Todd Purdum
Posted on 11/01/2013 8:57:42 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Todd Purdum
All right, since he brought it up maybe we need to have a little history lesson about which political party in this country actually opposed desegregation and opposed Johnson’s civil rights law.
From the Politico article he references, so we can see the actual arguments:
Republican troops pressed this cause all the way to the Supreme Court — which upheld the law, but weakened a key part of it by giving states the option to reject an expansion of Medicaid.
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Then congressional Republicans refused repeatedly to appropriate dedicated funds to do all that extra work, leaving the Health and Human Services Department and other agencies to cobble together HealthCare.gov by redirecting funds from existing programs. On top of that, nearly half of the states declined to expand their Medicaid programs using federal funds, as the law envisioned.
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Then, in the months leading up to the program’s debut, some states refused to do anything at all to educate the public about the law. And congressional Republicans sent so many burdensome queries to local hospitals and nonprofits gearing up to help consumers navigate the new system face-to-face that at least two such groups returned their federal grants and gave up the effort
Ahh, history only matters when it comes to the black man being put down by the man in general. Pity parties are the rage. And as for the Democrats? The bribery of welfare is the atone-all for their sins.
and, typically, equate opposition to them with racism.
I can recall Gov. Faubus blocking admission of blacks student to Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957. Gov. Faubus’s actions were in direct confrontation to President Eisenhower.
Ironically, Faubus was the Democrat and Eisenhower was the Republican.
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Then, a few years later (1963), there was the [Democratic] Gov. Wallace confrontation at the University of Alabama. [Democrat] John Kennedy was the president then.
Well, you see, it’s a government program like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and food stamps and [name your favorite government mandated entitlement] which are all programs the private sector wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole. And Republicans are part of government so it has to be their fault. And really, when you look at it, it just has to be George Bush’s fault. Make sense?????
Obama had a mother who was white as a KKK sheet. Your racist tripe is meaningless.
This article is the most pathetic screed I have seen in years. These people are truly beyond help. Let me get this straight....they force the passing of a new entitlement on a straight party-line vote, cracking skulls and engaging in the most corrupt of backroom politics (Cornhusker Kickback, Louisiana Purchaser, etc.)
Then it turns out it was all along — all of it — an intentional fraud in the inducement because it was sold on the false premise of “keep your plan if you like it” and “this has no effect on the employor market”.
NOW...it’s suddenly the fault of the people who opposed it?? High comedy.
I hope it’s not too late for America. I have a good feeling and a bad feeling. The good feeling stems from maybe these LIV will wise up and clean house come the next election.
The bad feeling? It’s too late and we really don’t have a republic anymore, mostly though God is done with us
Force a monstrously evil law onto Americans... watch it fail miserably and predictably... then blame your opponents, none of whom voted for or supported it.
Yeah, that’s a plan, libs.
Marky, baby, and it wasn’t DEMOCRAT and union thugs in Massachusetts who were turning over and burning buses when integration kicked in?
Marky...Marky... You still there??
Gaffer, I lived in Boston when all of that happened (I was 12 at the time,) took a lot of abuse from those protests, and recall them as if they were yesterday.
Your anger is appropriate, but should be directed at Todd Purdum. Mark Finkelstein (governsleastgovernsbest) is merely reporting Purdum's puerile perfidy.
Sabotaging ObamaCare would be a brilliant move on the part of Republicans. The problem is they don’t have the brains or the spine to do it. Blaming them for doing it is fantasy.
Somebody ask Purdom, “What mechanism did the GOP use to “sabotage” Obamacare?”
We’d like to know, so we can do more of it.
The simple fact is that criticising and refusing to endorse the ACA, have no real or imagined impact on the very real failure of the implementation.
Okay...I can buy that. The hypocrisy of the words sometimes overwhelm the needed attribution...thanks.
Only a constitutionally-illiterate population could call it “sabotage” when strong, lawful (according to the terms of the Constitution) objection to coercive enforcement of a law which was passed by one only Party’s representatives, billed by one of its strongest backers (Pelosi) as having to be passed in order to be understood and one which only now can be seen as intrusive, coercive, and threatening to individual freedom and economic security.
Thank you!
I live in a state with a Democratic governor, two Democratic senators, a Democratic congressman, and my state reps (both House and Senate) are Democrats, and the federal government is run by Democrat-controlled bureaucracies. The president of the United States is a Democrat. So far, I have received NOTHING from any of the above explaining the ACA, telling me what to do, who to contact, where to call - NOTHING! And it’s all supposed to be done via websites - what about people (and there are millions) who don’t have computers? So just how did the Republicans sabotage the law? Nothing the Republicans have done or didn’t do had ANY effect on slowing down the law’s implementation.
I believe he’s talking about democrats who resisted integration.
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