Gov. Brewer denied a bone marrow transplant after a man begged for his life, and he died.
A few days ago, governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ) signed the Medicaid waiver request that could put medical care out of the reach of 300,000 people. Why that is news to anyone is surprising to me. Sure, the actual signing of the waiver is a little newsy, since Arizona rushed to make headlines by being the first state in the union to ask for it. But we already knew Gov. Jan Brewer cares nothing about the poor people she has been elected to govern. There is nothing new in that.…
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26 - Boeke
I consider Irv a tiresome dolt and have no good words for him. IMO he disguises his lack of thought and logic with a patina of glibness, but even that thin patina is borrowed from someone else's vernacular. A good measure of his paucity of thought and his plagiarism is his repeated allusions to "Kumbaya", which was, as near as I can tell, first parodied about 1948 by some rightist and which has been reduced to rightist gibberish by overuse ever since. The last time it was amusing was about 1955. I know NO leftist who refers to Kumbaya, so there is no sting in the parody.
His incoherent ramblings plug up the white space on BlogCritics and require the discerning reader to skip over his posts as mere noise.
27 - Irvin F Cohen
Dear most esteemed comrade [Personal attack deleted by Comments Editor] Mr. Burkah,
Yes, I must agree with you on everything, I really am a terrible, terrible, terrible person. But glib? Isn't that sort of a compliment? [Personal attack deleted by Comments Editor]
28 - Irvin F Cohen
Dear comrade-ette GrannyDebs,
Well at least you got the preposition "to" in front of the relative pronoun instead of dangling it at the end of the non-restrictive clause. Nice goin' there Granny.
Oh, BTW, you forgot to throw in the lame, halt and blind in addition to all the women and children and minorities who will suffer much more disproportionally than the evil white males, particularly Christians over the age of 21.
29 - James Bond
People have been dying here in Arizona for nearly 2 years, so many from simple things like treatable infections. All insurance companies are allowed to get away with murder and doctors are fleeing after too long not getting paid. Transplants are just a tiny piece of the issue here, try calling your insurance and never getting an answer for 6 months. Arizona is death scam, big time, Big money!
30 - Boeke
The irony is that rejecting fed funds, as these posturing politicians are wont to do, doesn't actually reduce federal expenditures and subsequent taxes. The money is simply re-deployed to the participating states. California, for example, was recently the beneficiary of some $1.2billion because of those glamorous eye-catching poses by state politicians (Wisconsin and Wyoming, IIRC, were mentioned).
Keep it up, dodo heads. The more you stand on your (dubious) principles the better it is for the other states. It's too bad about the residents of YOUR states, but then, if you don't care why should anyone else?
31 - bp
What goes around comes around jan the ashes are on the way!