Ohio Governor Defies G.O.P. With Defense of Social Safety Net
By TRIP GABRIEL
COLUMBUS, Ohio — In his grand Statehouse office beneath a bust of Lincoln, Gov. John R. Kasich let loose on fellow Republicans in Washington.
“I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor,” he said, sitting at the head of a burnished table as members of his cabinet lingered after a meeting. “That if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.”
“You know what?” he said. “The very people who complain ought to ask their grandparents if they worked at the W.P.A.”
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Last week he circumvented his own Republican legislature and its Tea Party wing by using a little-known state board to expand Medicaid to 275,000 poor Ohioans under President Obama’s health care law.
Once a leader of the conservative firebrands in Congress under Newt Gingrich in the 1990s, Mr. Kasich has surprised and disarmed some former critics on the left with his championing of Ohio’s disadvantaged, which he frames as a matter of Christian compassion.
He embodies conventional Republican fiscal priorities — balancing the budget by cutting aid to local governments and education — but he defies many conservatives in believing government should ensure a strong social safety net. In his three years as governor, he has expanded programs for the mentally ill, fought the nursing home lobby to bring down Medicaid costs and backed Cleveland’s Democratic mayor, Frank Jackson, in raising local taxes to improve schools.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/u...p-with-defense-of-social-safety-net.html?_r=0
John Kasich Defies GOP With Defense of Safety Net
Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by InTheLight, Oct 29, 2013.
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OK, so it's fine to thwart the will of the people as indicated by the decisions of the legislature, go to a little-known and overly empowered board whose members are appointed by this same governor, who then asks them to unilaterally violate the will of the people and expand Medicaid in direct contravention of the legislature??
Really? That's your idea of "compassionate conservatism"? That's your idea of "democracy"? I've news for you: That isn't legal, it isn't the way it works in this country.
Fortunately, it probably isn't going to stand for long. A lawsuit has been filed.
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