Ever since Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government in an attempt to remove funding for President Obama's health care law, Republican governors have been trying to distance themselves from Washington. Few have gone further than Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) in critiquing the party's views on poverty programs, and last week he circumvented his own Republican legislature and its Tea Party wing by using a little-known state board to expand Medicaid to 275,000 poor Ohioans under Obamacare. "I'm concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor," he said. "That if you're poor, somehow you're shiftless and lazy. You know what? The very people who complain ought to ask their grandparents if they worked at the WPA."
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