We (or rather Carl Hiaasen) have already covered why Republican human/ bat hybrid Gov. Rick "Bat Boy" Scott (Teabag-FL) is the "emptiest suit in America." Certainly, he has one of the emptiest souls in America, as evidenced by his refusal to expand Medicaid coverage in Florida because !Obamacare! He's been playing a game of chicken not only with the Obama administration, but with his own Republican-dominated Senate which wants the expansion (the Florida House is another matter, loaded as it is with teabaggers, yahoos and other residents of Galt's Gulch). Now, with deadlines looming, Bat Boy is getting ready to shut down the State government rather than provide Medicaid coverage to 800,000 low-income Floridians:
(AP) - Gov. Rick Scott told agency heads to prepare for the worst Thursday, asking them to list only the state's most critical needs in the event the Legislature can't reach an agreement on a budget that doesn't expand health care to the poor.
Scott sent the letter to agency heads the day after lawmakers said they were making progress on a budget impasse that they'll seek to resolve in a special session beginning June 1.
"Prepare a list of critical state services our citizens cannot lose in the event Florida is forced to shut down on July 1st," Scott wrote."[F]orced to shut down" ... by Bat Boy's soulless, rigid far-right ideology, that is. Even the
Shame on Florida for electing and then re-electing this p.o.s. Maybe they're learning what should have been evident from the beginning: their governor is a bomb-throwing extremist.
(Photo: Yes, that's really Bat Boy - "Mmmm, that fly looks tasty.".)
