Kentucky: Ben Chandler

Ben Chandler finally talked to the media about his shameful votes on health care reform.

Or should I say "vote", because apparently neither Jim Carroll or Halimah Abdullah felt that it was called for to ask him about voting for the biggest setback to women's reproductive rights in over 30 years. Which is.... odd, no?

Anyway, here's Ben Chandler's spin about being stuck in SUCH a conservative district full of pitchfork wielding teabaggers who hate people having affordable health care.
“We’ve got an older district, and here in central Kentucky, particularly in rural areas of the district, there was an enormous amount of opposition to the health care bill,” Chandler said in the interview.

Ben Chandler is all on his own versus the Teabaggers next year, because we're not apologizing for him anymore.

Not only did Ben Chandler vote for the Stupak amendment to end private insurance coverage of abortion in America last night, he voted against the entire health care reform bill.

This is the last straw, and we're done with him.

He honestly thinks that we'll actually care enough to vote for him. He honestly thinks that voting against health care and against women's rights will win him votes from teabaggers. Such are the delusional thoughts of the spineless. And here are the delusional words of the spineless:
“I voted against the bill because I do not believe it is the best course of action for the people of Central Kentucky, specifically our working families, small businesses, and seniors.

OK, I'll pick up where I left off on the KDP rally liveblog on Saturday...

As for the speeches, there wasn't anything specifically noteworthy. What was of note was that each of the speakers didn't just praise Steve Beshear, but they gushed and gushed about him. A little obvious what was going on, and a little more glaring because Dan Mongiardo chose to split right beforehand so he didn't have to go through the awkwardness of this.

When Ben Chandler spoke, a guy standing right next to him at the podium held up a "Fix Healthcare, it's Broken" sign. Which Ben Chandler's free government healthcare probably didn't appreciate.

Can someone make Ben Chandler watch this? I don't know if Ben's an idiot or just a hack, but if Shep can figure it out, it seems like Ben probably could, too.