Down here in Florida we have something that is quite unique in the person of Corrine Brown, a Democrat, who is living proof that a human being, of a sort, can actually live, and get herself elected, while possessing only one partially functioning brain cell. And it’s according to this genius that over 4 million Florida residents will somehow die if Medicaid is not expanded here. It was during Wednesday night’s Veteran’s Affairs Committee hearing that this reject from a mental ward made her bizarre accusation, saying, "In fact, we’ve got over 4 million people that need medical expansion of health care that we are sending back, that’s going to die because they’re not getting the quality health care that they need."
The object of Brown’s supposed outrage was, of course, Florida’s governor, Rick Scott, who, as it just so happens, is a Republican. All that she was really doing was to offer up her own, very obviously, politically motivated opinion regarding Scott’s announcement that he plans to sue the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs for not allowing state hospital officials to inspect federal medical care facilities. Brown said, "I am going to put in the record a letter that I’m sending to the governor of the State of Florida. He is grandstanding, indicating that he is suing the VA, for the fact that he is sending people to the various VA facilities around the State of Florida and he wants to take a look at the records."
Brown made the idiotic claim that Scott’s legal maneuver amounts to nothing more than election year grandstanding because "the state has absolutely nothing to do with the VA." She also focused on Scott for his not pushing for an expansion of Medicaid in Florida. "In fact, we’ve got over 4 million people that need medical expansion of health care that we are sending back, that’s going to die because they’re not getting the quality health care that they need," she said. Scott announced his plan for a lawsuit earlier in the week. He claims that it was on seven separate occasions state inspectors were prevented from inspecting the facilities at six federal VA hospitals. Personally I think it’s a pretty good idea.
I’m not sure whether it’s because we might have something in the water down here or what, but for some reason we do have the nasty little habit of sending some rather bizarre folks off to Washington to represent us, of which Brown is only one of many. Joining her in this weird cast of characters is Debbie Wizzerman Schultz, impeached District Court Judge, Alcee Hastings, one of only eight federal officials in American history to be impeached and removed from office, we also have that certified loon, Alan Grayson, Frederica Wilson and, of course, the earwax eater, Joe Garcia. So you can plainly see the delegation that we here in Florida send off to Washington closely resembles what could be seen at any carnival sideshow.
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