In WA it was the attorney general Rob McKenna who filed a lawsuit against ACA and he just lost a bid for the governorship.

This ends his political career.He is a real woman hating creep/theocratic nazi.
Gov. Chris Gregiore told him not to sue but he joined a bunch of his Republican Buddy A.G.'s and sued anyway.Whereupon the feds handed him his ass on a plate.

I`m a pleased Washingtonian at the moment!

Made the state look bad IMHO.

Nice to see him unemployed, though I was a little worried for a while.

or risk not being re-elected ..

here's hoping they hold STRONG in their resistance to the ACA.

we pay their way for community resources.

wow.

Shameful bidding on the price of human lives at less than 7K$ per prsn/year. They may hide Paul Ryan, but his plan to sell American lives will NOT go away.

:p

JR Simplot's son-in-law wouldn't cross the Republican Party Line no matter how much his state needed him to, and right now we have two classes of people in Idaho: poor and almost poor, and rich Repukes who want a tax haven but don't want to live in the desert. The natives need Obamacare badly but because they're Republicans too, they'll fight it tooth and nail.

and $20,123 for a family of 2, and $25,390 for a family of 3.

[font color = blue]>>The law extends Medicaid to anyone who earns up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level, which is $14,856 this year. [/font]

In 2012: http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/12fedreg.shtml

(household size, poverty guideline): (1, $11,170) (2, $15,130), (3, $19,090), (4, $23,050)

(household size, 133% of poverty): (1, $14,856) (2, $20,123), (3, $25,390), (4, $30,656)

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And no, our governor (Minnesota) is not a F'ing AHole. He's Democrat (DFL) Mark Dayton, amazingly elected in 2010 in what was otherwise a very red year. Sadly in 2010 we also elected a radical F'ing AHole Republican majority house and senate -- very rare in post-WWII Minnesota history to have both houses red. So the legislature did what it could to obstruct things. But that goes away in January 2013 because we just elected Democratic majority house and senate, so we've hit the BLUE TRIFECTA - governor and both houses of the legislature, and by considerable majorities.

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And no, obstructing Medicaid expansion is not going to lead to single-payer. Its going to lead to a lot of poor and near-poor people left uninsured.

they didn't force states to change their laws. They just said that states that didn't comply with the new regulation would lose federal money for highways. Maybe they could cut off other funds to states that won't follow this new law.

And since he's unlikely to come up with an acceptable exchange plan in the next week, we will get the default federal plan, which will be better than anything Scott would dream up.

I think even a lot of Republican Floridians know Rick Scott is an idiot.

but the Iowa State Senate is still in Dems hands. If that weren't the case, Iowa would go the way of Wisconsin.

Our governor is an asshole of monumental proportions. He's so bad he makes me miss Sarah. He is definitely opposed to expanding Medicaid, but there had been quite a bit of push-back. Now that he's got complete control of both houses, I think Alaskans are in for a bumpy ride. Not only in this area, but on many, many other issues.

The thing he's been trying to do for the past two years is give the big 3 oil companies a $2 billion dollar a year tax break in the "hope" that they will reinvest the money into increasing production in the Alaska's oil fields. However, there is absolutely no quid pro quo, so CP, BP and EXXON are much more likely to invest it somewhere else leaving us with big budget deficits.

The one good thing that Sarah did (with help from the dems in the legislature) is reform our oil tax structure. Taxes are pretty high, but go down with increased exploration and production. It's brought in a lot of smaller oil companies, but the biggies just like sitting around on their legacy fields, basically holding the resource hostage. In fact, Exxon has been holding their leases at pt. Thomson for 30 years without producing anything.

Unlike in the lower 48, alaska's subsurface resources are owned collectively by the people of the state (art. 8 of our socialist constitution) so we all have a stake in this. Oil royalties finance probably 80% or more of our state gov't.

Gov. Sean Parnell, or Seanoco Parnellips as we like to call him, worked for the law firm that represented Exxon during the spill litigation and was formerly a lobbyist for ConocoPhillips. He is club for growth and an ALEC alumnus. In other words, a complete asshat. Every time we turn around he's suing the federal government on behalf of the state for one thing or another. He joined the anti-ACA lawsuits. I could go on and on.

He took over for Sarah after she quit, got his own term as an incumbent and could,if he wanted to, run again in 2014, although there are rumors that he may try to run against Mark Begich for us senate. He's so bad that even crazy rep Don Young calls him Captain Zero.

Seanoco Parnellips

But my Repug Attorney General John Suthers is one big fucking asshole.

He's slated to be removed in '14. And if the lawsuit still exists, the new AG will withdraw it ASAP.

But our state legislature just went from rock solid Republican to no longer super-majority Republican.

Cracks are appearing in the dam, and the valley below is VERY thirsty.

I live in Florida.

I don't need a map.

so this map isn't correct....

Add it to the asshole column.

Andrew Cuomo has his head in the 2016 scene, and though his handling of hurricane Sandy was good he lacks the conviction his father had when it came to the well being of the citizens of NY .

I knew Sarah, Jr. was a fucking asshole before she even won her primary, let alone got elected. Hell, even members of her own party knew it, and tried to convince people to vote for the Democrat. Enough people ignored them, and voted for the person with the "R" after her name--for the sole reason that they vote only for people with an "R" after their name, no matter how incompetent or corrupt they are. And, now we are all paying for it.

Then watch them hang themselves politically on this one!

if the states did not set up their own exchanges, etc.

... I KNOW my governor (Snyder R,MI) is a fucking asshole.

But, the recall campaign failed, so we're stuck with him.

Nikki Haley also allowed this . Which is just flipping great. Couldn't have spent a little money to encrypt the information, Oh No. The rich people on water wouldn't have liked that. I hate this place.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/experts-sc-hacking-largest-vs-state-tax-agency-173341882--finance.html

They will participate in this issue in a few years. After they spend money on doing their "Me too" thing they will fall inline quietly. Rebels without a cause South Carolina.

Nebraska is becoming intolerable, and climate change will soon serve to amplify this fact.