Wayne wrote this morning about last night’s victories for openly gay candidates around the country, which is fantastic. It was even more than that, though. Last night there were several crucial victories, messages sent to the whackjobs who have taken over the Republican party that “we are sorry, but the American people aren’t like you and won’t let you ruin our country.” Mississippi voted its infamous “personhood amendment” down, and in Ohio, voters told Republican governor John Kasich exactly where he could put his union-busting SB5 law. In this clip, Lawrence O’Donnell and Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz [D-FL] discuss the results.
In the clip, O’Donnell mentions that Ohio voters also rejected the individual mandate in the healthcare law passed under this administration, but Schultz also points out that a very conservative Republican judge upheld the HCR law as constitutional yesterday, which is another smackdown to extremists.
As a life-long resident of Ohio, I can tell you that I really enjoyed watching Governor John KaSUCK getting his face ground into his own hot, steaming pile of arrogance. More people voted against his nasty piece of legislation yesterday than voted for him for governor a year ago. And Ohioans have said that were they given the option for a do-over in that Governor’s race, KaSUCK would have gone down in flames as well.
I noticed it’s always that core 25-30% who always vote arch conservative no matter how heinous their candidates and policies are. Near the end of 8 year bush fiasco, when his approval rating by normal, intelligent people was minus zero, there was still always a 25 to 30% who ‘approved’ of the job he was supposedly doing.