Remember that Coyote that Rick Perry Shot While Out Jogging?
Well, it appears that most Texans think he dispatched Obamacare the same way.
No, seriously.
In Texas, political opposition to President Obama’s health law is so strong that some residents believe, erroneously, that the program is banned in their state.
They think that Rick Perry turning own $10 billion in Medicaid funding also killed Obamacare because we’re Texans, dammit all to hell, and we don’t need no health care.
Thanks to Irene for the heads up.
That’s one of the benefits of my leaving Texas last summer and returning to Alta Arizona. Glasses, hearing aids, and surgery, a knee replacement that will get me back on my feet for real.
1I’m not surprised in the least.
The first round of teabagger infighting during the primaries was a giant game of one-upmanship in how much they hate the idea of people being able to see a doctor without having to sell their meager possessions or excess body parts. That and hearing them scream “I really really really f***ing hate Obama” and then being accused of being a traitor to the country because they only used 3 “really”s and one not-safe-for-Momma word.
I’m just waiting for one of these politicians to state publicly that non-independently wealthy people should just die and be processed into Soylent Green.
2I’m trying to think what to write here. I think of all the misinformation that floats around and it makes me sad. You know what else some of them think? Some of them are losing their water in west Texas and believe that Obama is shipping their water to China. Seriously. And they’re not bad people. I think of how Abbott must get a kick out of that sort of stuff. Of course there are also lots of folks in west Texas who know exactly what’s going on and have the courage to keep on keeping on.
3Marge, if they’d just realize a lot of that water is going to the folks that the Governor keeps inviting to move to Texas. Every time I see one of his “incentive” bills I just cringe. We do NOT have the infrastructure to support the growth. I’m not talking roads or schools or housing, I’m talking WATER.
4Please tell me I read this wrong.
Kentucky signed on to the Medicaid expansion program…
And…. Texas did not.????
Good Grief!
5Remember me? I am the guy who sits in a Walmart store to take the abuse of the ignorant on the ACA. Had a guy come in this week and ask for help to get Medicare. He is only 62 and not on disability, but wants help getting on Medicare. Told him he is not eligible but could get coverage on the ACA. He has no money to pay the premiums because he is unemployed, but doesn’t like it anyway. I told him to move to a blue state where he could get Medicaid because our compassionate governor decided he didn’t want no stinkin help from the feds. Of course he didn’t believe that the man he voted for would be so mean, but he will still vote for the guy in November because, well, because he is stupid. There is no pill for that.
6If it weren’t for misinformation the GOP would have no supporters at all outside the 1%.
7The Florida Teabaggers will always one up their brethren in the other states:
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2014/03/tea_partiers_cancel_insurance_obamacare.php
The baggest of all the Palm Beach teabaggers says he doesn’t need birth control or mammograms, so he is canceling his insurance to protest those who do under ACA. Hopefully all the women on earth will continue to make sure he never needs any access to birth control. In his case abstinence is indeed the most preferable form of birth control. We wouldn’t want anything to happen by mistake.
8Lots of times I see signs of clinical depression in senior citizens and that certainly does put a dent in the thought processing. Of course, they don’t know they are depressed and if diagnosed by a doctor as such would not comply with doctor’s orders.
And unless they frighten the horses out in the street, in a free country there is really nothing you can do about it.
Cmompanionate sigh to Bernard.
9Bernard, you are right on the money.
10There is an epidemic of stubborn stupidity in this country and no amount of reasoning will stem it.
SusanF, yes, water water water. I think it will preempt aLl the other issues. You gotta have water to live.
11MaryK, you’re in AZ? With Jan? Did she vote to extend Medicaid?
12If anyone here is from Kansas, let us know what all is peoples’ perception on the various Koch attacks.
Suggested mascot for the Texas GOP: a dead coyote.
13More suggested mascots for the Texas GOP: dead uninsured citizens.
14Miemaw,
Kentucky sure did. Set up an exchange called KYnect. I fell into the expanded Medicaid. Just had a CT scan that I paid a co-pay of $3.40 for. Usually runs $1600+. Gawd I love the Commonwealth and thank Gov. Beshear every damn day. I need surgery and am going to get it now.
15Brewer, in one of her few moments of sanity, defied her Republican colleagues, and accepted the government funding of Medicare for Arizona. At the end of the last session of the legislature, she refused to sign any bills whatsoever until the legislature gave in. She won, thus destroying any chance the legislature would approve of her running for a third term.
16Kid Sis moved in with me from Phoenix, up here to Seattle a couple years ago. Sis said Jan Brewer has a son with some sort of mental illness. So we weren’t surprised at her Medicaid expansion determination, she has a sense of what it’s like at home dealing with issues.
No matter, there was no way she was going to get a 3rd shot of being gov. Their constitution precluded that.
17Miemaw says:
March 28, 2014 at 10:02 am
Miemaw, Kentucky has a Democratic governor, repuke lege, IIRC.
18Which is what we really need, Wendy Davis and Leticia VandePutte could really change some things around here.
Truth is that coyote was,in reality,a S###-eating dog and Perry killed it in self defense. That poor mangy coyote would have died of incurable wingnut rabies had it actually sunk its slavering fangs in Perry’s succulent white flesh. Dramatize much?
19Palm Beach Teabagger don’t care what happens to the women in his life? or maybe he’s married to a lady with a high paying job and good insurance, like Ted Cruz, whose insurance comes from Goldman Sachs. I guess his daddy is on Medicare. Or something. I can think of several options but ain’t sayin’ ’em.
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