First it was Pennsylvania. Now it's Virginia Republicans with plans to game the electoral college system to end winner-take-all electoral votes so as to game the system for Republicans.
You know Arkansas Republicans keep saying that there's a magic potion for the $140 Medicaid shortfall that doesn't require taking $700 million in free federal money to serve more of the state's working poor?
Charlie Frago of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette re-emphasized today (pay wall) the huge cost coming if the Arkansas legislature doesn't close the Medicaid funding gap, most sensibly by availing itself of federal money to expand the program.
On Twitter yesterday, I retweeted news that Hobby Lobby, owned by a devoted conservative Christian family, had sued to overturn the Obama administration "contraceptive mandate" — that is the requirement that health insurance policies cover comprehensive preventive care for women, including birth control pills.
Rep. Ed Garner alerts us via Twitter that incoming House Republican leader Rep. Bruce Westerman soon will publish his legislative agenda to help produce a winning Republican team in the 2012 elections.
Fresh from Twitter, where Arkansas "family value" Republicans are cheering Newt Gingrich's rise in South Carolina polls and news that Rick Perry is dropping out and tossing his anemic support to Newt, I find this Talking Points Memo report on Esquire's coming dish on the real Newt from one of his former wives.
The Republicans love to talk about the "nanny state" — by which they mean government regulation aimed at improving the health and safety of American citizens.
Talking Points Memo:
Ron Paul told TPM on Wednesday that even if there’s a “case or two” that makes Americans uncomfortable, the government should stay out of the health care business.