The Rude Pundit - Toothless Hicks Agree: We Love Obamacare, Wish a White Man Had Signed It
So the New York Times interviewed people in Kentucky who have taken advantage of one part or another of the Affordable Care Act, especially the expansion of Medicaid. Robin Evans, a 49 year-old with high blood pressure and Graves' disease, is just "tickled to death" to have insurance coverage, which she had gone without for years. Of course, she's gonna vote Mitch McConnell out of office since he has made it his mission to repeal the ACA. Said Evans, "Born and raised Republican...I ain’t planning on changing now."
Sorry, what now?
That's right. The backwards ass country fucks who have benefited the most, the hillbillies who are such stereotypes that Pappy Yokum would feel ashamed, don't give a pile of horse shit that it was Democrats and Barack Obama who made it possible for them to live, purely and simply. They don't like the President. And if you don't think his race has nothing to do with it, then you have never been to Kentucky.
It's a shame, too, because the state is one of the biggest successes, thanks to the Democratic governor's embrace of Obamacare. "The uninsured rate here has fallen to 11.9 percent from 20.4 percent," says one Gallup survey. And despite the fact that Democrats alone are responsible for expanding Medicaid to cover people like Teri Eisenmenger's adult daughter, they are still going to vote Republicans because they hate Obama. So they won't vote for Senate candidate Alison Grimes because they can't stand that a white woman supports a black man.
And that's the greatest motherfucking cosmic joke here: "there is little evidence that the expansion of health coverage will help Kentucky Democrats in this fall’s midterm elections" because obviously Kentuckians are ungrateful fucks who you just want to let loose on and say, "Go fuck yourself. We're taking the diabetes treatment and the lung disease medicine and heading somewhere more hospitable."
But the Rude Pundit can't help but think that Democrats have no one to blame but themselves here. For months, they bought into the Republican lies that the ACA was going to be a huge failure and didn't defend it when it needed defending the most. So even though Gov. Steven Beshear was a huge advocate, many Democrats allowed the narrative to be set by Fox "news" and by the goddamned cowards in our own party.
So here we are, at what should be a triumphant moment, and, instead, we get to watch the very people Democrats wanted to help spit on them and then go complain about Benghazi or the IRS or whatever other spoon-fed bullshit distracts them from reality.
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Thanks, Meegbear!
stereotype? mean? crabbed? cruel? NO! truth of the matter, period. The LW has been the cowards that forced him to the center with no loyalty or backup from the bluedogs and all the snipers who forced him to move to the center to get something done. I am so sick of this LW BS disguised as loyal opposition! BS!!!!
on that score. My type of Democrat.
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I hope folks will also take an opportunity to visit the Appalachian Group to learn more about the history and culture, as well as celebrate the many Appalachian activists fighting poverty and environmental destruction against tremendous odds.
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he reminded him of a pet turtle he had as a child. Seriously.
You expected something different?
I can understand why; the people feel as if their government has abandoned them. But that's been true for a very long time and didn't just suddenly crop up when Obama was elected. There was a real effort during the time of LBJ and Robert Kennedy to address the problems of poverty, unemployment, etc in Appalachia but that campaign pretty much dropped off the map when Nixon was elected. Bill Clinton was extremely popular in the region but I suspect a lot of that was due to the fact that he reminded many of the Kennedys. Are there some who resent Obama because they harbor racist views? Yes, that's undeniable. But I've also heard grumblings that they feel Obama is an elitist and comes off as indifferent. I don't think the President has really helped dispel those feelings because he's been virtually invisible to the people of Appalachia and that was true even when he was campaigning. Speaking only for myself, I felt as if he just wrote us off before the race even began and hasn't shown much interest since.
I certainly can't speak for the poor as if they are some kind of hive mind, nor for the poor black population for the same reason. I do know that with regards to voter registration, I've found black voters more receptive and much more likely to engage in an exchange of ideas. I suspect they comprise the last, fully loyal democratic base in Appalachia. Even some of the local miners' unions are turning away from the Democratic Party, which I find really disheartening. But that's another discussion for another day and I'm already late for some appointments.
of Minnesota where RFK would be pelted with rocks and garbage for saying those things. Teabaggers are everywhere. It's an ugly fact. There have always been low-information voters, but they weren't pre-programmed into ineradicable bigotry and stupidity by right-wing radio and Faux News in RFK's day. Now they are.
And FWIW, Robert Kennedy has been one of my very few personal heroes for more than 45 years.
I don't know, but maybe its because people on our side call them "backward ass country fucks".
I don't think the Dem's could have changed their minds if the Dem's performed life saving surgery on them personally. They need brain transplants. 
