A dime for a dollar? No way, says Republican governor of Pennsylvania

Corbett rejects Medicaid expansion

Different reports cite different numbers, but it is commonly said Corbett refused some $40 billion in federal Medicaid money over ten years because, according to him, it would cost Pennsylvania taxpayers some $4 billion over the same period.

Pennsylvania voters not only put him in office but gave control of the state legislature to Republicans, too.

And make no mistake.

The days when Pennsylvania Republicans were a different breed from those of the American South and West, a more moderate and even liberal breed, are long gone.

This is the age of Limbaugh and KDKA talk radio conservatism.

This is the age of the Tea Party.

This is the age when Pat Toomey drove out Arlen Specter.

Pennsylvania voters knowingly chose these guys.

Democracy doesn’t always work out the way one might hope.