{"id":26349,"date":"2017-03-11T00:29:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T08:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26349"},"modified":"2017-03-11T00:29:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T08:29:24","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-10-march-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/11\/squatchs-open-thread-10-march-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch’s Open Thread 10 March 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry this is so late.  With TomCat down, I told him I would put out an Open Thread but I wasn't anticipating computer issues.  It kept freezing so I had to put it to bed for several hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

msn.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — A first-term congressman who spent three decades as a physician — and is now part of a group of Republican doctors who have a major role in replacing Obamacare — is facing backlash after saying that poor people “just don’t want health care and aren’t going to take care of themselves.”<\/p>\n

Rep. Roger Marshall, (R-Kan.), a member of the GOP Doctors Caucus, said comments he made to Stat News<\/font><\/a> were not meant to suggest that poor people take health care for granted. The comments were published in a story last week about his burgeoning role in the fight to replace the Affordable Care Act.  …<\/p>\n

He added that “morally, spiritually, socially,” the poor, including the homeless, “just don’t want health care.”<\/p>\n

Well isn't he just precious.  I suppose this Republican idiot thinks everyone is made of money.  Take a WalFart employee who is being paid the minimum wage.  Many have used SNAP because their paycheques do not cover the cost of food for the family.  It is people like this, the working poor, that want healthcare but cannot afford it.  The arrogance of this doctor is astounding, but then I guess it should not be . . . he's a Republican.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maclean's<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — Moscow has been waging an increasingly daring clandestine war against western democracies. Under the direction of President Vladmir Putin, Russia is targeting most of the major members of the western alliance. In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned of Russian attempts at cyber attacks. In France, Moscow has funded right-wing populist Marine Le Pen and is alleged to be spreading false propaganda about her opponents. There are now reports from British parliamentarians that Russia may have meddled with the Brexit campaign. And, of course, Putin’s interference in the U.S. Presidential election has lit a tire fire<\/font><\/a> in Washington that may bring down the Trump administration, and at the very least has left America’s political institutions reeling, and its alliances weakened.<\/p>\n