Republicans continue to say they don’t have to change their core principles, they only have to change the language they use to get their message out. One perception they want to alter is the idea that they are running a “war on women”. Looking at the news over the past few years, I’d say the Republican Party has a long way to go on this subject.
- Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky): “Talk about a manufactured issue. There is no issue.”
- RNC Chairman Reince Priebus: “It’s a fiction.”
The Congressional Front
the facts and commentary: We are less than 48 hours from financial chaos. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has two choices: he can continue to dance at the end of the strings held by the Tea Party puppeteers or he can save the country from financial disaster. He cannot do both.
He continues to refuse to present the compromise budget passed by the Senate to a full vote of the House. If only 10% of House Republicans voted with the Democratic caucus, our financial dance with disaster would be over. Instead, Mr. Boehner continues to follow the demands of the Tea Party-ers who insist that restrictions to the ACA must be part of a budget deal.
Their latest proposal? They want to append language to the budget that would restrict a woman's access to birth control. Any woman wanting contraception coverage would have to pay for it out of pocket at her doctor's office or purchase a separate rider at her own expense. The cost of this rider could not be covered by employee benefits or paid for with the government stipend intended to help lower income women and families pay for health insurance.
I have just one question for these conservative nut cases: Since when did my decision to have or not to have children become germane to funding the government?
It is obvious this proposal is going nowhere so why even waste time on it? I am a woman, not a far right political pawn. And I vote.
The Republican War on Women is "fiction"?
WHAT YOU DO SPEAKS SO LOUDLY
THAT I CANNOT HEAR WHAT YOU SAY.
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