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Cottonmouth – Gov. Bryant “the most Obama-hatin’ Republican governor in America”

By: Magnolia Tribune - March 5, 2013

Cottonmouth – Gov. Bryant “the most Obama-hatin’ Republican governor in America”

That’s the position most anti-expansion Republicans have taken in the state, but none as forcefully as Gov. Bryant, whose opposition seems to be just part of a thinly-veiled effort to be the most Obama-hatin’ Republican governor in America. That’s all part of a calculated move to win the support of the TEA Party crowd, which Gov. Bryant thinks will make him more popular in the state, and therefore less vulnerable to a rumored 2015 primary challenge from the “Barbour wing” of the Mississippi GOP.

Unfortunately for Mississippians, Gov. Bryant is, through House Speaker Phillip Gunn (R – Clinton), shutting down the ability for any conversation to take place on Medicaid expansion. (For an explanation of how they’re doing that, click here.) In his response today, Sen. Bryan spells out why that is such an awful decision:

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