KY Repugs Still Terrified of That Ni**er in the White House

They're dead-enders and some of them know it.  But as long as they still have a chance to make poor, brown, female and non-Xian people suffer, they'll keep doing it.

From the Courier:

Two bills that would block Gov. Steve Beshear from moving ahead with provisions of the Affordable Care Act were passed in the state Senate Friday on party-line votes.

The Republican-controlled chamber voted 23-13 for Senate Bill 39, which would take from Beshear the power to decide whether to expand Medicaid to about 400,000 more Kentuckians under terms of the Affordable Care Act, dubbed “Obamacare” by opponents.


The bill would give that power to the General Assembly.



Senate Democratic Leader R.J. Palmer, of Winchester, said the state must take the offer in which the federal government would pay 100 percent of the cost of new Medicaid recipients for three years and pay 90 percent after that.


“I understand that some people don’t like the Affordable Care Act,” Palmer said. “... However, the opportunity for us to have health care coverage for many Kentuckians who simply can’t afford it is something that’s very important.”



But Senate Republican Leader Damon Thayer, of Georgetown, said Kentuckians pay federal as well as state taxes.


And Thayer complained about “this incredible growth of government we are seeing out of the current presidential administration in Washington, D.C., which this state — and the voters of this state — have rejected in two straight presidential elections in landslides.”

 Here are three things to remember about Damon Thayer:

1) Every fucking word out of his lying mouth is a fucking lie.
2) He wants very very much to be governor.
3) If he succeeds, we should all just kill ourselves.