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Remember When Rick Scott Claimed He Supported Medicaid? Well, Forget That

Medicaid Going Nowhere In Florida

Rick Scott's brief stint at trying to appear as a compassionate human being when it came to supporting Medicaid for Florida's poor and uninsured seems to be over. It lasted for about two minutes back in February of this year when he "shocked" the country by saying he couldn't "in good conscience" deny health care to those who need help the most. 

He never spoke of it again. He also never spoke of it to House Speaker Will Weatherford and the rest of the Republicans in the legislature who turned away billions in federal funding for Medicaid, claiming it would "cost too much" for Florida.

Rick Scott Makes Threat To Govern Floridians Against Their Will For Four More Years Official

Nooooooooooo!

His approval ratings never made it far above ground level, his biggest campaign promise is an utter failure, and amid record incompetence and turnover in his administration he can't find any takers to run along with him as a number two, but yeah, Rick Scott is determined to drive Florida further into the ground with another term.

It's bad enough after three years, and to undo the damage he's done so far will be quite an undertaking. 

Florida can't afford another four years of Rick Scott's unnecessary man-made disasters.

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Scott Fail: "Great Job!" Unless You Mean Having A Job And Being Great At It, Edition

My, my, my. How many times have we heard Rick Scott say someone's doing a great job for him just as they're forced to resign due to incompetence or wrongdoing? Who can count, am I right? Well, here's another, and so far this isn't one of those times when a resignation follows. Well, at least not yet:

Adam Hollingsworth: Sure I lied on my resume about my non-existent college degree for at least seven years, but I've learned from my mistakes.....when I've been caught making them. Besides, I actually got a degree seven years after I got caught lying that I had one. So?

So, there are calls for Hollingsworth's resignation, but will he resign? Well, that's up to Rick Scott, whose musical chairs of Administration officials is running low on replacements, not to mention that Hollingsworth is Scott's third chief of staff in as many years. So what does Scott have to say about that? The man who prides himself on "transparency and ethics?"

You'll never guess: Great job!

This time, apparently Scott's saying: So you lied on your resume? Fine by me! Hollingsworth fits right in as chief of staff for the man whose former company went into the record books for Medicare fraud.

Marco Rubio Takes The ACA Subsidy He Wants To Block Americans From Getting

Such A Disaster I Just Enrolled Myself And My Entire Family In It!

Back when negotiations over the Affordable Care Act were ongoing, Republicans were busying themselves trying to throw up any roadblocks that they could. One of those roadblocks proved successful, and in so doing, it actually backfired on the less than health insurance literate 'mastermind' behind the idea, Chuck Grassley. Grassley wrongfully believed his own party's anti-health care propaganda and assumed that the ACA was such a disaster that he would set a trap for Democrats pushing it, so he devised a poison pill that would force congressional staffers into the health insurance exchanges along with members of Congress. Grassley assumed that Democrats would never go for it because the ACA was so awful.

Problem.

Today In Shameless Buffoonery: Donald "You're Fired" Trump Touts Pink Slip Rick Scott

If you're on Twitter, you may have seen Donald Trump, recently famous for failing to run for election, touting job killer Rick Scott, famous for winning an election, but failing once in office. 

How bad have things have gotten for Pink Slip Rick? This bad:

GOP Men Undergo Tutoring On How To Talk To W-O-M-E-N

                                    Yes                                                          No

What, you mean the great post 2012 GOP autopsy and subsequent rebranding didn't take??

Yes, the party died long ago, but John Boehner isn't giving up on Frankenstein just yet, so he's making sure his good old boys have a sit down with a tutor to make them more sensitive to the womenfolk:

“Let me put it this way, some of these guys have a lot to learn,” said a Republican staffer who attended the session in Boehner’s office.

There have been “multiple sessions” with the NRCC where aides to incumbents were schooled in “messaging against women opponents,” one GOP aide said.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall during a session of Binders Full Of Women: The Do-Over.

Bill Nelson Wants Feds To Look Into Detzner's Absentee Ballot "Directive"

Beer Lobbyist-Turned-SOS Ken Detzner

Having already been rejected by the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections, Bill Nelson is asking the feds to look into the possibly unbinding directive issued by Rick Scott's beer lobbyist turned Secretary of State Ken Detzner to cut the number drop-off sites for absentee ballots:

Accusing Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner of trying to “suppress the vote” in an upcoming special congressional election in Pinellas County, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson said Wednesday he wants the U.S. Department of Justice to look into whether Florida is violating federal law.

Detzner issued a directive last week telling county elections chiefs they could only collect voted absentee ballots at elections offices and not use remote sites or drop boxes outside an elections office. Detzner, an appointee of Republican Gov. Rick Scott, wrote in the directive that he was clarifying laws that require the safekeeping of ballots and documentation that ballots are received on time.

Bondi Argues For Her Political Career, And Against Suffering Cancer, ALS, AIDS Patients

Planting Seeds Of Misinformation Before The Supreme Court

The Florida Supreme Court will hear arguments today on a medical marijuana ballot initiative proposed for the upcoming 2014 election. Backers of the proposed amendment, People United For Medical Marijuana, say the politicians arguing against it are twisting the truth in the amendment's wording to prevent the ill and suffering from legally benefiting from relief that medical marijuana provides.

But that's not the only reason they oppose it.