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Unintended consequences

17 Thursday Jun 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

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federal holidays, General Assembly, HB 278, Juneteenth, missouri, Rick Brattin, right wingnuts, veto override

This is now:

Vice President Kamala Harris @VP
United States government official

Throughout history, Juneteenth has been known by many names:
– Jubilee Day.
– Freedom Day.
– Liberation Day.
– Emancipation Day.

And today, a national holiday.
[….[
7:23 PM ยท Jun 17, 2021

That was then:

Representative Rick Brattin (r) [2013 file photo].

In 2013, for right wingnuts, it was all about the mythical “War on Christmas”:

97th General Assembly, 1st Regular Session
HB 278
Prohibits any state or local governmental entity; public building, park, or school; or public setting or place from banning or restricting the practice, mention, celebration, or discussion of any federal holiday
Sponsor: Brattin, Rick (055)
Co-Sponsor: Riddle, Jeanie (049) … et al.
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2013
LR Number: 0507L.02T
Governor Action: 07/01/2013 – Vetoed by Governor (G)
Governor’s Veto Letter
Last Action: 09/11/2013 – Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
Bill String: HB 278
Next House Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar

1/23/2013 H 181 Introduced and Read First Time (H)
1/24/2013 H 192 Read Second Time (H)
1/31/2013 H 242 Referred: Downsizing State Government(H)
2/07/2013 Public Hearing Completed (H)
2/14/2013 Executive Session Completed (H)
2/14/2013 Voted Do Pass (H)
3/07/2013 Executive Session Completed (H)
3/07/2013 Voted Do Pass – Consent (H)
3/13/2013 H 619 Reported Do Pass – Consent (H)
3/13/2013 H 619 Referred: Rules(H)
3/14/2013 Rules – Executive Session Completed (H)
3/14/2013 Rules – Voted Do Pass – Consent (H)
3/14/2013 H 634 Rules – Reported Do Pass – Consent (H)
3/28/2013 H 768 Perfected by Consent – Pursuant to House Rules (H)
4/02/2013 H 791 Taken Up for Third Reading (H)
4/02/2013 H 792 – 793 Third Read and Passed (H) – AYES: 114 NOES: 32 PRESENT: 0
4/02/2013 S 625 Reported to the Senate and First Read (S)
4/04/2013 S 669 Second read and referred: Senate General Laws(S)
4/11/2013 Public Hearing Scheduled (S) – TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013, 1:30PM,SCR1
4/16/2013 Public Hearing Held (S)
4/16/2013 Executive Session Held (S) – Voted Do Pass
5/08/2013 S 1514 Reported Do Pass (S)
5/13/2013 S 1645 Placed on Informal Calendar
5/17/2013 S 2412 Taken Up for Third Reading (S)
5/17/2013 H 3300 Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed – AYES: 28 NOES: 2 PRESENT: 0
5/22/2013 H 3330 Signed by House Speaker(H)
5/22/2013 S 2435 Signed by President Pro Tem (S)
5/22/2013 H 3330 Delivered to Governor
7/01/2013 H 12 Vetoed by Governor (G)
7/01/2013 H 12 Vetoed by Governor (G)
7/01/2013 H 12 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
7/01/2013 H 12 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
9/11/2013 H 25 – 26 House Votes to Override Veto (H) – AYES: 114 NOES: 45 PRESENT: 0
9/11/2013 H 25 – 26 House Votes to Override Veto (H) – AYES: 114 NOES: 45 PRESENT: 0
9/11/2013 S 23 – 24 House Message (H)
9/11/2013 S 26 – 27 Senate Votes to Override Veto (S) – AYES: 26 NOES: 8 PRESENT: 0
9/11/2013 H 35 Senate Message (S)
9/11/2013 H 35 Senate Message (S)
9/11/2013 Delivered to Secretary of State (G)

The bill summary [pdf]:

HB 278 — FEDERAL HOLIDAYS
(Vetoed by the Governor–Overriden by the General Assembly)
This bill prohibits any state or local governmental entity; public building, park, or school; or public setting or place from banning or restricting the practice, mention, celebration, or discussion of any federal holiday.

Heh.

Any federal holiday.

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The Missouri Meteorite

09 Friday May 2014

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Jay Nixon, Missouri Legislative Session, Missouri Legislature, missouri political cartoon, Missouri Republican Party, Missouri Senate Bill 509, veto override

Posted by Michael Bersin | Filed under Uncategorized

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Tax Cut Tug-O-War

11 Wednesday Sep 2013

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Corporate Taxes, Education Funding, House Speaker Tim Jones, Jay Nixon, Missouri Education, Missouri House Bill 253, Missouri Legislature, Missouri Republican Party, Rex Sinquefield, sales tax, tax cut, veto, veto override

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Bond on SCHIP Compromise; Snarky Video Impression of Bush

19 Friday Oct 2007

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Kit Bond, SCHIP, veto override, video imitating Bush

Ever the statesman, Senator Kit Bond is now, in the wake of the failure to override Bush’s SCHIP veto, urging compromise.  He has signed a letter to congressional leaders, urging consensus.

Bond surprised me by voting for the bill in the first place and urging Bush not to veto it:

“SCHIP is a valuable safety net for needy children in families who don’t have the means to purchase affordable health care. Millions of children receive the vital well-child and preventative care, vaccinations, and emergency care they need to grow, learn and thrive thanks to the SCHIP Program. I am proud of my votes to create SCHIP in 1997 and to reauthorize the program today.”

Can this be the Kit Bond we know and love to hate?  Having seen him be such a Republican for his entire career and such a godawful one under Bush, it’s not easy for me to believe he has any good impulses at all.  One part of me interprets his actions in the most cynical light:  he knows what a loser voting no on SCHIP is and knew it from the beginning.  See?  No need to give him any credit for humanitarian concerns. 

But in general he isn’t smart enough to back away from losing policies.  He still supports Bush’s addle pated  policy in Iraq.  So I have to say, that he might be acting on conscience here.  Even if he’s not, at least he’s smarter than Sam Graves, Todd Akin, Roy Blunt and Kenny Hulshof.

Certainly he’d like compromise because it would make Republicans look less like monsters.  But it is possible that he feels uneasy about depriving millions of kids of health care.  Just sayin’.

Still, even if Bond’s concern is genuine, I’ll bet he wouldn’t approve of this snarky video. In it, a comedian impersonates a smug George Bush, in all his malapropistic glory, gloating about the SCHIP veto.

SCHIP Veto Vote on Thursday, the 18th

14 Sunday Oct 2007

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Geo. Bush, Ken. Hulsof, Nancy Pelosi, Roy Blunt, Sam Graves, SCHIP, Todd Akin, veto override

Somewhat overshadowed this past week by the FISA discussion, the vetoed SCHIP bill will be subjected to an override vote by Congress on Thursday, the 18th. Whether or not the Presidential Veto will be sustained remains unclear.

But what is very clear is that there are a lot of twitchy Republicans in the press and on national TV valiantly arguing their talking point in the earnest hope that they can bamboozle their constituents one more time.  They don’t mind getting down and dirty either. You may recall the case of 12-year-old Graeme Frost, the brain injured child who delivered the Democratic response to one of the Decider’s weekly radio addresses.  Frost and his sister, who were injured in a car accident, still need physical therapy.  Both are covered by SCHIP in Maryland.  The right wing thought they had glimpsed Nirvana, both kids in private schools (scholarships) and a home in a newly gentrified neighborhood. Led by principled stalwarts, Malkin and Limbaugh, Mitch McConnell’s office took up the cry, only to have to back off as the case fell apart. Turned out that the parents have combined incomes of $45,000 per annum.  Prior to the accident they might have purchased insurance for $14,500 a year, after the accident no insurance would cover them.  And then in Maryland, SCHIP covers kids from families with incomes under 200% of poverty, $55,220, so the Frosts definitely qualify. 

Republicans are also cheesed off at the Decider’s lack of interest in consultation when the compromise bill was being written.  It was perceived that he had already made up his mind and had no interest in further exploration. Now he offers to compromise without offering anything concrete to describe a compromise position that he would endorse.  In the words of Nancy Pelosi this AM on ABC, “Mr. Bush sincerely believes that the meaning of the word compromise means do it his way”. 

According to a NYT editorial piece, the Republican response to the bill is being driven by The Decider’s Assertion that to expand SCHIP is a step toward “government run health insurance”.  Speaking of double standards and utter hypocrisy, do they not know that they are covered by government run health insurance”, that their children are covered by “government run health insurance”?  And adding insult to injury, their premiums are paid for by tax dollars from the very families for whom they would deny SCHIP benefits.  Deliver me!

Even more distasteful, if that is possible, the Christus Medicus Foundation, a catholic right wing organization focusing on “sanctity of life issues” is worried that SCHIP dollars are going into family planning, contraception and sterilization programs.  They conclude:

Teenage females can be signed up for a CHIP program by schools family planning organizations and social services organizations and be give contraception, abortions and in some cases even be sterilized without parent’s knowledge or consent. State and federal tax dollars are violating  Health Care Right Of Conscience by forcing Americans to subsidize the undermining of the parent/child relationship.

Well! Health care for near poor children has suddenly become a reproductive issue.  I am curious as to just how many people worship in their tent of disinformation. 

The AFL-CIO, Move-On.org and Americans United for Change are but a few of the organizations stepping up to champion SCHIP.  The DNCC has targeted eight vulnerable Republican veto supporters in their home districts with radio ads  opposing their positions.  Our Sam Graves is one of them.  Democrats are adamant regarding a compromise with the Decider.  They say that they have already compromised, having chosen the less expansive Senate version of the bill as a model for the compromise bill vetoed by the Decider. 
Nancy Pelosi is reported as “cautiously optimistic” that she will peel off an additional 15-20 votes to support a veto.

Our mission in MO, should we choose to accept it, is to discourage the following MO members of the US House from voting to sustain the Presidential Veto.  They are Sam Graves, Roy Blunt, Todd Akin, and Kenny Hulsof.  Tell them that the Democrats will gain politically if the veto is blocked.  Tell them that you’ll “remember in November” (08) when we liberals don’t have poor George to kick around anymore.  Tell them to just do the right thing!

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