re: #118 Dread Pirate Ron

well, perhaps its not so much that States can’t handle it, but more of a case of “they refuse” or “they won’t” handle it.

We’ve seen this with vaccines, Medicare expansion, and ACA exchanges. Now this.

If Congress attempts to drive this, then the states scream bloody murder, so in turn it goes over to the states and they either sit on it because helping people “would be bad” or “not what we’re about”; plus it could be conceived as a political victory for our political opponents, can’t have that, they can’t be fulfilling campaign promises if we fuck the end game over.

I’m not saying incompetence couldn’t be a factor here, I’m saying that it may be just one of multiple factors that all revolve around the current GOP political philosophy of “fuck you, we’re NOT going to do the right thing”.