Posted on 09/27/2013 5:36:05 AM PDT by PauldArco
So why then is Kentucky — more quickly than almost any other state — moving to implement the Affordable Care Act?
Because there’s a huge disconnect between the rank partisanship of national politics and the outlook of governors whose job it is to help beleaguered families, strengthen work forces, attract companies and create a balanced budget.
It’s no coincidence that numerous governors — not just Democrats like me but also Republicans like Jan Brewer of Arizona, John Kasich of Ohio and Rick Snyder of Michigan — see the Affordable Care Act not as a referendum on President Obama but as a tool for historic change.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Third party my arse. It would be second party. Have you not seen the last few days?
Please don’t call it the ACA or Affordable Care Act, now that its evils are about to be openly exposed the Obama elites and media are trying to disconnect Barack’s name from it... just my opinion :)
For the first time, we will make affordable health insurance available to every single citizen in the state. Right now, 640,000 people in Kentucky are uninsured. That’s almost one in six Kentuckians...Kentucky is the only Southern state both expanding Medicaid and operating a state-based exchange, and we remain on target to meet the Oct. 1 deadline to open Kynect with the support of a call center that is providing some 100 jobs. Having been the first state-based exchange to complete the readiness review with the United States Department of Health and Human Services, we hope to become the first one to be certified. Frankly, we can’t implement the Affordable Care Act fast enough.
As for naysayers, I’m offended by their partisan gamesmanship, as they continue to pour time, money and energy into overturning or defunding the Affordable Care Act. It’s shameful that these critics haven’t invested that same level of energy into trying to improve the health of our citizens.
Ping for later.
Ted is great so far. There are a few. However, if you track the careers of once conservative politicians and look at them today, you will see my point.
Exhibit A: John Boehner. I lived in his district many years ago and he was an honest to God, right winger. Since then, re-election has done its magic. The deals have been made.
I wonder if Davy Crockett would move from Texas back to Kentucky if he were alive today. I doubt it but I’ve met others here that might and they aren’t the types that will improve the economy there in Kentucky.
He is also the RAT governor of Kentucky.
I beg to differ. Freedom has steadily be DEcreasing over the past hundred years, starting with the passage of the 16th Amendment in 1913. It's just that the encroachments on our liberties have gone into turbo drive in the last few years.
Now, we really can't say that we are a free country at all anymore. From the time I was a kid in the 1950s, and even into the 1990s, if somebody told you not to do something you wanted to do, a typical response was: "Hey -- it's a free country."
When was the last time you heard somebody say that? And even if you did, didn't it ring hollow?
We are no longer the United States of America. Now we are the Benighted States of America, and every day the last few vestiges of liberty that we still see are disappearing every day.
This wasn't to get news. This is to suggest why the baffling opposition of McConnell and Paul to Ted Cruz's efforts... The D.C. crowd reads the MSM NYT, WP, etc. The Dem governor writes a high-profile Op Ed that will be read by all the D.C. elite... and apparently this is intimidating the KY senators from getting behind a real effort to repeal Obamacare. Do you have another reason why this is?
If my history is correct, Ben Franklin was in London representing several American colonies as their agent. After the news arrived about the Boston Tea Party, he was called into the House of Commons, and scolded by one member after another, with no chance given to reply, sort of like what happens in Congressional committee hearings.
The game had been rigged, and the result was our war of independence.
The game has been rigged against us by the governing class, and I fear that they will keep winning, and as much as I hate to admit it, Frank Herbert may have been right when he wrote at the beginning of one of the chapters in “Chapterhouse Dune.”
“Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population. Even the spoils systems are preferable because levels of tolerance are lower and the corrupt can be thrown out periodically. Entrenched bureaucracy seldom can be touched short of violence. Beware when Civil Service and Military join hands.”
I hope I’m wrong, because, historically speaking, civil wars and revolutions rarely end well.
Exactly. But apparently, it works for the Dem governor... McConnell and Paul are pathetic here...
I saw Paul BACKING Cruz on Fox News the past few days.
They would rather keep their cushy seats in the minority than stand for something. Many of them should just admit they agree with the Democrats much of the time.
I would wait for the vote there noob, before you start quoting the NY Slimes. That would be tomorrow.
I will reserve judgement till then.
Oops, Crockett was from Tennessee.
If Rand Paul doesn’t pull his head out of his butt I am demoting him on my personal list for 2016 to last place.
The GOPe does hate conservatives more than socialism. Period. End of story.
Remember this when someone else urges you to vote the lesser of 2 evils or to vote for the most “electable” candidate
I do think that Rubio has redeemed himself as long as he doesn’t support invaders staying in the US and he gets out of that committee. He’s burned his bridges and really helped Cruz with the filibuster.
You can't change leadership without breaking a few eggs.
When the Dems were in the wilderness, they fought amongst themselves.. and, the radical liberals won. The public followed the strong and persuasive leaders (and was duped by pretenders, designed to win House seats)
Now, it's our turn. We need to move to the right. STAND for something... and, be persuasive with our message. The public will follow us if we do.
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