Friday, May 8, 2009
From Fired Up
The Fired Up! Weekly Wrap: Good, Bad and Ugly
Good: The legislature has finished its work on the state budget.
The legislature approved a $23.1 billion budget for the state’s upcoming fiscal year on Thursday.
Highlights include $12 million for St. Louis' Metro, $111 million for a statewide interoperability system for law enforcement, $31.2 million for the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center.
Ironically, the budget from the legislature's "fiscal conservatives" is larger and uses more federal stimulus money than the plan proposed by Gov. Nixon.
Gov. Nixon's agreement to hold tuition steady for public college students was included in the budget.
More than 1,200 positions have been trimmed from the state bureaucracy
The budget includes money for an expansion of health care, with details set to be worked out next week.
Bad: House Republicans killed a win-win-win-win proposal to provide 35k parents with health care.
It wouldn't cost the state a dime. Didn't matter.
The hospitals volunteered to pay $50 million to make it happen. Didn't matter.
The plan had broad bipartisan support (outside the Missouri House). Didn't matter.
It was supported by the Republican Senate. Didn't matter.
It was supported by the Associated Industries of Missouri. Didn't matter.
It was supported by chambers of commerce. Didn't matter.
We all pay more when the uninsured are forced to use emergency rooms for basic care. Didn't matter.
Overall, "a classic example of ideology overwhelming facts.''
Ugly: Republicans in the Missouri House are really impressed with themselves after killing a plan to provide health care for 35k parents at no cost to the state.
House Budget Czar Allen Icet thinks he's done a “tremendous job" helping out the working poor. We're sure the working poor are huge Allen Icet fans.
Peter Kinder stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the House during Wednesday's contentious debate.
Tim Jones is blissfully unaware of his own absurdity.
The Repubs didn't like it at all when Mike Talboy said it wasn't very Christian of them to support tax cuts for the wealthy while depriving the poor of health care.
Other Notes:
Did we mention that House Republicans killed a plan to provide health care to 35k parents for zero dollars? It's still nutz, still true.
Jay Nixon has the highest approval rating of all governors in the SurveyUSA universe
Roy Blunt is consolidating his support in the GOP establishment.
Meanwhile, new CD7 candidate Darrell Moore is already distancing himself from Blunt, swearing off earmarks and saying he won't seek Blunt's endorsement. Can't imagine why.
Roy Blunt and Kit Bond are peddling fear. Devoid of any substantive arguments, it's about all they've got. An oldie, but a goodie!
David Steelman says the GOP establishment is a "cabal of officials, lobbyists, consultants and advisers"
Abolitionist Rob Schaaf is softening his position on slavery.
-- www.firedupmissouri.com --
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4 comments:
This is a true statement," the democrats may come up with a bad idea but only thr republicans can make it worse." Comedian Lewis Black. on politics.
The Democrats have ruin this country thay have supported unions that have put this country in the shape it is in today. Obama is only going to make thinks worse and probably will take a lot of our rights away. I guess it is all right to get a little under desk like our wonderful Clinton did. WHAT A DISGRACE.
The Republicans have ruin this country thay have supported greed and big businesses that have put this country in the shape it is in today. Bush made thinks worse and did his best to strip away our privacy and legal rights. I guess it is all right to lead the impeachment of Clinton for getting a little under desk, like our wonderful Newt Gingrich did, all the time having his own extra-marital affair. WHAT A DISGRACE.
Both Reps and Dems Are screwed up
maybe holding a c average at Harvard makes you a genius also a pic with the late President Ronald
Reagan makes you a non pot smoking conserveative. But I bet you this your a weak ass individual that has the system all wrong this country is screwed up by greed and criminal actions of the rich who are usally republicans you selfrightious pin head. when a ceo makes billions of dollars a year with out putting back to the company. and sending jobs over seas for cheap labor, Ill take a hummer under the desk before I let that happen.
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