Tennessee GOP will skip visit by President Obama in Chattanooga

[Punkingal]

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130730/NEWS02/307300022?source=nletter-top5


Each of the Volunteer State’s top three statewide elected officials is a Republican, and each is walking a political tightrope as the Democratic president prepares to head to the Amazon distribution center in Chattanooga. But none of them will appear with him.

Gov. Bill Haslam needs the Obama administration’s help with a proposal to buy private insurance for poor Tennesseans who don’t qualify for TennCare, the state’s expanded version of Medicaid. But he will have to sell that plan to state Republicans who don’t care for Obama all that much, a job that will require additional finesse. Beyond that, he might not want to get too close to the president if he’s nurturing any national ambitions of his own a year away from seeking a second term as governor.

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, a former governor, has a reputation for bipartisanship but is trying to bat away attacks from his right flank as he, too, runs for re-election in a year.

Tennessee’s other senator, the recently re-elected Bob Corker, has the least to lose right now and, as a former Chattanooga mayor, the most obvious connection to the Amazon event. But even though he played golf with Obama earlier this year, Corker also might have decided to stay away for political reasons.


This is the kind of leadership we have in Tennessee! Insulting POTUS. Hate starts at the top. It's no wonder everyone thinks all southerners are stupid.

[Laurian]

1. To hell with them. Doesn't the Governor

have major ethical problems related to his family business? Maybe President Obama doesn't want to be seen with this motley bunch.

[atreides1]

2. Not all Southerners are stupid

Just the ones that vote Republican, love their guns more then their own children, think that white hoods and burning crosses make wonderful additons to any party, and breath through their mouths!

[spanone]

3. fuck my state's gop assholes n/t

[Punkingal]

5. My sentiments exactly!

Rand Paul was here the other day and Alexander was all over him.

[Tippy]

6. Same goes for me

[Go Vols]

9. +1

[ananda]

4. Always classy, Reeps.

[lunasun]

7. Did Obama get his misspelled postcard yet from the Chattanooga rep ?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101669639

Rep. Chuck Fleischmann's welcome message to the leader of the free world was a good advance notice of what to expect of the visit
Expect them to take the medicaid after the Obamacare drama ends

[Scurrilous]

8. LOL

[Pretzel_Warrior]

10. Repugs are jamming the accelerator as race toward the cliff

There will be no skid marks at the ledge when their party careens over the edge and into a massive fireball at the bottom.

[treestar]

11. Is that even normal?

Well for the GOP it might be. Who misses a chance to say they've hobnobbed with the POTUS?

[asjr]

12. I have to admit I really did not realize

there were so many stupid people in this state. And they do not need leashes to be led to the ballot box. They just listen to the holier-than-thou Republicans that make up the state.

[Punkingal]

13. I know, but at least not all of us are stupid.

And I can remember the days when we had all democrats in the Senate and as Governor.