Welcome to your Monday open thread. Time to spend another week talking about this bogus, unnecessary debt ceiling crisis. I promise this thread will be 100% debt crisis free (at least the part I contol).
I think the following statement by Bill O’Reilly tells you more about him than anything else.
Commenting on the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation that contraception should be considered a preventative service and co-pays for contraception should be eliminated, Bill O’Reilly claimed: “Many women who get pregnant are blasted out of their minds when they have sex. They’re not going to use birth control anyway.”
This tells me that O’Reilly doesn’t understand how birth control works. Also I don’t want to think about how O’Reilly’s children were conceived.
Do you remember the story early this year about Rep. David Wu and his very odd behavior? His problems are a lot worse than that now – he’s accused of a sexual assault.
A distraught young woman called U.S. Rep. David Wu’s Portland office this spring, accusing him of an unwanted sexual encounter, according to multiple sources.
When confronted, the Oregon Democrat acknowledged a sexual encounter to his senior aides but insisted it was consensual, the sources said.
The woman is the daughter of a longtime friend and campaign donor. She apparently did not contact police at the time.
This is a horrible story. Rep. Wu needs to resign. He needs to focus on his criminal case and his known mental health problems.
Follow-up: Rep. Wu now says he won’t seek re-election, but won’t resign. We will see how long this lasts.