GOP sociopaths are about to be exposed: How John Kasich’s presidential run would reveal their callou

[DonViejo]

GOP sociopaths are about to be exposed: How John Kasich’s presidential run would reveal their callousness

Ohio's GOP governor hates "Obamacare" but embraced its Medicaid expansion, and that could roil the 2016 GOP field

SIMON MALOY

John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio, may or may not be running for president. He’s showing up in states like New Hampshire and South Carolina and forming PACs and doing other things one does when preparing to run for the White House, but he’s still mulling it over and waiting for God to give him the thumbs-up. I hope Kasich does run, mainly so the Republicans can have a knock-down, drag-out fight over Obamacare.

What sets Kasich apart from other 2016 aspirants is that he actually supports one of the most important pieces of the Affordable Care Act: the expansion of Medicaid. In fact, Kasich was so gung-ho about expanding Medicaid in Ohio that when the state legislature resisted him, he pushed the expansion through via the state’s Controlling Board, leading Republican critics to gripe that he’d broken the law. Kasich was no fan of the Affordable Care Act, but he argued at the time that it was Ohio’s duty to “get the most out of [the ACA] as possible,” and that meant opening Ohio’s doors to lots of new federal spending that would boost health coverage for low-income residents.

Of course, if you ask Kasich what he’d do about Obamacare as president, he’ll tell you the same thing every other Republican candidate says: he’d repeal every word of it on day one. But Kasich also argues that the expansion of Medicaid made possible by the Affordable Care Act would somehow survive the law’s complete and total repeal. He said as much this past weekend at the Republican 2016 cattle call in New Hampshire this past weekend. “Kasich insisted he would leave the Medicaid expansion intact, saying that’s a separate issue,” the Columbus Dispatch reported.

Kasich has been arguing for a while that the Medicaid expansion and Obamacare are two separate things. That doesn’t make any sense, and it’s contradicted by what Kasich himself has said in the past, but being a Republican with national ambitions means you have to present yourself as an implacable foe of the ACA, even as your state benefits from the law.

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[Raine1967]

1. Is he going to run?

If he is, I might take this one seriously.

[66 dmhlt]

2. He's waiting on God to tell him ...

Of course God played a prank on Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry back in 2012, and told BOTH of them to run when they asked.

[kairos12]

3. If God is talking to these klowns, I have only one question for God, "do you hear, no, hate me now?