Friday, March 28, 2014

Better off without a Kentucky budget

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Kentucky's Constitution  does not  require the legislature to pass a budget. At all. And this year, not passing an executive branch budg...

Will Kentucky media report this?

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Kentucky Speaker Pro Tem Larry Clark just erupted in budget negotiations in Frankfort over ObamaCare funding, asking "Do you all want a...

WFPL contradicts KY House Dems on ObamaCare

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Louisville Public radio outlet WFPL picked up on Kentucky Senate Republicans' effort to defund ObamaCare in the state budget and promptl...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Overexposed at the Kentucky Derby Festival

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Kentucky Obamacrats jumped the shark a long time ago by arrogantly parading around the state in front of hostile crowds and refusing to an...

House Dems not showing much energy for ObamaCare

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House Democrats' best argument for throwing Kentucky into ObamaCare is that Gov. Beshear is lying about federal health reform. The Hou...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Kentucky ObamaCare still has us upside down

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One interesting point from Kentucky's obviously bogus ObamaCare statistics is that if 25% of new enrollees into expanded Medicaid in th...

Will Beshear sign Senate's defund language and then ignore it?

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I talked with Perry Bacon of MSNBC this afternoon about the Kentucky ObamaCare fiasco. He has been talking to Gov. Beshear and House and Sen...

This Kentucky ObamaCare fraud needs an audit

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Kentucky's Obamacrats report that 75% of sign-ups for ObamaCare health plans were previously uninsured and 75% of sign-ups for expanded ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Beshear in a box on ObamaCare

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The Frankfort media is missing the Kentucky ObamaCare defunding story simply because Gov. Beshear is telling them he won't need General ...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Stay on them now

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The Kentucky state Senate just defunded ObamaCare.

Kentucky ObamaCare statewide meltdown

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People who signed up for ObamaCare across Kentucky are finding cancellation notices in their mailboxes, and customer service personnel appea...

Kentucky to get defunding ObamaCare right

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Expect Kentucky's Senate budget committee to act as soon as today to strip funding of ObamaCare out of the state budget. "Cong...
Friday, March 21, 2014

ObamaCare "B.S." piled higher in Frankfort

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Lexington Herald Leader political reporter Jack Brammer, a guest on KET's Comment on Kentucky tonight, fielded a question about the poss...

How much is the Medicaid expansion costing you?

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Kentucky and New York are the only two states even asking ObamaCare enrollees if they had previous health insurance and you haven't hear...

Politics of ObamaCare turning KY deep red

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Kentucky is a red state with an asterisk because it elects most of its state officials from the Democratic party despite electing nearly all...

Media whiplash on KY ObamaCare will be fun

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The Washington Post has another story up today complaining about how hard it is to measure "success" of Obama's health reform....
Thursday, March 20, 2014

KY ObamaCare defunding fight starts next week

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A member of Senate Republican leadership who asked to remain nameless promised today that the effort to defund Gov. Steve Beshear's Obam...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Replace ObamaCare with THIS

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The problem with healthcare in America for several decades has been too much government and eliminating that is the key to fixing healthcare...

Matt Bevin can win on this issue

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Stumbo fears ObamaCare too late

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Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo has killed a fellow Democrat's bill granting legislative approval of the state ObamaCare "...

Honest look at Kentucky ObamaCare can't wait

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To continue to exist in Kentucky as envisioned by Gov. Steve Beshear, ObamaCare needs two things it does not have and cannot get. First, t...

What Steve Beshear did with $220 million

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Kentucky's Health Benefit Exchange has spent over $220 million in federal grant money setting up a web site that, they claim, works bett...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

How many fake ObamaCare sign-ups?

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Multiple sources inside the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange report Beshear administration officials in a white hot panic in the last two we...
Monday, March 17, 2014

KY Senate shows sign of life on ObamaCare

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The Kentucky Senate has called a special meeting of the Appropriations and Revenue committee for tonight after the session adjourns. They wi...

No time for squishy Republicans

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Kentucky's Senate majority leaders must pronounce all ObamaCare funding and legal authority dead on arrival immediately and make clear ...

KY Senate GOP must kill ObamaCare today

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Frankfort Senate Republicans have to know there is no time for playing games with the budget. Today is the day for declaring they will not f...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

McConnell wants to party like it's 2008

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The Weekly Standard asked Sen. Mitch McConnell if GOP Congresses during the Bush years spent too much money. McConnell said, essentially, th...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Five damned ObamaCare supporters in Frankfort

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Yesterday, House Reps. Sannie Overly, Bob Damron, Johnny Bell, Jeff Greer and Gerald Watkins voted in favor of ObamaCare in Kentucky, effect...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Start calling Jeff Hoover "Mr. Speaker"

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Kentucky House Democrats just threw away their majority tonight in order to campaign for ObamaCare funding in the state budget. Highlights...

ObamaCare debate happening now

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The Kentucky House of Representatives is debating funding for ObamaCare right now. 3:47 pm: Speaker Stumbo tried a little legislative slei...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Frankfort's first ObamaCare vote delayed until tomorrow

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The House of Representatives just announced that the budget bill with ObamaCare funding will not be voted on until tomorrow. Do you know ho...

First real Kentucky ObamaCare vote TODAY

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The Kentucky House of Representatives is expected to vote on the executive branch budget House Bill 235 this afternoon and go on the record...

Kentucky ObamaCare bill twisting in Frankfort wind

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I have to laugh every time I tell someone about the Kentucky bill ( HB 505 ) seeking to make the ObamaCare exchange legal here. There is alm...

How many Frankfort reporters can screw in lightbulbs?

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The ObamaCare sales pitch presented to the Senate budget committee yesterday was by any objective viewing a disaster. Health and Family Cabi...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

More Beshear lying on Medicaid today

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Kentucky Secretary of Health and Family Services Cabinet Secretary Audrey Haynes testified falsely to the Senate budget committee this after...

Madison likely not Kentucky ObamaCare hot spot

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The ObamaCare talking point of the day is that the number of uninsured people in America is dropping precipitously, proving that ObamaCare w...
Monday, March 10, 2014

ObamaCare's April Fool's joke on Kentucky

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The most obvious failure of ObamaCare in Kentucky so far has been the large numbers of Kentuckians willing to face the possibility of tax pe...

Are you paying attention?

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Anyone who tells you the ObamaCare mess is permanent and the fight is over is either clueless or hopes you aren't paying attention. Even...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

Beshear Death Spiral already baked in

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With less than three weeks before the end of ObamaCare open enrollment in Kentucky, the President's target rate for exchange sales to yo...
Saturday, March 08, 2014

"Public option" only insurer making ObamaCare sales

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Governor Steve Beshear reports federally funded Kentucky Health Cooperative is the only health insurer in the state to make its projected Ob...
Friday, March 07, 2014

Humana crushed by Kentucky ObamaCare

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Humana Health Plans said last summer they expected to have 34,630 Kentucky ObamaCare health customers all twelve months of 2014. With three...

KY ObamaCare devastates Anthem Health Plans

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Anthem expected to provide twelve months of health insurance coverage to more than 172,000 ObamaCare plan purchasing Kentuckians in 2014 at...
Thursday, March 06, 2014

Men or mice ObamaCare update

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Following up on today's earlier post ( click here ), I called again to Jodi Whitaker in the Senate President's office just now and s...

Will Kentucky Senate be men or mice on ObamaCare?

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I just left a voicemail message with Kentucky Senate President Robert Stiver's press secretary Jodi Whitaker asking if the Senate Majori...
Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Devastating blow to Kentucky ObamaCare

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House Speaker Greg Stumbo refused to grant the Kentucky ObamaCare bill a special waiver today so it could be heard in committee tomorrow. T...

"Waive" bye-bye to Speaker Greg Stumbo

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The leading ObamaCare proponent in the Kentucky legislature has been begging House Speaker Greg Stumbo to rush through his bill to give his ...
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Anti-ObamaCare action alert for Kentucky

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After a year of Gov. Beshear's legal team insisting he did not need legislative approval to create the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange ...

More bad news for Kentucky ObamaCare

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A left-leaning political blog with unusual access to Kentucky's ObamaCare enrollment statistics reports that 75% of health policies sold...

Why I'm attending Hal Heiner's gubernatorial announcement event in Lexington this morning

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Former Louisville Metro Councilman Hal Heiner will announce he is a candidate for Governor this morning and I will be there. I'm looking...
Monday, March 03, 2014

McConnell's moronic MIT misstep

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`Mitch McConnell is a political genius, according to people who work for him. But everyone not on the payroll is left to wonder, without hop...

Steve Beshear curled up in fetal position

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Members of the Frankfort media are starting to ask questions Gov. Steve Beshear can't answer about a legislative bill he hoped never wou...
Sunday, March 02, 2014

Tea Party Alert: ObamaCare in Kentucky

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After bragging for a year that Gov. Beshear didn't need legislative approval to force Kentucky into ObamaCare, the Governor's legal...
Friday, February 28, 2014

ObamaCare has lone KY House sponsor

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Probably the most left-wing member of the Kentucky House of Representatives filed a bill today to legally create the Kentucky Health Benefit...

Get some fries with that while you can

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In Lexington, Kentucky, Xerox is seriously downgrading its ObamaCare customer service efforts amid an exodus of qualified call center worker...

Mitch McConnell campaigning like a drunken sailor

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Sen. Mitch McConnell's latest campaign mailer demonstrates clearly he has been in Washington D.C. too long. Labeled on the outside "...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Rebellion: ObamaCare contractors starting to turn

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Governor Steve Beshear's idea of fiscal responsibility in ObamaCare, apparently, is short-changing contract labor in his Kentucky Health...

Medical marijuana day in Frankfort today

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The Kentucky House Health and Welfare Committee looks ready to send medical marijuana to the House floor today. The committee meets at noon ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Improve Kentucky's "Tim Tebow" bill

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A Kentucky Senate bill filed Monday deserves a look because it would allow children not enrolled in public schools to be involved in school...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

New ObamaCare glitch soaks Kentuckians

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Gov. Steve Beshear is trying to keep quiet a Kynect web site glitch resulting in payment of excessive federal subsidies in January and Febru...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Beshear bludgeons more ObamaCare victims

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The preferred narrative in Frankfort takes a hit this week as tens of thousands of Kentuckians get ObamaCare letters apologizing that a comp...

Arkansas showing Kentucky how to deauthorize Medicaid expansion

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Arkansas legislators took the ObamaCare bait last year on a version of ObamaCare Medicaid expansion, but seem to be thinking better of it th...

Beshear blames ObamaCare failure on Republicans

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Gov. Steve Beshear's bizarre attempt to force Kentucky into ObamaCare will look a lot stranger when its over, as it becomes clear that i...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Score one for Governor Fruit Tree

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I'm no fan of former Kentucky Governor and current state Senator Julian Carroll. His long career of making government bigger and less ac...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Beshear's $100,000 ObamaCare scandal

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An unfortunate oversight in Kentucky law protects Gov. Steve Beshear from criminal prosecution for overstepping constitutional limits on his...

Jailing all your Facebook friends

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Every legislative session in Kentucky features a bill that is so absurd and so over-the-top everyone can agree it should be killed, shredded...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Huge week for ObamaCare in Kentucky

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This is the last week Kentucky legislators can introduce a bill giving the people's approval for Kynect, the state-financed version of ...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Beshear's unreported Valentine's Day massacre

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Truth took a bloody beating yesterday when Gov. Steve Beshear put crayon to heart-shaped construction paper for his latest profession of und...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Kentucky Common Core appeal filed

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While waiting for a Franklin Circuit judge to reconsider his ruling against our case to get Kentucky out of Common Core , court rules neces...

Matt Bevin, apologize to McConnell

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The sun came up this morning despite a federal judge ruling yesterday that Kentucky's definition of marriage amendment violates the U.S...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Kentucky will survive same sex marriage

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I will be on WEKY 1340 AM Richmond tomorrow at 1:30 pm talking about the federal court ruling today tossing out part of Kentucky's const...
Monday, February 10, 2014

Heads up

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I'm going to Frankfort to the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee for their illegal hearing on Beshear's ObamaCare Medicai...