Pic Of The Moment: Refuses To Expand Medicaid In The State Of Mississippi...

[EarlG]

MS Gov Blames Obama For Jump In Uninsured After Refusing To Expand Medicaid

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[onehandle]

1. My French Heritage Gives Me The Right To Give Mississippi Back To The French

I hearby exercise that right.

Freedom Fries For Everyone!

[Jim Lane]

21. Don't the British have a right of first refusal?

Per Wikipedia:

After Great Britain's victory in the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War), the French surrendered the Mississippi area to them under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763).

After the American Revolution, this area became part of the new United States of America.

You might reasonably respond that the British wouldn't want it, but the same issue would arise with the French.

I know, I know, more Southern-bashing, blah blah blah, but I'm just reacting to this bit of extraordinary stupidity from the Governor.

[Amonester]

24. Non, merci.

(No, thanks.)

[No Vested Interest]

2. That's known as "twisted logic".

If the voters of Mississippi are so dumb as to accept that, I pity them.

[onecaliberal]

3. If the people in Mississippi had half a brain

They might figure out they are getting what they voted for. What the hell is wrong with people. Not only is that biggot refusing people healthcare his state is refusing money their taxpayers are paying anyway because black POTUS. Fire all these pricks!

[freshwest]

4. Looks like his eyes are about to roll back in his head which will be spinning soon. Get an exorcist!

[Cyrano]

5. Another perfect example of

voter's rabid hatred overwhelming their own well being.

[Chasstev365]

6. Hey Gov Bryant:

Go "Cheney-yourself", you amoral piece of shit. You're very fortunate that so many people in your state have an IQ of 80, otherwise you wouldn't be elected Dog Catcher; oh wait, your party must have privatized that job year ago.

[titanicdave]

7. During the Viet Nam Era

I was stationed right next door in Alabama, and was called "damn yankee" more times than I can recall and as far as I am concerned, the entire southeastern U S is full of ultra right wing nut jobs and that goes for Louisiana as well as Oklahoma, and of course.......TexASS

[UCmeNdc]

8. Noooooo! Do not tell me the voters of Mississippi believe Gov. Bryant and his lies!

They will believe anything.

[progressoid]

31. I wish it were limited to one state.

Sadly, that flavor of stupid is popular in America.

[Cyrano]

9. Just remembered Thad Cochran's animal thing

Senator Thad Cochran reminisced over "... doin' all kinds of indecent things with farm animals." And there seems to be little doubt that he's going to be reelected. When it comes to Mississippi voters, go figure.

[rtracey]

10. anything

Anything to show their RACIST tendencies, without trying to look racist...(in their own eyes). Can you imagine what this country would look like, if all this president wanted to do was accomplished. Racism, isolationism, and just a brand of extremism has basically ruining this country, and it is time to take it back. Vote Democrat 2014

[bvar22]

11. This BillBoard should be plastered all over Mississippi:

[font size=4]When Rich People get sick,
they go to a doctor.

You could go to a doctor too
if your Governor was a Democrat!

[stage left]

13. Not just in Mississippi.

Unfortunately.

[WoodyM90]

32. Much as I hate

to admit it, so many of my fellow Sandlappers consistently vote against their own interests.

[Enthusiast]

29. +1

[stage left]

12. The people who voted for this guy should die of shame.

Just like the people who voted and will vote for Nikki Hayley in SC. Unfortunately they're not bright enough to feel shame.

[valerief]

14. Or anything. Just as long as those voters "pass on". nt

[WoodyM90]

33. This, sadly,

I will have to second also.

[blackspade]

15. What a sack of dicks.

[drynberg]

16. JUST HOW RED DOES THE GOV. THINK THESE MS. VOTERS ARE? OR IS HE JUST COUNTING ON THEM

Being Stupid? Either way, he should pay for this double insult.

[lark]

17. Just another right wing red neck who thinks poor folks don't have any rights.

What's totally pathetic is that poor folks vote for him. Damn SCOTUS by rejecting the Medicaid expansion, thereby emsuring that really poor folks in the bright red and even some purple states get no help at all.

[easychoice]

18. I wonder what it's like

To have your head so far up your ass that you need windows in your abdominal wall.
I am sure it isn't because the Democrats implemented ACA...

[IronLionZion]

19. This is why teabaggers are against education

The gap between rich and poor is not the only thing widening. There's a growing gap between blue and red states. Red states really shot themselves in the foot on medicaid expansion and state exchanges/subsidies since they need it the most.

How are they going to explain why life is better in nearby blue states? Obama likes those states better?

[BumRushDaShow]

20. And the M$M dutifully reports these loon utterances

as if they are somehow lucid and legitimate.

[barbtries]

39. in my opinion

that's the REAL travesty in this country - no more fourth estate. i can't even stand to listen to NPR's political "news"

[catbyte]

22. Asshat.

[wordpix]

23. next time this asshat runs, use Earl G's graphic

Perfect for an ad. Just needs Bryant's name: GOV. BRYANT refuses to expand Medicaid...

Let everyone know what a complete liar/POS this guy is.

[1Greensix]

25. The poor don't vote

Mississippi Republicans Know that poor people don't vote, which is why it is so easy to take advantage of them. If poor Republicans and poor Democrats and independents ever join forces they could really end up with some power, but they will never have any as long as the Republican Party can convince poor Republicans that they have more to fear from Dems than Big Business and Big Landowners.
So, the poor will continue getting Screwed by the Republican Party and no one sees to care, least of all evidently, the poor.

[Tarheel_Dem]

26. If there weren't actual lives on the line here, I'd call this a shame, but it's so much more.

[arcane1]

27. Gee, who didn't see that coming? Notice he didn't say "Obamacare?" You know why?

Because people like Obamacare now

[SansACause]

28. Miss. will still vote Republican in November

It's a weird kind of self-loathing down here. But it's also wrapped in denial. Many older whites are finding themselves sick, hungry, and poor and the Republicans have done an amazing job of convincing them that it's because the government has taken their money and given it to brown and black people who are lazy leeches.

It's that way in a large part of the South. Why do they hate Obamacare so much? Because it's for losers, and buh got, they wouldn't be losers if Obama hadn't spent all their money on welfare.

And next, Obama and the gubment will be coming for their ___________!

Fill in the blank with whatever you want. That's how the Republicans control the South despite it being so poor.

[EEO]

34. for their...

socialist programs they get from the federal government to support many of them, which results in Miss. getting more government money than it pays in.

When your politics is based on hate I guess it's hard to see, and vote in, your own best interests.

[BlueJazz]

30. Dog-gone it. That dirty rotten Obama is up to his broken promise thing again.

Life was carefree, bountiful, exciting, enjoyable and happy until he came along.
I long for the days when we had an anti-medical President like George Bush or Ronnie Reagan....now THOSE guys knew what they were going !

[Corey_Baker08]

35. Indiana Governor Mike Pence Would Say The Exact Same Thing While Refusing To Expand Medicaid...

I honestly cannot understand this train of thought because its illogical and ill concieved. I live on the Ohio/Indiana state line & Indiana's newly elected Governor Mike Pence has refused to expand Medicaid to Hoosiers across the state of Indiana even though study after study shows it would not cost the state of Indiana 1 cent for a number of years. On the Ohio side of the border you have Governor John Kasich the more conservative of the two Governors'. Yet in the state of Ohio Governor John Kasich DID ALLOW THE EXPANSION OF MEDICAID... Yet Governor Kasich is up for re-election this November in a pretty close race against Democratic Nominee Ed Fitzgerald, who is a former FBI Officer, who is not rich, in fact, its common knowledge to the people of Ohio that Ed Fitzgerald's Wife currently works two jobs.

So in that sense I believe Kasich expanded Medicaid because Ohio Voters would most likely flock to Ed Fitzgerald in the November election for a couple reasons including the still lagging economy in Ohio has not shown a rebound under the Kasich Administration, which means millions of Ohioans rely heavily on the expanded Medicaid and would hold that against Kasich in the November election...

[MADem]

37. What an ignorant asswipe! His picture must be next to the word STUPID in the dictionary! nt

[Major Hogwash]

38. What is sad is that a lot of Republican voters will believe him!

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The same thing happened here in Idaho, the governor refused to expand Medicaid, and then blamed President Obama for signing the ACA bill into law.

It's a form of insanity that only stupid people will believe, but hey, most of them voted for Romney, McCain, and Bush as well.

[merrily]

40. On this issue, blame 7 SCOTUS Justices. (Yes, I said SEVEN, not five.)

Obamacare provided that the feds could cut all Medicaid funding to states that refused to cooperate. I don't know if even Republican politicians would have risked that. However, the five Republican-nominated Justices, joined by Democratic nominees Kagan and Breyer, somehow found that particular power of Congress to rule the federal purse unconstitutional.

I guess I should try harder to sympathize with finding that particular limit on the spending power in Article I, which places no limits on it, but I think it's pure political bullshit.

[Enthusiast]

41. Look at that picture. Just look at that fucker's face.

Hey fuck you Governor Bryant!

[Initech]

42. You can't spell the phrase "hypocritical douchebag" without GOP.