 medicaid expansion passes the senate  after several months of a constant barrage by governor snyder and the special interests the michigan senate has managed to ldquo buy in rdquo to obamacare the sad truth is there will be winners and losers and michigan and its taxpaying citizens will be the losers because the governor chose to pad the pockets of the lobbyists and the special interests by hitching our future to another entitlement program that we will ultimately be paying for when the federal dollars stop coming in with a last minute switch of his vote from a no to a yes senator casperson sealed the deal for the governor we can only guess why he chose to change his vote to a yes as always i am sure last minute back room politics was part of the final negotiations to get his vote the bottom line is that there will be a battle to determine what the republican party stands for and who should sit in the seats in the house and senate based on their votes on ldquo many rdquo issues that have come before the house and senate in the last 4 years for an analysis on the final vote for passage and for comments from the senators and why the voted the way they did click on the following story link  http wwwmichigancapitolconfidentialcom 19070 19 my response to this is not my response to this is not even true and i i don t know where to start if you don t think that the lobbyists didn t come out ahead and the governor didn t play a part in that happening in this whole debacle you don t have any understanding of politics and all the back door dealing that takes place why have essentially all of the republican organizations and elected officials been against medicaid expansion and the effects it will have on michigan and the people who will go on medicaid because of it it s because obamacare and anything associated with it is unsustainable michigan in the end will pay the price by having to carry the burden of the costs for the program after the federal dollars stop coming in additionally how do we know that the federal government will continue to subsidize the program after initial 100 funding ceases we don t know that they will and the president has already stated himself that the program is unsustainable the impact on michigan will be devastating economically as far as the governor is concerned i seriously question his republican credentials he is not a conservative in many ways and has shown that in many of the positions he has taken on issues and legislation that go against what the majority of the republican base believe i think if the truth be known he was considering what party banner to run under in 2010 before he chose the republican party i would guess that he ran as a republican because he knew that in the primary he could win because there were 4 conservatives that had name recognition in the party and and then him a relative unknown on the ballot the conservatives split the vote among the real republican voters and snyder got the vote of the democrats independents and liberals that crossed over to disrupt the republican primary i ask don t you think it s odd that senator emmons and represenative leonard were both against it and the majority of republicans in both the house and senate caucuses were against passage of the medicaid expansion and the only way to get it passed was to pick off republicans who could be bought or influenced if you are so naive to think these types of things don t happen you live in a fantasy world politics is a tough business and all to often principles are compromised a direct quote i heard lt governor calley make was that sometimes you have to compromise your principles to get things done that should tell you how deals are made we will never know what happened and what kind of deals were made but i promise you deals were made as they always are and in this case it wasn t in the best interest of michigan s residents i worked for the legislature for over 30 years i know what happens behind closed doors do you i research the issues take my positions and make my comments based upon facts do you the bottom line is that our state and country need to elect constitutional conservatives to office that will be men and women of principle and i will say and do all i can to accomplish that goal steve willis this is not even true and i this is not even true and i would like to know where you get your information stephen willis the governor has not padded the lobbyists pockets we know you like to think that and get everyone to believe you but it s not true cause is illegal and the governor is not that kind of man my personal belief is different than the way the vote went but i can see both sides the governor is trying to keep the interest of the people in mind as this passing is the cheapest way and will help our michigan businesses we all do what we think is the best for the groups we are in charge of abs he truly feels this will be the best for us we don t know for sure every detail so we really can t make judgements until we have read and understood the bill and why so many wanted iti suggest maybe you all the governor why he wanted it before treating him apart you really don t know the whole story hope your will go ask him and heat the whole reasoning  medicaid expansion passes the senate  