Me too, I want more of Cailet. But I’d rather Melanie get to (and be able to stay in) a healthy place first, and get it when she’s ready.

I wish Melanie Rawn the best, though I’d love more on her sun/moon/star light sorcery series... if working on that is what helped push her over, I’ll take whatever else comes out.

Looking at the tone and tenor, it isn’t about winning over that part of the base, it’s about enraging them by pointing the finger at somebody. It would help if that could be done by pointing the finger at the people they’re currently listening to, and associating it with a story that lines up with something closer to…

Try saying it ten times fast...

Executive orders and signing statements... same song, different thread... it didn’t start with Obama, the complaint arose with Bush, although it might be argued that the rise started with either Carter or Reagan.

And nobody wanted to call it Romneycare by that point...

The precedent for executive orders being accepted without challenge was set by the last administration.

I won’t lie, I would vote for Fiona...

I mean... that seems like a great deal for himself, most of the time. When he can/could get away with it..

... said young people throughout history...

Like when they took the most basic of actions and thought of the children, and continued CHIP?

Point of order... subsidies, not subsidiaries.

Only if it happened twice. Oh wait...

Nothing argumentative, just adding some more color, to lead towards connecting with the “rural hospitals shutting down” stories, and make the question more “Would you rather pay less than a penny a year from your taxes to help these people out, or risk losing your local hospital entirely?”

In the first case (with Medicaid), the cost is spread across many taxpayers.

The ones that still believe in trickle-down believe that their benefactors (employers) will do right by them, possibly because that’s what they (think they) would do in that position. Any other supporting theory tends to blow up almost immediately.

State/district, not federal dollars there.

Indeed. Quite probably magnitudes more for specific clauses of the 2nd Amendment, for instance.