Posted on 06/23/2014 4:41:12 PM PDT by 11th_VA
I think he’s still going to try by telling the Comptroller to Spend money on Medicaid - screw the law ...
One can only hope that Conservatives in Virginia are able to make this mcaulfie idiot a capon for the rest of his ill-gotten term.
Good to see that Speaker Howell grew a pair. He proved to be a panty-waist sissy last year when the Republican state Senate amended a bill that made technical changes in the state House of Delegates districts by redrawing the state Senate map that the Democrats had gerrymandered in 2011.
The Republicans masterfully waited for the day of Obama’s second inauguration, when a Democrat state senator went to DC to party instead of going to the legislative session, and approved, by a 20-19 vote, a new map that would almost certainly have had the effect of changing the 20-20 Senate to a 27 R, 13 D Senate and actually had support from a couple of black Democrat Delegates because it created a sixth black-majority district. (As an aside, the GOP Senators had to wait for the one day in which they had a 20-19 edge because the worthless RINO Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling opposed redrawing the Senate map so as not to be “divisive.”)
The VA GOP Senate had pulled a huge legislative coup, and would have cemented GOP majorities in both houses for at least the rest of the decade. So what does Speaker Howell do? He ruled that the Senate’s amendment was not “germane” to the House-passed redistricting bill, even though the House-passed bill also modified the district lines from the 2011 redistricting (granted, the House changes were minor, while the Senate’s changes were huge, but the amendment still related to the same subject matter as the original bill). Howell thus prevented the heavily Republican House from voting on the bill as amended; if he didn’t like the amendment, he could have voted against it, but instead he didn’t let anyone vote on it. So Howell will need to show a backbone on quite a few measures, not just on McAuliffe’s illegal veto attempt, before he can be in my good graces.
And they did. The Senate democrats upheld Terri’s veto of the ethics funding.
So they created a commission, and then refused to fund it.
That veto was a shock, because there is no good politics to come out of it. What politician can run on a platform of vetoing ethics?
His reasoning is based on actual supreme court rulings on exactly the points being raised. It is pretty clear.
If Terri wants to expand medicaid, he will probably just do it. My guess is the feds will give him money to implement, so he will be able to say he needed no money, so it wasn’t a budget issue.
Unfortunately for Terri, his stupid fight over the budget lost him the senate, and the house/senate then stripped all language from the budget that would provide authorization to expand medicaid. He has no leg to stand on.
I am sure that they are the major factor but I suspect the Beltway Bandits (the private contractors who live off the government) are also a major input of liberal votes in Virginia.
Unfortunately, this seems to be a permanent problem. Virginia will not recover.
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