One of the most alarming political developments over the past several years has been the number of state houses and legislatures that have flipped to the Republicans. And you'd be amazed at how hazardous to your health living in a Republican state can be.
We cats have already noted how most of the states at the bottom of POLITICO's quality-of-life list are run by Republicans. (A majority of the top 10 have Democratic Governors.) And of course it's become abundantly clear that if you live in a Republican state and want to take advantage of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, or exercise your Constitutional right to have an abortion or even just to vote, you are, in many cases, cat-poop-out-of-luck.
But now, we're thinking nobody's going to top Michigan Republican Rick Snyder for dereliction of duty when it comes to the safety and security of his constituents. Snyder's administration has been poisoning the people of Flint — who, gosh, haven't exactly had life easy to begin with — for months on end with leaded water. And now they have the moxie to complain that they've only been declared a federal emergency, not a disaster.
You know what, Rick Snyder? Go drink some lead. You not only committed this crime with your government-is-bad-spending-is-worse Republican mind-set, but — typical of you hypocrites in the GOP — you only care about children before they're children at all. Once they're born, they cease to exist for you. That has always been, and ever will be, utterly despicable.
Disasters are acts of God (or Mother Nature, if you prefer) — floods, tornadoes, that kind of thing. The horrors of Flint are Snyder-made, Republican-endorsed. Somebody needs to be hauled off to the hoosegow — and at the very least, every passenger in the 2016 Republican clown car should be asked on the campaign trail why Americans should entrust their lives to the GOP. We cats HISS.
1 comment:
That's a terrific post. Don't you ever send these to the local newspaper as op eds?
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