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Crowds greet Pence as he arrived in KY yesterday. (Original Post) Cattledog Mar 2017 OP
Excellent! ismnotwasm Mar 2017 #1
The 'love' Faux pas Mar 2017 #2
Good job, Kentucky gratuitous Mar 2017 #3
The crowds will grow larger once people figure out livetohike Mar 2017 #4
Team Bush had a policy to keep protestors of sight. Exilednight Mar 2017 #21
What an asswipe! Why would he even go to Kentucky? They took the Medicaid expansion. McCamy Taylor Mar 2017 #5
This is what the people of Kentucky voted for. subterranean Mar 2017 #13
I know. ananda Mar 2017 #15
. littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #18
They are the low info and uniformed voters that dumpty relied on. The need to WAKE UP nt iluvtennis Mar 2017 #30
No, they voted for a guy who wanted to "Bigly, make it better." Alice11111 Mar 2017 #33
and I bet he was just fishing for a photo op... defacto7 Mar 2017 #16
Oh no, it's not the same thing, they renamed it Kynect or some such thing... they don't know what NotThisTime Mar 2017 #28
Kentucky sheshe2 Mar 2017 #6
Thank you, citizens of Kentucky! mountain grammy Mar 2017 #7
Good on you, Kentucky NastyRiffraff Mar 2017 #8
Oh thanks for this--I haven't read thinkprogress in a little while, BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2017 #34
Per the sign in the OP photo: Pence VP of the Turd Reich. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2017 #9
Christian? Scarsdale Mar 2017 #10
Pence proud to say 1st Christian, 2nd Conservative, 3rd Republican. No place for US Citizen. . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2017 #24
Good - But remember the "Good" folks of Kentuck packman Mar 2017 #11
Kick,Kick,Kicked&Recommended! coco22 Mar 2017 #12
Sign idea meow2u3 Mar 2017 #14
Here's a state that had a 21% uninsured rate before the ACA. LuckyLib Mar 2017 #17
Thanks, Kentucky! sinkingfeeling Mar 2017 #19
This message was self-deleted by its author littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #20
Good for them. IrishEyes Mar 2017 #22
Thank you Kentucky DUers and Resistors! Great job! nt Ilsa Mar 2017 #23
Fantastic. dalton99a Mar 2017 #25
trump will say... SummerSnow Mar 2017 #26
Beautiful!!!! Thank you demonstrators. 58Sunliner Mar 2017 #27
There's just not enough KY to make Trump's plans tolerable MrPurple Mar 2017 #29
KICK for Kentucky Resistence! Cha Mar 2017 #31
Every little bit helps. nocalflea Mar 2017 #32
They vote against their best interests for coal jobs Norbert Mar 2017 #35
I like the poop hashtag. Warren DeMontague Mar 2017 #36

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
3. Good job, Kentucky
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 12:38 PM
Mar 2017

That's as close as ordinary citizens are going to get to these rascals; might as well make 'em concentrate on their iPhones so they don't look out the windows and see the casualties of their policies.

livetohike

(22,144 posts)
4. The crowds will grow larger once people figure out
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 12:38 PM
Mar 2017

how badly they are being screwed. Way to go Kentucky .

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
5. What an asswipe! Why would he even go to Kentucky? They took the Medicaid expansion.
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 12:40 PM
Mar 2017

They are going to be the red state that suffers the most.

subterranean

(3,427 posts)
13. This is what the people of Kentucky voted for.
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 01:18 PM
Mar 2017

They like the Medicaid expansion, but voted for a governor who was against it, and then voted overwhelmingly for a president who promised to repeal it. Apparently they don't mind suffering or making others suffer.

littlemissmartypants

(22,656 posts)
18. .
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 01:40 PM
Mar 2017

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

(4-8 Tactical Disposition, SunTzu)

NotThisTime

(3,657 posts)
28. Oh no, it's not the same thing, they renamed it Kynect or some such thing... they don't know what
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 05:37 PM
Mar 2017

they have

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
8. Good on you, Kentucky
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 01:06 PM
Mar 2017

Kentucky was a model state for ACA. They will suffer if it's repealed and replaced by...well, nothing.

From the earliest days, Kentucky’s efforts to implement Obamacare have earned national acclaim. As the troubled roll out of the national health care exchange website was ruthlessly mocked by late night television, Fortune praised “one health exchange success story”: Kentucky’s new state-level marketplace.

Unlike most southern states, Kentucky opted to both set up its own state exchange (the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange, commonly known as “Kynect”) and to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. These efforts, ordered by Gov. Steve Beshear (D) and overseen by Governing magazine’s 2014 Public Official of the Year Carrie Banahan, helped get 521,000 Kentuckians insurance coverage in the first year alone. According to a Gallup poll, by the first half of 2015, Kentucky’s uninsured rate had fallen from 20.4 percent in 2013 to just 9 percent, the second largest drop of any state. Governing fêted Kentucky as “one of the few states that got everything right.”
https://thinkprogress.org/kentucky-is-obamacares-undeniable-success-story-this-man-is-trying-to-burn-it-all-down-56c7d60933ac#.1ebrajj8u

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
34. Oh thanks for this--I haven't read thinkprogress in a little while,
Mon Mar 13, 2017, 12:38 AM
Mar 2017

I forgot they're one of my faves.

Aside from the clear info, I love this quote especially:

Gov. Steve Beshear (D) and overseen by Governing magazine’s 2014 Public Official of the Year Carrie Banahan


Golly, it matters who you vote for! And the added detail about Carrie Banahan is quite refreshing. Interesting to note that research has shown, when women enter a system, they change it for the better.
 

packman

(16,296 posts)
11. Good - But remember the "Good" folks of Kentuck
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 01:14 PM
Mar 2017

didn't want anything to do with that there OBAMAcare - but change it to Kentucare (or some sort of other B.S.) and it is suddenly something they can't do without.

LuckyLib

(6,819 posts)
17. Here's a state that had a 21% uninsured rate before the ACA.
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 01:30 PM
Mar 2017

One fifth of the state had no medical coverage. Poor folks are hard-pressed to take to the streets. This just might move many more.

Response to Cattledog (Original post)

IrishEyes

(3,275 posts)
22. Good for them.
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 02:04 PM
Mar 2017

There are Democrats in Kentucky who voted for Clinton. Every red state has Democrats in it.

Norbert

(6,039 posts)
35. They vote against their best interests for coal jobs
Mon Mar 13, 2017, 05:19 AM
Mar 2017

The dumb shit and chief can't being most of these jobs back and probably doesn't really care anyway. They voted for the orange/red menace, Putz, and McConnell. Suckers.

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