagues-choose-expansion/QpZusfrOXCvm9EAh91YfnJ/story.html
Thanks, Paul. Many tend to ignore Maine, the poorest state in New England, and yet, Paul LePage, its Governor, is absolutely a nightmare Tea Party radical, who does not give a damn that people are going to die for lack of Medicaid services. Maine would actually benefit from federal assistance, but Le Page is an ideological nut! And yet, many of the same people who are Tea Party loonies are insistent on every child being born, although no concern about what happens after birth. If the people of Maine do not get what Le Page is doing to them, then it is hard to have sympathy for them, as they are voting against their own interests, but this happens regularly out of ignorance!
Rick Scott is paying a team to figure out how to fraud Obama Care once he misses out on his second term.
I can believe that, Zach, as he is a white collar crook who should be in prison, not in the Governorship of Florida!
I think these Republican governors want to win re-election. Most of the states in this country schedule their gubernatorial elections in those even-numbered midterms years.
That’s where a good 26 to 30 percent of those who participated in voting for the U.S. House of Representative in those leap, presidential elections do not show up to participate in voting in those Senate and midterms.
The House is the best comparison because the schedule of every two years guarantees even-numbered election years which covers both midterms and presidential cycles.
The Republicans are hoping the typical pattern of the party opposite an incumbent president will, in 2014, once again do the better job of turning out the vote.
D, you are correct in your assessment! Thanks again!
His “premier” healthcare system is one of the worst in the developed world. Fine, let the feds do it. At least they will include birth control services.
http://www.medicaremaine.com/