It's the same game he's always played: let the problem cook until the political cost of inaction exceeds the political cost of action, then step in as the savior, extract a concession, and take credit for a fight that was really just a negotiation he let sit on a shelf for nine months. The hospitals get their money. The uninsured get nothing. The tax structure survives. Abbott gets a headline.
And it's ironic that the "small-government" Republicans fascists always step up to recive "socialist" funding when it benefits them politically or personally.
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bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 10 pts · 3d
It's the same game he's always played: let the problem cook until the political cost of inaction exceeds the political cost of action, then step in as the savior, extract a concession, and take credit for a fight that was really just a negotiation he let sit on a shelf for nine months. The hospitals get their money. The uninsured get nothing. The tax structure survives. Abbott gets a headline.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3d
And it's ironic that the "small-government"
Republicansfascists always step up to recive "socialist" funding when it benefits them politically or personally.