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Wounded Bear
(64,619 posts)
spanone
(142,047 posts)MARSHA BLACKBURN
BILL HAGERTY
WORTHLESS
Deuxcents
(27,663 posts)My question is Why?
dajoki
(10,685 posts)
sop
(19,259 posts)
wnylib
(26,439 posts)
paleotn
(22,684 posts)Hagerty, I don't know. Been away from TN politics for too long. The wicked witch of Williamson County I know too well. What a loathsome pile of putrid molecules she is. Dorothy needs to drop a house on her.
dalton99a
(95,209 posts)
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)
Cha
(320,483 posts)
TexasTowelie
(128,150 posts)are on the ballot this year. I'll have to wait until 2024 for the opportunity to vote the Zodiac Killer out of office.
yardwork
(69,612 posts)Chainfire
(17,757 posts)Big Pharma is hurting. .!.
I wish that he or Scott needed something from me.
musclecar6
(1,884 posts)Is correct. Vote them out. Maybe enough of these MAGA morons will wake up to the fact that the Republicans aren’t doing shit for them and if they vote in their own self interest they should be voting Democrat especially if they’re a type one diabetic or family or friends are and also of course woman’s right to choose which Republicans are totally against any rights for any women.
Rebl2
(17,920 posts)Roger Marshall, supposedly being a doctor, wouldn’t want to vote for a cap on insulin.
hlthe2b
(114,643 posts)Ky's (quasi opthalmologist) Rand Paul, LA's Bill Cassidy (though he apparently had the decency not to vote against the insulin cap). They attended medical school, but obviously don't give a shit about the oath they took. They are physicians only as a technicality.
bluboid
(845 posts)VOTE THEM OUT! they deserve exactly what's coming to them!
calimary
(90,741 posts)The continuing saga, the never-ending story, the scraping-bottom line, the infuriating truth.
ShazzieB
(22,860 posts)"Republicans don't give a crap about you and will happily stab you, your cousin the veteran, and your sick grandmother in the back if your needs get between them and the big bucks from their big donors."
Because they have priorities, and their constituents' needs are always at the bottom of the list (if they're even ON the list).
2naSalit
(103,805 posts)Asshole daines is one the list. I despise that fucking piece of shit.
Stinky The Clown
(68,964 posts)
Celerity
(54,837 posts)Lisa Murkowski - AK
Stinky The Clown
(68,964 posts)Celerity
(54,837 posts)plus Collins, who will claim her usually 'look! I AM a moderate' bullshit. I would have guessed the 7th would have been Roger Wicker of MS (MS is SO dependent on the feds for most everything, it is the poorest state overall and has a HUGE diabetes problem). Alaska has just an insane cost of living, including pharma, due to remoteness, same as Hawaii (the most expensive state to live in), but they have two Dems for Senators.
Haggard Celine
(17,911 posts)He doesn't give a shit about the people of Mississippi, except for the wealthy ones.
I was glad to see Cindy Hyde-Smith voted for it. She's not one of my favorite people, but at least she's representing the needs of our people correctly.
We have one of the highest percentages of diabetics in the country, maybe the highest. We're also one of the highest in obesity, and those things go hand in hand. Wicker has been terrible for this state, and I'll do what I can to see him thrown out of office.
SheltieLover
(81,662 posts)Look at sugar industry.
Layzeebeaver
(2,292 posts)Only cause I was born there.
Beartracks
(14,645 posts)ShazzieB
(22,860 posts)Signed,
The GOP
As the spouse of one of those diabetics, I have major issues with any dickweed who thinks it's perfectly okay for insulin to cost a fortune. 
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Proving their butt hole speaks louder that their pie hole and precedes them into every room.
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Joinfortmill
(21,658 posts)
Rhiannon12866
(258,613 posts)G2theD
(608 posts)Oh, that’s right, we only have the 1 Republicon senator.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Response to DURHAM D (Original post)
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BlueJac
(7,838 posts) panfluteman
(2,194 posts)Just a cursory glance at this list revealed the usual presence of the worst jerks in Congress, like Senator Ted Cruz and Senator James Inhofe. As I gazed upon this list and ruminated a bit, it seemed to me like not all states were represented. And the states that would not be represented on the list, I reasoned, were states with heavy Democratic leanings and constituencies. And it seems like I was correct in that initial intuitive assessment - there were no legislators from CA, OR or WA on the West Coast on this list, and going to the also blue East Coast, I saw nobody from NY, MA, VT, CT, ME, VA in the northeast either. There are so many Democrats in these states that the legislators probably felt that if they blocked the cap, they would be hanged by their constituents. In the middle of the country, predictably, the Democratic islands / enclaves of IL, NM and CO were not on the list. And even though it's a red state, AZ was not on the list - probably due to the sheer number of medication-dependent seniors living in the state.
At the other end of the spectrum, which states were the biggest offenders? Let's see - there were a total of 43 Republicans on this list, from a total of 25 states. That makes for an average of 1.72 Republican legislators for each state represented on the list. As it worked out, there were either 1 or 2 Republicans listed for each of the states represented on the list. In other words, which states are the "repeat offenders", with two Republicans on the list, and which are the "initial offenders", with only one Republican on the list? The states with just one Republican legislator on the list were MO, WV, MT, WI, OH, PA and MS. Two of these states, PA and OH, are hotly contested battleground states, whereas the others are pretty solidly Republican. The remaining 18 states of the 25 were the repeat offenders - WY, TN, AR, IN, NC, TX, ND, ID, IA, NE, SC, OK, UT, KS, KY, SD, FL, AL.
When you add up the 25 states represented on this list with the 13 states that I selected previously as not being on the list for various obvious reasons, that makes a total of 12 states left over. HI - that's a no brainer, and a Democratic stronghold, of course. AK - that's an interesting one. Nevada is not on the list, and I suppose that it's because it is also pretty Democratic. RI goes in the basket with the rest of blue New England, and also NH, even though it's not so blue. Hey - GA is not represented either, maybe because it has flipped blue in recent years. And MN is Democratic, of course. Hhhmmm... are there any stragglers that I missed?
Jilly_in_VA
(14,624 posts)just exactly HOW MUCH Big Pharma contributed to each senator's campaign coffers. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.
Vinca
(54,321 posts)Red states lead the nation in the incidence of diabetes and deaths from diabetes. Odd how the people on that list want to kill off their voters.
