Screw the poor and let ’em die

Er, have all the sympathy you want for tornado victims in Oklahoma, but I suggest you save some for its poorest citizens no matter what part of the state they’re in. Here’s the background: Oklahoma Speaker of the House T.W. Shannon has pulled the plug on Gov. Mary Fallin’s plans to save the Insure Oklahoma …

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Republican selfishness, Part the 2,032nd

There are probably more despicable clowns in the House Republican caucus than Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.), but finding them would involve getting muddier than I feel like doing. Here’s a guy who’s gotten 3.5 million bucks in farm subsidies over the past two decades who is now demanding that the poor suck it up and …

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