http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/20/ohios-republican-governor-pushes-medicaid-expansion Comments On: Ohio's Republican governor pushes Medicaid expansion by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by plainjim]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:36:53 -0600 Arkansas Times >Or are you saying a bunch of hillbilly rookies can hijack the state in two months and there's nothing to be done about it?<

Proving once again you haven't a clue as to how it works. Answer this:

Which year did the Republicans gain the most seats in the Ark General Assembly?
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:16:13 -0600 Arkansas Times
I seemed to have missed that. Lay it out. When was the last vote on it?
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:13:30 -0600 Arkansas Times
Even if Beebe has his veto overridden, he will have made an important and essential point. It's important to stand up to oppression and demagoguery, even if you are in the end to powerless to change it. Yes, the wheels of power have been turning slowly but surely for many years, but Beebe alone has the power to jam a monkey wrench in the machine. If only to make the point and to cause the forces of darkness to have to go back and have a do-over.

It's not Beebe's fault that his veto is nothing more than the power to protest, but he should feel honor- and duty-bound to wield that power.
Posted by GrizLee Blackbear]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:35:53 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Bulkington]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:35:17 -0600 Arkansas Times >Well, if it's a fantasy wish for the governor, an acknowledged master of the legislative process, to tend to this, then why the hell is he there?

Like most T'baggers you don't have an inkling of an idea how government works.

Any mastery of the legie process happened 10 yrs before the Kochs and Waltons bought a legislature full of "Shiite Republicans."
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:05:47 -0600 Arkansas Times
He should follow my lead and take care of the children, I always take care of the children.

A productive job always helps the mentally ill think better. The other takers and mooches can find someone else to pay their bills. We've run out of other people's money.
Posted by Hard.drive]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:59:47 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Bulkington]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:47:11 -0600 Arkansas Times
Maybe the president should ask the states who are too damn cheap to expand Medicaid to return the borrowed money for Unemployement Comp they they have borrowed from the federal government.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:37:48 -0600 Arkansas Times >I'd think it's the responsibility of the state's chief executive to get expansion done. Period.>

Sure the chief executive can just wave a wand and kazoom! All other constitutional bodies cease to exist and he has free reign to do as he wishes with any and all appropriations and programs.

Do you have anymore fantasy wishes?
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:37:44 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by GrizLee Blackbear]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:35:18 -0600 Arkansas Times
Kasich needs a trip down to Nate Bell's deer camp. They'll get him set right.
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:35:12 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Bulkington]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:09:35 -0600 Arkansas Times
If you think the Christian Taliban lawmakers in Arkansas give a damn about the disabled, poor, mentally ill. elderly and addicted, then I have some alligator-infested bayou swampland in South Arkansas that I would like to sell you.

At least Beebe could mimic Kasich and let Arkansans know where he stands on Medicaid expansion and the state's most vulnerable citizens. If this is not the time to use his effing bully pulpit, then his last six years as governor have been mostly a waste.

At it is, Beebe's legacy as one of the Arkansas' best chief executives will now be tarnished when the history books shows that he signed dozens of bills that set Arkansas back at least 50 years and will probably push us back into another recession.

And the only thing he will likely have to show for this session is a penny sales tax rebate, (sponsored by a bigoted misogynist religious zealot) that taxpayers will end up paying back in $125 million and change to the Koch brothers and a known corporate Ponzi schemer for 550 jobs - jobs that likely go to Alabama and Mississippi steelworkers.

Might as well called the Beebe "Gov. Waldo" because he is nowhere to be found during the current session, which will certainly go down as the worst in state history.
Posted by ProfessorEmeritus]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:09:14 -0600 Arkansas Times
I applaud the Arkansas legislature for not ignoring the least among us in this state. The best way to help the most vulnerable -- proven over and over here by the statistics coming out of Saline County and from NRA members -- is to arm them, and arm them well.

With their focus on increasing gun ownership as a way of preparing ourselves to leave the Union, minimizing the taxes taken from us to provide health care for those who are not worth enough to deserve it, and restricting birth control per the wishes of the Pope, the Arkansas legislature truly demonstrates the type of leadership we need on the national level.
Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:40:06 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Chelydra]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:33:27 -0600 Arkansas Times