RichVR
4595
I did not know that your deadly traps plan would have collateral damage…
OTOH shit happens. It has to. Or we never will learn.
Carry on, sir.
This thread is pretty great (in a fucking depressing way). Please donate to Amy McGrath if able.
Hay guyz, this spending is starting to get out of control!
Menzo
4598
Because everyone knows that when your mom is in the ICU and they’re trying to get her heart going again, that’s the perfect time to start haggling with the doctors about how much this is all going to cost.
Enidigm
4601
Like i’ve said, the current GOP has never accepted the 1960s - everything about it is a rejection of that time. The see government expenditure since then as illegitimate because they reject the very principle of the Great Society prkragms, and are happy to run up the debt because to pay for them they would rather risk bankrupt the country then ever pay for them out of pocket. Along with the sexual revolution and the “PC world” of the post Civil Rights era, the social changes caused by re-opening immigration, the flight to the suburbs, the race to the bottom, the high gate-ing of them away from rest of an American society which they reject.
Let’s not forget the Kentucky has the worst run and worst funded pension plan in the USA. Mitch McConnell, now not just morally bankrupt, but fiscally as well.
I was never a DeWine fan, but I respect the hell out of him for this:
DeWine could possibly be the one and only Republican I might be tempted into voting for. Maybe.
I don’t think he’s running again, but he’s handling this in the proper way. Even under pressure from morons.
LockerK
4608
He’s walking a fine line of being a good Republican that follows what Dear Leader says while also doing what he feels is best for the state. And reading that last tweet… someone watched the Biden commercial that just came out. Wouldn’t surprise me if he’s starting to position himself for a run in 2024.
Maybe, but he was born in January '47…he’s old. I know both of our current candidates are old, but I think he’s ready to move on.
I love how we’ve somehow reached a point where if a Republican unambiguously denounces Nazis, I want to weep for joy and give him a hug.
It can be tough going against constituents sometimes…
I’m pretty sure DeWine has zero Presidential aspirations. He’s already been a Congressional Representative for Ohio in both the House and the Senate from the 80’s through the mid-2000’s. If he was looking to run for President, he would have done it back then. I don’t have any proof obviously, but my suspicions are that he probably planned to retire as the AG until the GOP asked him to run for Governor against Richard Cordray, a popular Democrat DeWine had narrowly defeated once before (for the AG job), as the thought of Ohio with a Democrat as governor probably terrifies the GOP.
Anyway, I’ve never been a big DeWine fan, but I will give him all the respect he deserves for putting Ohio before party in the COVID-19 crisis and listening to both his local (Dr. Amy Acton, who has been fanatastic) and national experts while filtering out the President and FOX News. DeWine has daily press conferences too, and they are the total opposite of Trump’s. DeWine speaks in calm and measured tones, with clear empathy, and it’s obvious there has been a lot of thought behind his words. Dr. Acton and other experts and officials are given time to speak, their segments are informative, and he always thanks them and everyone else involved.
He may be a Republican, but unlike 99% of the GOP, DeWine is acting like a governor and representative of ALL the people in his state, not just the ones who voted for him or the ones who are the most vocal or the ones with the deepest pockets. I’m not sure it would have been possible for anyone else, Democrat or Republican, to have done a better job with this situation in Ohio thus far.
Yeah, no complaints from me, and I never voted for him for any office. Amy Acton has been amazing, too. I’m thankful every day we don’t have some clown like Kemp or DeSantis here.
