Contraception Debate Finally Goes There
There’s something refreshing when Republicans finally say out loud what we always knew they thought.
LIMBAUGH: What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex. What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.
Mr. Viagra speaks! And I’m not even shocked. The Madonna/whore scorecard was always in play, now it’s just out in the open. The question now is… how many Republican politicians follow his lead? My guess is quite a few.
I wonder about how many Republicans will follow his lead — even Little Ricky stopped running against sex in his concession speech the other night. The Blunt Amendment comes up for a vote today in the Senate and it is looking like the women Republicans will want to kick this thing to the curb. And, of course, they’ve tried to attach this to a completely unrelated Transportation Bill (I thought they said they wouldn’t do this BS anymore?).
But let’s be sure to remind these hypocrites that they are working to try to restrict the freedom of more than half of the people in this country.
And apparently Susan Collins will vote to support the Blunt amendment. Remember all that business about the failure of centrism? Well here it is, in its full capitulation to its extremist party.
Exactly.
Republicans have calculated that it is better for them to be seen as “extreme” by their base than it is to be seen as “centrist” by the general public.
It is a sign that the Democrats have not been doing a very good job of making “extremism” politically toxic.
I’m of two minds on the Blunt amendment. In the long term it is a giant step toward single payer.
Blunt amendment goes down!
That’s what she said?
It’s done — the Blunt Amendment is tabled 51-48. Closer than I thought it would be.
And there is no way that the Blunt Amendment paves the way for single payer. Sheesh.
t is a sign that the Democrats have not been doing a very good job of making “extremism” politically toxic.
This is right — they’ve been very busy trying to be as bipartisan as possible to launder all of that BS. But the other side of it is that the media lets you label yourself — so if you call yourself a moderate, they go with it. The fact that you largely vote in lockstep with your party leadership on every bit of obstruction out there is something they won’t notice.
Great news, Cassandra! Thanks!
@J “It is a sign that the Democrats have not been doing a very good job of making “extremism” politically toxic.”
I’m not so sure. Women have taken notice. Just because masses aren’t out there marching, doesn’t mean that more and more of them won’t be avoiding the lever marked “R”.
Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are caling on Issa to condemn Limbaugh’s slut remarks.
I see that Mittens has flipped once again. He claims that he thought it was a state law when in fact the reporter asked him about Blunt and Rubio’s bill did Mittens think that they were Ohio council members even in spite of the fact that Senator Rubio is on Mittens short list for Veep. Mittens first said he didn’t wish to jump in between a man and a women in their bed room so now with the Flipping he wants to do that.