Flakey

Jeff Flake has total faith that states will do the right thing by us illin' taxpayers.

Jeff Flake thinks the Graham-Cassidy bill is the best shot at repeal and replace. Repeal and replace – it's the magical mantra. Comprehensive, affordable health care is apparently beside the point.

Jeff Flake’s a complete moron.

No, no, I take that back. What he is, and this is much worse, is a grifting son of a bitch (not to diss his mom but, clearly, she didn’t send him to his room sans dessert often enough).

The man poops out an anti-Trump book, which also takes his fellow Republicans to task for the mess the country is now in, and yet 91.5% of his votes have been in Trump/Republican lockstep party line. Disingenuous much, man?

"I've been sympathetic to this impulse to denial, as one doesn't ever want to believe that the government of the United States has been made dysfunctional at the highest levels, especially by the actions of one's own party.”

"Too often, we observe the unfolding drama along with the rest of the country, passively, all but saying, 'Someone should do something!' without seeming to realize that that someone is us."

"If by 2017 the conservative bargain was to go along for the very bumpy ride because with congressional hegemony and the White House we had the numbers to achieve some long-held policy goals—even as we put at risk our institutions and our values—then it was a very real question whether any such policy victories wouldn't be Pyrrhic ones. If this was our Faustian bargain, then it was not worth it.” (source)

Obvs, with his pretty words and good-ish looks, he’s trying to con the skeptical marks. He is up for reelection in 2018, after all.  I'm not like the rest of these mooks!

Just FYI on the latest effort to kill Obamacare:

• 15-18 million more of us would be uninsured in 2019 alone
• 32 million more uninsured folks after 2026
• premiums will skyrocket
• got a preexisting conditions? Yeah, screw you.

Trump says preexisting conditions are still covered BUT states can apply for waivers. These waivers would give insurers the leeway, the ability to charge us’ns of the not perfectly, 100% healthy clan higher premiums. Also too, states will have free reign to change other ACA protections such as the wonderful ban on lifetime benefit limits. Without that, insurance companies can decide – Gosh, despite the big checks you’ve been writing us every month, you’re costing us money so we’re not covering your chemo/brain surgeries/Multiple Sclerosis treatments/Diabetes meds anymore.

AND there’s a lovely loophole in Graham-Cassidy which allows insurers to deny coverage for:

• Pregnancy and maternity care
• Prescription drugs
• Mental health services
• Reproductive health services, including birth control
• Substance abuse treatment

BUT Jeff Flake has faith the states will do the right thing.

I wonder if he’s remembers or even knows about the governors of Maine, Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan.

Amongst other heinousosity, last year, the Kansas Senate narrowly passed a bill that would let lawmakers impeach state judges for “discourteous conduct” and other transgressions…(source)  This went down immediately after Brownback's dictatorial, strong-arm play to manipulate the courts. 

And yet, Jeff Flake has absolute faith the governors will do the right thing.

Flake's Dem challenger will likely be Kyrsten Sinema. She’s been the rep for Arizona's 9th congressional district since January of 2013. Looks like I’ll be sending a shekel or two in her direction.