'Proud to stand against the will of the people' -- Missouri GOP berserk over Medicaid.

[CousinIT]

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Voters want this, Democrats pointed out.

It made no difference. “A slow march to socialism,” one Republican said. Others insisted Missourians without jobs must simply work harder.

Republican House members lied about the budget, mischaracterized Medicaid and called voters too stupid to know what they were voting on last August. (The vote was not, as one Republican claimed, last November.)

“We’re not a democracy,” a GOP lawmaker thundered. His party’s votes proved it.

Republicans repeatedly dismissed the voters in Kansas City, St. Louis and other urban areas as somehow less important than their constituents. This pattern, repeated in other debates, is overtly racist.

A Kansas City vote is worth just as much as a vote from St. Charles, or Joplin, or Cape Girardeau. But this basic lesson in self-government is lost on the Missouri Republican Party.

The Missouri House’s partisan tantrum is regrettable, but it won’t be the last word on this subject. The state Senate still has to make up its mind. Perhaps senators will do what their ill-informed House colleagues did not.

But it seems increasingly likely this matter will be decided in the courts. Missourians who qualify for expanded Medicaid should and will sign up July 1. The state constitution requires those applicants to be admitted to the program.

https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article250316169.html

[abqtommy]

1. The Missouri QOP was berserk long before this Medicaid business. But this might be the

mountain they chose to die on. Figuratively and literally.

[kimbutgar]

2. It will be interesting to see how the repukes in Missouri will campaign for re election

While denying the will of the voters in the state.