The political junkies among you may already know which direction the wind is about to take this post, but stick around, I want to make sure you get the whole recap here, not that it will matter.
I've warned you, and those of you in Florida in particular, about Rick Scott more than once. Rick Scott is a crook. A thief whose company, a chain of for-profit hospitals by the name of Columbia/HCA, ripped off Medicare and Medicaid to the tune of over a billion dollars, and then had the chutzpah to enter the debate over President Obama's health care plan with privately financed commercials emphasizing that any solution had to be built on "accountability and personal responsibility"
I'm not making that up. By all means do a Google search and double check me.
I asked you to remember this the next time you start to judge the Medicaid momma who comes in your store looking for some free Tylenol for her feverish kid. To maybe keep some perspective when comparing her actions to the rich white crook. Instead, you made Rick Scott the governor of Florida, which I understand some may consider a fate worse than death. In Rick Scott's world though, it is considered a validation of his lifestyle.
He went on to refuse to take any of the free money the federal government was offering states to expand their Medicaid programs. Perhaps because he was no longer in a position to steal any of it.
But Rick Scott may be about to get his comeuppance. Not because of his unethical business practices mind you, nor for his rank hypocrisy. Rick Scott my friends, has finally done something far worse in this day and age.
He looked stupid on television.
According to saintpetersblog.com, Scott's hissy fit "cost him two or three critical points" in the opinion polls, flipping his slight lead into a slight deficit.
Christ on a cracker.
So here's our lesson for the day. I want you to imagine what would have happened if Rick Scott had a political instinct that was even slightly honed. If he had just acted like a grown up and ignored the fan, or even if he brushed off some charm skills and make a little joke about it. Holy cow depending on the quality of the quip he could have crushed his opponent right then and there. After stealing a billion dollars. And shouting for all that would hear, after stealing a billion dollars, about the need for "accountability" I want you to think about that for awhile and what it says about the viability of our democracy.
Because the answer my friend, with apologies to Bob Dylan, is quite literally, blowin' in the wind.
3 comments:
Thank all the deities that his tiff actually had an effect! Hhis PR also dug themselves into a deeper hole when they criticized Crist after the debate.
"Chirst on a cracker"...guffaw
One has to wonder about the noodles in these politicians cranial vaults, the ones that 'deny' their constituents access to Federal funding because of their stance on the ACA. Just recently, the Governor of Indiana denied funding for pre-kindergarten education, a topic widely supported previously by him, perhaps for 'consistency' in denying his constituents in the State of Indiana access to expanded Medicaid, in addition to no other alternative to ACA for poor people. Indiana is not known for its incredibly high standard of living, nor especially healthy citizens, but it is now known as the donkey's patootie when it comes to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Guess Mr. Pence would've agreed to cut that baby in half had it been one of King Solomon's suggestions.
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