Republicans want 2016 to be about women’s healthcare – Dems should beat them senseless… Will they?
The GOP is going all in to turn Planned Parenthood into the next ACORN. In response to completely debunked and discredited videos that conservatives collectively pretend show Planned Parenthood officials selling fetal tissue from abortions, Senate Republicans introduced legislation to stop all government funding to the organization.
Planned Parenthood receives up to $500 million annually in Medicaid reimbursements and $60 million in federal funds for family-planning services, but by law none of that money can fund abortions. Nevertheless, Republican senator Joni Ernst declared on Monday, “The American taxpayer should not be asked to fund an organization like Planned Parenthood that has shown a sheer disdain for human dignity and complete disregard for women and their babies.“
The Republicans are now determined to leverage their fake outrage over Planned Parenthood by attaching a defunding bill it to a the omnibus funding bill that must pass by October 1 to avoid a government shutdown. House Republicans have made their position clear “Please know that we cannot and will not support any funding resolution — an appropriations bill, an omnibus package, a continuing resolution or otherwise — that contains any funding for Planned Parenthood, including mandatory funding streams.”
This shutdown fight should be welcomed by Democrats. It puts in high relief the GOP’s reckless disregard for:
1) The truth. That video has been proven to be a load of shit.
2) Women’s health care. Planned Parenthood has everything to do with providing basic reproductive healthcare and nothing to do with selling fetal tissue, and
3) Basic governance. The GOP really wants to create another shutdown clusterfuck and risk our country’s economy and credit worthiness because, they SIMPLY DON’T GIVE A FUCK. It is all politics all the time for these idiots.
First, the Hyde Amendment. Hello?
Second, guess pap smears (cervical cancer) STIs, breast exams, etc. don’t count as healthcare in GOPland.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Republican War on Women.
Let the Department of Justice do their investigation and go from there. It’s politics on both sides!
I agree with Anonymous that the Department of Justice should investigate the fraudsters who put out the video. But I disagree that this is a “they all do it” situation.
That’s just lazy thinking.
Democrats like Coons should love this! But alas, Democrats are like Coons and won’t take advantage of it because they are pussies
perhaps if you could align AIPAC with PP you could get better Dem support. You could call it Suport a Putz & Knish
Agreed. (Although we still need a new word to express that sentiment.)
FYI: Anonymous is a man. Just sayin’
Hillary Clinton:
Those are fighting words.
Good stuff. A Democratic presidential candidate with a backbone might be a good role model for give our spineless delegation.
Yeah, you all seem to forget that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee. I am not sure what the Republicans are thinking, because Hillary is currently having multiple orgasms over the notion that the GOP wants this election to be about women’s healthcare.
Planned Parenthood is more popular than the NRA, Trump, the Republican Party and Congress.
Women LOVE Planned Parenthood – 90% of us have relied on them. Remember Komen? How’d that work out for them?
Trump is now on the government shutdown bandwagon:
Of course he is. The Republican platform is anti-woman and anti-immigrant. So much for that 2012 autopsy. They learned nothing. The first one that drops the N-bomb or S-bomb in public will win the nomination, because that’s the GOP base – and who they need to win the primary. Illiterate racists.
@ Pandora, What I’m saying both sides play politics, for the better of themselves not others.
According to the poll released Wednesday, 62 percent of voters in Colorado, 59 percent of Iowa voters, and 55 percent of voters in Virginia said that Clinton is “not honest and trustworthy.”
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Zzzzz… wake me when the GOP has a better talking point.
We should hook Anonymous up with Rusty!
Go back and check the Clinton’s trustworthy polling from days gone past. Anonymous is a political newbie.
And if you think women (even Republican women) aren’t watching this PP fight closely, then you really are clueless. Obama won the women vote. Why is that?
Any American who votes for someone “honest and trustworthy” for president is a gullible fool. Nobody in politics is honest or trustworthy.
@ Geezer: We agree on something, awesome! “Nobody in politics is honest or trustworthy.”
@ Pandora: “Obama won the Women’s vote, Why is that?”
“Whole Binders full of women”, that didn’t help Romney.
He did not do well with equal pay for women.
I trust HRC to take positions she finds politically beneficial, nothing more. While the republicans have to appeal to their insane base, Hillary can act mostly like Nixon and be viewed as “progressive”. There is still only one real liberal in this race. I think Sanders can do for Elizabeth Warren what Dean did for Obama. If she runs after a full (or maybe 1 and change) terms in the Senate, I think she can win….. here’s to hoping Hillary can keep her seat warm.
Keep going. Hint: It had a LOT to do with birth control and abortion. Equal pay and “binders full of women” were just a part of it – and showed how out of touch the GOP is with women’s issues. Deciding when to have a baby was/is a huge effing deal to women – it’s our economy.
Pay attention and watch all of this. All. Of. It.
Oh my, Chris Christie is damned.
“I’m a Catholic. But I’ve used birth control! And not just the rhythm method, okay? So, you know, my church has a teaching against birth control. Does that make me an awful Catholic, because I believe and practiced that function during part of my life? I don’t think so!”
Talk about TMI! I need a drink now.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) quickly walked back earlier comments that he was “not sure we need half a billion dollars for women’s health issues.”
His presidential campaign posted online a statement Tuesday evening saying Bush “misspoke” with the remarks: