Makin’ Me Crazy
Republicans. Damn them. They sit around at night and plot ways to make me crazy. I know they do. They say, “What totally insane thing can we do today to make the ladies at The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon hair curl without a perm?”
It’s putting me out of business.
Remember me telling you about Texas Governor Wannabe Greg Abbott getting hit by a tree and collecting a $10 million tort settlement and then working hard to make sure nobody else in the history of Texas gets to get that much money for being hit by tree?
Well, he just got beat. By a guy from Arkansas.
Josh Miller is in the Arkansas legislature and voted against the Medicaid expansion for his state. Okay, so he’s a jerk. But, it gets worse than jerk. He moves straight to sumbitch in 60 seconds or less.
More than a decade ago, Arkansas Rep. Josh Miller (R) was in a catastrophic car accident that broke his neck and left him paralyzed. Medicare and Medicaid paid the $1 million bill for his hospitalization and rehabilitation. But this week, as the Arkansas legislature has debated continuing its privatized Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, Miller has remained steadfast in his opposition.
And why would he be opposed to something he’s still using? I mean, why should everybody get what he gets?
The difference, he said, is that some of the 100,000 people who have gained coverage through Arkansas’s Medicaid expansion don’t work hard enough or just want access to the program so they can purchase and abuse prescription drugs.
Oh really? Well, trot your hiney over to Wikipedia and take note.
Miller is disabled and uses a wheelchair because of an accident in young adulthood which damaged his spinal cord and involved the use of alcohol. Neither Miller nor the other occupant could recall who was the driver. Miller was uninsured at the time of the accident; Medicaid paid for the majority of the $1 million in hospitalization and rehabilitation costs.
You were so drunk that you didn’t know if you were driving? You weren’t abusing drugs, though, right? And you didn’t take any prescription painkillers after the accident, right? And you’re working on paying the $1,000,000 back to the taxpayers who took care of you, right?
They make me crazy. I think it’s on purpose.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
A new Republicanite hero. The pinnacle of hypocrisy. Not just drunk but deaf, dumb and blind drunk. And he knows from substance(?) abuse, eh? Freakin eejit.
1I really dislike disliking people, I feel worse when it moves to hating them. I really wish the GOP would stop being so easy to dislike and hate…what kind of “hardworking job” did this Gohmert have when he got so wasted he plowed himself into a wheelchair for the rest of his life…nasty, horrible humans–can’t love them from the outside because change is an inside job…
2The only words I can think of appropriate for that…simulacrum of a person…your Momma would not like. Do we have this bozo’s email address? Do we have this bozo’s preacher’s email address? Can we pester him? Please?
I don’t know any way to make him funny-ridiculous-laugh-him-out-of-here…but my already limited store of Christian charity is not going to be spent on him.
3Poster child for the “I’ve Got Mine” generation of Republican deadbeats. Move over, Greg Abbott. It may be time to remove the access ramps from public buildings.
4Drunk driving is impaired driving. Being a quadrapelegic is an impairment.,same as having your head up your ass,so this turd gets the hat-trick. Being a hypocritical wingnut is just icing on the cake. Live long and suffer,scum.
5Ignorance amplified by selfishness, or the standard GOP, “got mine, screw you.” Hey Canadian Ted this one of your there takers?
6Sweet Jesus said to love our enemies, but the devil sure is making it hard to do so since he’s got so many followers in office.
7Not a churchy person by a long shot, but this calls for a good ole Biblical smiting. No, we are not counting the car wreak as a pre-smiting. That was either a wake up call or a chance to rise above and shine. Smiting, just plain needs to be smote.
Cranky Hippie in the Holler
8Well, see, he wasn’t on a PRESCRIPTION drug. Note he is opposed to misusing PRESCRIPTION drugs. I wonder what I’ve got sitting in the bathroom cabinet….
9This guy deserves lots of publicity. Like “60 Minutes” publicity.
10Upon more snooping, mostly but not entirely from Wikipedia (and yes, I know its failings.) Josh-boy is from Heber Springs, AK, a town with a population under 8,000 in the 2010 census, 97.9% white, 2.1% non-white….0.23% Black or African American, 0.44% Native American, 0.39% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.22% from other races, and 0.79% from two or more races. Yup, that adds up to 2.1%, according to my calculator. 1.80% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
About 8.6% of families and 13.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.6% of those under age 18 and 12.8% of those age 65 or over. I’m sure none of those “work hard enough” to satisfy Josh.
Now from the city’s own site, it sounds like a great place to live: the Corps of Engineers lake, the river, the springs, a lovely waterfall nearby, a modest but reasonably healthy-looking downtown, etc. But. nearly 98% white, anywhere in the South, kind of flies that ol’ Confederate flag in my face.
Wikipedia says he claims Baptist; there are two Baptist churches in Heber Springs.
11Not a lot of career options open if you’ve got no feeling from the neck down. Luckily for this guy, the GOP provides plenty of job opportunities for those with nothing from the neck up. In fact, it’s kind of a pre-requisite.
No feelings? No problem! You can still have an exciting career in Republican politics. Sociopaths “R” Us!
12Hippie, I don’t know about him, but I’m smitten! 😉
13Feel superior much? Can’t help but think his Arkansas racism is showing. Republican wisdom (?) has it that people of color are the only ones who want a “free ride”, while people like him just deserve it, no questions asked.
14Time to send Josh a get well and get off the dole card.
Contact info for Josh Miller at work and church.
josh.miller@arkansashouse.org
news@heberspringsbaptist.org
http://fbcheber.com/
Seems there’s two Baptist churches in little Heber Springs. Light ’em up!
15If he wasn’t that way before the accident, I do believe the accident left him mentally unbalanced. Seriously, does he see himself with a life long career in politics? Ten to one he really doesn’t even see anything ten years down the road. With his incapacitation, he is likely to be wiped out by an infection. Since he is actually a lot closer to the Pearly Gates than I am as a senior citizen, you would think he would straighten his head out at least.
16If he wasn’t that way before the accident, I do believe the accident left him mentally unbalanced. Seriously, does he see himself with a life long career in politics? Ten to one he really doesn’t even see anything ten years down the road. With his incapacitation, he is likely to be wiped out by an infection. Since he is actually a lot closer to the Pearly Gates than I am as a senior citizen, you would think he would straighten his head out at least. Frankly I think he just doesn’t like people.
17AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
IOKIYAR again. This guy makes me want to blow another gasket. I’m just gonna donate to a charity & thank God I have compassion for my brothers & sisters, unlike Young Josh.
Give me strength.
18Maybe he just hates HIMSELF and the way he got to be in the state he’s in. It’s a short step from hating yourself to everyone else like yourself.
19There’s a special level of h-e-double hockey sticks for this ilk.
20Lorraine in Spring, feel free to direct some steam at Josh and the two Baptist churches in his town. My wife and I did. We feel better! There are two Baptist churches in Heber Springs and we did not know to which Josh belonged, so we addressed them both, as well as a diatribe to this puke’s office. Our post #15 gives the necessary e-mail addresses.
Wake up Heber Springs, there’s a taker among you, and he’s a hypocrite.
Holy Gohmerts, Arkansas. ***Hillary alert*** for a real slap-a-gohmert on that gohmert Josh. He seriously deserves a personal visit from the fine ladies of The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc., too.
21I’m too ticked off right now to respond without using language I try NEVER to use. It keeps rattling around in head, though — sorry Momma, can’t help it.
22So the Americans With Disabilities group has its Clarence Thomas. Lovely!
23Maybe he and Aabbott could pool their resources, and between the two of them make a human being.
24The level of stupidity here is unbelievable. And unbelievably common. And most commonly right-wing extremist. And extremely disgusting.
25@PKM Thanks for the info. I gotta calm down a bit first. I can’t write when I’m too angry because I misspell curse words. 😉
26Which pain killers does he take?
27So, by his lights, for abusing alcohol, Medicaid and Medicare should have let him die?
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