If there's one thing you can count on, it's that politicians will pull the football out, Lucy-style, any chance they get. I'd like to say these "I didn't say Simon Says" stunts are more popular with the beer-and-christianity crowd, but, honestly, I'm not sure the libs aren't just as prone to some underhanded machinations. Today, however, it's the right-wing North Carolina legislature that is insisting, "Go ahead, Charlie! I'll hold the ball so you can kick it! Promise!"
The ball, in this case, is the extension of Federal Medicaid benefits to about 500,000 more mostly-poor North Carolinians. The program has been available for years, but the Berger-Moore cabal has held off on approving it until now. They're making big hooey about this being "bi-partisan" legislation, but it's only bi-partisan because the party in charge has finally relented to something most Tar Heels have long sought. The Legislature celebrated this accomplishment by giving themselves a round of applause.
I suggest you don't bring out the streamers and noise-makers just yet.
There's a catch.
The deal is, this legislation cannot go into effect until after the budget is approved. Soooo, if the (did I mention, mostly right-wing?) state legislature sends a bunch of ban books/outlaw abortion/deny CRT/restrict Trans therapy/end LGBTQ rights budget items to the Governor for his likely veto, they will all stand as if the head of a single snake and hiss "Cooper just shot down Medicaid expansion."
See how that works?
That's the way we get shit done, bless our hearts.
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