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sinkingfeeling

(51,445 posts)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 12:44 PM Apr 2013

Benton County, AR Republican Nogy wants pro-Medicaid expansion Republicans to be shot

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/21/1203668/-Benton-County-Arkansas-Republican-Chris-Nogy-wants-pro-Medicaid-expansion-Republicans-to-be-shot

"Part of me feels that this betrayal deserves a quick implementation of my 2nd amendment rights to remove a threat domestic. Because no matter how much one group says it is inevitable to start down the road to socialism it isn’t as long as we use our creativity and energy to creating solutions that don’t take us that way. And it is NEVER wrong to simply stand up against an option, even though the other existing options may not be optimal either, especially when there is still time. And 2015 would have been time, especially if we had simply passed legislation that said “Arkansas will NOT be forced into implementation of Obamacare or any socialized health care or Medicaid reform at least until the end of the 2015 legislative session.” Not even an outright nullification, just buying time.

I don’t feel the same way about the Democrats as bullet backstops as I do about the Republicans who joined them. The Democrats were doing what their party told them they had to do because they were elected to do that job. We wailed and cried and threw up our hands every time the Democrat socialist Governor driven Senate and House rammed through things that we knew were dangerous, but that was the fact of the elections. Make no mistake, Arkansas is no less Democrat than it was before, it is just a lot less Obama, and we as Republicans had only one chance. That chance was to keep Obamacare from being implemented. The Democrat citizens were willing to stomach a few pro-life and pro-gun laws for us successfully keeping Obamacare out of the state, and we could have maintained our favorable status by doing just that. But now the Dems are furious because they get pro-life, pro-gun, and Obamacare under our majority, the Republicans are furious because they get Obamacare because of their own, we will NOT win in 2014, and our hope of making things better evaporated with the vote of a handful of last-minute turncoats."

This was published in the Benton County, Arkansas Republican Party's official newsletter.
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Benton County, AR Republican Nogy wants pro-Medicaid expansion Republicans to be shot (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Apr 2013 OP
well the only hope is that they don't win in w014 BlueToTheBone Apr 2013 #1
Benton County, Arkansas will be glowing red at the end of time. sinkingfeeling Apr 2013 #4
Let the shooting begin Bandit Apr 2013 #2
Is 'Nogy' the new term for "delusional foaming at the mouth"? JHB Apr 2013 #3

BlueToTheBone

(3,747 posts)
1. well the only hope is that they don't win in w014
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 12:48 PM
Apr 2013

and their crappy base stays home and we are able to mobilize ours.

JHB

(37,158 posts)
3. Is 'Nogy' the new term for "delusional foaming at the mouth"?
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 12:53 PM
Apr 2013

Y'know, the same way "quisling" became a word and not just someone's name?

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