{"id":4977,"date":"2011-06-01T02:10:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T09:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2011-06-01T02:10:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T09:10:24","slug":"gop-governors-cause-voter-remorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/01\/gop-governors-cause-voter-remorse\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Governors Cause Voter Remorse"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears that the only thing Democrats have not screwed, up of late, is the Republican dash to oblivion, occasioned by their pursuit of the goals they have always wanted, and that America has always rejected, instead of focusing on jobs, as they all promised to do.  In states where Republicans control the state house and the legislature, Republican policies have been both draconian and misanthropic, like this gem from Rick Scott.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1scott\"Is this just plain incompetence, or is Gov. Soylent Green making yet another one of his wingnutty libertarian points? Whatever the explanation, I’m sure it’s just fine. It’s not as if there are any sick or elderly people<\/font><\/a> in Florida anyway!<\/font><\/p>\n

Gov. Rick Scott continues on his merry wingnut way. It’s not as if there are actual people attached to his policy choices!<\/font><\/p>\n

In March, Gov. Rick Scott\u2019s staff said he would accept a $35.7 million \u201cMoney Follows the Person\u201d federal health grant.<\/font><\/p>\n

But the Legislature appears to have decided otherwise. In the 2011-12 budget Scott just signed, <\/font>lawmakers failed to give the Agency for Health Care Administration budget authority to draw down and spend the money.<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Patient advocates were dismayed at the omission, because <\/font>the money was to have been spent on home- and community-care programs that let disabled and elderly people move out of nursing homes or avoid them in the first place.<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

The likely reason seems to be that Scott wants to throw a monkey wrench<\/font><\/a> into the implementation of the Patient Protections and Affordable Care Act\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Crooks and Liars<\/a>><\/p>\n

And Florida merely reflects the disgust voters everywhere have for Republican rule.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1remorse\"When several newly minted Republican governors began pushing through broad, unpopular legislation this year, they may have unintentionally aided President Obama’s reelection odds.<\/p>\n

Emboldened by their party’s midterm election day romp, freshman GOP governors in a few crucial swing states immediately began to advance radical legislation upon taking office. But as the cost of those unpopular legislative agendas has now become clear in the form of free-falling approval ratings and incredible buyer’s remorse<\/a>, polls have shown that that same voter discontent could translate into a big 2012 boost for President Obama\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <TPM<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here’s how new polling demonstrates that voters regret electing Republicans.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

2012 is a key opportunity to flush Republicans from power, and we can best improve it by hammering our Democratic representatives and senators to represent main street.  There is no advantage to caving-in and becoming GOP-lite.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that the only thing Democrats have not screwed, up of late, is the Republican dash to oblivion, occasioned by their pursuit of the goals they have always wanted, and that America has always rejected, instead of focusing on jobs, as they all promised to do.  In states where Republicans control the state house […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}