The Republican-controlled Legislature also
passed protections for businesses against some lawsuits related to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Meanwhile, efforts to expand
Medicaid to cover the health care bills of another 130,000 or so people in the state evaporated for another year.
The Kansas Legislature worked for about 24 hours on a GOP-backed bill that pulls some emergency powers away from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. She has the ability to veto it, though has not said she'd do that directly.
www.kcur.org
how anyone can vote republican I do not know.
Realistically, each election is the vote for the lesser of who gives a damn? Seriously.
I hoped that Voting for Obama would get out out of Afghanistan, and end the wiretapping and violations of our rights. None of that happened. In fact, it got stepped up, because now he was the one who would get blamed if another 9-11 happened. So fear of the maybe, became more important than our Constitutional Rights.
Instead of getting out of Afghanistan, we got into Libya, and Syria. We ran guns illegally to Jihadist groups, and we violated diplomatic norms by diverting Bolivian Air Force One in our insane hunt for Snowden.
We lost our minds, and frankly, all of that could have, would have happened under a Republican. The only good thing we got, in theory a good thing, was Affordable Care Act. But even there it became a nightmare. Required to buy coverage that nobody wanted, the entire purpose was soured. Long before it started getting shut down with Trump, it was failing anyway especially in rural areas.
What needed to happen, what should have happened, was to treat insurance like a drivers license. My Drivers License from Georgia is valid in all fifty states, and all the territories like Puerto Rico. But my insurance if I go fifty miles from my house is out of network. The same insurance company has Doctors in the network, Hospitals in network, just not my network. Costs went up, coverages went down, and we got more “oversight” on treatment from people who are not my Doctor. We got the bad, and got nearly nothing good.
So we have Trump, and everyone is running around with their assholes on fire claiming that Trump is destroying the Country. Sadly, most of what he is doing, probably would have been done anyway if Hillary had been elected. Oh, she might not have pulled out of Syria, but she might have. It was a bad idea to go in, and it was a worse idea to send weapons to the “freedom fighters” just as it was when the Contras were getting their weapons from us.
Things Trump has done that I really disagree with? Ending the DOJ investigations into police departments on policy and procedures. Granted they didn’t do much to effect real change. The same corrupt cops are on the same streets now with more authority thanks to National Insecurity. But really, nothing is all that different.
As I said, the ACA was failing anyway. Many rural areas had one unaffordable choice. And people who were out of network when bad luck happened were bankrupted just like before.
Nothing changed. Nothing. So what is Trump doing that is so terrible? Well he badmouths the FBI. The same FBI that has been exposed as Corrupt and pathological liars for decades. How awful. He has fired people who disagree with him. And what real change happened because of that? Some dolt who has been getting paid for a long time doing nothing much constructive and has overseen decades of abuses by the system lost their jobs for exposing the image of abuse by a guy they don’t like. Who cares.
Biden used to be the crazy uncle Joe. He would say dumb things, now he’s gone around the bend. So if he is elected, how long before whoever he chooses as VP gets the call that they have to step up because Joe showed up at a Press Conference without his pants?
So in this election, we have a choice between Trump’s megalomania, and whomever Joe chooses as VP, which he’s already said would be a choice to pander to the women’s vote. Really? So anyone with Ovaries is a good choice just because they are female? Seriously?
We should want the best qualified candidate for VP. The best we can find, especially with Joe, and instead we’re getting whatever woman the DNC thinks can rake in the most votes. That gives me a lot of confidence that the left is primed to win and ready to lead on day one, hundred.
So this election is between megalomania, and dementia, and whomever the demented selects as VP. At some point we have to look at this election and just grab the barf bags because it’s going to suck no matter who wins.
And have you thought about this? What does it take to confirm a VP other than in the election? When Joe steps down, into the padded rocking chair, the VP, whichever woman he can con into taking the job, will have to select a VP to be confirmed by Congress. Nixon got Gerald Ford. Imagine what we’ll get through the Senate. If that doesn’t cause some pucker, you haven’t imagined it yet.
Madam President nominates a great person, who is destroyed in the press by the political opponents. Finally Madam President is told who she can have, anyone on a short list of losers. Why? Well the Republicans won’t want a great candidate there for the next election, and the Democrats will not want a strong second to get the free pass to the White House after the Madam. So we’ll end up with at best someone who makes Bob Dole look enigmatic and charming. Someone who makes John Kerry look lively and animated. We’ll look back on the good old days when we had Kerry as a candidate.
So I am not excited about this election. I’ve reached the why bother level and we’re months out yet. Because no matter who wins, we The people are going to lose.
