Cutler's In And Lepage's Antics Continue

No surprise, Eliot Cutler will throw his hat into the ring early next week. Judging from the reaction to Cutler from many on the Facebook page, Lepage Must Go, he is reviled for causing Lepage to be our Governor in 2010. I prefer to blame the 37% of voters who supported LeRage. I am rooting for Mike Michaud, however, if it looks like Cutler is leading in late October,2014, I might well cast my vote for him.

All I know, for the many Mainers who have suffered and will suffer under another possible Lepage term, I pray that we can beat him next year. His latest grand standing involves a trip to Central Maine Medical Center to tout his repayment of debt to hospitals. In true Publishers Clearing House style, he had giant checks with the amount each hospital will receive. The subject line of these mammoth checks reads "welfare debt," as if to pound home that it is the poor of the state that rely on Mainecare who are to blame. What a fool Lepage is. A cruel fool. Thankfully a reality check in the form of a representatve of the Maine People's Alliance interrupted the circus sideshow. The gentleman was dressed as Uncle Sam and had his own huge check for the ammount Maine would get from the fed during the first three years of the Medicaid expansion. Too bad, so far, we aren'te getting it.

The Democrats in the legislature have not given up on the Medicaid expansion which Lepage has so foolishly refused to approve. In January they plan to keep trying, but I do not think any version of the expansion they could come up with would be agreeable to the Governor. You see, he sees those who would benefit as losers in the game of life and, naturally it follows that they are to blame for their own problems. Lepage buys into the old Horatio Alger story that he supposedly lived. It goes something like, you can start off ever so humble, but through hard work alone you can pull yourself up and be successful. While this may be true sometimes, people like Lepage tend to forget the people who have reached out helping hands to them during their struggle.. They also discount fate, or just plain luck, that helps people break through to success.

I will not go through he litany of reasons why the expansion is necessary again. It's too obvious and well known. I am starting to believe that Lepage and his allies somehow deep down realize that this health care would help many, but that they are sadists who take great joy in hurting people less fortunate. Or maybe they are just stupid. Is anyone that stupid?