No, they DIDN'T take it off the table - they just gave them ANOTHER club - Granite Grok

No, they DIDN’T take it off the table – they just gave them ANOTHER club

This will be the gift that will keep on giving – the Kiss of Death, that is.  To the Republicans, that is.  They just didn’t realize it, all those Smart People in the NH State Senate with Rs after their names that voted to implement Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion (even though they tried to call it other names and used other terms to “market it).  They tried SO hard not to let it be called Medicaid Expansion.

The NH Grassroots are not amused.  Even the Washington Post saw right through this lamo attempt:

In some good news out of New Hampshire, the GOP-controlled state senate has just passed the state’s version of the Medicaid expansion,

Yup.  Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion – breaking the “resist Obamacare at all costs” from the NH GOP Platform.  Yeah, that helps to convince the Grassroots to support you.  But wait!  You ALSO threw all of your supporters under the bus (just like Obama): 

  • the base that coalesced around fighting Obamacare – you just wasted years of their effort (which leaves quite the sour taste).  All of those individuals and those little groups with scarce resources spent the little money they had – for nothing.  Zippo.  Nada. Nein.
  • the ones that were spending BIG bucks fighting YOUR Democrat political opponents (like AFP) – ya think they’re gonna keep spending money to  bring down your opponents for you?

And they have just made it much, much harder for those Republicans running for Congress (or any office in general here in NH) – Voila!  Instant messaging and tactics made possible by your NH State Senate Republicans.  For the Democrats.  For free even!

Shea-Porter, a top AFP target, hopes to use the expansion to muddy up the Obamacare issue. Former Rep. Frank Guinta and businessman Dan Innis are competing for the GOP nomination, and Porter hopes to use the expansion — which is vociferously opposed by conservatives there — to challenge her eventual opponent on whether he would take benefits away from tens of thousands. In a statement, she said:

Frank Guinta and Dan Innis need to choose — do they still stand with the Tea Party and the Koch Brothers and oppose the Medicaid expansion, or will they stand with the bipartisan majority of Granite Staters who support it because it’s good for our state’s economy and citizens’ health?

The big story is that the Medicaid expansion is creating complications for Republicans.

The only people who were calling it “NOT Medicaid Expansion” were the ones implementing it: NH State Senator Chuck Morse, NH State Senator Jeb Bradley, and NH State Senator Nancy Stiles (among others).  Dumb, I guess they thought we were.  Not Bustle:

Nevertheless, New Hampshire is now the 27th state to accept the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion,

No kidding.  Good going, Senator guys and gals – your fellow Republicans really do appreciate your work right about now.  And going forward.  Past the election, I bet. And over and over again, we’ll get the validation that you screwed up.  I believe this will be one of the biggest ones in the last couple of decades.

Poisoning the electoral well since 3/6/2014.  We’ll remember that date.  In November.

 

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