A Routing in Missouri

Timothy Birdnow

In an astonishing development U.S. Congressman William Lacy "Burn Barrel and Ripple" Clay Jr. lost to radical Ferguson Rioter Cori Bush in the Democratic primary in St. Louis' First Congressional District.


The Clay family has owned that House seat since 1968 when William Clay Sr. defeated Curtis Crawford, formerly St. Louis assistant circuit attorney. The seat was open and Clay defeated five Democratic opponents to win the largely urban district.

Clay anointed Wm. Lacy, his son, and pushed pushed aside a longtime Democrat named John Bass for a state senate seat. (Lacy was at that time serving in the Missouri House.) Bass was told by Clay Sr. that he would be taken care of if he withdrew. Bass was; he was made a doorman at a Washington hotel!

Clay himself never lived in St. Louis, claiming residence at the Mayfair Hotel downtown until several years after it was torn down and somebody noticed. He then claimed residence at his estranged brother's house in North St. Louis.

Lacy took his father's seat in 2001.

Cori Bush will likely be another Alexandria Occluded Cortex Ocasio Cortez and will join the radical fringe of the Democratic Party.

In other news, St. Louis handily re-elected the worst prosecuting attorney in America, Kim Gardner. Gardner, heavily financed by the George Soros machine, handily won the Democratic nomination, meaning she has four more years to refuse to enforce the law and to prosecute law abiding citizens. Her corrupt and partisan reign of error has caused explosive crime and rampant shooting throughout St. Louis. And, winning so easily, the state legislature will not dare impeach her, even though it is clear she has committed crimes, most especially during the Greitens affair where she obstructed justice and abused her authority.

We can expect more rioting, looting, drive-by shootings, drug selling, and mayhem here in the 'Lou which is starting to really earn that name.

Missour also passed a budget-busting Medicaid expansion by a vote of 53.25% to 46.75%.

This is the cornerstone of Obamacare, and it will further entrench the government takeover of America's healthcare industry.

Medicaid expansion will break the bank and it also  means Missouri is on the hook for the cost even if the Federal government stops paying for it.  and it will flood doctors and medical centers with people suffering from such horrible maladies as hangnails and seasonal allergies.

From the Show Me Institute article:

Medicaid expansion was never going to be "free” for Missouri, and now we have even more evidence that expansion would be a catastrophe for the state’s budget. Recently, the Missouri House of Representatives Budget Committee met to discuss the fiscal implications of Medicaid expansion. Testimony delivered during the hearing reinforced what’s been obvious for a while now: The promised taxpayer savings from the Medicaid expansion proposal are fictional.

Nearly five months ago, I wroteabout my concerns with the widely cited Washington University expansion model. Last week during testimony before the committee, the Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS) confirmed that my concerns were valid. DSS officials explained in no uncertain terms that it would be illegal to enroll disabled Missourians into the Medicaid expansion population. This means that currently disabled Missourians would only be eligible for the current lower matching rate for federal funds, instead of the much more generous matching federal rate for the expansion population. And as I outlined in February, without that assumption, there’s a billion-dollar hole in the Washington University model’s cost estimates.

DSS also released its own estimates for the budgetary impact of Medicaid expansion. The projections are based on Missouri’s current Medicaid costs, its economic conditions, and what is known about the state’s low-income population, and they show that expansion will cost more than $2.7 billion in total each year. The federal government will pay the majority of that $2.7 billion, but state taxpayers still pay federal taxes. In state general revenue spending, DSS estimates it will cost more than $167 million per year, which will amount to more than $870 million in state income and sales tax dollars between 2022 and 2026.

These estimates are a far cry from "savings,” which is especially important because these costs will come on top of the current Medicaid program’s growth. It is also important to understand why the Washington University expansion model varied so significantly from our own state Medicaid agency’s predictions. In the end, it comes down to a series of faulty assumptions.

Not only were the authors of the model wrong about what could be done with Missouri’s disabled population, but they also vastly underestimated the number of Missourians that would enroll in expansion and the associated cost of their care. Instead of roughly 230,000 newly eligible adults enrolling, DSS suggests the total will be closer to 286,000. And the monthly cost of each new enrollee will be more than $730 per month, as opposed to the Washington University assumption of $425.

Governor Mike Parsons, the man with absolutely no political sense, originally put the measure on the ballot for November but moved it to August. Why? He opposed it, and probably thought it wouldn't pass in a traditionally low voter turnout election. But a Right-to-Work bill failed in a similar election, which should have taught Mr. Parsons a lesson; low voter turnout elections will generally see special interests win, because they are motivated to turn out their people. And since Parson has extended the state of emergency through December in Missouri, the average voter would be afraid to go out and face possible Coronavirus infection. That problem won't matter to the leftists who are pushing both the expansion and the Covid lockdowns. Just as they all joined the Black Lives Antifa Matter (BLAM) riots protests while most Americans hid in their basements in fear of the Hong Kong Fluey.

I suspect Parson thinks the Republicans are going to lose big in November and figured this was the best chance to get his way. He's a typical RINO style establishment Republican. (I voted against him in the primary yesterday.)

So normal people in Missouri took a huge bath yesterday. The radicals and the greedy underclass cleaned up here.

Conservatives have been losing all year. This is a habit we must break.

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