YeeHaw Kentucky!
Just when you thought Kentucky would eventually run out of crazybutt Republicans …
You know how some damn fools want to drug test anyone who gets public assistance?
Let’s not stop there.
The drug-testing programs have, in general, been a costly and pointless disaster. But in Kentucky, Republican gubernatorial hopeful Matt Bevin has expressed support for expanding drug testing to include senior citizens on Medicare.
The real kicker: He was speaking at an event co-sponsored by the AARP.
Matt Bevin wants to be governor and he decides to make an enemy of every old person (not to mention their doting families) in Kentucky?
That boy is not too bright, is he?
1How’s about if all state and national office-holders also have to pass a drug test? Sounds fair and logical to me. After all, they rake in a lot of government money and other goodies, too.
2What an absolute fool! Where is Wendy Davis or do Kentuckians not want smart, intelligent woman running the show? I was so sorry that they sent McConnell back to DC instead of Davis. I don’t have much hope for this state politically.
I do hope he fails in his quest for the governorship, and does so spectacularly!
3Forget drug testing I want to see politicians take a mental health test and a citizen’s test before they run for office and they have to pay for it themselves.
More evidence that these people don’t care about human beings just fetuses. If some poor person smokes pot and gets appendicitis or has a stroke, no medical care for them – just let them die in the streets, then dump their body on Matt Bevin’s porch.
4Follow the money! Bevin or members of his valued family probably have financial interests in the drug testing cash cow. None of these pols are qualified to have an original idea.
5At least a citizenship test, with emphasis on the Constitution, for all aspiring officeholders. And a “works and plays well with others” test would be good, especially for Republicans who often don’t.
Here’s a test. In front of ten average citizens of both parties, say the first three things that you’d like to do if you achieve public office. If any one of your ambitions causes at least three mouths to drop open, you’re disqualified.
6Wingnuts will send a SWAT team around to nursing homes to see if the residents are actively selling drugs. Wingnuts are about to allow Medicare costs go up by 50 % next year with no c.o.l.a.
7Had to share this one on my Facebook page!
I just shake my head in disgust and disbelief!!
8We can now nail his coffin shut. Does this idiot realize how many drugs many senior citizens take? I take at least 10 different scripts. I want to know when are the going to drug test congress with all the crap going on their.
9Give this man a good laxative and only an empty pair of pants would be left.
10Gee, testing senior citizens for drugs. Has this man never been to a Walgreens? Their prescription meds will screwup any test! Or is this a nefarious RW plot to reduce SS and Medicare recipients? My god where do they find these people? I am convinced that Republican women must have down-pointing arrow tattoos below their belly buttons so R men can find it for sexy time. Does that popcorn y’all are eatin have marijuana sprinkled on it? I could use a handful right now.
11How about drug testing for concealed carry permits?
12If someone tells seniors at an AARP event they should be drug tested because they use Medicare, I’m pretty sure that person has got to be high or in some way impaired himself.
13Ohlardheppus, that boy is done gone so far into ignernt he cain’t find his way back.
14Tell all residents to eat poppy seeds and then they will test positive for cocaine. (false positive but it will blow wingnuts minds)
15Most of the people who have no hope and no visible future will use drugs if they can. But I’m willing to bet that the biggest cocaine/heroin users are him and his friends as they can afford to get it.
16Karma’s just a-waitin’ for this jerkwad to turn 65. Matt Bevin has no idea what’s in store for him when he’s old and decrepit.
17Some mary jane brownies will seem like heaven when arthritis and cancer invade, but no dope for Matt. He’s already there.
I believe he could get the title for Dumbest Thing Said Today, if it were not for Ben Carson, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump and I am sure Jeb said something.
18Why does Matt hate lab technicians? Imagine trying to batch process senior golden flow to separate out the prescription drugs from the probably non-existent illegal drugs.
Hope the Gray panthers from AARP chase down Matt like the dog he is.
19Sure, I’ll submit to a drug test. If Bevin will hold the cup.
20I’m willing to bet that there will be some senior citizens who will vote for this guy even if he does want to include drug testing for medicare recipients because those olds will convince themselves that he couldn’t possibly be talking about them but is really talking about “those other people”. Then if it does become a reality, they will blame the liberals.
21Amen, PKM! Now where can I sign up for that Gray Panther squad?
22“No.”
23Bevin’s can go drink from the cup he pees in.
24@Sam: The pants might be the only thing left, but I doubt they’d be empty.
Now I know some mighty fine Texans, here and elsewhere, so JJ et al should not take offense at this story:
In my calf country there’s a bar with picture of a Stetson on top of a pair of cowboy boots and captioned:
25“Texan after an enema.”
(The funny thing is, the area depends on ‘summer Texans’ to the point it’s called ‘Little Texas’. 😀
I’m for drug testing the Koch Brothers and their buddies. They gotta be on drugs to act the way they do.
26Is he wanting to test for illegal drugs, or to be sure the wrinklies are taking their assigned meds? Horror story in the making–the FDA even now has on their schedule, for approval, a “smart pill” that will tattle to your doctor every time you take one, on the grounds that noncompliance with a prescription med ends up costing whoever’s paying the bills. Stomach acids turn on a transmitter sending a signal to your smart phone, which sends it via an app to somewhere and then to your doctor’s office, proving you took it.
Lots of opportunity for profit, and more for abuse, but the FDA is entitled to consider only safety and efficacy, not ethics.
27Hollyanna, bet if you searched either AARP or Gray Panthers, there’s a group out there with a sign up sheet and a whole list of events and activities. Would love to observe Matt being chased down the street by a posse on Hove-rounds bearing pitchforks and torches.
I’m less than half way to being of age to receive their secret knock, handshake or code to the clubhouse.
28e platypus onion, poppy seeds create a false positive for opiates, not cocaine. If you plant poppy seeds, you’ll get poppy plants, from which one can make opium.
29That boy just didn’t know where the hell he was which means he has one helluva problem! I would love to know how the AARP members received his oration!
30I’d love to have seen one of these loonies tell my 92 year old mom to pee in a cup. She had a look that could chill one’s blood and loosen one’s bowels.
31@1.smart.canerican
32Wendy Davis was a candidate for governor of Texas, not Kentucky. The Republican overlords in both states behave in equally obnoxious ways, but . . .
I wonder if Bevin is even faintly aware that people on Medicare paid into the program for many years. In a free market economy shouldn’t people get what they pay for?
33LynnN: Medicare and Social Security are both *insurance* programs. As with car insurance, home insurance, regular health insurance, etc., you may get back less than you paid in to the insurance pool, you may get back the same amount, or you may get back more than you paid in–it all depends on your circumstances. Which is a good thing for those stricken with expensive, long-term health problems or those who are healthy and live long lives.
It doesn’t sound like Bevin is faintly aware of anything!
34What are they going to test for… Lipitor, Metamucil, Viagra?
35And don’t forget that scourge on humanity, placebo.
36I may be wrong…. but….. senior citizens, in Kentucky, on Medicare probably get their Social Security checks from THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT….. not the government of the State of
Kentucky.
So…. Thanks for playing Mr. Bevin.
37I nominate this guy for most likely to be found in an alley, beaten by multiple canes and run over by several walker wheels.
What an utter Maroon. In fact, he’s a Maxaroon (not as tasty as it sounds).
38Texas Trailer Trash: At 71, with copd, and gerd, the worst drug I take (after the anti depressant and the sleeping pills and all the other shit) is cheap white wine, your comment “Sure, I’ll submit to a drug test. If Bevin will hold the cup” with the qualifier … right under his nose.
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