Idaho Gov. Butch Otter signs budget suicide order

[Swede]

The crazy spreads. If an executive order from Republican Gov. Butch Otter forbidding state agencies in Idaho from accepting federal funds to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passes constitutional muster, the state would have to opt out of Medicaid in 2014. More than 220,000 of Idaho's citizens depend on Medicaid. Unless the governor and GOP-dominated Legislature choose to drop these folks off where the grizzly bears roam, they will have to come up with the money to treat them.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/22/968987/-Idaho-Gov-Butch-Otter-signs-budget-suicide-order

[Turbineguy]

1. It's how republican works

you move costs to other places (fuck 'em if they can't take a joke). Then you pat yourself on the back for reducing spending. Then you give out a tax cut.

[bluestateguy]

2. The law says that that if the state won't set up the exchanges the feds will do it for them

so the choice is theirs. They can either follow the law or federal bureaucrats will fly into Idaho from Washington D.C. to set up the exchanges.

[NutmegYankee]

3. They won't come up with the money to treat them.

They will just let the invisible hand of the market strangle them to death.

[Vanje]

4. Butch Otter

He's had a busy week. He also declared Idaho a national disaster area.

You may wonder, What disaster has befallen Idaho this week? Did you miss a big news story? You might scratch your head.

No. Idaho is a disaster area because you cant shoot wolves here.

(Except, now you can)

[Ken Burch]

5. And what kind of name is "Butch Otter", anyway?

(Had an image I was going to share, but decided NOT to go there.)

[xchrom]

7. +1

[Cleita]

6. Good old Idaho, a beautiful state of natural scenic

beauty being ruined by generations of Republicans and yet the Idahoans still vote for them.

[RKP5637]

8. Where the Stupid runs wild! n/t

[Cleita]

11. I wouldn't call it stupid, but a different mind set that

probably worked back in the days of the frontier, but it's really ruining the state right now. I was in Alaska a few years back and it's the same mindset, which is what Sarah Palin took advantage of to get where she is. I think the Alaskans are waking up and taking a good look at whom they are letting ruin their state. I hope Idahoans do the same.

[RKP5637]

13. Yep, I agree! That's a better analysis. Someone asked me the other day why

I was seemingly so obsessed with politics anymore. I told them it was not an obsession, but that many in the country have never had so many politicians and propaganda thrust upon them, basically working to undermine the values that made this country great for the majority of the citizens.

And that they had best pay attention too, otherwise, what they have taken for granted well might be gone, and they well might not ever see any of it return in their lifetime.

We have serious threats going on and hopefully, as you said, more and more people are starting to wakeup and pay attention.

[Cleita]

10. Oops!

[pscot]

9. This is democracy at work, folks

Idaho is getting what it voted for.

[tritsofme]

12. In a democracy, people get the government they deserve.

[cayanne]

14. It's hard to live here sometimes

There are enough people in Sandpoint and Coeur d'Alene who are more free thinkers, democrats, and even more liberal like me that we can find friends. Mostly where I live (rural town) I give people a very wide berth as some of them are actually nuts. Some of my neighbors I don't even speak to.

I'm a member of the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force, American Heritage Wildlife Foundation (rehabilitate sick and wounded wildlife), and I'm helping to gather signatures to put referendums of the ballot to stop the destruction of our schools and replace teachers with computers.

Yes we have more than our share of tea partiers and right wing republicans but it just makes us work harder. Sometimes I wish we would leave but then I look around and at all the beauty and wildlife and I remember why I'm here in the first place.